Werner Labbé Books

Anno 1716: Vierzigtausend Türken rennen gegen die schwach befestigte venezianische Insel Korfu an, den äußersten Vorposten Europas. In dieser Stunde höchster Gefahr steht der Reichsgraf Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg auf den Bastionen und wehrt in schwerem Ringen mit nur dreitausend Mann den Angriff auf die europäische Südostflanke ab. Die Höfe von Dresden und Wien, der Zauber der Dogenstadt im Rausch des Karnevals, der Lebensstil des Barock und die Machtentfaltung des türkischen Reiches werden mit großer Detailkenntnis und Anschaulichkeit geschildert.

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front.   With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.   It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives.

From one of the twentieth century’s master novelists, the author of the classic All Quiet on the Western Front, comes Heaven Has No Favorites, a bittersweet story of unconventional love that sweeps across Europe. Lillian is charming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn’t wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice—to live frivolously for as long as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she goes, she wants a chance at life. Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts fate every time he’s behind the wheel. A man with no illusions about chance, he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for the moment, without regard for the future. It’s a perfect arrangement—until one of them begins to fall in love.