Berisi kajian mendalam mengenai salah satu milisi rakyat, Lasykar Rakyat Jakarta Raya, yang bergabung dalam perjuangan kemerdekaan Indonesia pada 1945. Ditunjang dengan catatan-catatan arsip, suratkabar saat itu, dan wawancara-wawancara dengan pelaku yang masih hidup. Digambarkan pula betapa gerombolan bandit Jakarta menjadi pemeran utama dalam pemberontakan antikolonial …
Jonas Jonasson's picaresque tale of how one person's actions can have far-reaching—even global—consequences, written with the same light-hearted satirical voice as his bestselling debut novel, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. On June 14th, 2007, the King and Prime Minister of Sweden went missing from a gala banquet at the Royal Castle. Later it was said th…
from the back cover: 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run ...' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England …
Describes the Aztec way of life, including their religion, society, capital city and government'