Títulos em Guerra e Militar

Haunted by the Past, Pursued by the Reich.In the thrilling second instalment of the Fernsby’s War Series, Alderauge catapults listeners into the tumultuous summer of 1939. Michael Fernsby, burdened by the ghosts of his past, plunges back into Nazi Germany with dual objectives: aiding a high-ranking Nazi defector for the British government, and rescuing his family's legacy. Treading a treacherous path from Munich's ominous facilities to England's peaceful countryside, Michael navigates dangerous alliances, chilling Nazi secrets, and seeks vengeance against those who wronged him.

In the pulse-pounding final installment of the Marcus Ryker series, the leaders of Communist China are secretly plotting to invade Taiwan and challenge American supremacy in the Pacific. And no one in Washington has any idea what’s coming. Marcus Ryker has been tasked with hunting down Abu Nakba, the most wanted terrorist in the world. The latest intel sends him and his team to Pakistan. There, they discover a horrifying secret inside a state-of-the-art lab. Marcus orders the lab rigged with explosives, but the plan goes bad, and a massive explosion rocks the city.

It’s 1865 and a band of renegade deserters left over from the American Civil War abduct newlywed Judith Johansen and head to the wilds of Rupert’s Land, soon to become Western Canada. They are about to find out that they have made a huge mistake. Judith is the granddaughter of Moses Munro, a wily old mountain man who survived as a trapper in the Rocky Mountains during the 1820s and ‘30s.

In the heart of Central Asia, a strategic power play unfolds as the People’s Republic of China extends its military might. Under the pretext of protecting their Belt-and-Road projects, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) gains a stronghold in the region. Against this invasion, a courageous band of freedom fighters is the only challenge to the PLA forces. On this geopolitical chessboard, the newly elected U.S. President wants to make a bold statement against Chinese expansionism. Don Riley, recently appointed CIA Director of Operations, is chosen to spearhead the critical mission.

Siria arde en llamas. Asediado por las protestas populares en las calles, el sanguinario dictador Bachar el Asad responde con una violencia cada vez mayor, que incluye, se sospecha, el uso de armas químicas.

What was it like? It’s the only thing anyone wants to know about war--and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar. Dean is two months free from the Marine Corps, and life back in his Indiana hometown is anything but peaceful. That’s when the woman next to him offers to buy him a drink.

"Anche le donne sanno essere eroiche." Per la ventenne Frances "Frankie" McGrath, studentessa di infermieristica, questa frase è una rivelazione. Cresciuta nell'idilliaco mondo assolato della California del sud e protetta dai suoi genitori di idee conservatrici, si è sempre vantata di fare la cosa giusta, di essere una brava ragazza. Ma è il 1966, il mondo sta cambiando, e Frankie si ritrova all'improvviso a immaginare un futuro diverso, così, quando suo fratello parte per il Vietnam, lei decide di arruolarsi nel Corpo infermieristico dell'esercito.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

A Man Could Stand Up—is the third of four installments in Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End tetralogy, which follows Christopher Tietjens, a wealthy British landowner and the last British Tory; his unfaithful wife, Sylvia; and his mistress, Valentine Wannop. Opening on Armistice Day (November 11, 1918), A Man Could Stand Up—serves as the climax of the series. Highlighting the tension between traditional values and a rapidly changing social order, the novel details Christopher and Valentine's trials as the post-war world takes shape around them.

During one black ops mission, he gets compromised, wounded, and separated from his unit. Searching for a place to hide from an international drug cartel that wants him dead, he bursts into the apartment of two Mormon missionaries. They agree to hide him from the cartel fighters looking for him. While waiting, Kincaid ends up listening to their message and become curious about Christianity in general and the message of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, specifically.

Сентябрь 1919-го. Юный Тристан едет в английскую глубинку, чтобы передать связку писем Уилла, с которым он воевал на Первой мировой. Но письма – лишь предлог для этой поездки. Погружаясь в воспоминания о бессмысленной и жестокой войне, о дружбе с Уиллом, о том, как эта дружба сделала его счастливым и несчастным одновременно, Тристан пытается понять, кем же был Уилл, и кто он сам – предатель, герой или жертва. Джон Бойн ведет читателя по кругам своей истории, показывая, что многие вещи, которых мы стыдимся, не заслуживают этого, а поступки, которыми мы порой гордимся, зачастую являются истинным позором.

Winter 1944: Months after the Liberation of France, ex-Boston cop Billy Boyle finds himself in a Paris reeling from the carnage it has endured but hopeful that an end to war is in sight. When Billy finds a rare piece of artwork after a tense shoot-out in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, he thinks it could be connected to the Syndicat du Renard, a shadowy network of Nazi sympathizers known to be smuggling stolen artwork out of France. Trailing the Syndicat, Billy discovers that someone with a high level of communications clearance may be using his position to aid the thieves.

When elite CIA operative David Rivers and his paramilitary team are dispatched to the heart of Africa, their mission is clear: eliminate the notorious terrorist warlord, Chijioke Mubenga, before he can unleash chaos upon the world. But fate has other plans. A streak of anti-aircraft fire lights up the night sky, turning a covert parachute jump into a nightmare descent. Stranded miles from their rendezvous point and deep within a hostile jungle, Rivers and his team are cut off, hunted, and desperate.

Deep in the mountains of West Virginia, Conor and his team are sheltering at the Banks Compound, desperate for some way to regain the momentum that billionaire Walter Lightspeed brought to the country. They’d been so close to recovery and now salvation slipped further away with each passing moment. Desperate for a ray of hope amidst their grim reality, the team launches a mission to find someone who might be able to bring new energy to the national recovery effort. Someone America knows and respects. Someone who clawed their way up from poverty to build an empire. Someone plainspoken and unquestionably patriotic.

Pella, Greece; 341 B.C. Alexandros is a middle child caught between two warring spouses, born to both a king and queen, but never meant to rule himself. When a mysterious young man arrives from the north, fleeing his own family, and meets Alexandros in a garden in the Macedonian capital, the bond that's created between them will soon become unbreakable and ultimately define both the direction of the Ancient World and ours.

Fueled by his guilt at the loss of eighty-three civilians onboard aircraft BE1555, international fugitive Ryan Kaine vows to protect their grieving families—The 83—at all costs. When schoolboy Martin Princeton lies alone and dying on a Scottish mountainside, news of his disappearance spurs Kaine to abandon the pursuit of evidence that could clear his name. Officially, the authorities want Kaine in custody—unofficially, there's a bounty on his head.

Erst wenn alles brennt, kann sich der Phönix aus der Asche erheben! Die ehemalige CIA-Agentin Ava Canary versucht gemeinsam mit der Geheimorganisation Eagles die feindlichen Insurgents zu lokalisieren, damit sie deren Plan, die Unterjochung und Versklavung der Menschheit, vereiteln kann. Die Befehle der Abbas sind eindeutig: Alle Bird-Agenten der Welt sollten vereint werden, damit das Flutprotokoll gestoppt werden kann. Ava muss alles riskieren und ihre persönlichen Grenzen überschreiten, damit sie eine Katastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes verhindern kann.

Animati dall’orgoglio per il proprio paese, incalzati dal professor Kanterok e persino dai genitori (anch’essi darebbero loro dei vigliacchi se non lo facessero), Paul Bäumer e molti dei suoi compagni partono volontari per il fronte. Qui però la terra ribolle sotto l’esplodere delle bombarde, sprizzano fontane di fango e di ferro, volano schegge di granate e le pance dei cadaveri si gonfiano. Meyer, Marx, Hämmerling e Kemmerich sono morti, Haie Westhus sta morendo, Martens non ha più le gambe.

Шедевр военной прозы «Волоколамское шоссе» переведен на десять языков. В нем ярко описываются страшные дни обороны Москвы во время Великой Отечественной войны... Романом зачитывался Эрнесто Че Гевара, а Фидель Кастро, отвечая на вопрос, кого из героев Второй мировой войны он считает своим кумиром, не задумываясь сказал: "Баурджана Момыш-улы — героя книги Александра Бека «Волоколамское шоссе".

It’s 1982 and one of the most daring raids of the Falklands war is about to be sprung on the Argentine mainland; the aim is to destroy the last Exocet missile and kill the pilots that might launch it; but everyone knows it’s a one-way, suicide job…Operation Mikado was an actual raid that almost went ahead. ‘The Argentine Job’ is the fictional ‘what if’ that details a mission and potential escape by surviving British forces across forty miles of barren Patagonian winter wasteland at its worst, chased by an army out for their blood.