Títulos em Guerra e Militar

This is a work of "faction" based on the life of the author's great great grandfather, John Croft (1807-1883), who was born in Hertfordshire, England, served as a young officer in the British East India Company Army during the first Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), became one of Australia's wealthiest men (1843-1859), then returned to England as a landed gentleman who married into a prominent family of industrialists.

The year is 1967 and the Vietnam War is raging. Lieutenant Ben Kinkaid of the US military police is patrolling the chaotic streets of Saigon after curfew when he crosses paths with US Army clerk Tommy Banks and his girlfriend, Grace Waverly. Grace says she’s a peace tourist, but she’s also a member of RAW—an anti-war group bent on stopping the war by any means necessary.

The story of a young illegitimate son of a Norman noble and the daughter of an English housecarl. Forced to be little more than a servant Robert fitz Malet shows the world and his half brothers that he has qualities which mark him as different. When he meets the famous troubadour, Taillefer, he becomes one of the most skilled swordsmen in Duke William's army as they prepare to invade England and claim the crown promised to him by King Edward.

Raven, den man als Blutauge kennt, und seine Wikinger-Brüder sind verraten worden. Der missgünstige Ealdred ist geflohen - in das Reich von Kaiser Charlemagne, wo angeblich unendliche Reichtümer versteckt sind. In der Wut brennender Rache machen Raven und sein Wolfsrudel harter Kämpfer sich auf in das Land der Christen, wo die Heiden unbekannte Gefahren, finstere Intrigen und große Schlachten erwarten.

Greed. Rage. Grief. Love. Smouldering tinder, waiting to trigger a war. But this war is different. This one is for Dharma. This war is for the greatest goddess of them all. Sita has been kidnapped. Defiantly, she dares Raavan to kill her–she’d rather die than allow Ram to surrender. Ram is beside himself with grief and rage. He prepares for war. Fury is his fuel. Calm focus, his guide. Raavan thought he was invincible. He thought he’d negotiate and force a surrender. Little did he know...

Since joining the ATS all Clara Felgate has wanted to do is be a dispatch driver and serve with the brave boys abroad, doing her bit for King and country. But almost as soon as she arrives at Camberley Barracks, Clara seems to bring a string of bad luck with her. Captain Perry Harrow shouldn’t even be at the barracks teaching a bunch of ATS girls how to drive. He should be fighting on the front line with his men. Thankfully Lance Corporal Felgate is perfectly proficient, and Perry finds himself drawn to the hardworking ATS girl.

In the wake of the agreement reached at Lincoln between Edmund and Anlaf Sihtricson of the Norse, Edmund returns to Wessex to reflect and rebuild, impatient to reverse his losses at Lincoln. But this is the winter of discontent. In Jorvik and the kingdom of the Scots, those who’ve waited too long to become kings in their own right grow restless. As the enemies of the English turn on themselves, Edmund senses the opportunity to reclaim all his brother, the victor of Brunanburh, managed to gain before his untimely death plunged England back into war with her many foes.

As war rages and brave soldiers returning home from the frontline need nurses more than ever, fiercely proud redhead Sylvia Roberts is determined to help in any way she can. In spite of her mother’s belief she isn’t good enough, Sylvia believes that becoming a home front nurse is her calling. Together with the two friends she makes on her first day in the job – Freda and Veronica – she knows she can help save lives. And, as the devastation of war shows no signs of ceasing, their work becomes ever more vital.

Rani, the bright and spirited daughter of an Indian Crown Prince, leads a privileged if lonely life. Longing for freedom, she escapes the confines of her father’s palace and meets Prasad – a poor young man – with whom she falls deeply in love. But her plan to gain her father’s approval for the match disastrously backfires. Estranged from her family and haunted by guilt, Rani’s path takes her from Cambridge to Bletchley Park and a new world of intrigue and secrets. Against the backdrop of war, Rani finds comfort and a sense of belonging with fellow codebreaker William and his young son.

Een hartverscheurende roman voor de lezers van De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal. Vrijwel niemand komt levend uit de hel die Auschwitz heet. Mala, gevangene 19880, begrijpt dat op het moment dat ze de trein uit stapt. Als tolk voor de ss heeft ze een iets hogere status dan de andere gevangen, een positie die ze gebruikt om zo veel mogelijk levens te redden. Edward, gevangene 531, is een kampveteraan en een politiek gevangene. Hij zit in het ondergrondse verzet. En hij heeft een ontsnappingsplan.

Under en misslyckad polarexpedition tvingas Sven Elversson och hans besättning att ta till desperata överlevnadsåtgärder. Strandsatta och utsvultna börjar de äta av en avliden kamrat i hopp om att överleva tills räddningen kommer. Mot alla odds lyckas de till slut återvända till England, men det dröjer inte länge förrän rykten om deras kontroversiella val börjar spridas. Plågad av skuldkänslor söker Sven tillflykt i Sverige, bara för att konfronteras av första världskrigets fasor. Han ställer snart frågan till sig själv – är nödgad kannibalism verkligen värre än att döda tusentals människor i krig?

Christian is on the brink of a new life, counting down the final 48 hours of his military service while battling the scars of combat and PTSD. He's ready to swap the chaos of war for the calm of civilian life. His farewells to battle buddies Halls and Smith are heartfelt; these are the men who have been with him through life's most perilous moments.

Angekommen im neuen Leben: Die bewegende Fortsetzung der Historiensaga um den Perlmutthof – von Bestseller-Autorin Bianca Elliott. 1948: Seit Clara den Perlmutthof an der Ostsee ihr neues Zuhause nennt, hat ihr Leben eine Wende genommen. Hamburg ist für immer Geschichte. Ebenso Matteo, der ihr Herz berührt hat, bevor Valentin überraschend aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft heimgekehrt ist. Nach Jahren der Trennung von ihrem Mann will Clara alles versuchen, um die einstige Vertrautheit zwischen ihnen wieder zu spüren.

Under a sweltering July full moon, the daughter of a Russian vodka magnate is savagely murdered in Washington, DC. Detective Captain Alexander Strange arrives at the crime scene and knows he's seen this brutal style of killing before—25 years ago, as a Force Recon Marine in a Central American jungle.

May, 1989. The two nuclear superpowers are finally talking peace, but not everyone in the Soviet Union seeks such resolution. Senior Soviet ministers and generals conduct a coup to seize power and prevent the dissolution of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. To cover up their plot and capitalize on the resulting chaos, they invade West Germany, setting off a chain of events and the Third World War. Across Europe, soldiers and spies are drawn into the conflict. From NATO headquarters to the front lines, the information is there to prevent nuclear annihilation if only they can find it in time.

The boy grows up in a small village in south China listening to stories about the Colonel: some say he was a legendary army doctor during the war, some say he was a traitor to the Party, still others say he is a wicked sex machine. The stories are bawdy and mesmerizing, always larger than life. Yet in reality, the Colonel is just a middle-aged man who loves his cat. And why on earth does everyone call him 'the Eunuch'? From these disparate sources, the boy tries to piece together who the Colonel really is, just as he himself grows up in a rapidly changing China.

Far into the future, the world has been torn asunder by meteors. The Cataclysm. The dust and debris from the deep space rocks have settled into the Earth and contain incredible power. The dust can change the environment around it, it can be used to power infrastructure, it can even be used to power weapons. All former nations have been sub-divided into kingdoms, empire, and republics.

When American covert operative Chase Fulton’s life is turned upside down with news almost too good to be true, everything he believes about his world changes in an instant, and the life he dedicated to serving his country and the preservation of freedom suddenly fades out of focus as a new reality becomes the center of his existence. But before the dream of his new life can materialize, one final mission demands his devotion like never before.

La reportera Martha Gellhorn colabora con The Ghost Army, un ejército fantasma creado en Hollywood para engañar a los nazis. Ella y su marido, el famoso Ernest Hemingway, inventan las vidas de soldados que no existen. Pero Martha aspira a más; quiere cruzar el Atlántico y relatar de primera mano la etapa definitiva de la guerra. Para conseguirlo tendrá que rebelarse contra el rol que pretenden asignarle como mera sombra en la vida de su marido y, además, desafiar una prohibición del alto mando militar que impide la presencia de mujeres en el desembarco de Normandía.

Leutnant Wenks Gebirgsjägerdivision soll zügig den Kaukasus Richtung Schwarzmeerküste überqueren. Doch bereits der Hinweg wird zur Tortur. Neben ständiger Feindesnähe und fehlendem Nachschub an Truppen und Nahrungsmitteln, drohen Schnee und Eis das Vorhaben zu gefährden. Zum Todesurteil wird den Soldaten aber die Berliner Führungsspitze, die die Lage völlig falsch einschätzt. Als die Erlaubnis zum Rückzug erteilt wird, ist es zu spät: Wenke kann nur noch versuchen, die letzten Überlebenden zu retten. Eine wahre und erschütternde Geschichte.