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Abriendo con la colosal invasión nazi de la URSS, mostramos cómo el propio Stalin casi ayudó a Hitler a conquistar la Unión Soviética en las primeras semanas de Barbarroja. Cómo su paranoia con respecto a sus propios comandantes y potenciales aliados lo cegó a los planes de Hitler. Cómo sus intentos de apaciguar a Hitler fracasaron. Y su falta de liderazgo en las desastrosas etapas iniciales de la campaña.

Pacific Media ha reunido a un grupo de expertos historiadores, investigadores y analistas del King's College, una de las instituciones educativas más prestigiosas de Europa continental, para crear este libro y la serie documental History's Verdict. Desde un punto de vista actualizado, y repleto de nuevos descubrimientos históricos, sus guiones ofrecen veredictos justos y sabios sobre las figuras más poderosas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Hirohito, Himmler, Montgomery, Patton, De Gaulle, MacArthur, Rommel, Eisenhower.

Nineteen years after defeating the Dark Father, Maggie has begun searching for the band of werewolves who are the source of her lycanthropy. She knew them to be vile beasts, but not even what she believed to be true could prepare her for the horror of what they have done, and will do again...if she doesn’t stop them.

Bender has recently become a multimillionaire, and he is about to marry the woman of his dreams. He thinks he lives a charmed life. All that changes when his estranged father is found dead in a snake pit, and Bender is accused of his murder. This is a romantic comedy set in Oregon's high desert.

Erwin Rommel has achieved almost legendary status as the German field marshal of World War Two. Mainly for his cunning in outwitting and outmaneuvering his Allied enemies, he is now known as the Desert Fox. This is a truly remarkable achievement, given the hatred for Nazism and all things Nazi in the wake of World War Two.

Harold Huxley, the adventuring househog, and his best friend, Lamb, find a baby dragon hiding among the boxes in the attic. They help Dillon, the baby dragon, return to his family in Hawaii and have an amazing adventure along the way.

A young teen girl is torn between proving her friend is innocent of killing his mother, and finding out why there are horse embryos growing in the rabbits she is taking care of. This is book 4 in the Jessie Crew Mysteries series. Jessie and her buddy Deboyce are tangled in a maze of intrigue that tests their friendship, and endangers their lives along with the lives of their friends and schoolmates.

Three determined women; their intuitive, snarky dog, and one shaved cat seek to solve a murder in the mobile home park where they all live.

What if the gods themselves wanted you dead? A young boy lies on a beach on a warm summer's day. While trying to block the sun from his eyes Arpherius makes a shocking discovery; he has no shadow. Confused and bewildered he asks his uncle why he is shadowless. What he learns is a terrifying secret that will change his life forever. Set in the Northern Realms, Shadowless is a fantasy novel about individuals born without a shadow. Spawned by the malevolent deities of this world these children of the gods are persecuted at every turn.

What's that sound? What would you do if the neighbor you've known since childhood suddenly became a stranger to you? An outsider has arrived, and those who hear the sound he emits begin to change. Suddenly, entire households have begun to disappear. Trevor Burnette has lived in the same small town all his life. When his wife asks for a divorce, he thinks it’s the worst thing that could ever happen to him. But he was wrong. Dead wrong. Because his son is deaf, and those who cannot hear the sound are being murdered.

It's 1957 in Oregon, where prejudice runs rampant. As if finding out that her best friend's dad was thrown in jail for being a Pinko Commie isn't enough, Jessie learns the identity of her own father whom she never knew existed. Even though their lives are in a turmoil, Jessie and her friend Deboyce risk life, limb, and their own freedom to try and save a trapped girl and the lives of 20 other barefoot, enslaved girls who are being worked to near starvation by a tyrant.

How's Timothy? is the first book depicting schizophrenia from the point of view of a helpless family member's journal of grief, sorting through the feeling that her brother was robbed of a life. In this memoir, the author's overwhelming love for her brother seeps from every word, starting with the parents lives coming together and the introduction of six boys and the author, the youngest and only girl. The stories of family in the seventies are filled with laughter, love, and intense loyalty.

The story takes place in 1956 in Oregon. When authorities find out that 12-year-old Jessie is being raised in a lesbian home. They remove her and place her on a ranch where 20-some barefoot girls are treated like slave labor. The ranch owner’s boyfriend tries to force himself on Jessie, but she fights back, stabbing him with a pitchfork. She escapes with no shoes, no food, no money, and no idea where she is. She is terrified that the cops will find her and arrest her for murder.

Twelve-year-old Jessie finds out that a young teen girl was found murdered at a lumber mill log pond less than a mile from where she and her mother just moved. She sets her sights on finding the killer, not realizing that she might become the killer's next victim. It's the summer of 1956 in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, a place and time where kids were free to ride their bikes into adventure and danger. Prejudice was rampant, and everyone had secrets.

Ex-SAS soldier Conner Ryan is blackmailed by the British security services who know about the murder of Conner’s former SAS Officer. Forced to return to the military and the barbaric penal unit titled "Z Troop" Conner finds himself back on the lawless bloody streets of a united Ireland only this time fighting a new brutal civil war alongside the Irish Defence Forces against a fanatical Loyalist terrorist group its ranks swelled with former British soldiers incensed at the betrayal by the British Government.

Run Barefoot on Cactus is a raw, never-too-late, true adventure. It's a memoir of a woman's quest for love, life, freedom from a tainted past, and a wild romp into the questionable paradise of Lower Baja, Mexico. This is not your grandma's memoirs. You won't find home-baked cookies and a glass of warm milk in this audiobook, but you will find rugged truth that might surprise you. I know the story is true because I lived it.

The last thing Vi Purdet wanted to do was spend Thanksgiving weekend putting a roof on her parents' house with her two asshole brothers. There was a storm headed their way: a rain storm and a shit storm. 

In the middle of a dark winter night, Doc's shed is burned down by a curious meteor that cures disease, reverses aging, and elicits euphoria. But the silver lining also comes with a dark cloud, and circumstances arise that probe the nature of life, love, old age, and renewal.

Ex-Special Forces soldier Connor (Skid) Ryan is recruited as a contractor by his former hated SAS officer to capture or kill Declan O’Malley, a notorious Sons Of Eirinn bombmaker. With soldiers from the PKK, Ryan has to execute a daring military operation - this time without his Special Forces comrades before the terrorists can use the WMD on the streets of Britain. The worlds security services of China, Russia, USA, and the UK are all desperately homing in to prevent another 9/11 atrocity on an even larger scale.

British soldier Tony McNally had a vital job in the Falklands - as a Rapier missile operator, his job was to protect the British ships and men from air attack by the fearless and desperate Argentinian pilots. His war went well when he shot down two Argentine jets - until June 8, 1982 when McNally and his Rapier system were dug in on the hillside overlooking Port Pleasant near Fitzroy, wrongly referred to as ‘Bluff Cove’, providing Air Defence cover for the RFA Sir Galahad and Sir Tristram LSL’s , as they sat waiting to off-load hundreds of soldiers.