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The Year is 1943. The Titanic struggle between the Soviet Union and the Third Reich continues to rage across European Russia and the Caucasus. The Wehrmacht, following its defeat in front of Moscow in December 1942, is preparing for a new offensive on the Russian capital city. Hopes are high...

Based on the moving true story of a World War I war dog, passed down through generations from a war nurse who witnessed events firsthand. In the summer of 1915, seventeen-year-old William "Bill" Higgins leaves his quiet village in Berkshire, brimming with dreams of glory and adventure. Alongside...

The Man I Knew as Grandad is a moving family memoir that uncovers the hidden wartime life of Arthur Hemmings, a quiet mechanic, husband, father, and grandfather who rarely spoke of the suffering he endured during the Second World War.To his family, Arthur was simply Grandad: steady, practical...

From Afghanistan to Angola, Indonesia to Iran, and Colombia to Congo, violent reactions erupt, states collapse, and militaries relentlessly pursue operations doomed to fail. And yet, no useful theory exists to explain this common tragedy. All over the world, people and states clash violently...

Ole Nikolajsen hedder den midaldrende, let blakkede journalist, der har slidt sig fra den jyske hede til det mondæne København. Da han møder sin modsætning, den forfinede og kompromisløst ærlige Karl-Werner Bühler, tvinges han ind i en nervepirrende spionsag, der fører helt tilbage til...

I trebindsværket ”Verden i flammer” følger man ligesom i den foregående trilogi, ”Europa i flammer”, familien Henry: Kommandørkaptajnen Victor, kaldet Pug, hans kone, Rhoda, og sønnerne Warren og Byron, den første bataljonschef, den anden sekondløjtnant og gift med den jødiske...

I "Navn ukendt" (1965), Finn Søeborgs mest gakkede roman, møder vi manden, der mirakuløst overlever et flystyrt. Da han vågner har han mistet sin hukommelse, og han hvirvles, nu identitetsløs, ind i en række absurde forviklinger, der involverer militæret, det hemmelige politi, kongen og...

Da Søren som dreng oplever en F-16 flyve hen over barndomshjemmet, besegler det hans skæbne. Fra da af er hans liv en stræben efter selv at blive kamppilot og flyve F-16. Men Søren er mere end almindeligt genert, og kun få tror, det vil lykkes for ham. Jagerpiloten SØR fortæller om vejen...

Fantasi og stædighed førte nordmanden Thor Heyerdahl og hans besætning tværs over Stillehavet på en sivflåde. Trods alle eksperters advarsler om, at eventyrerne ville ende på havets bund. En god portion stædighed driver også newzealænderen Edmund Hillary og sherpaen Tenzing Norgay...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Publius Cornelius Tacitus - *Annales* (*Ab excessu divi Augusti*) Prvních šest knih Tacitových *Letopisů* představuje zásadní historické svědectví o počátcích římského císařství po smrti Augusta a o vládě jeho nástupce Tiberia...

He was trusted, admired—and feeding secrets to the enemy for decades. Kim Philby was more than just a traitor. He was a master manipulator, a charming double agent, and the most damaging mole in Western intelligence history. As a top officer in Britain’s MI6, Philby had access to the deepest...

“Vivid and brilliantly written: a pulsating account of the battle for Musa Qala, the Rorke’s Drift of our times.”—Martin Bell, OBE, British UNICEF Ambassador, former broadcaster, and war reporter In Helmand province in July 2006, Major Adam Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a...

Pancho Villa no es un héroe. Página tras página, decenas y decenas de testimonios directos—recopilados a lo largo de años—lo van retratando como el violador serial que fue, el untuoso asesino que eligió ser, el deleitado torturador, el que supo treparse a un tren que destrozó pueblos enteros, pero que a él lo acercaba a la Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres.

Schlesien in den Kriegsjahren: Katharina Elliger wächst zwischen Schule, Kirche und Hitlerjugend auf, der Krieg scheint lange weit entfernt. Als Ende 1944 die Rote Armee näherrückt, flieht die Fünfzehnjährige mit ihrer Mutter in einem Flüchtlingstreck bis in die Tschechei, kehrt jedoch nach dem Zusammenbruch in die Heimat zurück. Es folgen die Monate der russischen Besatzung, die Ankunft der Polen, Hunger, Willkür und das Lager, bis die Familie ein Jahr später unter unmenschlichen Bedingungen endgültig vertrieben wird.

This is the story of the Information Research Department, arguably the most influential and yet anonymous department of the British Government you've never heard of. Embedded in the Foreign Office it was Britain's secret Cold War propaganda agency, working closely with MI6, MI5, and the CIA. Set...

Den 9. august 1945 kastede den amerikanske pilot Charles W. Sweeney en atombombe over den japanske by Nagasaki. 43 sekunder senere eksploderede hans dødbringende last i luften over havnebyen og forvandlede det blomstrende bycentrum til et smeltet ruinlandskab. Op mod 70.000 mennesker mistede...

'Historical fiction of a high order' The Times Spring, 1941. The war in the West is as good as won. Nation after nation has fallen before the Reich's armies. Only Britain endures, her cities under nightly bombardment from the Luftwaffe. Berlin would happily call off the bombers in exchange for a...

Three Million, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

Supported by diverse textual and archaeological evidence, a detailed reconstruction of Edward I’s shipbuilding programme of 1295. With the looming threat of an imminent French invasion, Edward I wrote to 26 English ports in November 1294 and told each of them to build, or help others to build...

Six months. One ocean. The fate of the free world hanging on a knife's edge. Get the complete story of the Pacific War's most decisive chapter two gripping histories, one essential collection, for a fraction of the cost of buying them separately. Pearl Harbor plunges you into the smoke and chaos...