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1096. The Pope has called for a crusade to free Jerusalem, and half the warriors of Europe have responded. Among them is the Norman, Count Bohemund, one-time enemy of Byzantium. In company with his warrior nephew, Tancred of Lecce, Bohemund must once more cross the Adriatic to the lands of the Byzantine Empire. His first task, pushing back the infidel Turks, calls for an uneasy alliance with old enemy Emperor Alexius. But can the Crusaders trust the wily Emperor?

Thanks to the stratagems of Bohemund de Hauteville, leader of the Apulian Normans, the Crusade has taken the city of Antioch, and just in time. Once the besiegers, Bohemund and his men are about to become the besieged - a huge Turkish-led army, commanded by the fearsome General Kerbogha, is fast approaching. Provisions are desperately needed, but the surrounding countryside is near barren and the storerooms of Antioch much depleted. The Crusaders will not hold out for long without falling prey to starvation.

11th century Italy. The domination of the Normans is causing trouble. At their head is the feared Robert de Hauteville, the 'Guiscard', who has colonised much of Italy and commands the triple Dukedom of the extended Norman family. But Robert has made many enemies, including the ever-powerful papacy in Rome. The newly elected Pope Gregory exercises his vendetta against the Normans by encouraging them to sail to Byzantium and fight the Turks. But first he must deal with the Guiscard.

A century ago, the American Southwest was a region of savage natural beauty. There, the Navajo people worshipped the land, spinning folk tales into legends and prayers into songs. But besieged by US Army soldiers, the tribe was suddenly thrust into a battle that nearly destroyed the proudly woven fabric of its culture.

Sir John Hawkwood has almost all that he needs. He is the most respected and feared mercenary leader in Italy but he is surrounded by those who would do him and his family harm. He faces betrayal from friend and foe alike. His constants are his company and the leaders who fight for him. Treading a tightrope between warring factions that include the Pope and the Lord of Milan, Sir John Hawkwood decides to make the White Company into a warband and he becomes a warlord.

Mommy’s Call of Duty: A Mother’s Journey Through War and the Unbreakable Power of Love is an extraordinary story about Sarah, an extraordinary mother who takes an unlikely journey when answering the call to service in war zones with unwavering courage to protect and serve her countrymen.

“Delivering authentic action from someone who has lived it, Chameleon is on target and scores a direct hit!” —Jack Carr, former Navy SEAL and #1 New York Times bestselling author From filmmaker, memoirist, and former Navy SEAL Remi Adeleke, on the heels of his featured roles in the hit...

A través de esta novela histórica de aventuras, Jesús Sánchez Adalid nos introduce en el misterio profundo del ser humano, sus temores, sus dudas y sus esperanzas, entre originales episodios llenos de humor y vitalidad.

In a coordinated series of attacks, terrorists exploded an EMP device from a high-altitude weather balloon over Omaha, Nebraska. The electromagnetic pulse destroyed electronic devices throughout North America, leaving survivors without power, communication, or transportation. This was the day the lights went out for millions and, for many, a death sentence. Simultaneously, terrorists exploded dirty car bombs in more than 350 large cities worldwide, killing millions of people, destroying whole city blocks, and poisoning many square miles with nuclear poison.

What could be worse than imprisonment in a notorious Pakistani hellhole prison? Lieutenant Jack Grant is about to find out things can be a whole lot worse.

Basierend auf einer wahren Begebenheit... Wir schreiben das Jahr 2001. Die Unterseeboote der Bundeswehr U 24 und U 28 begeben sich auf den Weg in die Karibik, um auf dem Manöver einer US-Trägergruppe als dankbares Ziel zu dienen. Die Planer der Übung aber haben ihre Rechnung ohne Kapitänleutnant Dellnitz gemacht, seines Zeichens Kommandant von U 24. Dellnitz sieht es gar nicht ein, einem stupiden Drehbuch zu folgen, und ist wild entschlossen, dem arroganten US-Trägergruppenkommandeur einen Denkzettel zu verpassen.

Spanien, Januar 1812. Für Richard Sharpe ist es der schlimmste Winter seines Lebens. Er verliert zu Unrecht das Kommando über seine Schützen. Ihm bleibt nur eine Chance, dieses zurückzuerobern: Er muss die Attacke auf die unbezwingbare Festung von Badajoz anführen. Ein Himmelfahrtskommando. Zu allem Überfluss taucht auch noch Sharpes Nemesis auf, Sergeant Hakeswill, den Mann, den man nicht töten kann - und Sharpe hat es bereits oft genug versucht.

It is April of 69 A.D., and Rome’s first civil war in a hundred years has ended. Emperor Otho, who violently overthrew the tyrannical Galba just three months before, is dead. The triumphant armies of the Rhine coerce the senate into ratifying their governor, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. While there is an uneasy hope that peace has returned to Rome, Vitellius’ cronyism and utter incompetence soon alienates most of Rome’s patricians, along with many of the provinces.

It's 1941, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance. Across the stormy North Atlantic rages a battle between wolfpacks of U-boats and escort ships fighting to protect the Allies’ vital convoys. Meanwhile, teams of codebreakers at Bletchley Park struggle to penetrate the German Navy’s Top-Secret Dolphin code to unlock the flow of vital intelligence that will swing the battle in the Allies' favor.

CIA-Agent Frank McIntyre erhält kurz vor Beginn des Irakkrieges einen brisanten Auftrag: Er soll den irakischen Präsidenten Saddam Hussein aus Tikrit entführen und unbemerkt außer Landes bringen. McIntyre entwickelt einen Operationsplan und macht sich gemeinsam mit seinem Kollegen Sommerfeldt auf den Weg durch die irakische Wüste. Bis zum Ende der Operation werden die beiden nicht wieder zu Atem kommen.

The next bloody and thrilling instalment in MJ Porter's The Brunanburh Series. Can the King of the Scots and the Dublin Norse triumph against a united England? AD934 King Athelstan of the English has been successful in uniting the many kingdoms of Britain against one enemy, the Viking raiders...

Lieutenant Commander Anthony “Tony” Romella, US Navy is a specialist in the field of communications intelligence. Little did Tony know that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor would have such a direct impact on his career and life. He is urgently ordered from his comfortable duty in Washington, DC to an assignment at Bletchley Park, the British communications intelligence center.

Jarl Dragon Heart has taken to the seas. With his wolf warriors, he raids further afield than ever before as he seeks his destiny. He has to fight new enemies as well as treacherous former allies. The Norns weave their webs and the Vikings discover the Middle Sea and Africa before they find themselves at the court of Nikephoros 1, the Emperor of Byzantium. A vast moving novel filled with battles both at sea and on land as the Viking Wolf unleashes his pack on the world.

House of Compassion is the story of Lorena Starnaly, a weak minded and for the majority of her life manipulated girl who through the ill treatments of her family developed a dual personality disorder, divided by the inside with two ideologies that completely oppose each other this girl and her friends start a organization with the goal of bringing upon a safe and peaceful home for all in the world with the end goal of making world peace. Dive into the psychology and differences between ideologies and see in which side of this war do you stand on.

A powerful military force under the command of a renegade Nigerian General seizes power in West Africa. This brutal conquest is only a stepping stone. Unchecked, the human cost of his bloody ambition will be catastrophic. With her ship, the stealth destroyer U.S.S. Cunningham, out of action, Commander Amanda Garrett is given command of the military mission to stop the ruthless General in his tracks. But the Sea Fighter Task Force—an untested flotilla of British, French, and US forces—is outnumbered, outgunned, and operating in the enemy's backyard.