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Terra di nessuno è ambientato alla fine dell'agosto 1937, nei giorni precedenti alla Battaglia di Belchite durante la guerra civile spagnola, ma non si tratta assolutamente di un romanzo di guerra. È un avvincente romanzo d'avventura ricco di humour che ha come protagonisti Alex Riley e il suo inseparabile amico Joaquín Alcántara che, senza volerlo, si vedranno coinvolti in una temeraria missione di salvataggio proprio sotto il naso dell'esercito di Franco.

Introducing new characters, as well as shedding fresh light on ones we all know and love, Project Hometown is the action packed prequel to The Remaining Universe that shows the madness of how it all began and looks unflinchingly at the grit and determination of the men who died to make it happen, as well as the ones who survived to become the legendary warriors known simply as “Coordinators.”

The Definitive Strategy Collection brings together six of the most influential writings on strategy of all time. From ancient Greece and China to Machiavelli and Carl von Clausewitz's modern masterpiece, On War, this collection spans continents and eras to bring you the greatest wisdom and philosophy on the strategy and philosophy of conflict.

Griff Roberts and the Desert Group find themselves the only British soldiers guarding a huge piece of Egyptian desert. When foreign powers begin to encroach on the land and to raid the caravans it is up to the beleaguered garrison of Fort Farafra to do something about it. Fighting ambush, nature and violent sandstorms the camel riding soldiers are tested to their very limit.

King Henry III rules England but it is an England controlled by barons who wish to usurp his crown. When a new Pope demands unpaid monies owed to him then Sir Henry Samuel is dispatched to Rome to buy time for the beleaguered king. Once in France then treachery abounds. The dangers of sailing in a sea controlled by Moorish pirates adds to the problems Sir Henry and his new squire face. Back in England the king faces threats from all quarters and soon the knights of Cleveland are once more placed in danger.

Jersey, 1943. Cuando el ejército alemán invade la isla, la bibliotecaria Grace La Motée está decidida a no doblegarse. Se niega a destruir los libros que amenazan al régimen nazi y contraataca formando un club de lectura para ayudar a los isleños a escapar del terror de la guerra. Bea trabaja en la oficina de Correos desde la que envía el último telegrama informando de la ocupación, y, según esta se va alargando, siente que quedarse de brazos cruzados no es una opción.

The War Collection: Essential Battlefield Classics is a collection of 13 works of fiction, philosophy, military strategy, and epic poetry, read by esteemed cast of award-winning narrators. Included here are novels from Ernest Hemingway; military strategy from Sun Tzu and Carl von Clausewitz; essays from Orwell; philosophy from Freud, and epic poetry from Homer, amongst much more.

Born in the frozen heart of Soviet Russia, Nikolai Ivanov was never an ordinary child. With ice in his veins, steel in his soul, and strength beyond his years, his journey from boy to legend was forged in blood, discipline, and unbreakable will. Trained by a war-hardened father and guided by an unshakable instinct for justice, Nikolai is more than a prodigy—he is a force destined to shape history. As the world around him plunges into war, betrayal, and moral decay, the boy becomes a warrior... and the warrior becomes a weapon. From the brutal winters of St.

The United States' second war with Great Britain has thus far been disheartening for the young country. The American invasion of Canada from New York has been thoroughly repelled. The U.S. Navy has suffered a string of embarrassing defeats along the Atlantic Seaboard. Entire swaths of the Northwest Territory are now under His Majesty’s control. But the Americans are not without hope.

Das Chamäleon von KrakauAn der Küste des kriegsverwüsteten Somalia herrschen Gesetzlosigkeit und Tod. Zwei unschuldige Frachtpiloten fallen einem brutalen Warlord in die Hände – seine Lösegeldforderungen liegen in Millionenhöhe. Nur einer kann die Verhandlungen führen: Jason Green, ehemaliger Elite-Soldat. Der Auftrag scheint klar – doch in Afrika ist nichts einfach. Der paranoide Warlord wittert überall Verrat, während im fernen Krakau ein unsichtbarer Drahtzieher die Fäden in der Hand hält. Was als organisierte Geiselbefreiung beginnt, endet in blutigem Chaos.

The warlord, his son and even his grandchildren are all dead. Sacrificed by kings who used them. Now King Henry asks the great-grandsons of the Warlord to help his son, The Lord Edward, learn how to rule. Sent with too few men and too many enemies, Sir Henry Samuel, Sir Alfred and the newly knighted Sir Thomas must learn how to use their skills, not in the familiar borderlands but in Gascony where insurrection and treason have reared their heads.

The Selected—once destined for expansion—now face their greatest trial: a brutal war against the unstoppable Dissidents. From the heart of power, Governor Hiago Damal rallies his allies, striving for peace even as he braces for war. But when the Ordinance calls, three Medkai—Gabriel, Jayden, and Daina Cardia—are torn from the front lines and sent on a perilous mission. A hidden threat stirs in the ashes of battle, its trail winding toward the legendary Three Siblings… and what they uncover will shatter everything they thought they knew.

Tras ser herido de gravedad, un joven militar se ve obligado a dejar el uniforme y mudarse con su hermano. El orgullo, el mismo que lo hace ignorar la punzada de dolor que asciende por su pierna, lo lleva al bosque a buscar leña en otra noche de invierno despiadado en la isla. Lo que él aún no sabe es que, por esa forastera llena de secretos, arderá sin fuego.

When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Brisbane–or Edenglassie, as it was once briefly known–his community still outnumbers the British settlers. Tensions are simmering just beneath the surface of a fragile peace, but hopes for independence are running high. Yet when colonial unrest tears through the region, Mulanyin's passion for his new bride clashes with his loyalty to a homeland in danger.

Seeking solice in a remote mountain cabin in northern Maine, haunted by the recent loss of a comrade during an operation in Afghanistan, Special Operations Operative Hal Bennet questions his sanity when awakened in the middle of the night by what appeared to be a medieval knight.

When poverty strikes, an ageing farmer is forced to make a heartbreaking choice: relinquish his oldest son in the hope of appeasing the gods or see his family face certain starvation. And so it follows that young Lucius Ulpia Porcianus is sacrificed to Rome. Embarking on his new life, Lucius travels to Ancona to enlist in the legion. Accepted into the army of Pompey, the young recruit soon finds himself engulfed in the civil war between Sulla and the Marians. As a callow youth, torn from the land of Picenum, can Lucius put his days as a pig farmer behind him and embrace life as a legionary?

July 1241. Christendom cowers in terror before the threat of a Mongol invasion. The swift-moving, invincible cavalry of Genghis Khan has smashed the proud, steel-clad knights of Russia, Poland and Hungary – and now Austria lies directly in their path. At a skirmish outside the walls of Vienna, German knights capture a squad of Mongol scouts, and are astonished to discover one of their number is an Englishman – a Templar knight – who has been riding with these Devil’s horsemen for more than 20 years.

Nikias is amazed by the speed of Alkides, who he races against in the Isthmian games. He even wonders if the older boy is the god Apollo in disguise. At Delphi, where they race again, he realizes Alkides is only a boy, although a rather amazing boy. While in Delphi, Nikias receives a disturbing prophecy from the oracle and his life and that of Alkides become entwined. Nikias knows that he must lose all he loves to gain the deepest desire of his heart, but what is that desire and is it worth the cost?

It is early 1942 and following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States has joined the war. In response, Hitler launches his U-boat packs across the Atlantic against this fresh enemy and finds a country ill-prepared for the onslaught. With German submarines hunting at will along the eastern seaboard of America, the Battle of the Atlantic starts to swing back in favor of Germany.

Они приходили с моря, воины, не знающие ни жалости, ни страха смерти. Об их отваге, мужестве, жестокости и ярости ходили легенды. Они жили войной и ради войны. Их называли героями и варварами, пиратами и волками Севера.