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Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle, all of them fully realized and equally memorable.

A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.

In the next novel in the Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International series, things get personal as the team goes up against a group of genetically and biomechanically amplified soldiers to save Joe's kidnapped fiancée. Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International embark on a desperate mission to rescue...

Das ist keine Geschichte über eine ferne Zukunft. Es ist eine Geschichte über das Hier und Jetzt–über eine Welt, in der jeder weiß, dass eine Katastrophe möglich ist, und trotzdem zu lange schweigt. NUKLEARER KRIEG ist ein globaler Politthriller über die letzten Stunden vor dem Zusammenbruch der Ordnung. Alles beginnt mit einem taktischen Atomschlag Israels gegen Iran. Zuerst nennen sie ihn begrenzt. Wenige Stunden später antwortet Teheran–und Tel Aviv verschwindet im Feuer. In Washington beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. China versetzt seine Raketenkräfte in höchste Alarmbereitschaft.

In this sequel to Economy of Force, Colonel John Randal returns in The Magnificent Mission. Col. Randal has been summoned to London to meet with Major the Lady Jane Seaborn's Godfather, Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Bevan, the Chief of Deception. Lt. Col. Bevan is in charge of the super-secret London Controlling Section. Major General Sam Houston Blackwell sends his personal aircraft to fly the party to the meeting — Lady Jane has a shopping safari on her calendar. Before they can depart, Raiding Forces is tasked with rescuing a photo reconnaissance pilot who has been shot down.

When former Vatican Knight Kimball Hayden seeks solitude in a remote South Dakota cabin, he stumbles upon a catastrophic threat that could ignite World War III. Russian operatives have stolen nuclear launch codes from a secret Black Hills facility and are hiding in a neighboring cabin with a dark server capable of hijacking American satellites.

Роман о хаосе Гражданской войны, где единственное убежище — семейный дом с изразцовой печкой. Из опыта жизни в Киеве, осажденном Петлюрой, Булгаков создает историю вечных конфликтов — старого и нового, чести и трусости.

Mason was the Army’s best-kept secret. A reservist with a gift for long-range precision and a life he finally thought was safe. But when an IRA splinter cell executes his fiancée, the "quiet life" ends. The soldier is awake, and he’s seeing red.

They knew the mission. They knew the target. A team of elite soldiers is deployed deep into the jungles of Peru to recover a classified experiment—one they understand all too well. They’ve studied its behaviour. Its capabilities. Its limits. Or so they think. When something far more dangerous reveals itself in the shadows, the mission begins to unravel. And when a terrorist force emerges with plans of their own, the jungle becomes a battlefield with no clear enemy. As loyalties fracture and the line between duty and survival blurs, the objective is no longer so simple. Because in the jungle…

Una novela sobre el horror de la guerra y el heroico sacrificio de un puñado de hombres atrapados en ella. Hay ocasiones en las que estar al mando implica tomar decisiones difíciles, muchas veces trascendentales para la vida de otros e incluso para la propia vida, decisiones que deben...

It’s 1771, and tensions run high in colonial North Carolina. Frontier preacher Robert Boothe has spent the last four years standing against unlawful taxes and government corruption. To his close-knit congregation, Robert is a courageous man of God who defends the truth. To his wife and young daughter, he’s a devoted protector who longs to shield them from the growing unrest. To the governor’s men, he’s a rebel who preaches a dangerous gospel of God-given freedom. No one sees the doubts he wrestles in his own heart.

Sergeant Jo Barnes (Hilary Swank) and her elite, all-female US Army investigative team are renowned for cracking complex sex-crime cases within the military. Their latest mission takes them to the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin Army Base in California, to unravel the mysterious disappearance of Private Nichelle Simmons—a soldier who accused a comrade of assault. But when the accused is inexplicably set free, their case takes a sinister turn.

This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold and subversive retelling of the goddess's story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey (Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times). In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is...

Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan—Supreme Leader—of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth—the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.