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Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia. Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels. But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.

Young and eager to prove himself, Ranger Lieutenant Jim Hollister leads his six-man reconnaissance team on risky missions deep into enemy territory. The special volunteers who make up Long Range Patrols are tasked with setting up ambushes and conducting dangerous night patrols, helicopter insertions behind enemy lines, and fire support in the hottest of fights.

HUR BESEGRAR MAN RYSSLAND UTAN ATT KRIGA? Ett sabotage har avslöjat Sveriges hemliga kärnvapen inför hela världen. Ryssland svarar med att gå in med en militär styrka i finska Lappland för att ta Norden som gisslan. Den stridshärdade operatören Mattias Kassian får leda ett internationellt team på ett hemligt uppdrag för att tvinga fram fred. Deras operationer kommer att ta dem från det brinnande Bakhmut i krigets Ukraina till Tel Aviv i Israel.

Mattias Kassians kamp fortsätter Sverige och Ryssland befinner sig i en väpnad konflikt. För att hitta en fredlig väg ut ur krisen går den svenska elitsoldaten Mattias Kassian med på att hjälpa ryssarna att krossa ett nätverk av internationella narkotikasmugglare. Det är en jakt som kommer att ta honom från Moskva till Afrika och den arabiska halvön. Men hur frivilligt är Mattias samarbete med Ryssland?

It is the autumn of 1852, and the British warship Spartan, commanded by James Rutherford, continues her mission for the East India Company, to destroy a criminal consortium led by the Scorpion, a Chinese criminal named Liang Ziu, who controls an alliance of ruthless pirates, complicit local rulers and corrupt western traders. Attack is followed by counter-attack, including an attempt on Rutherford’s own life, with treachery, extending to the higher echelons of the company, an additional threat, as the hunt for the Scorpion and his allies ranges across the Far Eastern Seas.

Ondskan växer i djupet av de norrländska skogarna. Det gamla brottsnätverket Vinterpacket gör sig redo för en våldsam comeback. De tar sikte på Försvarsmaktens specialförband SOG, för om de kan besegra Sveriges bästa soldater kommer de att visa sig oslagbara. Men i SOG arbetar Mattias Kassian. Han som efter en stor förlust sökte till militären för att börja om på nytt. Och när hans kollegor blir måltavlor för

May, 1932. Newly minted as a team, Rick Justice and Intrepid encounter a fantastic weapon that generates artificial earthquakes. Their investigation points to a secret organization led by a new adversary, the treacherous and deadly woman known only as Scarlet. But, as Justice discovers, there’s more to her plan than just shaking things up. The lives of thousands depend on what Intrepid does next.

The latest action packed novel from Vincent FormosaIt has been a long war for Tim Chavell. A veteran of operations in France, Malta, the Adriatic, and off the Dutch coast, he is long overdue for a rest. Instead, he finds himself posted to Scotland to take command of a Mosquito strike wing at RAF Aberdour. In headlong retreat, the Germans are being pressured from all sides. The iron ore that keeps heavy industry going comes from a precarious supply line that must be protected at all costs.

1914. Ranveer, the eldest son of a wealthy Indian family, joins the British Indian Army and is sent to fight on the Western Front. Wounded and in hospital, he falls in love with Eve, an Englishwoman. But the conventions of the time mean they will never find a home in England. They travel to India but there it is no better and Ranveer gets drawn into the struggle for Indian independence. Now he must choose between family and his country on the one hand and the woman he loves on the other.

It is May of 1863 and the Civil War in North America has entered its third year. Facing a range of enemy threats, southern commander General Robert E. Lee proposes an invasion of the northern states to supply his army, relieve pressure on other imperilled fronts and to seek decisive victory on enemy territory that could end the war.

Sam, Alan, Alice and Aurora continue to fight against the German forces occupying England. The guerrillas sabotage SS plans to build a concentration camp and also prepare for L-Day: the Allied liberation of the Occupied South. The partisans take steps to deal with a traitor amongst their ranks.

Sam, Alan, Alice and Aurora continue to sabotage SS plans to arrest and eliminate a list of targets written in a secret Black Book. The Partisans discover the existence of a shadowy ancient Resistance organization with their own hidden agenda. The Nazis devise a plan to destroy the Hereward guerrillas once for all. Young Lions Attack is the fourth book in the Young Lions series and is a fast-paced, gritty war novel set in an alternative history of the Second World War.

Alan, Sam, Alice and Aurora operate behind enemy lines on L-Day: the Allied liberation of the Occupied South. The partisans suffer grievous losses linking up with friendly forces. Hitler mercilessly crushes an SS coup. The Brotherhood of the Purifying Flame takes advantage of the chaos to pursue its Holy Mission.

This second Major Brown adventure takes him and his team from the streets of London to Somalia. While his nemesis Brigadier General Tsygankov forms his team in his dacha to bring havoc to the UK using the IRA. They travel to Afghanistan, Moscow, Split, Libya, Ireland, France, Canal du Midi and Toulouse before setting foot in the UK and Southern Ireland and setting up a mission devised by General Tsygankov to cripple a major arm of the British Army and Major Rodney Brown.

It is the spring of 1864 and the Confederate raider Palmetto is off the Philippines, pursuing her campaign against US shipping. For her captain, Thomas Grover there is much to consider, for with the ship’s previously sustained engine damage not fully repaired, he learns that these seas are now patrolled by a new Union warship that vastly overmatches his own ship. As the war turns increasingly against the south, Grover must redouble his efforts against the enemy, but the hidden threats facing him are as dangerous as the known ones.

The Nazis of World War Two were fascinated with the occult and the supernatural, seeking advantage from holy relics of all description. As the war came to an end, many of the leaders and their artefacts disappeared. Now, their descendants have re-emerged, and are taking over where the Third Reich left off—only this time, they not only have the occult, but modern technology to advance their cause. The only thing standing in the way of the new world order is ex-SAS major Hugh Grantham and a 900 year old secret society that the world thought had disappeared centuries ago.

Billy Budd, a handsome sailor working on a British naval ship in the eighteenth century, is falsely accused of mutiny against the ship’s captain by the master-at-arms, John Claggart. Billy, who unfortunately obtains a speech impediment, is overcome by the accusation and unable to verbally defend himself against Claggart’s unfounded hate for him. Instead, he lashes out at Claggart, much to his own demise. An instant classic once published, Billy Budd is a tragic tale that has been adapted into film, plays and even an opera. This audiobook edition is narrated by the talented Christopher Ragland.

When Lieutenant James Rutherford of the Honourable East India Company is summoned to Government House in Calcutta, he has no inkling of what awaits him there. To his great surprise, he is offered command of the Spartan, a newly converted steam warship, receiving orders to proceed to sea to hunt a Chinese pirate, but, though those orders appear straightforward enough, they initiate a deadly sequence of events during which the hunter all too often is the quarry.

William of Normandy set sail to arrive in England in October 1066 to take the throne and force his right above the Saxon King Harold. Successful in the battle and taking the crown, his army of well-trained knights were rewarded with lands.

Two years after the fall of New Britton, the Revenant, and her crew fight to protect what remains of humanity. But the enemy they face isn't just the mechanical Trench forces that stalk their world—it's the darkness that lurks within their own ranks. JJ Thackleford has never stopped believing his brother Tommy could be saved from the Marauders who took him. But when Tommy returns claiming to have escaped their clutches, hope and suspicion wage war in the hearts of the Revenant's crew.

A Season for Killing is told from the perspective of Daniel Ryan, a corporal in Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War, as the brutal campaign in the spring and summer of that year unfolds.

In August 2015, the war started, portals opening up between their world and ours, allowing the Fae to return to our (or their) home world in blood, fire and magic. Conventional forces fought back as well as they could, but the invasion had been planned to hit us in the middle of our civilization. America’s military was scattered overseas or concentrated in large bases that were quickly overwhelmed by forces that were dropped right in the middle of their units.

A town ruled by criminals. A man who won’t back down. Former Marine Sergeant Frank Ranger is a hunted man—framed for his wife's murder, he is determined to clear his name so he can be reunited with his young daughter. Pursued relentlessly by his vengeful U. S. Marshal brother-in-law, Ranger finds temporary refuge in the scorching Arizona town of Namrena. But when he intervenes to protect a desperate mother and her young son from local thugs, Ranger ignites a war with the town's ruthless crime syndicate.

Nach einer herausragenden Karriere als amerikanischer Spion ist Nathan Grant bereit, die CIA hinter sich zu lassen. Doch Leider sind seine Widersacher nicht bereit, ihn so einfach ziehen zu lassen. Als eine letzte Mission mit dem Tod von zwei russischen Spionen endet, wird Grant zu einem gesuchten Mann. Um stehts einen Schritt voraus zu sein, muss er die Identität eines Maulwurfs aufdecken, der sich tief im Inneren der CIA versteckt hält.

Battered. Wounded. Former Special Agent Kade Black isn't about to give up on the quest to prove his innocence. The trail leads him to the unforgiving deserts of Nevada. A harsh landscape where only the toughest survive.

Каждому свое — заключительная часть художественно-документальной трилогии Елены Съяновой, посвященной истории фашистского Третьего рейха и судьбам его вождей. Казалось бы, с документальной основой этого романа проблем не было — огромный массив материалов Нюрнбергского процесса исследователям доступен. Самая интересная их часть — это стенограммы допросов и записки американского психолога Гилберта, работавшего с подследственными. «Но, — пишет автор, — эти записки имеют мало общего с подлинником, не прошедшим цензуру и перевод». Елена Съянова работает с подлинниками.

Dr. Arman Pirouzi left Iran behind for a better life in the United States until he is reluctantly recruited by the CIA and returns to Tehran, where the ruthless IRGC hunts, tortures, and routinely kills spies and traitors with brutal efficiency. His mission: locate a critical asset, extract classified intelligence, and stop a war before it starts. His challenge: survive the most dangerous city in the world, where old friends become enemies, past loves are rekindled, and death waits around any corner. Capture means torture.

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.

«Гнездо орла» — вторая часть художественно-документальной трилогии Елены Съяновой, посвященной истории фашистского Третьего рейха и судьбам его лидеров. Время действия 1937—1939 годы — зенит власти Адольфа Гитлера, период от аншлюса Австрии до начала Второй мировой войны. «Документов я получила так много, — рассказывает автор, — что весь этот период можно было буквально хронометрировать, снабдив текст ссылками на источники».

The Inevitable White Man written by Jack London: So said Captain Woodward. We sat in the parlor of Charley Roberts' pub in Apia, drinking long Abu Hameds compounded and shared with us by the aforesaid Charley Roberts, who claimed the recipe direct from Stevens, famous for having invented the Abu Hamed at a time when he was spurred on by Nile thirst—the Stevens who was responsible for "With Kitchener to Kartoun," and who passed out at the siege of Ladysmith.