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They blocked the roads. They blew the bridges. They built the lorry piers. France and Belgium, May 1940. The German advance has broken through the Allied line. The British Expeditionary Force is falling back towards Dunkirk. Donald ‘Donnie’ MacIver is a Sapper with the 59th Field Company, Royal Engineers. A Glasgow-born shipyard riveter from the Partick tenements, he joins the Army as war begins. As the retreat gathers pace, Donnie and the men of Two Section are sent wherever work is needed.

Invincible is the story of an unknown New Zealand hero. This is the incredible story of one man’s journey through a world war and then onto world-wide sporting glory. It is a story of friendship, redemption and hope. Of luck and guts, loneliness and terror, kindness and salvation, sportsmanship, resurrection and healing. Son White signs up to fight in World War One with Ben, his horse, dreaming of adventure. In three years of fighting, from Egypt, to Gallipoli and finally in France, Son experiences little adventure and none of the romance of war.

It's the summer of 1944, and the war feels a world away from Desmond Cay—a scattering of docks and clapboard houses tucked into Florida's wild, mangrove-tangled Ten Thousand Islands. Fifteen-year-old David MacKenzie and his friends, the sharp-eyed Seminole Bill Talltree and the fearless, freckled Laury Michel, spend their days poling skiffs through hidden channels, hunting for a legendary hunter's lost cabin, and daring each other to take the next impossible rifle shot.

He trusts her with his life, but not with his heart. Bible Smuggler Dakota Kimani is fearless in spreading the Gospel. When her friends are abducted by a Somali terror organization, she will do anything to rescue them—even reach out to the one man she wronged and vowed to never again contact. Former Marine Raider Keith McCord isn't one to look the other way when innocents are slaughtered. So yeah, he agrees to help the woman who ripped out his heart. With a team of trusted operators, he infiltrates Somalia and finds himself waging war on terror and old feelings.

Bloody Nick returns from the Mediterranean tired—he has done too much, seen too much, and needs rest at home. His ship, HBMS Hawke, needs time in the yard. A year of half-pay leaves Nick rested and anxious to get back to sea. He is close to the top of the Captain's List and automatic promotion...

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt comes Dodge City, a rollicking novel about a young man on an amphetamine-fueled cross-country road trip, fleeing the draft for the safe haven of Canada. LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE Named a Most Anticipated title by: People.com, Minnesota Star Tribune...

When Alex Mason inherits a vineyard in California’s Napa Valley, it should be a fresh start—a rare moment of peace. He asks Gallin to join him, hoping to leave the chaos behind. But Gallin doesn’t get fresh starts. A former IDF captain and Mossad katsa, she’s spent years eliminating some of the world’s most dangerous threats—and making enemies across the globe. Enemies who have finally found her.

USA TODAY & Amazon 3-million copy bestselling author BLAKE BANNER is at his best with his original action-packed thriller series! What do you do when what you most crave in life is peace and the warmth of a family, but all life has taught you is how to fight and how to kill? What do you do when you have turned your back on violence and killing, when you’ve started to make that home, and the enemy you thought was dead comes knocking at your door? For Lacklan Walker, ten year veteran of the SAS, that question had only one answer. You go in fighting.

The BRAND NEW instalment of the page-turning Resistance Girls series. January 1943 A girl with nothing to lose… Abandoned as a baby on a London street, Lexi Street has survived by trusting no one but herself. Now one of Major Stapleton’s most daring operatives, she’s used to working alone...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They came from different countries. They spoke different languages. They followed different routes. But they shared one dangerous agenda. America believes it is facing an immigration crisis. What it does not know is that hidden among the waves of people...

Sólo fue necesaria una noche... para cambiar su vida para siempre La última vez que la había visto, habían acabado en la cama. Ahora, dos años después, el soldado condecorado Wade Donelly tenía intención de repetir la experiencia de aquella maravillosa noche. Entonces Phoebe Merriman era...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. La ficción parecía cada vez más real... Le había resultado más sencillo enfrentarse al fuego enemigo que a las insinuaciones de la hija del general. El marine Rad Kozlowski tenía que admitir que estaba en verdadero peligro y sólo había...

They promised to only use his lethal skills for good. But in the Syrian desert, doing good requires doing something very, very bad. Ex-CIA ghost Jonathan Hunt has made a pact with his wife, Rosa: his days as a government weapon are over. From now on, they operate by a new code—stepping in as off-books samaritans for those who have nowhere else to turn. Rosa even wants Jonathan to train her so she can fight by his side in the shadows. But Jonathan knows the toll the darkness takes, and he’s deeply hesitant, desperate to protect her from the blood-soaked life he barely survived.

Caleb Mercer left the military for a quiet life in the Alberta foothills with his Rottweiler, Rex. Then Calgary begins to burn. When a terrified teenager named Emily reaches his cabin, Caleb has no choice but to leave the life he built behind. The highways are collapsing, survivors are turning on each other, and the infected spreading into the mountains are changing faster than anyone understands. They aren’t just chasing people anymore. They’re learning how to hunt them. Caleb has survived war before, but this is different.

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

When the 36th Infantry Division lands at Salerno, the men expect a dangerous beach. What they find is worse: a battlefield already measured by the enemy. German positions overlook the sand. Machine guns control the exits. Mortars wait for the clusters. And somewhere in the stone terraces inland, a sniper begins cutting the nerve lines of the American advance.

Centuries and continents apart, two American soldiers deploy in the years after "mission accomplished"—only to discover a land far from peace. In 1870, five years after the United States defeated rebelling southern states, eighteen-year-old Henry McDonald enlists in the U.S. military. Henry's sharp shooting and sharper mind while chasing Ku Kluxers in the South earns him the title "Private Trouble"—but real trouble still wreaks havoc in the rebellious Georgia in the form of lynchings, looting, and guerrilla violence.

Born to be a great lord, sworn to die for vengeance. Denmark, 982AD At the end of the first millennium, the Baltic Sea knew a terror unlike any other: the Jomsvikings. Cast out by the rise of Christianity, exiled warriors with no homeland who lived by selling their steel for silver. They showed...

I am Thap tu gia--the Cross. Con Thien Village, Vietnam, 1964. My heart rate is slowing. My breathing is shallow but even. My finger is gentle on the cool metal trigger. There is a trickle of sweat above my brow, but my senses intensify to my surroundings. My body fills with a familiar sensation, like the arrival of a lost companion to comfort me. Now I feel complete. As with each of my kills, I will leave a small wooden cross with a single strip of leather fastening the two sections.

Lieutenant Grant Powell is returning from Mosul in silence — paralyzed, brain-damaged, and sealed inside a stillness that no neurologist can fully assess or comprehend. What the military hospital records as absence, nurse Claire Emmerson begins to read as presence. Something is happening in...