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Welcome to 259 B.C. By law, all debts must be paid by the Ides of March. For men like them, sharp steel was the only acceptable currency. Unless something changed, one would emerge a winner and the other the guest of honor at a funeral. Blood payment might not have been the official objective. But it would not matter to an enraged Alerio Sisera as he clutched a gladius and held a temple voucher aloft.

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24th June 1842 at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio. His parents were poor but they introduced him to literature at an early age, instilling in him a deep appreciation of books, the written word and the elegance of language. He began his first foray as a fabulist, publishing ‘Fantastic Fables’ in 1899. But tragedy struck two years later when his second son Leigh died of pneumonia relating to his alcoholism. He continued to write short stories and poetry and also published ‘The Devil’s Dictionary’.

An idealist in less-than-ideal times, Chisolm’s military orders have taken him to the Bunker, an underground fortress in West Germany where intelligence and war footing operations convene. Within the impenetrable concrete walls, he finds a complete lack of military protocol, a total disregard for the stakes of the game, and a life of soul-crushing absurdity. Under constant threat of Russian annihilation, those assigned to the Bunker grapple with the inescapable futility of their posting. Chisolm struggles to maintain his moral compass in the face of disturbing apathy and chaos.

Manuel Rodríguez, los hermanos Carrera, Bernardo O'Higgins, José de San Martín y muchas otras personalidades gestoras de la Independencia de Chile están delineadas en esta novela. Para escribirla, el autor realizó una rigurosa investigación, llegando al punto de configurar el perfil psicológico de sus personajes con ayuda de psiquiatras y psicólogos.

The book is a first person account of a soldier’s journey, and is based on Artem Chekh’s diary that he wrote while and after his service in the war in Donbas. One of the most important messages the book conveys is that war means pain. Chekh is not showing the listener any heroic combat, focusing instead on the quiet, mundane, and harsh soldier’s life. Chekh masterfully selects the most poignant details of this kind of life.

Kidnapped from her charity-run medical centre in Yemen by Houthi terrorists on Tehran's orders, Dr Emily's life hangs in the balance. The clock ticks down as MI6 scrambles to recover her before she becomes a bargaining chip for the release of an Iranian oil tanker impounded by the British.

South Korea. 2013. Navy Captain Kate Mahoney is fighting battles on all fronts. When a Navy doctor reports suspicions of a botulism strike at an American facility, the rising Seventh Fleet star orders an immediate investigation. And her challenges multiply when she learns a fellow female pilot is missing in North Korea . . .

El cuerpo del joven Manuel Prieto aparece en el Cerro Garabitas de la Casa de Campo de Madrid el día de Nochebuena de 1952. Gonzalo Suárez, inspector de segunda del Cuerpo General de Policía, se hace cargo del caso. Un caso que, sin saberlo, cambiará su vida tal y como la conoce.

En los tiempos más aciagos y violentos de las guerras de independencia en la Nueva Granada, un joven soldado llanero, encargado de cuidar los caballos destinados a las batallas, se extravía solo en un páramo hostil y desconocido.

As the world hurtles through a storm of cyber attacks, geopolitical strife, and relentless warfare, one small-town deputy finds himself thrust onto the front lines of a battle that transcends borders. JR Knight, a seasoned law enforcement officer, witnesses the fragility of our existence firsthand. The shelves stripped bare in local stores, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are not distant tales but stark reminders that our world can change instantly.

Bogotá. Los noventa. La familia Santiago vive en una comunidad exclusiva y cerrada, a salvo de la agitación política que aterroriza el país. La pequeña de la familia, Chula, que tiene siete años, parece vivir en una burbuja, pero la amenaza de los secuestros, los coches bomba y los magnicidios se cierne fuera del barrio, donde el omnipotente Pablo Escobar elude a las autoridades y coarta a la nación. Cuando su madre contrata a Petrona, una criada procedente de las barriadas ocupadas por la guerrilla, Chula intenta congeniar con ella.

Berlin, 1939. „Ich liebe dich mehr, als du ahnst. Aber du bist nicht sicher mit mir. Wenn wir nicht verheiratet wären, müsstest du nicht so leiden, terrorisiert von dem gelben Stern auf meiner Brust. Ich könnte niemals wieder glücklich sein, wenn dir meinetwegen etwas zustieße.“ Edith Falkenstein führte einst ein Leben wie aus einem Märchenbuch. Als sie sich in Julius verliebte, öffnete er ihr eine Welt voller Glanz und Pracht. Sie schmückte sich mit den feinsten Juwelen und veranstaltete legendäre Feiern in ihrem prächtigen Herrenhaus.

The Season 1 of TGOK Starts with The Ghost meeting Lalakjan on the Ammo Depo • The Ghost of Kargil was part of Special Unit whose task was to coordinate between Posts on when and where Required and Provide stationary posts, Ammo and Food Reserves. Season 1 Tells us more about How Pakistani Forces went into Dras, Kargil and Batalik Sector and Captured 100+ Posts from the Indians.

"I've heard Cretan archers are good bowmen but weak skirmishers," a Tribune offered. "It has something to do with the teeny, tiny shields they wear like jewelry on their left forearms." "They wear jewelry into combat," Tribune Scipio moaned. "What have I done?" Set in the desperate years of the Second Punic War, the series follows the exploits of Cretan archer Jace Kasia and Roman Legion Tribune Cornelius Scipio. One is a castaway searching for a home while the other seeks to step out of the shadow of a famous father.

La historia del mundo cambió en los trascendentales días de la Guerra Civil americana. Si los acontecimientos hubieran discurrido entonces por caminos diferentes, no hay duda que nuestra realidad sería muy distinta de la que ahora nos rodea. De haber vencido la causa sudista, no es probable que hoy la esclavitud continuase en vigor en esa mitad de Norteamérica, pero es evidente que el decisivo papel jugado por Estados Unidos a lo largo de convulso siglo XX habría que replantearlo de raíz, quién sabe en qué sentido.

Twelve months ago, maverick Government Officer Sam Taylor was shot and left for dead while investigating a black-market organization. Now, the shooter—a mysterious and beautiful agent—has been found dead in Amsterdam. Sent to identify the body, Sam is reunited with old acquaintances and introduced to the lead investigator, Interpol agent Karl Vogt, a man with his own agenda. But when the group arrives at the mortuary, they discover the body has vanished…

Una novela que refleja la lucha por la supervivencia de sus protagonistas en medio de la muerte, el sufrimiento y la destrucción que provoca la devastadora guerra de Siria. La niña a las puertas del infierno muestra las distintas caras del conflicto civil sirio.

Army Veteran Mason Sharpe is killing time on Florida's gulf coast when he meets Ralph Roberts, a heartbroken older man who has come to Florida in search of the woman he loves–a woman who has mysteriously disappeared with a great deal of Ralph's money. Mason immediately suspects that Ralph has fallen victim to a scam artist, but Ralph won't hear a bad word about his true love, Camilla.

The Soviet army is sweeping into East Prussia, with their sights set on punishing Germans for the Nazis' reign of terror. Thirteen-year-old Giti and her younger brother, Otto, live with their mother and grandmother. When soldiers arrive and brutally attack the two adult women, killing their grandmother, the farm is set ablaze. The children, along with their severely wounded mother, are loaded into a crowded train bound for the Soviet Union.

From the author of What the Body Remembers, an extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name “Madeleine”), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasion of France. When Noor Khan’s father, a teacher of mystical Sufism, dies, Noor is forced to bow, along with her mother, sister and brother, to her uncle’s religious literalism and ideas on feminine propriety.