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Pearl Silver was happy. She had a good job teaching young nurses. She was married to a good man who loved her. She had a son who made her proud every day. Most of the time, her memories of her time fighting in the skies over Europe remained a distant part of her past. Something she was proud to have done, but that time was over. Her life twenty years later was very different, and she didn’t have much reason to tap into her psychic power—or to stay in touch with her old comrades in arms.

East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a local boy is the icing on the cake. But in wartime things change in the blink of an eye. When a heartbreaking tragedy shatters Ruby’s world, suddenly she is at odds with everyone - her family, her friends, and even her sweetheart. And when the hospital is threatened with immediate closure, she’s not sure who to trust.

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.

Jack Kane is a wanted man. Governments want him dead. And he is the last hope for a family facing a ruthless private military organization. A UK football club owned by a father-daughter team finds itself the subject of an aggressive takeover bid. Things get out of control when the buyers turn out to be a company backed by a private military group with links to the Russian government. Jack Kane and Frank Craven are the family's last hope as they try to survive brutal attacks and violent thugs in this life-or-death thriller.

Staff Sergeant Mack Murphy is on a routine reconnaissance mission in the mountains of Afghanistan to gather intelligence on the emerging insurgency. His Force Recon team stumbles into battle-hardened insurgents from the surrounding Arab states. Forced into a game of cat and mouse, Mack harnesses his skills as a Marine Sniper to keep the enemy from gaining the upper hand, but the situation becomes more dire with each passing moment. Mack didn't think things could get any worse, and then they did.

lex Wars, un soldado de fortuna que recién ha cumplido su servicio en la Legión Extranjera de Francia, viaja a Nueva York con planes de establecerse y encontrar empleo como agente en el cuerpo policiaco, durante la crisis de los «fat cops». Pero sus planes se vienen abajo cuando es rechazado por el oficial Farías, quien lo conecta con un ex ccompañero de armas a quien no esperaba toparse por estos lares y, a través de éste, conoce a Catherine Jerome. Cat lo contrata para dar caza a una abominación que la prensa ha bautizado como «el monstruo del Metro».

When the royal government of the Interstellar Commonwealth was overthrown, the Imperial Family fled into the forgotten depths of space, seeking a colony that had been abandoned thousands of years ago. After a hasty jump and then five years of grueling sublight travel, the battered fleet enters the system to find a thriving pre-space flight human culture. A culture that remembered nothing of their origins.

After her military service, Amber, a disabled Veteran, works for the VA Medical Center in Grand Junction. With the help of her service dog, Nikita, an ultra-loyal German Shepherd, Amber tries to leave the scars of her captivity and the loss of her fiancé, a fellow soldier, behind. When Amber meets someone who is overcoming his own devastating loss, Amber realizes she just might be able to love again and move on.

Цель оправдывает средства. Так говорили иезуиты. Но так ли это на самом деле? Что будет, если цель у амбициозных генералов и беспринципных учёных совпадает, и в эти жернова попадут те, для кого слова приказ и родина не пустой звук? Те, кто сделал целью своей жизни службу государству, и иной судьбы они не представляют? А значит, они пойдут до конца и сделают всё, чтобы защитить свою родную землю.

Наш современник, провалившийся в XVII век, переписывает историю "огнем и мечом" — вернее, казацкой саблей! С его помощью казаки разгромили крымчаков и людоловов-ногаев, обломали зубы хищным османам и сожгли проклятый Стамбул. Но не время почивать на лаврах, вложив саблю в ножны и пропивая богатую добычу, — ведь на западе собирается с силами еще более страшный враг. Чертовым ляхам давно поперек горла казацкие вольности. Польские каратели зверствуют на исконных русских землях, которые обозвали Украиной.

Где-то гремит война, которая коснулась всех и каждого — и тех, кто сражается в бою, и тех, кто остался в тылу. Юноша из далекой от линии фронта деревни и его родные и близкие живут своей, казалось бы мирной жизнью, с ее простыми радостями и горестями — однако эхо войны и их не обходит стороной. И вроде бы быт прежний — и дела, и праздники, но что-то изменилось, и уже никогда не будет так, как раньше... В этот сборник вошли повести и рассказы, написанные в ранние годы творчества писателя — Где-то гремит война, "Суходол", «Звездопад» и другие.

Он погиб в нашем времени, защищая незнакомую девушку от насильников, чтобы очнуться летом 1941-го. Теперь он взводный. вот только его батальон разбит, а немцы прут вперёд, и он решает не просто сам выйти из окружения, но и организовать отряд, который будет терроризировать немцев в их тылу. Если не он, то кто?!

В 1227 году н. э. Темучжин, всемирно известный как Чингисхан, скоропостижно умер в своем шатре во время похода на Тангутское царство. Смерть его была неприятной, мучительной и весьма болезненной, но на этом ничего не кончилось. Хрип умирающего старика перетек в вопль новорожденного ребенка, раздавшийся в некой неприятного вида лачуге, где люди говорили на ином языке. И это был уже не 1227, а самый настоящий 396 год н. э. Западная Римская империя, императорская провинция Паннония перед вторжением гуннов.

Fresh off his victory at Tricamarum, Belisarius encounters a task even more daunting than conquest: governing a land riven by war, famine, and blood feuds. All of which must be settled by an understrength army exhausted from battle. Yet, to safeguard the fledgling Imperial government in Carthage, the liberation of the African coastline must continue. While Belisarius dispatches peacekeepers throughout the region, the distant fortress of Septem stands as the key to security for the reclaimed Roman province.

Sie sind Elitesoldaten der ganz besonderen Art, denn sie stehen allein im Dienste Gottes: DIE RITTER DES VATIKAN. Vor drei Jahren stürzte das Flugzeug des Papstes über dem brasilianischen Dschungel ab. Das Wrack und seine Insassen galten als verschollen – bis ein Anschlag auf den amtierenden Papst verübt wird. Von einem ehemaligen Vatikanritter, der sich an Bord der abgestürzten Maschine befand.

A story that starts in the valley of the Five Lions where the past has malignantly shaped the violent present to produce an uncertain future. The Long Shadow of Panjshir is a spy-based military adventure novel that explores the murky and dangerous world of covert intelligence collection.

It’s the early 1980s and the height of the Cold War when Steve Donovan, despite a checkered past, troubled marriage, and no prospects, lands a job at the very bottom of the intelligence world. He finds a kind of happiness being involved with shady people in unsavory activities until he is suddenly promoted over the heads of fifty-nine colleagues by his Section chief, who is himself being promoted.

King Stephen is captured and the Civil War seems over until disaster strikes while the Earl of Cleveland is in Normandy. The Empress' forces are routed and the Earl of Gloucester is captured. Forced to return to rescue the Empress the Earl of Cleveland has to fight King Stephen's army and the English winter to rescue his Empress. With the future King Henry II as his squire the Earl has to wage a war against an increasing number of enemies and a diminishing number of allies.

The Nazi regime is gaining devastating power as Hitler is appointed Chancellor and stark oppression begins to unfold in Germany, blind war veteran Frederick Rowlands takes on the most challenging investigation of his life. A glamorous film star has been murdered and the menacing political undercurrents drag Rowlands into the heart of the German film industry. Rowlands discovers that he is closer to the action than he originally thought as his young nephew, Billy, was the last one to see the movie star alive.

More than a decade after returning home from Afghanistan, Jake Freeman is still tormented by the emotional consequences of war. Desperate for a better life, he enlists the help of a VA doctor who prescribes a motorcycle tour of the Western States. Jake hopes an adventure like this can quiet the chaos in his mind, so he leaves his familiar world behind and rides his Harley north toward Bend, Oregon. On his journey, he realizes it may take more than fishing in majestic rivers and dancing at great honkytonks to free him from the trauma locked inside his vault of memories.