Ergebnis für "August" in Krieg & Militär

What will World War III look like? Ghost Fleet is a gripping imagining of a war set in the not too distant future. Navy captains battle through a modern-day Pearl Harbor, fighter pilots duel with stealthy drones, teenage hackers fight in digital playgrounds, Silicon Valley billionaires mobilise for cyber war and a serial killer carries out her own vendetta. Ultimately, victory will depend on who can best blend the lessons of the past with the weapons of the future.

The Spy unfolds during the merciless winter of 1778–1779, when the American Revolution hangs in the balance on the western frontier. At its heart is Thomas Wright, a 12-year-old orphan forced to grow up fast in a land ruled by cold, hunger, and danger.

FBI Special Agents Kim Otto and Carlos Gaspar’s off-the-books assignment leads them to the surviving members of Jack Reacher’s elite military unit. Five years ago, Reacher sorted and destroyed a team of arms dealers before he moved on. But he made mistakes. Now, his bad luck and trouble legacy plunges Otto and Gaspar into the minefield of a grudge war between Reacher’s fearless old friends and chilling new enemies.

Le roman qui affole les experts du Pentagone. Dans un futur proche, la Chine envahit Hawaï pour s'emparer de gigantesques réserves de gaz. Mais un véritable Pearl Harbor numérique empêche l'Amérique de réagir : guerre des étoiles, marine paralysée, aviation clouée au sol... il faudra le génie et l'héroïsme d'une poignée d'hommes et de femmes pour engager la résistance et reprendre la main sur la technologie.

Året är 1870, det fransk-tyska kriget härjar för fullt och utarmar befolkning och natur. Kriget drivs framåt av hänsynslösa ledare men när den tyske löjtnanten Herr von Bleichroden får order om att avrätta franska krigsfångar grips han av panik. Han vidarebefordrar ordern, men när avrättningarna är genomförda drabbas han av svåra samvetskval ... "Samvetskval" är en fredsnovell från 1884 skriven av August Strindberg som följer huvudpersonen von Bleichrodens inre kamp mot sig själv.

'Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself' Alexander McCall Smith It is wartime in Barsetshire, and so much has changed. Belier's Priory is now a hospital for wounded soldiers, and Sir Harry and Lady Waring have...