Ergebnis für "Jugend" in Krieg & Militär

Ein Klassiker der Anti-Kriegsliteratur Dieter Noll, als "Remarque des 2. Weltkriegs" gefeiert, schildert den Weg junger Männer seiner Generation. Hungrig nach Abenteuern, ziehen sie begeistert in den Krieg. Nach erniedrigendem Drill, endlosen Nächten der Erschöpfung und Angst am Flakgeschütz erleben sie im Inferno der Rückzugsschlachten ihre völlige Desillusionierung und den moralischen Zusammenbruch. Frühjahr 1943.

Jack Kane is a man on a mission; a secret agency wants him dead... and his family is in the firing line. The Valknut Group, a state-funded private military group, has taken an interest in a UK Lithium mine. MI6 is concerned about that interest and Valknut's wider ambitions to undermine Western powers. Jack Kane and Frank Craven are tasked with travelling to Cornwall on Britain's south-west coast to investigate. A violent encounter ensues, and Kane is forced into battle against skilled and well-armed enemies.

Set during and after the First World War, A Very Long Engagement is the tale of a young woman's search for her fiancé who she believes might still be alive despite having officially been reported as "killed in the line of duty." Unable to walk since childhood, fearless Mathilde Donnay is undeterred in her quest as she scours the country for information about five wounded French soldiers who were brutally abandoned by their own troops. A Very Long Engagement is a mystery, a love story, and an extraordinary portrait of life in France before and after the War.

The siege of the RAF base at Habbaniya is lifted after the defenders launch a surprise counter attach followed up by an intense air campaign and assault on Bagdad by Habforce that force marched to their aid. Back in Cairo, Raiding Forces is ordered to interdict the Via Balbia, Rommel's 1500 mile supply route along the Mediterranean coast. Maj. Randal forms Raiding Forces Desert Squadron (RFDS) and Raiding Forces Sea Squadron (RFSS) to conduct gunjeep and amphibious pinprick raids against the Afrika Korps exposed line of communication.

On April 19, 1775, musket shots ring out over Lexington, Massachusetts. As the sun rises over the battlefield, fifteen-year-old Adam Cooper stands among the outmatched patriots, facing a line of British troops. Determined to defend his home and prove his worth to his disapproving father, Cooper is about to embark on the most significant day of his life. The Battle of Lexington and Concord will be the starting point of the American Revolution—and when Cooper becomes a man.

The Second World War is weighted in strife. On the front lines a squad of SS soldiers are sent on a secret mission, to enlist the help of the last vampire, to raise an army which would win the war for Germany. Ruthless massacre, mayhem and action fuelled rage ensues. Broken, beaten, and turned on by their superiors, the squad end up fighting side by side with an order of fallen cavalry. Their last two loyal members engage the squad into a fight not for Germany, but to save mankind itself from demonic world domination.

En La segunda generación de Stephen Crane, nos encontramos con Caspar Cadogan, un joven que decide seguir los pasos de su padre, un influyente senador, y buscar la gloria en la guerra. Stephen Crane dibuja magistralmente la lucha interna de Caspar: la presión de las expectativas paternales, el peso de la responsabilidad y la cruda realidad de la guerra.