Ergebnis für "Miles" in Krieg & Militär

Col. John Randal and Lady Jane arrive in London just before Christmas 1943. They find themselves caught up in the murky world of Military Deception. MI-5 had captured every German spy in England and given them the choice of a firing squad or becoming a double agent working for the Double Cross Committee XX.

Globally bestselling historian Dan Jones makes his historical fiction debut with Essex Dogs, the explosive first instalment in an epic new trilogy set during the Hundred Years War. July 1346. The Hundred Years' War has begun, and King Edward and his lords are on the march through France. But...

Born to an aristocratic family on an estate outside of Dublin, Alexander Moore feels the constraints of his position most acutely in his friendship with Jerry Crowe, a Catholic laborer in town. Jerry is one of the few bright spots in Alec's otherwise troubled life. The boys bond over their love of swimming and horses, despite the admonitions of Alec's cold and overbearing mother, who scolds her son for venturing outside of his class.

THE MOST POWERFUL WARSHIP ON EARTH IS NOT FROM THIS WORLD. HER MISSION: STEAL IT. When an alien spacecraft crashes deep inside North Korea, the balance of global power shifts overnight. Hidden within the wreckage is the Reaper—a prototype vessel possessing technology beyond human understanding. If North Korea unlocks its secrets first, the consequences could be catastrophic. U. S. Air Force Captain Ava Tan is given an impossible assignment: infiltrate the most isolated nation on Earth, locate the Reaper, and steal it before a global crisis spirals into World War III.

An EMP kills the power. A husband fights through a burning Vegas to save his wife. Two boys navigate pitch-black tunnels to survive. And across the desert, a brother prepares for a siege none of them may live through.

In the Jewish district of Leopoldstadt, Felix Wolff watches his beloved city transform into a nightmare. As people are rounded up and sent to destinations whispered in terror, Felix’s world shatters when his father is bound for Dachau. Determined to save his father, Felix makes a fateful decision that places him directly in the Gestapo’s sights, forever altering his destiny.

Allister Caine has always been an enigma and an outsider among the warcasters of Cygnar, but few are privy to his true motivations or his complicated past.… Born into poverty, Allister Caine did what he must to survive, and the choices he made have followed him like a vengeful specter throughout his life. Now, just months after the Lion’s Coup and his full commission as a warcaster, he has been secretly assigned by Scout General Rebald to investigate plots against King Leto in lands just north of the Bloodsmeath Marsh.

The thrilling, unmissable conclusion to the Essex Dogs trilogy by the New York Times bestselling historian Dan Jones 1350. The Essex Dogs have scattered. In Winchelsea, Loveday struggles to keep his tavern afloat in the aftermath of the Black Death. Nowadays, the only battles he fights are the...

May, 1940: 10th Panzer Division has decimated France and is driving on Calais a short distance from Dunkirk. Lieutenant John Randal, a veteran of the US 26th Cavalry Regiment, volunteers to serve with the British forces and arrives on the continent three days before the town falls.

Thin, Brittle, Mile is the story of brothers Luke and Tyler Dearlove who travel to the remote, sparsely populated Skidaway Island searching for their third missing sibling. The brothers soon garner the sense that something is terribly wrong on the island, and their inquiries, which stir up the most insidious of hornets nests, are greeted at first with shrouded suspicion, then with open hostility, followed by blunt threats, harassment, and escalating violence.

Faced with life behind bars, Sam Pope has made peace with his fight being over. After discovering the harrowing truth behind Project Hailstorm and bringing down the corrupt General Wallace, Sam is abruptly sent to Ashcroft prison. A secret, maximum security prison known as "The Grid", housing the most dangerous criminals and a sadistic team of guards to keep them in line.

Este audiolibro está narrado en castellano. Si algo puede decirse de Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa es que ha sido testigo de nuestros tiempos a través de su ficción. En este caso, su presente novela aborda las tristemente famosas armas de destrucción masiva y todos los acontecimientos que desembocaron en la Guerra de Irak, un conflicto que se cobró más de medio millón de vidas.

The 575th Ranger Task Force, Raiding Forces are conducting a fighting withdrawal back to the Salerno Beachhead following their drop on Benevento, Italy. The jump was widely scattered with one plane load missing the drop zone by in excess of 100 miles. While the 575th RTF has been away conducting a hit and run guerrilla campaign, blocking roads by downing trees, cutting rail lines and blowing bridges, an element of Sea Raiders from the Brandenburger Regiment have raided Castelrozzo.

In this sequel to Economy of Force, Colonel John Randal returns in The Magnificent Mission. Col. Randal has been summoned to London to meet with Major the Lady Jane Seaborn's Godfather, Lieutenant Colonel John Henry Bevan, the Chief of Deception. Lt. Col. Bevan is in charge of the super-secret London Controlling Section. Major General Sam Houston Blackwell sends his personal aircraft to fly the party to the meeting — Lady Jane has a shopping safari on her calendar. Before they can depart, Raiding Forces is tasked with rescuing a photo reconnaissance pilot who has been shot down.

Lieutenant Colonel Randal has established a clandestine base at Oasis X on the far side of the Great Sand Sea from which to launch hit-and-run gun jeep raids on isolated enemy positions, airfields, and fuel tank farms up to a 1,000 miles behind the lines with Desert Patrol, while his Sea Squadron carry out amphibious pinprick commando raids off a landing craft tank along the Mediterranean coastline.

The United States has entered the war. However, it will take time before America can commit ground troops to the battle. Col. John Randal and the men in the American Volunteer Group who have been serving with Raiding Forces are back in US Army uniform serving under their own flag. Raiding Forces is being expanded into a joint US/UK outfit. As it is, reorganizing events in remote parts of the world require Col. Randal and a team of his Raiders to carry out a pair of long range operations of national strategic importance.

Operation Crusader has had a devastating effect on the Desert Patrol gun jeep patrols due to the constant non-stop pace of operations and being misused by Middle East Command. The new US troops of the 575th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Separate) (Special) aka "Rangers" are being amalgamated into Raiding Forces after rotating through the British Commando School and completing "Blood in the Sand’ training under Capt. "Mad Dog" Reupart and Sgt. Maj. "March or Die" Mikkalis ably assisted by the ex-French Foreign Legion veterans of Blue Patrol.

A fractured nation. A fractured legacy. The island will decide who survives. Two weeks after an attack cripples the United States, Michael Shepherd, Erika Blake, and her son Max arrive on the rugged shores of Mount Desert Island, Maine. But the peace they hoped for is a distant dream. The island is torn, now divided by fear, rules, and rising factions. Still reeling from the truth of his bloodline, Michael struggles to understand what his name means to the people he’s come to protect, and what it may cost them all.

Acclaimed author of Island Queen Vanessa Riley brings readers a vivid, sweeping novel of the Haitian Revolution based on the true-life stories of two extraordinary women: the first Empress of Haiti, Marie-Claire Bonheur, and Gran Toya, a West African-born warrior who helped lead the rebellion...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023 The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel set during the Hundred Years' War. July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and...