Ergebnis für "Silence" in Krieg & Militär

There are levels to survival. Things you swear you’ll never accept—until you do. Until you have to. Honor was supposed to mean something, wasn’t it? But honor doesn’t quiet the cries of a child in the dead of night. Justice doesn’t pay the bills piling up on the counter. Morality doesn’t patch together a home that’s already frayed at the edges. So, the lies were swallowed. The shame. The betrayal. The late nights filled with secrets and cold, hollow excuses. The chains of addiction that dragged everything further into the dark.

Five years after advanced artificial intelligence displaces nearly half of the global workforce, society fractures under the weight of automation, fear, and dependency. What begins as technological convenience spirals into economic collapse, government instability, and a nation at the breaking point.

Jessica Anderson is a former army military police and CID agent. After ten years of serving her country to the best of her ability, she gets out, hoping for a slower pace. She joins the Buffalo Police Force and tries to get on with her life as she fights to keep the weight of her former service from bringing her down. Then one autumn day, one call will change her life forever. From that day forward, she gets caught up in a mix of confusion and fear as she tries to solve a mystery that threatens to take her life. A mystery that brings up a part of the past that she thought was long closed.

Una mujer busca respuestas a lo que sucedió. Helena Guerrero es una artista de renombre internacional, conocida por las sombras que invaden sus cuadros y que, aparentemente, reflejan un misterio de su pasado que nadie ha sabido nunca explicar. Ahora, después de muchos años de alejamiento, una terapia psicológica llamada "constelación", una boda en la familia y un e-mail de su cuñado ofreciéndole información la traen de vuelta a Madrid desde Australia, donde vive.

The second novel by Don DeLillo, author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and The Silence. At Logos College in West Texas, huge young men, vacuum-packed into shoulder pads and shiny helmets, play football with intense passion. During an uncharacteristic winning season, the...

When an archaeological dig unleashes a centuries-old virus, paramilitary operative Cole "Tox" Russell is forced back into action. With the help of archaeologist Tzivia Khalon and FBI agent Kasey Cortes, Tox searches for answers - and becomes entangled in a web of deception. As the team races to stop a pandemic, a secret society counters their every move.

When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sandson England's southern coast, US army captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshirebeach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top-secret rehearsal for theapproaching D-day invasion of Normandy, and the area is restricted; no one seems to know where the corpse could have come from.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women’s Prize for...

Growing up in pre-Civil War Philadelphia, a city torn by racial violence, Lizzy O'Meara could have obeyed her mother's orders to stick to her own kind. Instead, she secretly joins the fight against slavery with her Black friend. When she meets Thomas Britton, a handsome Quaker, she knows she has found the love of her life. But nine months later, everything falls apart when Lizzy gives birth and is accused of murdering her newborn baby. The only thing she remembers about the night of the birth is a midwife holding the child's lifeless body and screaming that Lizzy murdered her baby.

Germany, 1926. When Richard and Paula meet in bustling, cosmopolitan Hamburg, everything feels possible. They fall in love, marry and are soon blessed with twins. When Richard qualifies as a psychiatrist, life ahead looks bright. Their only sadness is that their son, Georg, was born deaf, although with his family to protect him they’re sure he’ll be okay. But happiness turns to horror when the Nazis seize power and begin forcing doctors to euthanise anyone the regime deems imperfect. Suddenly, Richard is falsifying medical records to save his patients - and hiding Georg.

משחק הדממה הוא רומן הביכורים של ערן בן עמי, עורך דין בן 44. חלקים מהספר שאובים מפרקים בעברו הצבאי ובשירות ה"סטייט דיפרטמנט", שאף זיכה אותו בעיטור גבורה על חלקו בנטרול מחבל מתאבד בשגרירות ארצות הברית בתל אביב

HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines. When Temraire's trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China, her captain, David Jermain, knows that this is no routine exercise in flag-waving. And once in Asian waters, he and his submarine find themselves involved in a hidden, undeclared conflict beneath the sea.

When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be assigned to Manila - the Pearl of the Orient. Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe - the island is fortified, the airbases are ample, and the Filipino troops are well-trained.

James Abel—author of the electrifying Joe Rush novels Protocol Zero and White Plague—unleashes another heartstopping thriller in which an unholy plague from the past has been awakened... While trying to alleviate the suffering of thousands in drought-stricken, war-torn Africa, ex-Marine...

On a sweltering summer day, the streets of Old Madrid that once resonated with the laughter of children playing are empty and silent. But inside the apartment buildings there is life as families faithfully wait for updates about an army uprising in Spanish Morocco. Before long, their greatest fears come true. As rebel troops storm Madrid and chaos fills the streets, six-year-old Mari wonders why she cannot go outside to play. Unfortunately, she has no idea she is about to be trapped inside the abyss of what is rapidly becoming a ruthless civil war.

Laid up in a CIA hospital, recovering from a gunshot wound, British agent Maxon is about to have his peaceful convalescence shattered. As the radio DJ introduces In the Mood, the swinging sound of Glenn Miller is cut off by a shrill, insistent alarm - one signalling imminent universal death. America's brand-new Global Early Warning System has detected an approaching nuclear missile from outer space.