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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the twelth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are...

Vallée de l'Asse. Provence. Été 1965. Il vit dans une station-service avec ses vieux parents. Les voitures qui passent sont rares. Shell ne va plus à l'école. Il est différent. Un jour, il décide de partir. Pour aller à la guerre et prouver qu'il est un homme. Mais sur le plateau qui surplombe la vallée, nulle guerre ne sévit. Seuls se déploient le silence et les odeurs du maquis. Et une fille, comme un souffle, qui apparaît devant lui. Avec elle, tout s'invente et l'impossible devient vrai.

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. Sharpe’s job as Captain of the Light Company is under threat and he has...

'Harffy is the gold standard of historical action-adventure' Theodore Brun A former soldier investigates a series of grisly murders in Imperial Rome. A thrilling historical mystery-adventure from the author of the Bernicia Chronicles. Marcus Ulpius Bellator survived the brutality of war on the...

A forbidden past. A rising threat. A nation on the brink of isolation… In the 17th century, the Tokugawa Shogunate sealed Japan’s borders from the world–foreigners were banned, Japanese were forbidden to travel, and trade was limited to a single artificial island, Dejima, off the coast of Nagasaki. For over two centuries, the nation remained hidden… until U.S. gunboats forced it open in 1854. Now, in the present day, Sam Reilly and his wife Amira arrive in Nikkō for a quiet escape. It’s their first time in Japan–and they’ve chosen to enjoy a peaceful babymoon in a land steeped in history.

Stiger has survived the brutal ordeal at Fort Covenant, which saw his company shattered and an enemy army destroyed. Stiger is slowly being accepted into the legion. There are still some who seek to make him feel like an outcast. Unexpectedly, he finds himself summoned to see the general. Stiger is dispatched on a critical mission for the empire. He must travel to the island kingdom of Thresh to deliver a message and a large quantity of gold. Despite the mission’s importance, it seems like an easy job: a march through friendly territory well away from the enemy....

Widely regarded as the most engaging historical novels ever written, the 21 books in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series have garnered millions of fans since the publication of the first volume over 50 years ago. Included here are BBC radio adaptations of the first seven thrilling stories.

Ein packender Erlebnisbericht über die harten Kämpfe an der Ostfront 1942/1943. Unteroffizier Paul Oberländer, Kampfpilot der Luftwaffe, gerät eines Abends im März 1942 in eine Kneipenschlägerei in Frankreich. Er wird verhaftet und degradiert. Fortan fristet er ein trostloses Dasein beim Bodenpersonal der Luftwaffe, wohl wissend, dass die Wehrmacht ihn nie wieder fliegen lassen wird. Oberländer will sich mit seiner Lage aber nicht abfinden. Um seine Soldatenehre zurückzuerlangen, meldet er sich daher freiwillig zur 8. Luftwaffen-Felddivision.

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.

New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor is back with a propulsive and topical edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring Pike Logan as he goes head-to-head with Putin’s henchmen. To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukrainian partisans...

Im April 1945 erreichte die Front das kleine märkische Dorf Halbe, das bis dahin kaum jemand kannte. Doch was sich dann auf den Straßen in sowie auch um diese Ortschaft abspielte, wurde eine der blutigsten Schlachten des Zweiten Weltkrieges. Was im Kriegsjahr 1943 in Stalingrad geschehen war, wiederholte sich zwei Jahre später scheinbar hier.

Steel Corps—an elite, covert US military team led by Staff Sergeant Bea "Mic" Michaels, based out of a secure location in Pennsylvania. Trident Security—a private security agency located in Tampa, Florida, comprised of retired Navy SEALs. T. Carter—US spy and assassin.

Across the world, the United States recalls troops to combat civil unrest after the biggest economic meltdown in history. Marine Sergeant Ronaldo Salvatore’s platoon comes home to a powder keg that could ignite a civil war. While some see the coming collapse as the end, others see opportunity. Fleeing Naples after rival crime lords decimated his family, Don Antonio Moretti settles in Los Angeles to rebuild his criminal empire. But he is far from alone in his ambitions.

Hrolf the young Viking has left the service of Jarl Dragonheart and sails with Jarl Gunnar Thorfinnson. When they find a home off the Frankish coast they begin to accumulate a vast fortune which earns them the enmity of other Vikings. The novel culminates in a bloody battle where Viking fights...

This is the second volume in the series. A year after The Leviathan, John Klade has gone off the grid. When a terrorist bombing in Athens leaves behind a phoenix symbol intertwined with the trident, Klade realizes the Brotherhood isn’t gone — it’s evolved. Yale Symbologist, Annabelle Johansson, now on a sabbatical and lecturing in Rome, is recruited by an EU counterterror unit to decode the symbol. She learns that a new sect — The Order of the Phoenix Tide — has risen, believing fire can “purify what the Deep cannot.

The first novel in the First Law Trilogy from New York Times bestseller, Joe Abercrombie. Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught in one feud too many, he's on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian—leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and...

Der Plan zur Sprengung des Müllplaneten schreitet unerbittlich voran – doch nichts ist verloren, so lange es Rufus gibt! Und da es ihn, dank einer Klon-Maschine bald sogar mehrfach gibt, ist noch mehr nichts verloren, als es das vorher schon war. Für die Rettung des Planeten muss Rufus alle verfügbaren Kräfte zusammenraufen: Seine immer wieder von ihm enttäuschten Freunde, seine nervige Ex-Freundin Toni, seinen Erzfeind Cletus und nicht zuletzt seine legendäre Lässigkeit.

«Durante casi dos años serví con el capitán Alatriste en las galeras de Nápoles. Por eso hablaré ahora de escaramuzas, corsarios, abordajes, matanzas y saqueos. Así conocerán vuestras mercedes el modo en que el nombre de mi patria era respetado, temido y odiado también en los mares de Levante. Contaré que el diablo no tiene color, ni nación, ni bandera; y cómo, para crear el infierno en el mar o en la tierra, no eran menester más que un español y el filo de una espada.

A luxury cruise ship slams into something impossible beneath the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean. The impact rips open its hull. With the ship flooding fast, the captain makes a desperate call – beach her off the Italian coast. The decision saves every life on board. It costs him the ship. Now the wreck lies half-submerged in the electric-blue shallows off the island of Capri. The U. S. Secretary of Defense sends the only man she can trust to recover an object so dangerous it was being transported in absolute secrecy.

Thomas Kydd, a hero of Trafalgar, holds the glory of being Post-Captain of the 32-gun frigate, L'Aurore. A Caribbean posting seems a welcome respite for the war hero, but when more and more merchantmen begin vanishing from the sea, fear starts to spread. Kydd must embark on a dangerous game of...