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Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War takes to Spain in the
seventh instalment of David Gilman's gripping chronicle of the
Hundred Years' War. Winter, 1364. The King is dead. Defeated on the
field of Poitiers, Jean Le Bon, King of France, honoured his treaty
with England until his death. His son and heir, Charles V, has no
intention of doing the same. War is coming and the predators are
circling. Sir Thomas Blackstone, Edward III's Master of War, has
been tasked with securing Brittany for England. In the throes of
battle, he rescues a young boy, sole witness to the final living
breaths of the Queen of Castile. The secret the boy carries is a
spark deadly enough to ignite conflict on a new front - a front the
English cannot afford to fight on. So Blackstone is ordered south
to Castile, across the mountains to shepherd Don Pedro, King of
Castile, to safety. Accompanied only by a small detachment of his
men and a band of Moorish cavalrymen loyal to the king, every step
takes Blackstone further into uncertain territory, deeper into an
unyielding snare. For the Master of War, the shadow of death is
always present.
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During the Vietnamese War, a Washington-approved sanctuary for
enemy troops in Laos and Cambodia is a recipe for disaster, but a
covert CIA operation made up of Special Forces volunteers deemed
expendable, penetrates the borders and neutralizes the enemy's
advantage. The Green Berets, Rick Barinelli, Warren Fahey, and Bob
Akamura, make a pact: If any one of them goes missing, the others
will commit to, "rescue, ransom, or revenge."
Barinelli, conflicted with a growing passion for a beautiful
Vietnamese woman, Ai Dao, gains distinction for intel successes
that disrupt the Tet Offensive and becomes known to the enemy as
"the Gray Ghost." Hanoi orders General Wong to capture or kill him
regardless of cost, and the brilliant and sadistic Wong spins an
elaborate trap. He orchestrates the kidnapping of Ai Dao, but
captures the headstrong Akamura instead. Now, against harrowing
odds, it's up to Barinelli and Fahey to attempt their rescue.
Racing to a shattering climax, "Hunting With Tigers" illustrates
how ordinary men can rise to acts of selfless heroism within the
savagery of war.
In August 1956 a troubled teen-age boy runs away from home, seeking
the grand adventures he has only read about. Lying about his age he
enlists in the Coast Guard at fourteen. A decade later, his career
takes him to Vietnam where he is awarded the Silver Star Medal for
gallantry. Returning home, he begins a new career as an undercover
narcotics agent. Undergoing torture when his cover is blown, he
prays for rescue.
Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally
alike. Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's
campaign with grim expectancy. For victory depends on the
increasingly fragile alliance between Britain and Spain - an
alliance that must be maintained at any cost. Pierre Ducos, the
wily French intelligence officer, sees a chance both to destroy the
alliance and to achieve a personal revenge on Richard Sharpe. And
when the lovely spy, La Marquesa, takes a hand in the game, Sharpe
finds himself enmeshed in a web of political intrigue for which his
military expertise has left him fatally unprepared. Soldier, hero,
rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side. Born in
poverty, he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by
sheer brutal courage. He knows no other family than the regiment of
the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears.
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United States Navy officer and Medal of Honor winner Dan
Lenson's mission is to observe an international military exercise
involving the navies of South Korea, Japan, Australia, and
America.
It should be routine duty for Dan, but old alliances are
unraveling, as North Korea threatens the U.S. and China expands its
influence. Acting as both adviser and adversary to a ruthless South
Korean task force commander, Dan must stop a wolfpack of
unidentified submarines, armed with nuclear weapons, which is
trying to elude Allied surveillance and penetrate the Sea of Japan.
Is it the start of an invasion . . . or an elaborate feint, to
divert attention from a devastating attack?
Battling faulty weapons, a complacent Washington establishment,
and a fierce typhoon season at sea, Dan must act on his own---even
if doing so means the end of his career, the lives of his
observers, and the risk of nuclear war. Featuring fierce action at
sea and political intrigue at the highest levels, "Korea Strait" is
both a first-class thriller and a prescient look at how the next
major war might begin.
Armee-Abteilung Narwa is a fictional story. The name identifies an
actual department of German Army Group North that stubbornly held
the Russian Army from breaking through at Narva, Estonia.
German Army Group North requested approval to begin an organized
retreat from Leningrad to Estonia in late 1943, but had been
ordered by Hitler to hold. When the Russian Army broke through the
Leningrad Blockade in late January 1944, the resulting colossal
German Army retreat to the west was incredibly disorganized. The
Red Army pressed all the way to the Narva River, where they were
stopped by Armee-Abteilung Narwa. For the next few months,
stragglers from the numerous German Divisions bypassed by the
Russians at the Leningrad Front kept fighting their way back to
join the German defenders at the Panther Line on the Narva
River.
Armee-Abteilung Narwa focuses on individuals from both sides of
the various battles during the confused German retreat. Experience
the vicious "Total War" that was fought on the Eastern Front during
WWII, through the eyes of participants on both sides of the
conflict.
It is September, 1940, and the Battle of Britain is not going
well for the Germans. The RAF Spitfire, powered with a high
performance carburetor made with platinum parts, is outperforming
the Messerschmitt. Gold and platinum, smuggled out of the Andes in
1939 by a German elite force, lies at the bottom of the Caribbean
Sea off Margarita Island. Retrieval of this strategic ore will
allow the Germans to refit their fighters with a new ignition
system and reverse their declining fortunes. Adolph Hitler himself
authorizes a mission, code named Black Eagle, to recover the sunken
gold and platinum from the sea bottom and return it to Germany.
With the aid of the IRA and an Irish marine recovery vessel and
specialists, the German mission, comprising an armed tender and two
U-boats, play a game of "blind man's bluff" with British and
American forces, the Germans intent on recovering the sunken cargo,
the Allies intent on stopping it. Professor Jack Ford, a group of
British commandoes and a patched-together Allied naval force of
subs and surface craft are all that stand in the way of a
successful German mission. The challenge on both sides is filled
with twists of events making it uncertain who to trust and which
way to turn. Anything is possible.
Although World War II is over, the world is not a safer place.
The Soviet Union has lowered an iron curtain in front of Eastern
Europe, and Josef Stalin desires complete world domination.
American nurse Jennifer Haraldsson and her former patient and
German POW, Otto Bruner, have returned to their former lives with
unfinished business. Although deeply in love, both realize the
obstacles to spending their lives together are too
overwhelming.
Haraldsson, who now serves as a nurse at Walter Reed Army
Hospital, knows that Jack MacLaine, United States Army Intelligence
Officer, is her best hope for romance. After she accepts his
marriage proposal, she naively thinks her life will return to
normal. Unfortunately, she has never been more wrong. After the
North Koreans attack South Korea, MacLaine is sent overseas. It is
not long before Haraldsson is enlisted by her boss, Dr. Brad
Taylor, to travel to Korea to launch a mobile army hospital. As the
two work tirelessly to set up their MASH unit, Haraldsson has no
idea that an unexpected tragedy is about to strip away her newfound
happiness.
Many twists and turns occur in this continuing historical
thriller. The great political and military dramas of the times
unfold as the legendary Marine First Regiment Commander Chesty
Puller, General Douglas MacArthur, General Matthew Ridgway, and
President Harry Truman assume their commanding roles.
In this continuing historical saga, an American nurse soon
realizes that amidst the chaos of war, nothing is
guaranteed-especially love.
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Sankya
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Zakhar Prilepin
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Sasha "Sankya" Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation
stuck between eras. They don't remember the Soviet Union, but they
also don't believe in the promise of opportunity for all in the
corrupt, capitalistic new Russia. They belong to an extremist group
that wants to build a better Russia by tearing down the existing
one. Sasha, alternately thoughtful and naive, violent and tender,
dispassionate and romantic, hopeful and hopeless, is torn between
the dying village of his youth and the soulless capital, where he
and his friends stage rowdy protests and do battle with the police.
When they go too far, Sasha finds himself testing the elemental
force of the protest movement in Russia and in himself. Originally
published in 2006, Sankya is a cult sensation in Russia, where it
won the Yasnaya Polyana Award and was shortlisted for the Russian
Booker and the National Bestseller Prize. Sankya is the basis for
Kirill Serebrennikov's popular play Thugs.
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