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An epic tale of the war between the States
This is volume three-incorporating the two novels The Star of
Gettysburg & The Rock of Chickamauga, the fifth and sixth
novels of a series of eight adventures which follow the momentous
events, campaigns and battles of the great American Civil War
between the Northern and Southern states. The central characters of
the story are Harry Kenton-an officer in the Confederate Army and
his cousin Dick Mason a young officer in a similar position
fighting within the Union ranks. The narrative of the whole war is
charted through the action which embraces many actual players in
the real conflict. Beginning with First Bull Run and climaxing at
Appomattox each novel tells the story from an alternate
perspective-from the ranks of the Blue and then the Grey as the
saga unfolds. Altsheler wrote another Civil War novel, Before the
Dawn, concerning the fall of Richmond told from a Confederate
perspective. Although this story is not strictly part of the series
Leonaur have offered it as part of its five volume, nine novel
collection of the author's Civil War adventures for collectors and
readers in complementing designs and soft cover or hard cover.
He was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and
imprisoned by the Vietnamese when France's armies in the Far East
collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and
the only peace he can find is in the presence of Tahar, a captive
commander in the very organization he is charged with eliminating.
But his confessor is no saint: Tahar stands accused of
indiscriminate murder. Lieutenant Andreani - who served with
Degorce in Vietnam and revels in his new role as executioner - is
determined to see a noose around his neck. This is Algeria, 1957.
Blood, sand, dust, heat - perhaps the bitterest colonial conflict
of the last century. Degorce will learn that in times of war, no
matter what a man has suffered in his past, there is no limit to
the cruelty he is capable of.
Ex-Special Forces solider Johnny Vince has won many battles,
mentally and physically on and off the battlefield. But now,
haunted and suppressed by the demons of the past, the 'black dogs'
have found their victim: Johnny Vince. Not able to escape his PTSD,
alcohol abuse, violence, self-harm, and detaching from society, he
has ended up on the edge of life. Volatile at his lowest point, a
light at the end of the tunnel is presented. With the emotional
mission to save a friend in a similar circumstance, a few of the
old crew decide to help him. But why? With Johnny's emotional
sensory overload, who can he trust? Is Johnny the 'rogue' that many
want bagged. With an extremely painful outcome, Johnny has to
re-set, literally to the beginning. The plan is set. But, knowing
trouble follows Johnny...
Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC was one of the boldest
mountain military operations of the Second Punic War, if not the
entire ancient world. A master of warfare, he remains an enigmatic
figure known mainly from descriptions written by his adversaries.
In this unique work of fiction, Hannibal, a Carthaginian, member
of a North African banking family and the son of a famous general,
is accurately depicted as a strong leader who spent his entire life
fighting the Romans. His restless, investigative mind, along with a
deep love and appreciation of Greek culture, was nurtured into the
Carthaginian war machine by his father and brother-in-law. Hannibal
was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Carthaginian Army by the
troops in 221.
In late spring 218, his army of 65,000 men and 37 elephants left
Cartagena in Spain, subdued tribes on the fringes of the Pyrenees
Mountains, crossed southern Gaul into the Rhone Basin, and marched
across the Alps into Italia. "The Warmaker: Hannibal's Invasion of
Italia and the Aftermath" provides a fictional account of the war
master, and what could likely have happened, following his military
success in Italia, had he decided to conquer Rome.
"Son of a Soldier" is the powerful story of how God used one
unlikely, country girl to change the course of history. It seemed
impossible to believe that an eighteen-year-old girl from the
middle-of-nowhere, Tennessee would have any real significance in
the history of our nation...that is until God chose her to make a
Godly man out of a flawed, military hero's stubborn son.
Hailey was a small town, farm girl who had never left her home
state of Tennessee. She was a naive tomboy who possessed an
unassuming charm, the power of which she could not comprehend.
Grant was a rebellious Army brat who had seen the world. Glib,
sarcastic and self-destructive, he was a loner lost in a world he
had never felt he fit into.
They seemingly had little in common, but when two hearts
collided, two worlds became one; while Hailey embarks on a
beautiful journey of self-discovery in this unique coming-of-age
story, Grant travels a winding, dirt road that helps him rediscover
a lost innocence and discover a renewed purpose.
For the first time, fans of the blockbuster Gears of War video
games get an in-depth look at Delta Squad's toughest
fighters-soldier's soldier Marcus Fenix and rock-solid Dominic
Santiago-as well as a detailed account of the pivotal battle of the
Pendulum Wars.
As kids, the three of them were inseparable; as soldiers, they were
torn apart. Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago fought alongside
Dom's elder brother Carlos at Aspho Fields in the epic battle that
changed the course of the Pendulum Wars. There's a new war to fight
now, a war for mankind's very survival. But while the last human
stronghold on Sera braces itself for another onslaught from the
Locust Horde, ghosts come back to haunt Marcus and Dom. For
Marcus-decorated war hero, convicted traitor-the return of an old
comrade threatens to dredge up an agonizing secret he's sworn to
keep.
As the beleaguered Gears of the Coalition of Ordered Governments
take a last stand to save mankind from extermination, the harrowing
decisions made at Aspho Fields have to be re-lived and made again.
Marcus and Dom can take anything the Locust Horde throws at
them-but will their friendship survive the truth about Carlos
Santiago?
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Condition Black
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Stu Jones, Gareth Worthington; Edited by Christopher Brooks
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An epic tale of the war between the States
This is volume two-incorporating the two novels The Scouts of
Stonewall & The Sword of Antietam, the third and fourth novels
of a series of eight adventures which follow the momentous events,
campaigns and battles of the great American Civil War between the
Northern and Southern states. The central characters of the story
are Harry Kenton-an officer in the Confederate Army and his cousin
Dick Mason a young officer in a similar position fighting within
the Union ranks. The narrative of the whole war is charted through
the action which embraces many actual players in the real conflict.
Beginning with First Bull Run and climaxing at Appomattox each
novel tells the story from an alternate perspective-from the ranks
of the Blue and then the Grey as the saga unfolds. Altsheler wrote
another Civil War novel, Before the Dawn, concerning the fall of
Richmond told from a Confederate perspective. Although this story
is not strictly part of the series Leonaur have offered it as part
of its five volume, nine novel collection of the author's Civil War
adventures for collectors and readers in complementing designs and
soft cover or hard cover.
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The Need
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Helen Phillips
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Chung Kuo's once-perfect stasis is fast falling apart. The Seven's
dominance is threatened by a series of terrorist attacks as the War
of the Two Directions spreads and intensifies. Howard DeVore, the
Seven's greatest enemy, is master-minding the atrocities. Kill
DeVore and things would change markedly, but how can they hunt down
a man who seems to be invulnerable? Maybe the answer lies in the
frail figure of Kim Ward, a refugee from the Clay. But the young
scientific genius is himself under threat, and it is only through
an unexpected intermediary that he survives. And there is now
another threat from within: Wang Sau-leyan, whose sole aim is to
wreak vengeance on his dead father and brothers by bringing down
the others of the Seven. How much longer can the Seven hold out?
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Khatyn
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Ales Adamovich
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Based on previously sealed war archives and rare witness records of
the survivors, Khatyn is a heart wrenching story of the people who
fought for their lives under the Nazi occupation during World War
II. Through the prism of the retrospect perception as narrated by
the novel's main character Flyora - a boy who matures during the
war - author Ales Adamovich beholds genocide and horrific crimes
against humanity. The former teen partisan goes back in time and
remembers atrocities of 1943. The novel's pages become the stage
where perished people come to life for one last time, get to say
their last word, all at the backdrop of blood chilling cries of
women and children being burned alive by a Nazi death squad that,
accompanied by the Vlasov's unit, surges a Byelorussian village.
"The town of Charleston lay across the river, on the north bank of
the Kanawha, to the east of the bridge site and the Elk. It was not
much of a town, at least not compared with Staunton or Winchester,
but Charleston was a much newer town. He had never lived here; he
had no reason even to be here until the war. Now he wished he had
never seen the town, wished he could turn, ride away, and forget it
was there. "
"He pulled up the short collar of his faded, gray uniform coat
to cut off the wind that blew from the receding sun. He looked down
the river. She and the children were in that direction. For over
the thousandth night in this war he worried if they were safe, if
they were afraid. He shivered against the March cold and wished he
could be with them. Wished they could all hug into one great bed
under a goose-feathered comforter. He wanted to lie with her, feel
her warmth, forget the losses of the fighting, and remove forever
from his memory the action he was about to take tomorrow. "
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