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When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Brisbane – or Edenglassie, as it was once briefly known – his community still outnumbers the British settlers. Tensions are simmering just beneath the surface of a fragile peace, but hopes for independence are running high. Yet when colonial unrest tears through the region, Mulanyin's passion for his new bride clashes with his loyalty to a homeland in danger.

AD 797, Cyprus. Warrior-monk Hunlaf and his crew are on a voyage to acquire an important Christian relic before it falls into the hands of the Byzantines and their scheming Empress Eirene. Hunlaf’s crew receive unexpected help as they seek their treasure, but soon find themselves betrayed. About to leave for home empty-handed, the adventurers instead sail further east: to Jerusalem, the Holy Land, abundant in relics. And dangerous intrigues.

Alex Coleman had a chance to end World War III before it started. Instead, he lost an unwinnable battle. Now, he finally has command of his own submarine, but USS Jimmy Carter is old enough to drink, his crew is a few beers short of a six pack, and no one—particularly the admiral who hates him—expects him to make a difference.

In the dark days after Pearl Harbor, a small, untested arm of the United States Navy was all that stood between the shattered American fleet and the ascendent Japanese Empire. Far off in Western Australia, US submarine officer Benjamin Holt finds himself on the frontlines of World War II with nothing but a decades-old sub and a rusty crew. The green 25-year-old is ordered to stop Imperial Japan’s bloody expansion across the Pacific any way he can.

Following the dramatic events in the conclusion of Sudden Storm, Keith Maddox returns to his air charter business in Aspen, but it isn’t long before he accepts an appealing offer for some much-needed R and R at sea in the South Pacific doing marine research work for his old boss, Admiral RTD Robert Jessel.

Historians tell us that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a stroke in Warm Springs, Georgia. Operation Storm King tells of a shocking, yet entirely plausible alternative version, an audacious Nazi raid to kidnap FDR from West Point.

Tamworth AD831. Icel's profile continues to rise. Lord of Budworth and warrior of Mercia, he's acknowledged by King Wiglaf and his comrades to keep Mercia safe from the ravages of Wessex, the king-slayer of the East Angles, and the Viking raiders. But, danger looms. Alongside Spring's arrival comes the almost certain threat of the Viking raiders return. When Lord Coenwulf of Kingsholm is apprehended by a Viking and held captive on the Isle of Sheppey in Wessex held Kent, Icel is implored by Lady Cynehild to rescue her husband.

The Vikings on the Cotentin try to live in peace with their neighbours, the Franks, but when they are attacked they have to fight. Aided by fellow Vikings they begin to make inroads into the land of the Franks until disaster strikes and the new allies meet defeat. When the full force of the Franks descends upon the Haugr every member of the clan must fight to prevent their extinction.

Per oltre cinquant'anni la valle del Nilo non ha conosciuto altro che guerra e distruzione per mano degli Hyksos, un popolo assetato di sangue giunto dal lontano Oriente. La situazione è disperata: a frenare l'avanzata del nemico rimane solo un manipolo di coraggiosi ribelli capitanati da Taita, potente mago e consigliere del faraone, l'unico convinto che esista ancora una speranza. Piay, che gli è stato affidato dai genitori quando aveva solo cinque anni, è stato addestrato per diventare un prode guerriero e una spia senza rivali.

Chickamauga: A Novel of the American Civil War is the story of a great battle of the Civil War and the people who fought it, many of them real and some of them the product of the author’s imagination. Chickamauga is a story of the heroism, selflessness, and frailty of the men whose deeds are etched forever on the fields and forests at Chickamauga, the River of Death. Chickamauga is the story of the generals who planned the grand strategies that would be played out by lesser but braver men.

A finales del siglo XVI España emprende una ambiciosa campaña naval contra Inglaterra. Es un momento crítico: el poderío imperial hispano empieza a declinar, los problemas en Flandes se multiplican y piratas ingleses como Francis Drake atacan las ciudades españolas en el Caribe y son recibidos en Londres con todos los honores.

1775: General George Washington has discovered his store of gunpowder has dwindled to next to nothing. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is despatched to Bermuda to capture the British gunpowder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, hatched by a traitor among the Patriots. Washington's aide-de-camp Major Edward Fitzgerald is tasked with hunting the traitor down; Biddlecomb meanwhile must work to free his ship and his men and capture the gunpowder so vital in the fight for freedom. Will Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald overcome their common enemy – the greatest military power on Earth?

When Joe Mason agrees to transport a priceless gold basin to its new owner, the ex-MI5 operative arrives only to find the recipient dead – brutally murdered in cold blood. To catch the killer, Mason must uncover the relic’s secrets. But he’s not the only one with an interest. The Guild of Night, a dangerous and vengeful cult, is determined to bring the Church to its knees – and the basin holds the power to do just that.

Dug Sealskinner is a down-on-his-luck mercenary traveling south to join up with King Zadar's army. But he keeps rescuing the wrong people. First Spring, a child he finds scavenging on the battlefield, and then Lowa, one of Zadar's most fearsome warriors, who has vowed revenge on the king for her sister's execution. Now Dug's on the wrong side of the thousands-strong army he hoped to join - and worse, Zadar has bloodthirsty druid magic on his side.

This is a fictionalized account of "Project Tiger", which was an operation spanning 1962 and 1963 in which the CIA inserted numerous indigenous agent teams into North Vietnam for the purposes of espionage, sabotage and other special operations. It also relates the story to earlier CIA operations in which similar efforts were made to drop agents in Communist East Europe—with similar results.

A forgotten nation stained by the legacy of conflict. A massive natural gas discovery set to change its fortunes forever. Giant multi-national corporations pile in for the bonanza. But as always in Africa, there are complications.

An ancient blade, fit for the gods but tainted with a deadly curse. Bjarki Bloodhand has finally managed to subdue his gandr, the spirit that gives him the ferocity of a bear in battle. Yet losing his berserker prowess may leave him at the mercy of his foes. Meanwhile, his half-sister, the shield maiden Tor Hildarsdottir, has slain two warriors from the personal retinue of the new Jarl of Norrland – and now faces brutal reprisals for their deaths.

April 1945. Als der Unteroffizier Eduard Herzl auf Fronturlaub in seine Heimat am Rande des Harzes fährt, ahnt er noch nicht, dass ihm der Krieg einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen wird. Der Endkampf um Deutschland liegt in den letzten Zügen; im Osten rückt die Rote Armee unaufhaltsam vor, im Westen befinden sich die Alliierten auf dem Vormarsch. Kaum ist Herzl zu Hause angekommen, rollt eine gepanzerte Einheit der SS-Panzerbrigade "Westfalen" in seinen Heimatort, ausgerüstet mit schwersten Panzern vom Typ Tiger, Tiger II und Jagdpanther.

Está congelando a -38oC. Stalingrado, inverno de 1942-1943. Um vento frio varre as planícies, jogando cristais de gelo em nossos rostos. Estamos marchando por milhares de corpos congelados. Os generais da SS estão marchando na frente do comboio, silenciosos e distanciados. Notamos que o general da SS está bravo há um tempo, um fanático que quer morrer em batalha, levando consigo tantos quanto possível.

Tiny aterrissa sobre a parte traseira do tanque—isso é suicídio—e esvazia a metralhadora dentro do veículo. Rápido, ele pula para o chão e joga uma granada de mão, com força, pela torreta aberta. O tanque pesado roda sem controle, esmaga alguns britânicos sob suas esteiras e bate na lateral da montanha, explodindo em um inferno de chamas. Os soldados alemães da divisão Panzer atacam com lança-chamas e granadas de fósforo. Não fazem prisioneiros, os sobreviventes são eliminados impiedosamente.