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Seconda metà dell'Ottocento, Veracruz. John Riley, accanto all'amata Consuelo, torna con la memoria agli anni in cui si è battuto a fianco dei messicani contro l'esercito degli Stati Uniti e le milizie volontarie del Texas, i terribili ranger. In circa due anni di sanguinose battaglie, il paese a sud del Rio Bravo perde, oltre al Texas, buona parte del suo territorio. E si registra un fenomeno singolare: molti degli irlandesi arruolatisi nelle file statunitensi disertano per unirsi ai messicani.

È una prigione diversa dalle altre. Qui comanda la disciplina militare. I suoi sistemi di sicurezza non hanno uguali. Nessuno dei prigionieri può nemmeno sognare la fuga. Sanno benissimo che fuggire è impossibile... fino ad ora. Il fratello maggiore dell'agente speciale John Puller, Robert, è stato condannato per alto tradimento e attentato alla sicurezza nazionale. La sua inspiegabile evasione lo rende il criminale più ricercato del Paese. Alcuni esponenti del governo sono convinti che l'agente rappresenti la loro migliore occasione per catturare Robert vivo.

Mario è un giovane contadino romagnolo, semplice e mite. Non ha sogni né desideri, e accetta con atavica rassegnazione la dura vita di lavoro e fatica che il destino gli ha assegnato. La sua esistenza procede così, nella ciclicità delle stagioni. Al compimento dei diciotto anni Mario riceve la cartolina di leva della Repubblica sociale: è il 1944, e per paura delle armi si sottrae all'arruolamento. Si rifugia prima da alcuni lontani parenti, che aiuta nei lavori più pesanti in cambio dell'ospitalità.

L'Impero che Marco Aurelio ha ereditato è giunto alla sua massima espansione e mantenere la pace che ha regnato sotto Antonino Pio è ormai impossibile: dopo la guerra contro i Parti, ora sono i Germani a minacciare Roma premendo da nord.Nel 167 d.C., l'Imperatore filosofo dà inizio alle guerre marcomanniche sotto auspici infausti e ben presto il suo progetto di stabilizzare i confini settentrionali si scontra con il leggendario furor teutonicus. Ma non è solo la spaventosa forza di quelle popolazioni a sfibrare le legioni romane.

A defeated king stands on top of a pyre. His conqueror, the Persian ruler Cyrus, signals to his guards; they step forward and touch flaming torches to the dry wood. Croesus, once the wealthiest man of the ancient world, is to be burned alive. As he watches the flames catch, Croesus thinks back over his life. He remembers the time he asked the old Athenian philosopher, Solon, who was the happiest man in the world. Croesus used to think it was him. But then all his riches could not remove the spear from his dying elder son's chest; could not bring his mute younger son to speak

Greece 1936. A young British diplomat and his wife have been posted to Athens. Hugh loves the life there but his spirited and unconventional wife, Heavenly, finds it hard to fit into the whirl of endless parties and socialising. When Hugh is sent to Crete to sort out a problem, they stay in a rundown house owned by his family. Heavenly falls in love with the place and the people, and stays on when Hugh returns to his duties.

Western Ocean, 1942... From the bridge of HMS Gladiator, Lieutenant-Commander David Howard’s orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy. To the men who fought to protect the vital, threatened Merchant Navy convoys in the Western Approaches, the Battle of the Atlantic was a full-scale war. A relentless, savage war against an ever-present enemy and a violent sea - in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground. HMS Gladiator was part of that war.

It takes a special sort of courage to serve in midget submarines, and Lieutenant David Seaton, commanding officer of XE16, needs no reminding of the perils involved. The little X-craft with their four-man crews have been used against heavy enemy surface units and important harbour installations. But in 1944, with the Allies poised for an invasion through France, a new and more hazardous role is given to Seaton's flotilla.

Adriatic, 1940s... Curtis was the pro. He could steer a sub through a saloon and no one would notice. Duncan was the grumbler, more at home in the Aussie Outback than twenty fathoms under the Adriatic. Jervis was the spit-and-polish man, who knew the correct way to die. And George, the Cockney, was the toughest of them all. Four men in the Royal Navy’s smallest sub, preparing the way for history’s largest invasion.

Malta 1941. To most people H.M.S. Saracen is just an ugly, obsolete ship with an equally ugly recent history: her last commander is due for court-martial after shelling the troops he was sent to protect. But to Captain Richard Chesnaye she brings back memories - memories of the First World War when he and the old monitor went through the Gallipoli campaign together. It seems that captain and ship are both past their best. But as the war enters a new phase Chesnaye senses the possibility of a fresh, significant role - for him and the Saracen.

In 1941, when she was turned into an armed merchant cruiser, the SS Benbecula was already old. Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes. Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship’s company - raw recruits and old-timers - into a fighting force. And better than anyone, Lindsay knew this could be his last command, his last chance.

There will be days when you wonder at and question some of the risks you had to take, the sacrifices you were forced to offer in the face of death. In Kiel Harbour, 1945, the war in Europe is at an end. But for Lieutenant Vere Marriott and the men of MGB 801, moored amid a nightmare of devastation, it is an uneasy, unsettled peace. New assignments ashore and afloat mean fresh tensions and conflicting emotions. For some, glory now takes second place to profit.

This is the story of a rifleman's resourcefulness in a single-handed war against the forces of Napoleon. Separated from his regiment, he uses a band of undisciplined Portuguese guerrillas to battle his way back to his own lines.

Arnold College, Oxford. When Sir George Kemp returns to his old university to celebrate the launch of a new barge, he can't help noticing a photograph on the wall: the 1939 rowing team, of whom George had been the cox... Sixty years earlier had been a heady, intoxicating time for George and the crew. But with conflict inevitable, the nine friends find the dreaming spires giving way to the nightmare of modern war.

Italy 1944 is the setting of one of the most convincing and quietly magnificent stories about man and war that has ever been written. They were young when they left and sang as they sailed down the Clyde. They didn't know where they were going and they didn't really care. They didn't want to fight and they hardly knew what the war was about. Here, distilled from the experiences and observations of the author, who served in Italy in the British infantry, is the story of those who fought and died at Anzio.

In 1913, before there is a rumor of war in Europe, Matthias Wrenn and Con Hatchel, lifelong friends from Ballyrannel in the Irish midlands, decide to see the world at the expense of the king of England and join the British army. A year later, while en route to India, their troop ship is recalled and they soon find themselves in the European slaughterhouse that was World War I.

Eine blutige Spur in die Vergangenheit ... Nachdem sie für den Staat Israel einen Mord begangen hat, steigt eine Frau in Afrika in ein Linienflugzeug. Minuten später explodiert die Maschine in einem Feuerball am Himmel. Tausende Kilometer entfernt verfolgt Ex-Navy-SEAL James Reece die Berichterstattung über die Katastrophe. Eines der Opfer erkennt er auf Anhieb: eine Mossad-Agentin, die er in Diensten der CIA vor Jahren im Irak kennengelernt hat. Eine Frau, der er zu Dank verpflichtet war.

Emil Clément, conocido en Auschwitz como El Relojero, pasa desapercibido hasta que los nazis descubren que sabe jugar al ajedrez e instauran un torneo para subir la moral de los oficiales. Pronto corre la voz de que Emil es imbatible pero cuando llega a la partida final, los nazis no van a permitir que un judío les plante cara… Años más tarde, en 1962, Emil, es un jugador de ajedrez profesional, y se encuentra en Ámsterdam donde deberá volver a enfrentarse a un exoficial de las SS, rememorando todo lo que sucedió años atrás.

Il suo regno nasce nella menzogna e nella corruzione, eppure sarà lui a condurre Roma alla gloria imperitura, sconfiggendo nemici impavidi e progetti espansionistici e scrivendo un'epopea mirabolante, nella quale si intrecciano aspirazione e brama di potere, sangue e passione, amore e desideri inconfessabili. La sua nascita è avvenuta sotto il segno glorioso dell'aquila. Il suo nome significa "destinato a regnare".

1809: Viscount Wellington und Kaiser Napoleon sind beide mächtige Feldherren - und erbitterte Feinde. Beide halten ihre Armeen für stark genug, um jeden Feind zu besiegen. Doch im Krieg gibt es keine Gewissheiten. Während Wellington in Spanien Siege erringt, scheint sich Napoleons Schicksal gewendet zu haben. Doch selbst nach der verheerenden Niederlage in der Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig weigert sich der Franzosenkaiser, die Waffen zu strecken. Seine Armee ist noch immer gewaltig. Bei Waterloo stehen sich die beiden Erzfeinde zur letzten Entscheidungsschlacht gegenüber.