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In this new adventure, Hornblower is overjoyed to discover his next task is to serve aboard the mighty HMS Renown. After witnessing some unsettling scenes however, he soon finds himself struggling to serve under the captain, James Sawyer, whose unsound mind leads him to treat his crew with extreme suspicion and contempt.

A story of loss, hope and redemption against impossible odds… ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'If you've read The Women by Kristin Hannah I recommend you read this one!!!!' The Globe & Mail Bestseller 'Alward tells this story of the wounded survivors and the people who cared for them with affecting grace'...

Marine sniper Daniel Briggs thinks he's got it all figured out. He's faced what he thinks is the worst, and his plan is to tackle Las Vegas like he conquered foreign enemies. But with his sobriety tentative at best and with calamity tripping him up at every turn, how will the battered warrior fair in his hardest test to date?

Some monsters are created. Others are unleashed. When unexplained massacres ripple across a remote corner of the world, the Wild Hunt’s most secretive division is activated. Led by battle-hardened veterans and bound by oaths older than nations, the Hunt is accustomed to facing the impossible. They are not prepared for what waits in the dark. As a creature born of forbidden science and ancient myth begins its rampage, the Hunt is forced into a race against time—tracking a beast that learns, adapts, and kills with terrifying efficiency. Every engagement costs blood. Every mistake brings ...

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once an epic of the Napoleonic wars, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Tolstoy's genius is clearly seen in the multitude of characters in this massive chronicle, all of them fully realized and equally memorable.

Marine officer. CIA analyst. President. Jack Ryan has devoted his life to protecting the United States. What if this time, he can't? President Ryan and the Campus return in this entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times-bestselling series. Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests...

Ferrand Martin and his team of démineurs spend their days in the ruined fields of Zone Rouge on the periphery of Verdun, France where they clean up the artillery and explosives used in World War I. One bullet, one bit of shrapnel, one bomb at a time. The work, they say, is not measured in days, months, or years, but in generations. It’s taken a century to get this far, and it will take many more centuries to complete.

Cowardice in a legionary carries a heavy punishment: the sentence of decimation—to live or die at the whim of the gods with the unlucky ones clubbed to death by their fellow soldiers. Ursus, the man killed in Quintus's group, lays a heavy charge on the youth, asking him to look after the remaining men and to take care of his family back in Rome.

The Russians and Chinese need our crops. They believe America is broken and attack it. In Wyoming, they will find out what unbreakable means. General Lance Bear Wolf and his team form the Wyoming Army of Resistance. The very survival of America is at stake… and Wolf will not let it die. From the windswept plains with their ICBM silos to the blood-soaked snow of occupied Cheyenne, Wolf ignites a rebellion that spreads across the Rockies. Every strike risks annihilation. Every decision is a fight between his principles and a primeval need to avenge the staggering losses America has suffered.

HMS Royston, Coastal Forces Depot Ship, is mother ship to a battered, war-worn bunch of MTBs and MGBs. New on board is Sub-Lieutenant Royce: commissioned for three months, sea experience three months in an Asdic trawler, and aged 20. His commanding officer is Lieutenant Harston, aged 23.

His predecessor has been killed in action 48 hours earlier and is now hardly remembered. The crew are all young - some very young - but all old before their time....

Two strangers, young men from Pennsylvania and South Carolina, meet on the way to West Point.... Thus begins this brilliant novel of antebellum America, spanning three generations and chronicling the lives and loves of two great family dynasties. The Hazards and the Mains are brought together in bonds of friendship and affection that neither jealousy nor violence can shatter - until a storm of events sunders the nation and brings the cataclysm of war!

In the air, we find freedom. In the summer of 1914, the world stands on the brink of chaos, and for young William Harsker, life is about to change forever. Drawn to the pride of the cavalry and the allure of glory, William trades the freshness of English fields for the muddy trenches of Flanders. But nothing can prepare him for the brutal reality of cavalry charges against merciless machine guns, where valour and death dance intimately on the battlefield.

THE GENERAL THEY COULDN'T LET COME HOME. December 9, 1945. Three weeks before flying home. A staff car on a quiet German road is struck by an Army truck at fifteen miles per hour. Everyone walks away except the passenger in the back. He had survived North Africa. Sicily. Normandy. The Bulge. Three years of open warfare and not one of the German divisions sent to stop him had managed it. A slow turn in a parking lot broke his neck. Twelve days later, Patton is dead. No autopsy requested. No investigation opened. No one asks about the leather ledger. No one asks about the congressional ...

June 1944: One weather forecast will determine if D-Day succeeds—or becomes history's greatest military disaster. USAAF Captain Andy Lockhart stands at the heart of history's most pivotal operation, providing the meteorological intelligence that will guide Eisenhower's decision to send 150,000...

Within a military that prides teamwork, strength in numbers, and camaraderie, the sniper is the outlier. The loner. The specialist whose talent can mean the difference between mission success and disaster—and often between life and death. Kyle Monroe is one member of this exclusive fraternity...

The town is called Le Coeur. War travels surrounding roads while deserted streets give sanctuary to something special…guarded by something worse. They fell from the sky — commandos driven by desire. Each soldier is a battle-hardened machine fueled by desperation, but they will face an enemy who is more — an enemy who has long since given up the virtue of man for the violence of the beast. This is their story — a story of the horror, the brutality and the cost of war, and the story, too, of how the war waged inside a man’s heart is the greatest battle of all.

Alles oder nichts. Leben oder Tod. Eine dritte Option gibt es nicht. Weder die Menschen der Vorzeit noch äußere Kräfte oder das Chaos selbst können einen anderen Weg finden, die Integrität der Welt zu bewahren – außer durch die Vernichtung des Erzherzogs Maximilian Walewski. Sie schicken ihn auf eine Mission, die nur unter einer Bedingung erfüllt werden kann: Maximilian muss sterben. Und wenn er sie nicht erfüllt, werden alle, die ihm lieb sind, an seiner Stelle sterben. Eine hoffnungslose Situation, so scheint es. Irgendjemand muss sterben. Aber wer?

Twenty-six men walked into the jungle. Twenty-one walked out. Central Highlands, Vietnam. November 1967. Lieutenant Daniel Elias leads his platoon on a routine five-day mission to secure a remote village. The intelligence says the area is quiet. The intelligence is wrong. What follows is ten days of combat, loss, and the brutal education of a young officer who discovers that command is not control — it is carrying what cannot be set down. A compass that belongs to a wounded point man. A bottle of hot sauce from a dead squad leader's wife. A three-sentence letter from a father who never ...

In the depths of the world's most perilous dungeons, four extraordinary women serve one Master. Roxanne leads with effortless evasion; Sherry crafts the party's future with her smithing; Miria hunts with cat-like agility; and Vesta, a towering dragon-kin, stands as an unbreakable wall. From intense boss battles to quiet evenings in silk aprons, their lives are a balance of lethal dungeon crawling and building a home together.

A gripping tale of moral courage in the shadow of victory—where the end of war begins history’s most perilous reckoning. With Hitler's suicide marking the end of the Third Reich and chaos consuming a shattered Germany, Captain Edward Hume continues to lead his bomb disposal squad—The...