Résultats pour "A" dans Guerre et militaires

La voix profonde de Thierry Blanc nous plonge dans le premier livre de cette duologie tant attendue de Karine Giebel, pour une expérience d'écoute durant laquelle le temps est suspendu. Monter au front sans arme ni gilet pare-balles. Soigner les autres au péril de sa vie. Se sentir utile en ce monde. De Sarajevo à Gaza, en passant par Grozny, la Colombie ou l'Afghanistan, Grégory se rend au chevet des sacrifiés sous l'égide de la Croix-Rouge internationale. Chaque victime sauvée est une victoire sur la folie des hommes.

Cabeza de Vaca de Antonio Pérez Henares, uno de los mayores éxitos de crítica y ventas de la novela histórica española contemporánea, recrea magistralmente la vida de Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, huérfano jerezano de familia noble cuya vida tomaría un rumbo accidentado que pondría a...

A Distant Shore, a new Avon book, full description to follow when available...

Guardian Ruth Taylor has just graduated guardian school as a certified pararescue jumper. Having grown up in a secret community with limited technology and strict military training, Ruth enters the outside world with eyes wide open and is assigned to a CIA first-response team, called Condor...

Ein temporeicher Schicksalsroman, den man atemlos und mit Tränen in den Augen verschlingt. Hotel Shanghai, erschienen 1939, gilt als »Meisterwerk der populären Literatur« und ist doch viel mehr: Die Geschichte von neun Menschen, die zu Beginn des chinesisch-japanischen Krieges aus den verschiedensten Teilen der Welt in einem Hotel zusammentreffen und am Ende durch eine Bombe getötet werden, ist ein Plädoyer für den Frieden und das Leben in seiner vielfältigen, hinreißenden Gestalt.

Wenn das Imperium fällt, bleibt nur noch eine Wahl: kämpfen – oder untergehen. Das gefallene Imperium ist Military Science Fiction mit gnadenlosen Raumgefechten, klarer Befehlskette und dem Gefühl, dass jede Entscheidung über das Schicksal ganzer Welten entscheidet. Der Krieg ist zurück – und diesmal kommt er aus einer Richtung, aus der niemand ihn erwartet hat: Während auf der neuen Drizil-Heimatwelt Waran`tol`nai ein historisches Bündnis gefeiert wird, schlägt eine hochgerüstete Flotte mitten über dem Planeten zu und verwandelt die Zeremonie in ein Inferno.

DARPA proved the impossible. The experiment succeeded. That was the problem. Former Tier 1 operator Grayson Maddox now leads a classified physics project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. His team has breached the known boundaries of physics. They call it RIFT. It’s a breakthrough as dangerous as splitting the atom. Project RIFT could transform civilization—or destroy it. Then the sabotage begins.

A mysterious outage cripples his lab. An armed intruder targets his assistant, Mari. A bomb detonates outside a DARPA briefing he just left.

A decorated Army veteran dies after participating in an experimental brain injury trial. The official ruling says suicide. His widow says otherwise. Former Special Forces officer Cal Merritt agrees to review his friend’s records expecting grief, confusion, and unfinished questions. Instead, he finds evidence of memory gaps, neurological deterioration, and a clinical trial whose results were never released. As Cal digs deeper, other deaths begin surfacing across the country — veterans from the same government-backed study, all ruled accidents or suicides.

Things seem to be almost improving, but you can’t let the smooth taste fool you. Too much improvement makes you expect things to be easier. They aren’t. Not everyone wants things to get better. Some people seem to be enjoying themselves a little too much. Now, it’s time to try and bring some order from the chaos. To return things to a more civilized society. The world fell apart two years ago and now it’s time to try and put it back together, one small piece at the time.

In EXTREME VENGEANCE (Book #5), Homeland security agent Axel Strike takes to the skies to plunge into an icy fortress armed with nothing but his wits and parachuting prowess. As a former intelligence operative threatens to unleash a terrifying bioweapon from within the Rocky Mountains' labyrinthine terrain, can Axel defuse disaster with seconds to spare?

In the summer of 1813, an increasingly crowded group of settlers gathered in an improvised fortification located on the Alabama River in what is now Baldwin County. They strived to avoid attack by hostile "Redsticks," Creek warriors who yearned to return to a way of life free from the advancing European and American cultures. Embracing the policies of Shawnee chief Tecumseh, these warriors, led by William Weatherford, banded together to inflict one of the most serious military defeats in American history. Such a victory was not inevitable or even likely.

The CIA's most valuable assassin, Agent J.D. Mikel, wasn't supposed to fall in love with anyone - especially not Kate Morningside, a woman coveted by another powerful world player. When Kate is kidnapped, J.D. is pulled into a dangerous game of cat and mouse, and one false move could cost him everything. Indeed, there are players - and then there are the masters who make the rules, only to break them.

August 1945. As Stefano, an Italian POW, heads toward home across war-ravaged Germany, he encounters a young child beside his dead mother. Unable to leave him to an unknown fate, Stefano takes the boy with him, finding refuge in a seemingly abandoned house in a secluded woodland. But the house is far from vacant. Stefano wakes at the arrival of its owner, Erich, a former German soldier, who invites the travelers to stay until they can find safe passage home. Stefano cautiously agrees, intrigued by the disarming German, his reclusive neighbor Rosalind, and her traumatized husband.

When Brick Maxwell's wingman is shot down and taken prisoner by a Palestinian splinter group, special envoy Rick Solares negotiates his release. But Brick suspects something sinister going on behind the scenes. And when the woman he loves falls victim to the same terrorists, his devotion to duty turns into a desire for vengeance. With the help of his Roadrunner Squadron, an angry Maxwell will risk everything to make the enemy pay.

The "boomerang box," a high-tech computer program designed to save a plane experiencing flight trouble, is Dr. Ben Cole's baby. After a test run over the Gulf of Alaska goes awry, he suspects someone has sabotaged the plane's computer systems. And mysteriously, and almost simultaneously, April Rosen is horrified to learn that her father's plane has narrowly escaped a mid-air collision over the same patch of sea.

While on holiday in beautiful Western Australia, U.S. Ranger and Staff Sergeant Ben "Obi-Wan" Kennedy leads his group of special ops through a series of dangerous adventures on their return to home base, Pine Gap Secret Intelligence Facility. The dedicated and self-sacrificing team joins a team of Western Australian Police who have arrested two Revelationist spies, but the terrorists want them back – dead or alive.

Team Cinderella has been sent into Russia to fake an assassination of a Russian Deputy Minister, in order to cover up the fact of his defection to the United States. They accomplish the mission, but then are compromised during their own escape and captured. They are quickly disavowed by the US Secretary of State, and sentenced to a public execution in Red Square only a week hence. Noah, at Neil's urging, convinces Allison to let Team Camelot put together a fast rescue mission, but complications require Noah and Marco to break into Lefortovo Prison, where they are also captured.

November 1942 on the banks of the River Volga. The German Army advance into the Caucasus Mountains in search of the Russian oilfields has halted for the winter as the bitter fighting in Stalingrad takes center stage. The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, has virtually driven the Red Air Force from the skies. The Germans, confident in taking the city that holds Stalin's namesake, strip their flanks of troops to bolster their forces fighting inside the city. For just one last push to decide the battle and the outcome of the war.