Résultats pour "death" dans Guerre et militaires

THE FIELDS OF DEATH is the epic final novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleon Quartet. Essential reading for fans of Bernard Cornwell. 1809. Viscount Wellington and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte have made their mark as military commanders. Lifelong enemies, they both believe...

The fate of a fractured and embattled nation hangs by a thread. Lord Beornoth, the Viking-killer lives on, beset by the ravages of age and tortured by his past. At the King's bequest he is plunged into the brutal twilight of Saxon rule, where loyalty, courage, and sacrifice are tested on blood-soaked fields. Armies clash and the throne of England becomes the ultimate prize. In the face of a Viking invasion, Beornoth faces his greatest battle in this unflinching fight through the last days of Saxon England.

Ten years ago, the greatest army in Christendom was slaughtered at Crécy. Archer Thomas Blackstone stood his ground and left that squalid field a knight. He has since carved out a small fiefdom in northern France, but the wounds of war still bleed and a traitor has given the King of France the means to destroy the English knight and his family. As the traitor's net tightens, so the French King's army draws in.

Unknown aliens attack Earth. Their planet is uncharted, mysteriously having avoided detection for centuries. It's a world packed with the most vicious aliens humanity has yet to encounter. James McGill has discovered: Death World.

Abandoned after months of captivity, Julius Caesar gathers recruits that he will forge into a unit powerful enough to gain vengeance on his captors. But soon a new crisis threatens: a gladiator named Spartacus.

The sixth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit BBC America television series. As the ninth century wanes, England is perched...

When Lieutenant Commander James Wearing is found dead aboard HMS Valor, the Royal Navy's most advanced nuclear submarine, it's ruled an accident. A tragic electrical mishap during a routine patrol. But Dr. Blake, the boat's medical officer, knows better.

Former special agent Kade Black knows his adversaries well. He's shadowed terrorists, spies, and mafia bosses. But he's never had to confront all three at once. Kade's latest clue has him watching a new dead drop serviced by the late GRU operative, Sergei. But this drop is inactive. No sign of use.

Battered. Wounded. Former Special Agent Kade Black isn't about to give up on the quest to prove his innocence. The trail leads him to the unforgiving deserts of Nevada. A harsh landscape where only the toughest survive.

May, 1932. Newly minted as a team, Rick Justice and Intrepid encounter a fantastic weapon that generates artificial earthquakes. Their investigation points to a secret organization led by a new adversary, the treacherous and deadly woman known only as Scarlet. But, as Justice discovers, there’s more to her plan than just shaking things up. The lives of thousands depend on what Intrepid does next.

Welcome to the spring of 258 BC. The expanding war with the Qart Hadasht Empire is changing the Republic's military supply structure. Supplying scattered Legions and far-flung naval squadrons is overextending the provincial quartermaster system. Growing awkwardly to handle the needs, the military organizations are evolving, slowly. Now evil men have found a way to profit from the disorganization.

June 1943. Many Germans—some of them high-ranking officers—believe the tides of war have turned against them. Increased activity suggests there may be truth to whispers heard by Office of Strategic Services spies: that the Nazis are extorting Jews outside Germany to buy their relatives’...

A bold Russian aggression. A staggering breakthrough in artificial intelligence. An otherworldly existential threat. It’s a rare fight that’s too big for war hero-turned-senator Percy Mackenzie, whose ambitions have rendered him alone. Now he must play his part and hope the people he’s left behind will do the rest.

Helmand, 2004: Afghanistan’s most lawless province, where nearly 90 per cent of the world’s opium is grown. Gangsters and warlords battle for supremacy in the lucrative trade, territories well-known, and fiercely contested. Well Diggers, an Anglo-Dutch NGO helping the farming community, comes under attack. One man is dead and another man is missing – suspected kidnapped, so head of security Ginger Jameson calls in his old friend Alasdair ‘Mac’ MacKenzie to help.

A young man named Zakul from a long misunderstood tribe leaves his home to attend a festival in the town of Dasum, when the town comes under siege by an invading army. Follow along as this unlikely survivor relates his harrowing experience, and live his desperate attempts to cling to life and safety.

On his way across the devastated remains of Texas, Marine Corps veteran and survivor Eric Marten rescues a young woman from a vicious attack by men who have turned into savages. As Dani slowly learns to trust him, they try to stay alive in the deathlands that America has become, using all their wits to survive a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

When civilization falls, some rebuild, and some choose a life of chaos. Barbarians, they were called in other times, those that left fire and destruction in their wake. After a plague and an EMP set off in a desperate war kills nine out of ten people on Earth. former Marine Sergeant Eric Marten has found a place to settle and rebuild in the post-apocalyptic world. Along with Dani, the young woman who he rescued from certain death and worse, and other survivors, they worked to rebuild some semblance of security in the wilds of Texas.

Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team known as Deep Black.

It's been said, "You may not think you're at war. But a surprise attack by an enemy means they are at war with you, so you'd best prepare." Metaphorically, the same can be said of an apprentice of war. There was no doubt, Hannibal Barca was a master of war. Since he came down from the Alps and swept away the Roman Legions sent to stop him, he proved it to Rome and to the rest of the ancient world. Yet, from the first engagement on Republic soil, Hannibal attracted an apprentice.

“Superb...an appropriate homage”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times The much-anticipated final installment in Ariana Franklin’s popular Mistress of the Art of Death historical mystery series, finished by the author’s daughter after her death. England. 1191. After the death of her friend...