Titres dans Guerre et militaires

Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate. As they endure the ever escalating dangers around them, in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul, they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation.

Un grupo de jóvenes que se «educan» en una disciplina militar implacable y violenta, aprenden a sobrevivir en un ambiente que lleva muy arraigados los prejuicios raciales y las diferencias entre clases sociales y económicas; donde todos se muestran como no son en realidad y la transgresión de las normas parece ser la única salida.

Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.

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...

« За правое дело » (1943–1952, опубл. 1952) — первая часть «сталинградской» дилогии Василия Гроссмана, более известной читателю по второму ее роману, « Жизнь и судьба » (1950–1959, опубл. 1980), который принес автору мировую славу. Выросшая из реального фронтового опыта Гроссмана — военного корреспондента газеты « Красная звезда », лично участвовавшего в боях на передовой линии обороны Сталинграда, — эта книга по выходе в свет подверглась разгромной критике в партийных кругах, которая превратилась в настоящую травлю писателя и предопределила трудную издательскую судьбу второй части дилогии.

David Morrell's First Blood introduced Rambo, who joined the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, James Bond, and Harry Potter as an international thriller icon. In this sequel, Rambo is in prison for his one-man war against a small-town police chief. His former commanding officer, Colonel Trautman, arrives with a promise to release him, with two conditions. First, Rambo must return to the Vietnamese prison camp from which he escaped and find the missing Americans rumored to be prisoners there.

There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska... and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls foul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that Reacher can’t let go. The Duncans want Reacher gone - and it’s not just past secrets they’re trying to hide. They’re awaiting a secret shipment, and they have the kind of customers no one can afford to annoy.

Privately training with special forces, he’s honing his combat skills to continue his work within the Campus, hunting down and eliminating terrorists wherever he can--even as Jack Ryan Sr. campaigns to become President of the United States again. But what neither father nor son knows is that the political and personal have just become equally dangerous. A devout enemy of Jack Sr. launches a privately-funded vendetta to discredit him and connect him to a mysterious killing in his longtime ally John Clark’s past. All they have to do is catch him.

With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee's Pachinko and Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Vaddey Ratner's In the Shadow of the Banyan, The Mountains Sing tells an enveloping, multigenerational tale of the Trần family, set against the backdrop of the Việt Nam War. Trần Diệu Lan, who was born in 1920, was forced to flee her family farm with her six children during the Land Reform as the Communist government rose in the North.

The second novel in Wilbur Smith's The Courtneys series, The Sound of Thunder is a powerful story of family tragedy set against the backdrop of the ravages of the Second Boer War. 'Only once in his life had Sean met a man whose strength matched his own - and now, again, they were pitted against each other....' Sean Courtney, impulsive adventurer of When the Lion Feeds, returns from the wildnerness a rich man - until he is robbed by the Boers of his wagons, his gold and the girl he loves.

Sesenta años más tarde, un novelista fracasado descubre por azar este enterrado episodio bélico y, fascinado por él, emprende una investigación para aclarar sus circunstancias y desentrañar su significado. ¿Quién era de verdad Rafael Sánchez Mazas? ¿Cuál fue su verdadera peripecia de guerra? ¿Quién fue el soldado que le dejó escapar? ¿Y por qué lo hizo? ¿Qué secreto escondía su mirada?

Former military cop Jack Reacher makes it all the way from snowbound South Dakota to his destination in northeastern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.: the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. The old stone building is the closest thing to a home he ever had. Reacher is there to meet - in person - the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner, so far just a warm, intriguing voice on the phone. But it isn’t Turner behind the CO’s desk. And Reacher is hit with two pieces of shocking news, one with serious criminal consequences, and one too personal to even think about.

From the trenches of France, General Sean Courtney comes back to fame, fortune and a seat in the government. Mark Anders, the courageous young South African whom he has come to regard as his own son, returns to nothing, his grandfather murdered and his property seized by an unknown company. At the bottom of the mystery is Sean's son Dirk, the jealous, violent and power-crazed genius whose all-consuming hatred can only end in blood.... A Sparrow Falls is the thrilling third novel in the Courtney series, continuing from When the Lion Feeds and The Sound of Thunder.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A gripping Jack Reacher thriller from the bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And...

Night Manager: Enter the new world of post-Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. Our Game: With the Cold War fought and won, British spymaster Tim Cranmer accepts early retirement to rural England and a new life with his alluring young mistress, Emma.... Tailor of Panama: Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption. It is also the country which on December 31, 1999, will gain full control of the Panama Canal.

Einar is a Northman with a dream, a Viking bound by blood to a ship and a crew of battle hardened warriors, and oathsworn to Ivar the Boneless. The sons of Ragnar fight a war of vengeance against King Orsten the Roarer, ruler of Sweden, a savage pagan and murderer of Eric and Agnar Ragnarsson. Einar and his crew face losing their precious warship Seaworm and become locked in a fight to keep their ship, survive a brutal war, and treachery from within the Viking army itself...

Auch Frauen können Helden sein – für die junge Krankenschwesterschülerin Frances McGrath gleichen diese Worte einer Offenbarung. In der sich wandelnden Welt des Jahres 1965 wagt sie es, von dem ihr vorherbestimmten Pfad abzuweichen, und folgt ihrem Bruder nach Vietnam. Und während sie inmitten der Grausamkeit des Krieges über sich hinauswächst, erwartet sie die wahre Herausforderung bei ihrer Rückkehr. Wie schon in Die Nachtigall lässt Weltbestsellerautorin Kristin Hannah einen besonderen Moment der Geschichte aus der Sicht von Frauen lebendig werden, deren Mut und Tatkraft allzu oft vergessen werden.

"Le soldat inconnu de la deuxième guerre mondiale possède maintenant son monument" Morgenavisen, Norvège. Nous entendons les chenilles des tanks qui s'approchent. – Un T-34. Ils nous ont sûrement découverts, murmure Petit-Frère. Ne bougez pas tant qu'il n'arrive pas ici, après on s'enfuira ! L'affreux bruit des chenilles se rapproche de plus en plus. Je connais l'angoisse qui parcourt la colonne vertébrale. Courir une seconde trop tôt, c'est la mort assurée. Je ne sais pas comment nous sommes parvenus à nous lever ; les jambes fonctionnent automatiquement.

Le phénomène du thriller taiwanais : les amours interdites d'un futur chef de guerre chinois. En 1936, Luk Pa-Choi, jeune paysan chinois, fuit la guerre civile comme des milliers de ses compatriotes et se réfugie à Hong Kong, alors colonie britannique. Il y retrouve son frère, immigré depuis plusieurs années, qui occupe un poste important au sein de la plus grande triade chinoise, Hong Men. Gagnant aussitôt la confiance de son chef, Luk bâtit peu à peu son royaume.

In the tradition of celebrated wartime storytellers Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene, Tan Twan Eng's debut novel casts a powerful spell. For the first time, available as an audiobook -- The recipient of extraordinary acclaim from critics and the bookselling community, Tan Twan Eng's debut...