Títulos em Guerra e Militar

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey were not the only ancient tales of the Trojan War—there were others, now vanished but for echoes and fragments, in what is known as the Epic Cycle. In Son of Nobody, Yann Martel imagines one such tale, the Psoad, an epic that follows a goatherd’s son, Psoas of Midea, who leaves his wife and family to fight at Troy. Psoas meets his doom, and the poem of his life is lost—until a Canadian academic studying at Oxford, Harlow Donne, discovers its relics thirty centuries later.

America wasn’t founded. It was forged in smoke, sabotage, and the kind of silence that doesn’t beg for credit. The Boston Tea Party was a cover. Beneath wigs and warpaint, rebels moved Turkish opium through the harbor and crossed names off ledgers. Some were loyalists. Some weren’t. Nobody asked twice. In the smoke-filled port cities of rebellion, a syndicate formed. Part secret society, part shadow state, it traded liberty like cargo and laundered loyalty through blood. Washington held the center. Franklin read every cipher twice.

Two Spetsnaz officers are dropped into the ghost city of Prip'Yat and tasked with investigating mysterious disturbances around the city and the nearby Chernobyl power plant. Unaware of the special forces operation, two cousins from Kiev sneak away and travel to Prip'Yat under the cover of night, excited to finally explore and experience the forbidden place. And the abandoned city, a shadow has stirred.

John Milton pensait en avoir fini avec Avi Bachman. L’homme le plus dangereux qu’il ait jamais connu s’est retrouvé incarcéré à Angola, la prison impitoyable de Louisiane. Une fois enfermé là-bas, on ne ressort que dans une boîte en bois. Mais Bachman n’est pas un prisonnier ordinaire. En tant qu’ancien assassin au service du Mossad, il a des relations.

Perhaps we shall not see each other again. I will write to you, though, and tell you, as best I can, the story of your family. A glass-blower, remember, breathes life into a vessel, giving it shape and form and sometimes beauty; but he can with that same breath, shatter and destroy it.

Jon Reznick doesn’t trust the CIA—but when operative Daniel Black shows up near his home in Maine, he listens. A high-value target has been taken out by a sniper in Mallorca. The kill was clean. Professional. And just the beginning. Reznick is sent in under deep cover to hunt for the assassin and retrieve a cache of Cold War–era surveillance tapes—evidence so explosive it could bring down presidents. As bodies begin to fall and the sniper’s true mission comes into focus, Reznick realizes the stakes are far higher than anyone imagined.

Франко-прусская война в разгаре. Из захваченного немцами Руана десять совершенно разных пассажиров вынуждены бежать на дилижансе. Среди них — почтенные буржуа, благочестивые монахини и девушка легкого поведения по прозвищу Пышка . Несмотря на социальное неравенство, попутчики находят общий язык и даже начинают неплохо ладить между собой.

Una historia en homenaje a la amistad, de una calidad humana extraordinaria. Magda Szabó relata en La puerta su relación con Emerenc Szeredás, la fascinante heroína de esta novela. Si bien la fuerte personalidad de Emerenc cohíbe en un primer momento a la escritora, poco a poco se irá desvelando como un ser extraordinario: bondadosa, ejemplar y a la vez severa, representa el esfuerzo del ser humano por vivir una existencia digna y que sirva de ayuda a otros. No obstante, nunca acepta nada a cambio y prohíbe terminantemente que nadie cruce la antecámara y penetre en su casa y su intimidad.

Christmas Day 1944: After his last mission put him in the tailspin of the Battle of the Bulge, Captain Billy Boyle travels to southeast England to visit his girlfriend, Diana Seaton, for a brief holiday respite. Diana is engaged in classified work at RAF Hawkinge, including Operation Corona, which recruits German-speaking Women’s Auxiliary Air Force members—many of them Jewish refugees from the Kindertransport rescue—to countermand German orders and direct night fighters away from Allied bombers.

When silence speaks louder than war… will anyone be ready to listen? In the quiet Texas town of Walnut Springs, the cicadas hum, tractors rumble at dawn, and peace feels like a well-worn routine. But beneath the calm, a storm brews—unseen, unheard, and nearly unstoppable. Veteran rancher Kevin Carmack hears it first: a strange radio transmission in Russian. A countdown. A warning. Miles away, 16-year-old Travis Roberts receives the same message on a friend’s phone. As their lives slowly intertwine, both generations must face a growing truth—one the world refuses to see.

The insectoid alien race known as the Vitri have invaded the Imperial world of Naugh in retribution for the deal broken by Grand Admiral Aatroxiss. Doing the right thing has consequences, and by saving the Turook he has doomed another world to slaughter if the Empire can't take it back in time. Aatroxiss and his flagship, the Redemption, arrive to meet up with the Imperial forces already engaged in battle, but what the Emperor's sole Grand Admiral finds there is far more than expected.

Ethan Chase’s past has finally caught up with him, and the entire world’s future now stands on a knife’s edge. Ex-Army Ranger Ethan Chase breaks his oath of allegiance to the military when he deserts from the Army while deployed to Afghanistan. Years later, he’s captured and sent to military prison, but the director of a shadowy government agency takes him into his direct custody.

In the tradition of unforgettable character studies like "John Wick" and the moral complexity of "The Batman" comes a book that delivers both heart-pounding action and profound spiritual awakening. "The Rooster" introduces us to TorBjorn Tofte, a military assassin whose lethal precision made him America's deadliest weapon—until the weight of his own conscience became too heavy to bear.

Im letzten Teil der Amazon-Bestseller-Reihe versucht der unfreiwillige Held Marcus Battle, seine Freunde vor dem Zugriff eines gnadenlosen Regimes zu retten. Ein geheimes Schleusernetzwerk, das sich die "Underground Railroad" nennt, soll ihnen helfen, einen sagenumwobenen Zufluchtsort zu erreichen – den Hafen.

Elle cherche la vérité. Il veut la protéger. Ensemble, ils affronteront l'impensable. Devenir un Navy SEAL était un rêve pour moi. C'est désormais une réalité. Mais tous les rêves ont un prix, et le mien me coûte cher. Très cher. J'ai perdu Danny, alias Phoenix, mon frère d'armes et meilleur ami, tombé dans une embuscade. Avant de mourir, il m'a fait jurer de ne jamais toucher à sa petite sœur, Ariana. J'ai tenu bon pendant 7 ans, mais aujourd'hui Ariana est revenue dans ma vie.

Quelques années seulement se sont écoulées depuis la fin de la guerre froide lorsque Patrick Coonan est rappelé à l'ordre... Cette fois, il s'agit d'éliminer un dangereux exécuteur du GRU ex-soviétique qui travaille maintenant pour la mafia russe !

I am Blooded, and this is my creed. I am warrior, and this is my sword. I am shadow, and this is my cloak. I am darkness, bringer of light. The whisper in the wind. The order in the chaos. I am the blood, and the blood is me. From this breath until my last. I am Blooded, and this is my creed. A great spirit rises from the ashes of a dying world. Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital and greatest city in the New World, crumbles and burns under the weight of the Spanish onslaught.

South Africa, 1877. Andrew Baird is a man trying to escape his past. The son of the famous “Fighting Jack Windrush” of the Royal Malverns, Andrew hopes to forge his own path away from the shadow of his father. Amidst the turbulence of the Zulu-British War of 1879, Andrew finds love with Elaine Maxwell. But after Elaine dies tragically and her sister is kidnapped, Andrew must confront the Zulus in bloody battles, driven by the hope of rescuing the woman and proving his worth beyond his father's legacy.

After her father is murdered, fifteen-year-old Ingrid Lang flees her home in Austria only to become separated from her siblings and stranded in the Dutch city of Arnhem with a pair of broken legs. Her future would be bleak if not for the kindness of a local doctor and his daughter Anita van der Veen. But before Ingrid can finish her healing and continue her journey to find her brother and sister, the forces of Nazi Germany overrun the Netherlands, leaving her trapped in an enemy occupation.

While on vacation with his wife, Kyle Roebuck foils an attack by the Global Warriors of Liberation, the world's most dangerous terrorist organization. He becomes an overnight media sensation but the terrorists vow revenge. The FBI works to protect the Roebucks at home, the CIA deploys their most legendary covert operative to hunt the terrorists, while the U.S. Military moves to destroy them. But in the end, it will be up to Kyle to save his family.