Showing results for "Armageddon" in World Literature

At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity towards the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler. 

This is how the world ends. Not with a bang, but with many nuclear bombs detonated around the planet. It was no longer a topic of conversation around the dinner table as in years past. Nobody was prepared, including the world's governments. Yet the threat was always real, and the devastation was predictable. The damage was incalculable. Millions died at the points of impact. Nuclear winter spread across the globe. A rapidly cooling climate shocked humanity and all living things...to their death.

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a...

In part two of the trilogy, Yadel travels through Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present as he and Yoshen struggle to market their new Hanukkah holiday and fight off Simon and his zealots in ancient Rome. With humor, love, and nail-biting drama, the adventures of Yadel, Yoshen, and Clausius continue where part one left off, bringing listeners into the origins of Judaism and Christianity little known to most, the wars and struggles that shaped both faiths, and the fictional flare of time travel.