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Kenneth Branagh stars in BBC Radio 4's ambitious eight-hour dramatisation of Life and Fate, Vasily Grossman's epic masterpiece set during the Battle of Stalingrad. This powerful work, completed in 1960, charts the fate of both a nation and a family in the turmoil of war. Its comparison of Stalinism with Nazism was considered by Soviet authorities to be so dangerous that the KGB placed the manuscript under arrest and Grossman was informed his book would not be published for at least 200 years.

Zou Lei, orphan of the desert, migrates to work in America and finds herself slaving in New York's kitchens. She falls in love with a young man whose heart has been broken in another desert. A new life may be possible if together they can survive homelessness, lockup, and the young man's nightmares, which may be more prophecy than madness.

Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia. Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels. But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.

From the author of Florence Adler Swims Forever and The House Is on Fire, a novel set on a remote Italian island, about a navy wife’s reckoning with power, love, and the price of staying silent in the Atomic Age. “A captivating, whip-smart novel about love, loyalty, and a woman torn between...

From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating "biography" of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus. In this entertaining book, Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.

With the empire collapsing about him, Heraclius, the Exarch’s son, becomes the first Roman Emperor in 300 years to lead an army into battle. But this is no ordinary army: it is the Last Army, cobbled together from the bits and pieces that remain of once-great legions. Arrayed against him are the most formidable enemies Rome has ever faced: the Avar horde, the Sassanian Persian Empire intent on Rome’s annihilation, and the relentless plague that exploded under his predecessor Justinian and halved the Roman population.

Based on true events, A Texian Odyssey follows Ben’s journey—from crossing the Sabine River as a boy, to standing with the Texian rebels at the dawn of revolution, and riding as a courier during the desperate days of the Alamo.

My Life for Her is a story about the Vietnam veteran Rob Marrino, his family, and his partner in adventure Tex Larson. Everything is peaceful in the sleepy little town of Pikeville, but in the blink of an eye, Rob finds himself in the thick of things once more. This book is not only an action-packed thriller, it is also a story of love, undying faith, drama, and humanity. The new enhanced edition adds to the adventure, and brings it all together.

Full of action-packed experiences from world conflicts, this collection of war stories - some true, some not - tells tales of POWs surviving in Vietnam, World War II, and Cambodia. These stories of grit and strength put you in the middle of the action and will leave you with a respect for true war heroes. Beyond Survival is a journey into the invincible human spirit that unites heart and mind in a compelling and unforgettable experience.

The next four years should have been easier, but with added experience, the counter missions become even more challenging. He is now juggling, family, work, school, military, and being a reaper. In the present his sister now knows the secret and is getting ready to save her brother. Building her own reaper force, she is ready to rebuild the organization her grandfather started after World War II.

On a winter day in 1988, history professor Bob Weddell visits a cemetery in western Tennessee. He meets an elderly man who tells him things witnessed there decades ago. A sinkhole swallows Weddell and his truck into an unexplored cave. Following what he believes to be a passage to the surface, he finds himself in 1862 with a group of Confederate soldiers. Invisible to all, he hitches a ride on a supply wagon to the Confederate camp at Corinth.

American missionary and ROTC cadet Tyler Ahls, long missing in Pakistan, has just surfaced, proselytizing in an Afghani terrorist propaganda video. For Omaha nurse Elisabeth Holland, it’s a shock that her brother is even alive. Now she must ask herself a more grave question: Is he a hostage or a traitor? Seasoned FBI special agent Frank Schwaller is asking this too. He’s come to Nebraska armed with countless hours of video, audio, and email surveillance. The object of his unyielding gaze is Elisabeth.

Thanks to Lynn Montoya, nicknamed Cruella Deville, the crew gets a bonus when she initiates a plan to lure the Muslim Brotherhood gang readying to be dispersed across the nation into a public trap. A successful sting leads out in spiraling directions with terrorist plots involving Alexi Fiialkov's container shipping line. Soon, the crew launches a rescue mission for Fiialkov's granddaughter, and entraps the architect of a weaponized anthrax threat. The kid gloves are off, and the bodies begin piling up.

1937. Alix St. Pierre tiene dieciocho años y nada en los bolsillos. El sueño de conquistar París acaba de comenzar. 1943. Alix ahora es refinada, independiente y audaz. Experta en relaciones públicas en Nueva York, ha lanzado varias campañas publicitarias en la alta sociedad de la moda. Mientras tanto, una nueva organización de inteligencia del Gobierno de EE. UU. necesita espías para terminar con Hitler.

Born in Pasadena, California, Rob Hirsch has been raised with the Midwestern values of his Iowa-born parents. He grows up as a well-liked, though somewhat shy child, who dreams of one day becoming a pilot. With the advent of World War II, he eventually becomes the captain of a B-17 bomber. He finds love in a small, rural English village, yet death and destruction are ever-present. It is in the skies over Europe that the horrors of war begin a relentless invasion of Hirsch’s psyche, as his mind battles with the reality of a world that suddenly makes no sense.

Jonathan always thought there was something odd about grandma's memory of her childhood in the Ukraine during the Second World War. He begins to suspect his own grandmother may have killed her sister out of love and jealousy before they all became refugees on dangerous roads out of Russia and into the heartland of nazi Germany. As he tries to uncover the mystery, he is suddenly confronted with the fact there are still powerful people even now, sixty years later, that will silence him if he goes too far with the truth.

Surviving Dresden beautifully portrays the poignant and inspiring human struggle between good and evil in the search for peace during the last bloody days of World War II. On the ground, on that horrific night, is a courageous young Jewish woman, Gisela Kauffmann. Having just received orders to be herded off to a concentration camp, Gisela will do anything to save herself and her family. In the air, RAF bomber Captain Wallace Campbell is torn between his sworn military duty to bomb an unarmed city crowded with refugees, and his growing conviction that total war is immoral.

Zahid'in kan beynine sıcramış, etrafındaki her şey karanlığa burunmuştu. Yerinden hızlıca kalkıp Javor'un ustune doğru koşmak istedi ama ayağa kalkar kalkmaz tufeğin dipcik darbesini kafasında hissetti. Yere duşerken yolun ilerisinden gelen kamyonun ışıklarını gordu hayal meyal.

Billy Smalls wanted to get out and explore the world. So, he joined the Army. He had no idea what awaited him when he arrived—drills, marching, in-your-face yelling by drill sergeants determined to turn him into a soldier. But this isn’t a story about deployment or combat or duties as a soldier. This story is a wild ride with the fictional Billy Smalls through his off-duty life. Alcohol, women, and crazy, fun-marked years of real-life events as a soldier. He entered the Army as a boy and walked away a man with a new lease on life.

Left to die. She destroyed him. He lives for bittersweet revenge. Rebel barely survived the gut-wrenching betrayal from the woman he loved. Crawling into the bottle after she sold him out and cost his SEAL team their lives, he isn't sure he wants to go on. But when a beautiful girl resembling his ex begs him for help because someone is following her, he can't resist playing the hero one more time. Fighting his attraction to the gorgeous lookalike, Rebel follows the trail to an organ-smuggling cartel.