Книги о войне
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From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.Jake, Clio and Julius Hirsh and their cousin Lady Grace Stretton formed a charmed circle in those lost innocent days before the Great War – united against the world.Old now, Clio recounts their story for her biographer: Jake's wartime experiences, which moved him to work as a doctor in the London slums; Clio and Grace, flappers flitting through bohemian Fitzrovia to emerge as literary lion and pioneering...
| Автор | Rosie Thomas |
Opowieść oparta na faktach. Miłość młodego esesmana do żydowskiej więźniarki. I przerażające piekło Auschwitz. Słowacja, 1939. Wywodząca się z szanowanej żydowskiej rodziny prawniczej, niezwykle uzdolniona muzycznie Milena Zinger właśnie zostaje studentką konserwatorium. Jej beztroskie życie przerywa wybuch II wojny światowej. Zingerowie momentalnie stają się obywatelami drugiej kategorii, którzy każdego dnia muszą walczyć o przetrwanie. Austria, 1939. Franz Weimert ulega wpływom...
| Автор | Wojciech Dutka |
Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novelsInnocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney is her practical English girlfriend, who can sum up a man, she says, in one firm hand-grip. Salvatore is a penniless doctor from the south, who thinks he is proof against politics, social conscience and tenderness. Chiara’s cousin, Cesare, says very...
| Автор | Julian Barnes |
Quattro giovani di quattro nazionalità si incontrano in Germania prima della guerra. Il loro destino è di morire contemporaneamente in guerra in un isola dell'Egeo. l libro racconta le vite di quattro giovani uomini, tutti nati nel 1920, Godfrey (inglese), Rolf (tedesco), Marco (italiano) e Yiannis (greco) e delle loro famiglie. Marco eYiannis provengono dalla piccola isola di Leros, all'epoca parte delle isole del Dodecanneso governate dall'Italia. Si incontrano tutti nel 1936 al raduno della...
| Автор | Powell Michael |
In Cry Heaven, Cry Hell, the author tries to open our eyes to show that even with good intentions roads can be paved to Hell. The story follows three men who lived evil ways and then repented. Two of the men die, but one remains to either be held accountable for what they all did or to have their repentant behavior be figured into the yardstick of their collective judgment. The three men are: 1) An Irishman who wipes out an entire family and flees Ireland, 2) A descendant of an Amer-Indian ally...
| Автор | Howard Gordon |
CÓRKA NAZISTY to przejmująca powieść o przeszłości, która nie pozwala o sobie zapomnieć. O strasznych czasach II wojny światowej i o miłości na przekór wszystkiemu. O dzieciach, które nie powinny odpowiadać za winy swoich rodziców. I o odkupieniu, które przynosi dopiero zmierzenie się z prawdą. Czasem, by na nowo odnaleźć spokój i miłość, trzeba przejść przez piekło. Gen zła. Czy coś takiego w ogóle istnieje? Alicja Nowińska uśmiecha się do mnie. Unosi na powitanie dłoń i się wyprostowuje....
| Автор | Max Czornyj |
Jason Li is seconds away from pulling the trigger to end his life. <br><br>Difficult to believe considering three years ago he was on the fast track to becoming a Navy fighter pilot, following in the footsteps of his older brother and modern combat ace, Lt. Jordan Li. But now Jordan is dead; killed in what the Navy claims was a "freak accident" over the Pacific Ocean. <br><br>Jason never got over the death of his brother-his mentor, his hero. Now...
| Автор | Joaquin De Torres |
Arizona Moon describes a fictional no-name operation in Vietnam’s infamous Arizona Territory and Golf’s 1st platoon of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines operating west of the Tu Bon River in Quang Nam Province. The story centers on a squad leader, Corporal Raymond Strader, and a Apache Indian, L/Cpl Noche Gonshayee. Strader has only three days until his thirteen month tour of duty ends, and Gonshayee, whose tribal name is “Moon”, considers all anglos potential...
| Автор | J.M. Graham |
This is a story of the silent service—the submarine crews which destroyed the Japanese merchant marine. A narrative taut with drama, told with the intimacy of a confession, it deals with two strong-headed men: their loves, their jealousies, and their destinies in the lonely and desperate struggle between the hunter and the hunted. Few war novels will rival Run Silent, Run Deep in the naked realism of its action. None will surpass its rising excitement and brilliant descriptions of men...
| Автор | Edward L. Beach |
Τέσσερις νέοι από τέσσερις εθνικότητες συναντιούνται στην προπολεμική Γερμανία. Η μοίρα τους είναι να χαθούν ταυτόχρονα στον πόλεμο, σε ένα νησί του Αιγαίου. Το βιβλίο ακολουθεί τις ζωές τεσσάρων νεαρών ανδρών, του Γκόντφρεϊ του Ρολφ, του Μάρκο και του Γιάννη- όλοι τους γεννημένοι το 1920 – και των οικογενειών τους. Ο Μάρκο και ο Γιάννης κατάγονταιι από το μικρό νησί της Λέρου, που τότε ήταν μέρος της ιταλοκρατούμενης Δωδεκανήσου. Όλοι συναντιούνται το 1936 στη συγκέντρωση νέων του Νούρεμπουργκ,...
| Автор | Powell Michael |
When his best friend is murdered in a fit of jealous rage, Izzy Schneider is compelled to reconstruct the relationship and exhume a hidden past that tests the authority of truth and weighs the burden of history. In A Good Man , critically acclaimed novelist Cynthia Holz examines Izzy’s complex lifelong friendship with Phil Lewis. Izzy escapes from Nazi Germany as a young man, leaving behind his family, who later perish in the Holocaust; Phil, a war hero, stays and fights with the partisans and...
| Автор | Cynthia Holz |
Two down on their luck black-marketeers, Dagr and Kinza, have inherited a very important prisoner: the former star torturer of Saddam’s recently collapsed Ba’athist regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him to Mosul. With the heat on, they enlist the help of Private Hoffman, their partner in crime and a U.S. Marine, who undertakes to help them escape the authorities.But getting out of Baghdad is no easy task. The city is crawling with traps...
| Автор | Saad Hossain |
An F-14 aviator takes his readers into the cockpits, ready-rooms, and bunkrooms of today's Navy to show what it's like to fight in a time of so-called peace. From the opening chapter where a Tomcat fighter squadron's commanding officer botches an intercept of a hostile Iranian F-4 to the final uplifting scene, his novel reveals the inner workings of the military as only an insider can. It is a thriller without an airshow groupie's pretense, a fighter pilot's story as...
| Автор | Ward Carroll |
In 1972, following the huge success of Run Silent, Run Deep, Edward L. Beach's second novel of submarine warfare was published to great acclaim. Like its predecessor, Dust on the Sea was lauded for its authentic portrayal of what it meant to be a submariner during the desperate years of World War II. Tense, dramatic and rich in technical and tactical detail, the book draws on Beach's experience as a submariner in the US Navy to describe the commander and crew of the fictitious USS Eel...
| Автор | Edward L. Beach |
No one escaped whole from the fall of Saigon. We Americans were all damaged. The Last of the Annamese is about the Vietnamese and Americans who escaped from Vietnam in April 1975, those who decided to stay, and those who chose death rather than life under the Communists. The protagonist, Chuck Griffin, has never come to terms with the death of his son, Ben, killed in action in Vietnam. To do all he can to assure that Ben has not died in vain, Chuck, a retired Marine officer, returns to...
| Автор | Tom Glenn |
Call To Arms is the fourth novel in the award-winning historical / nautical fiction series from William C. Hammond. Along with the other novels in the Cutler Family Chronicles – most recently For Love of Country and The Power and the Glory – it features the epic saga of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts and an ever expanding cast of characters. Among these characters are real historical figures including Capt. Edward Preble, Lt. Stephen Decatur, Lt. Richard...
| Автор | William C. Hammond |
Ship of Gold is an exciting, fast-paced tale of action, intrigue, and adventure on the high seas-told with the ringing authenticity only firsthand knowledge can impart.In 1945, the U.S. submarine Tigerfish mistakenly torpedoed and sunk a Japanese cargo ship. The ship, allegedly carrying supplies to allied POWs, had been given safe passage. But, in fact, the Osaka Maru was a Japanese Trojan horse: a cunning ruse devised by a powerful secret society to transport tons of gold out of Japan under the...
| Автор | Thomas B. Allen |
How Dark the Night profiles the years 1805 to 1810, picking up where the fourth volume, A Call to Arms, ends. These years leading up to the War of 1812 are devastating ones for the young republic and for the Cutler family. The life-and-death struggle between the forces of Great Britain and France continue in Europe, and the United States is caught in a web of financial and political chaos as President Jefferson and Secretary of State Madison endeavor to keep the woefully unprepared United States...
| Автор | William C. Hammond |
The Power and the Glory is the third novel in William C. Hammond’s rousing nautical fiction series. This volume is set in the late 1790s during the Quasi-War with France and offers readers a look at the new American Navy during the Age of Fighting Sail. Following in the wake of his previous novels, A Matter of Honor and For Love of Country, it features the adventures of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and an ever-expanding cast of characters—some real,...
| Автор | William C. Hammond |
Alpha team was gone, dead to a man. A few crewmen from Bravo team had been blown overboard. Stark reentered the pilothouse and checked the radio hoping to get out one last mayday, but the radio, like the crew, was dead….Connor Stark was a pariah, a man without a country, a former naval officer whose career came to an unceremonious end after a court-martial resulted in a dishonorable discharge. At home and at peace in Scotland, he was determined to leave his past behind until murder,...
| Автор | Claude G. Berube |
Becoming a man is difficult . . . even in the best of circumstances, but when it must be done in 1968 and with the Year of the Monkey set to explode onto the cities and battlefields of a war-torn nation, it is only the very best who make the grade.A Common Virtue has the immediacy and punch of today’s fears as it draws on yesterday’s headlines. When the armies of Ho Chi Mihn push across the demilitarized zone on a scale never thought possible and simultaneously strike at...
| Автор | James A. Hawkins |
There’s something Outside It wants In. And I’m supposed to stop it?I’m Trella. I used to be a scrub, cleaning the pipes and corridors of Inside. Then I found a whole world beyond the cube we live in and accidentally led a revolution against the Uppers. Now everyone is trying to figure out what happens next. Except me. The fight’s over and I want my life back.I need to explore the new world I’ve found and work out exactly what’s going on with Riley, the Upper who helped me win the war. But...
| Автор | Maria Snyder V. |
“Betray your sisters or your lover. You choose.”After the warrior she loves saved her from a murderous Gargoyle, Chalice watched helplessly as Aydin turned into a Gargoyle himself. Now, free from the curse that enslaved her, Chalice pledges to join her sister knights in The Order of the Hatchet—and do whatever it takes to regain Aydin’s humanity…and his love. What she encounters within their hallowed sanctuary is pure intrigue.Someone—or something—is murdering her sisters in their sleep,...
| Автор | Karen Duvall |
From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the second instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.This is the story of the kindly Queen of Zone Three, who rules a land free of all harshness, and her forced marriage with the soldier-king of Zone Four, which is hierarchic, disciplined, inflexible, dutiful. This apparently difficult marriage, unwanted by both, requires a compromise between impulse and reason, between instinct and logic.Ben Ata...
| Автор | Дорис Лессинг |