War & Military

The first three books of the second-fastest-selling book series in Indian publishing history—the Ram Chandra series—explore the individual journeys of Ram, Sita and Raavan....

John Dempsey's life - as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper - is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders....

Leo Tolstoy: The Complete Collection includes unabridged recordings of Leo Tolstoy's 3 timeless novels; all his major novellas and short stories; and 4 renowned works of non-fiction in one audiobook, all read by Audie Award-winning narrators....

From two former military officers and award-winning authors comes a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 - and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration....

It is The Campus. Secretly created under the administration of President Jack Ryan, its sole purpose is to eliminate terrorists and those who protect them....

The Campus has been discovered. And whoever knows they exist knows they can be destroyed. Meanwhile, President Jack Ryan has been swept back into the Oval Office - and his wisdom and courage are needed more desperately than ever....

When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel....

BBC Radio 4 productions of JG Farrell's celebrated historical novels—plus bonus material....

Iran is on the verge of possessing weapons of mass destruction to use against Israel and Saudi Arabia. Agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux, along with the rest of the Mossad, know that they must do anything and everything to put a swift end to this danger....

A seemingly routine operation ends in tragedy when eighty-three civilians are killed in an aircraft explosion. Kaine, a highly decorated former Royal Marine, becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt; the police want him on terrorism charges, and a sinister organization wants him dead.

Find the truth; risk everything. A gripping WWII spy novel full of intrigue and peril from a modern master....

Special Operations Chief Tyler Brooks might not know quantum mechanics, or have an eidetic memory, but he is the very best in the world at one thing: leading covert ops.

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....

When a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn't really believe in....

Once an Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale....

Division agent Maira Kanhai is alive. Maira Kanhai has gone rogue. When Brenda Wells learns that her old recruit’s—and close friend’s—watch has turned red, she refuses to believe it....

Her Majesty's ship Sutherland is a humdrum ship of the line. But in command is none other than the heroic Captain Hornblower....

Sir Thomas of Stockton has lost his son. Taking a handful of chosen men, he crosses the seas to travel through France seeking his enemy. Fate throws him in with a French lord and he meets the French King Louis....

In the India of 1942, two rapes take place simultaneously - that of an English girl in Mayapore, and that of India by the British....

Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th century to entertain the other women in the court. It follows the romantic exploits of the title character, an emperor’s son, as he navigates life in and out of aristocratic society....

A terrorist bomb explodes during a South Korean celebration of the anniversary of the election of its first president....

The Cold War is over, and chaos is setting in. The new President of Russia is trying to create a new democratic regime....

The Battle of Waterloo. A heart-racing tale of adventure, love and fate against the backdrop of one of the most decisive battles in history by one of the greatest and best-selling romantic novelists of all time....

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life....

Enemy raiders are bombing Britain's cities relentlessly. Casualties are high and morale is at an all-time low. Jox McNabb and the rest of No.111 Squadron train to become night fighters to take on the raiders inflicting such carnage on Britain's cities. But then tragedy strikes and Jox is devastated by the loss of those close to him.

The Troubles. A quaint name for a horrific period in the galaxy's history. A period whose atrocities were superseded only by the terror of the Savage Wars that had come before. Almost no corner of the galaxy was spared a taste of terrible war, cutthroat intrigue…and remorseless death. In the aftermath, this battered galaxy now longs for peace and stability. The Republic, now reformed, seeks to govern by the rule of law. But no matter how sincere the reform, how earnest and well-meaning the ruler, some worlds refuse to place their destiny in the hands of others. Ever again.

In 1961, the new president John F. Kennedy, inherited an ill-conceived, poorly executed invasion of Cuba that failed miserably and set in motion the events that put the U.S. and the Soviet Union on a collision course that nearly started a war that would have enveloped much of the world. Extensively researched and vividly imagined, The Shadow of War brings to life the many threads that lead to the building crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States in 1962.

Under en misslyckad polarexpedition tvingas Sven Elversson och hans besättning att ta till desperata överlevnadsåtgärder. Strandsatta och utsvultna börjar de äta av en avliden kamrat i hopp om att överleva tills räddningen kommer. Mot alla odds lyckas de till slut återvända till England, men det dröjer inte länge förrän rykten om deras kontroversiella val börjar spridas. Plågad av skuldkänslor söker Sven tillflykt i Sverige, bara för att konfronteras av första världskrigets fasor. Han ställer snart frågan till sig själv – är nödgad kannibalism verkligen värre än att döda tusentals människor i krig?

Die bewegende Fortsetzung des Romans »Was uns durch die Zeiten trägt« über die Suche einer jungen Frau nach einer neuen Heimat. Von Bestsellerautorin Marion Johanning. Westfalen, 1956: Nach der Vertreibung lebt Luise mit ihrer Familie in der Nähe von Kurstadt in Westdeutschland. Der Rückweg in die schlesische Heimat scheint durch den Eisernen Vorhang für immer versperrt, und Luise hat wenig Hoffnung, dass sie Marian jemals wiedersehen wird. Als sie ihrer Jugendliebe Wolfgang begegnet, fühlt sie sich sofort wieder zu ihm hingezogen.

It is the near future. The Islamic Jihad is over. The Jihadis have beaten the West. Israel stands alone . . . Can what remains of Western civilization oppose their total world domination? What might arise from the dust of the crushed West to resist the martial efforts of the whole Arab world? This is the controversial novella of the final crusade and one soldier’s dark destiny as part of it.

When the tyrannical Aulus Vitellius seizes the reins of power in Rome, the empire is already in the grip of a fierce civil war. But the new emperor's first priority is both personal and deeply symbolic: he plans to crush the Green chariot racing faction - the mortal enemies of his beloved Blues - at the Plebeian Games in the Circus Maximus. To save the Greens from certain extinction, two former charioteers have just twenty-six days to transport four champion chariot horses across the breadth of Europe to Rome.

The year is 1967 and the Vietnam War is raging. Lieutenant Ben Kinkaid of the US military police is patrolling the chaotic streets of Saigon after curfew when he crosses paths with US Army clerk Tommy Banks and his girlfriend, Grace Waverly. Grace says she’s a peace tourist, but she’s also a member of RAW—an anti-war group bent on stopping the war by any means necessary.

Een hartverscheurende roman voor de lezers van De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal. Vrijwel niemand komt levend uit de hel die Auschwitz heet. Mala, gevangene 19880, begrijpt dat op het moment dat ze de trein uit stapt. Als tolk voor de ss heeft ze een iets hogere status dan de andere gevangen, een positie die ze gebruikt om zo veel mogelijk levens te redden. Edward, gevangene 531, is een kampveteraan en een politiek gevangene. Hij zit in het ondergrondse verzet. En hij heeft een ontsnappingsplan.

After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq.

Leutnant Wenks Gebirgsjägerdivision soll zügig den Kaukasus Richtung Schwarzmeerküste überqueren. Doch bereits der Hinweg wird zur Tortur. Neben ständiger Feindesnähe und fehlendem Nachschub an Truppen und Nahrungsmitteln, drohen Schnee und Eis das Vorhaben zu gefährden. Zum Todesurteil wird den Soldaten aber die Berliner Führungsspitze, die die Lage völlig falsch einschätzt. Als die Erlaubnis zum Rückzug erteilt wird, ist es zu spät: Wenke kann nur noch versuchen, die letzten Überlebenden zu retten. Eine wahre und erschütternde Geschichte.

DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S|SQUAD! Eine Nachkriegs-Forschungsstation von allem zu befreien, was sich für die britische und norwegische Regierung als belastend erweisen könnte, klingt erst einmal nach einem einfachen Job. Doch während das S|SQUAD versucht, diese Mission zu erfüllen, werden sie von etwas, das den Legenden entsprungen zu sein scheint, durch die Berge und Fjords gejagt. Sie haben ein schlafendes Ungeheuer aufgeweckt. Und das ist wütend, kampflustig... und hat seine Freunde mitgebracht. Monster. Riesige Kreaturen. Kugeln. Und Flüche... jede Menge Flüche.

Fans von Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake, Sean Wyatt und Dane Maddock werden an Jack Reilly ihre helle Freude haben! Hartnäckig halten sich die Gerüchte über einen tief unter den Bergen Polens versteckt liegenden Goldschatz. Viele Glücksritter versuchten ihn zu finden, doch der sagenumwobene Goldzug der Nazis blieb verschollen. Während eines Besuchs der Gedenkstätte Ausschwitz-Birkenau wird der ehemalige Delta-Force-Soldat Jack Reilly Zeuge, wie bewaffnete Söldner den Komplex in ihre Gewalt bringen. Sie werden von einer Frau angeführt, die einen ganz eigenen Plan verfolgt.

Павел Игнатов волею судьбы попал из нашей современности в 1938 год. Закончил авиаучилище и воевать начал с первых дней войны. Опыта нет, только прибыл в полк после учебы. Да еще и самолет морально устаревший — СБ. Был сбит, ухитрился выжить и к своим вернуться. После ранения перегонял бомбардировщики на трассе АлСиб, ленд-лизовские "дугласы". Потом и воевал на таком, в варианте торпедоносца на Балтике. Потери среди летчиков полка больше, чем среди штурмовиков или истребителей.

When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.