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While working in the ancient Silk Road city of Aleppo, American Hannah Johnson and her Swedish lover Oskar are drawn into the mounting turbulence of the impending Syrian civil war. After Oskar is wounded at a street protest one evening, he and Hannah cross paths with Dr. Samir Hasan, a renowned surgeon. As the protests swell into all-out war, Dr. Hasan tends not only to Oskar, but also risks his life, his practice, and his family to tend to a nephew the government has branded an insurgent.

Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth. The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH)...

Thermonuclear war erupts in Kerry Shale's award-winning 1993 dramatisation of the classic apocalyptic black comedy. Dr Strangelove came to prominence in the 1964 film, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Based on the novel Red Alert by Peter George, it famously starred Peter Sellers in multiple roles. As well as scripting the dramatisation, Kerry Shale also takes multiple roles: Dr Strangelove, Lieutenant 'Sweets' Kivel, Lieutenant Barney Goldberg, Lieutenant Lothar Zogg, Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, General Jack D. Ripper and President Merkin Muffley.

Griechenland im Kampf gegen die größte Kriegsflotte der Welt. Als erfahrener Schiffsführer kämpft Arimnestos von Platäa in der epischen Konfrontation zwischen Griechen und Persern: der Seeschlacht von Salamis. Eine Schlacht, bei der Blutvergießen mit Blutvergießen vergolten, alter Groll beigelegt, Ruhm erlangt und Verrat entlarvt wird. Eine Schlacht, bei der Griechenland alle Differenzen begraben und vereint kämpfen muss. Denn dem Land gegenüber steht Großkönig Xerxes, der die größte Kriegsflotte der Welt zusammengebracht hat.

Die verfeindeten griechischen Stadtstaaten sind mit der ständig wachsenden Bedrohung durch die Perser konfrontiert. Arimnestos erhält von Leonidas I., König von Sparta, den Auftrag, eine Gesandtschaft zum Hof des neuen Großkönigs Xerxes I. zu begleiten, um dort Friedensverhandlungen zu führen. Doch die Gespräche in Susa scheitern. Der Großkönig lässt sich nicht umstimmen. Er hält an seinem Vorhaben fest, die griechische Welt vollständig zu unterjochen... Die schlachtenreiche Reihe aus der Antike von Christian Cameron.

Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly is flying over Northern France when his tank is holed and he's forced to crash-land. Luckily, he is picked up by the French Resistance before the enemy can get to him and, after a tense few days moving between safe houses, he escapes back to Blighty. Reunited with his squadron, Angus expects to return to flying duties. However, Squadron Leader Bentley informs him that he's not going to be flying sorties. He is singled out to lead a top-secret mission.

Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly and the rest of "Maverick" Squadron 696 are engaged in tactics to lure the Luftwaffe into battle. But Angus has grave misgivings about the orders he has been given, which are justified when he loses a brand-new pilot on their first incursion.

1940, England. After a series of run-ins with his superiors, Flying Officer Angus Mackennelly is posted to Squadron 696—the Maverick unit full of misfits and outsiders. Angus has just returned from gunning down enemy aircraft when he is given a shocking top-secret mission. A spy is in their midst, feeding information to the Germans, and Angus is tasked with exposing him. MI6 pin their suspicions on one of the squadron's foreign pilots, but Angus is not convinced. He needs to get closer to the men in his unit to try and unravel their secrets.

Eine Wüste im Nahen Osten: General Middleton gerät mit seiner Einsatzgruppe in einen Hinterhalt von Terroristen. Sie töten seine Männer und nehmen ihn gefangen. Kurz bevor er das Bewusstsein verliert, hört er, wie sich die Terroristen unterhalten: Sie sprechen Englisch mit amerikanischem Akzent. Mit Rettung des Generals wird Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson beauftragt- einer der besten Scharfschützen der Marines. Als Swanson und seine Männer in Syrien landen, laufen sie in eine Falle. Nur Swanson überlebt den Angriff. Woher hatte der Feind Informationen über diese streng geheime Mission?

The revised story of Checkmate is the first in The White House National Security series and features young scientist Dr. Cameron Talbot who invents a breakthrough technology to defend against cruise missiles. She needs support from skeptical company officers, funding from a reluctant Congress, and help from Lt. Col. Hunt Daniels, detailed to The White House NSC. With disaster brewing overseas, threats to New Delhi, the Taj Mahal, and to Cameron herself, she and Hunt find themselves enmeshed in terrorist plots and political wrangling at the highest levels.