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War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

Iron Age of India...around 900 BCE. Born in the arms of the Ganga, Vasu grew up in the raging province of Anga. His life shaped by a fate that failed to be just - neglected by his own, stripped of his birthright - he was raised to be lost in an abyss of desires and disappointment. Cursed by his guru, hurt by the only woman he loved, ostracised from society for being the son of a suta. With his only armour - hope - he ventured on an unforgettable journey. Alone.

Zindagi ke 16 saal ghar par farmaishi aur aaramdayak life jeene ke baad Nikhil, Burty, Randy aur Maachh ki life mein 360 degress ka turn tab aata hai jab wei National Defence Academy mein kadam rakhte hain. Bahut jald he unhein ye baat samajh aa jaati hai ki Academy mei life sirf thook lagakar joota polish karna nahi hai, balki NDA mei bitaye six terms adventures aur achievements ka endless khazana hain. Suniye Boots Belts Berets ka Hindi sanskaran, Abhishek Banerjee ki jaandaar awaaz mein.

सन् 1962 की हार ने पूरे भारत को हताशा की गर्त में डाल दिया था। लोग इतने हताश थे कि उन्होंने इस युद्ध में भाग लेने वाले सैनिकों के परिवार वालों को निशाना बनाना शुरू कर दिया था। उनका सामूहिक बहिष्कार किया जाने लगा था। लोगों के इस आक्रोश का सबसे ज़्यादा शिकार रेवाड़ी और आस-पास के गाँवों के वो परिवार थे जिनके घर से कोई सेना में था। ख़ासतौर से अहीर जाति के लोग। लोगों का मानना था कि इस जाति के लोगो ने युद्ध के दौरान देश के साथ गद्दारी की और अपनी जान बचाकर बिना लड़े ही भाग आए और अब कहीं छुपकर अपना जीवन जी रहे हैं।

This is the remarkable story of a day in the life of one woman, Clarissa Dalloway, the people in her circle, and those touching upon her friends and acquaintances.

War and Peace is a work so groundbreaking that it was not even considered a novel when first published in 1865. In redefining the fictional genre, Tolstoy’s genius has explored the human condition with a sensibility that is reflective of the nature and spirit of Russia itself. This edition follows the translation of Louise and Aylmer Maude.

Sergeant Jo Barnes (Hilary Swank) and her elite, all-female US Army investigative team are renowned for cracking complex sex-crime cases within the military. Their latest mission takes them to the Mojave Desert at Fort Irwin Army Base in California, to unravel the mysterious disappearance of Private Nichelle Simmons—a soldier who accused a comrade of assault. But when the accused is inexplicably set free, their case takes a sinister turn.

To most people, Maj. John Rexford is a retired marine living in the Catskill Mountains of New York on disability. Even John's girlfriend, Maggie, has no idea he's really a CIA spook recruited in Afghanistan and assigned to kill enemies on US soil. With exemplary skills in hand-to-hand combat and small-arms weaponry, John Rexford completes a string of successful kills, eliminating terrorists and their money supply in the New York metropolitan area.

दुनिया में जन्नत कही जाने वाली जम्मू-कश्मीर की घाटी पिछले कई दशकों से अशांति और आतंकवाद की समस्याओं से जूझ रही है जिसके चलते भारी संख्या में भारतीय सैनिक वहाँ कार्यरत हैं। उनमें से एक कर्नल सुशील तंवर हैं जिन्होंने अपने सैन्य जीवन के छब्बीस सालों में से पन्द्रह साल जम्मू-कश्मीर की घाटी में बिताये हैं। इस दौरान उनका कई बार आतंकवादियों से सामना हुआ और मुठभेड़ में घायल भी हुए। जितनी कुशलता से वे बन्दूक का प्रयोग करते हैं, उतनी ही क्षमता से अपनी कलम भी चलाते हैं।

Kicked out of the SAS, Harry Bauer is sent home and told to be like everyone else...but he's not like everyone else... What do you do when the only skill you ever learned was how to kill, when you’re among the best of the best, but they tell you you can’t do that anymore? What do you do when they send you home from Afghanistan and tell you to get a job, like everybody else? But you’re not like everybody else.

ग़ाज़ीपुर के अम्बिका यादव बड़े ठेकेदार हैं। इस बार सेटिंग बैठी है तो सैदपुर घाट से गंगा बालू निकालने का ठेका मिला है। लेकिन इस खेल के माहिर जयनाथ यादव को अम्बिका यादव का यह ठेका पचता नहीं। कारण कि सैदपुर में गंगा बालू का ठेका घोषित/अघोषित रूप से उनके ही पास रहता है। इसी तनातनी में अम्बिका यादव की हत्या हो जाती है, जिसका इल्जाम लगता है जयनाथ यादव पर।

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

The Company has a special secret operation planned for one of their top agents: the leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are hiding out in Pashtun country, and they must be eliminated. The job falls to a man they have named Frank Morganan agent who stood out as a recruit at Quantico and whose skills resemble those of the legendary Vietnam assassin. The other soldiers claim Frank’s abilities as a sniper and a tracker border on the supernatural and are more than willing to complete this mission with him.

Don Riley, head of the CIA’s Emerging Threats Group, has never seen anything like this. Riley and his team are tasked with identifying national security threats before they become tomorrow’s bad news. But shortly after an Iranian vessel delivers a surprise attack to a US Navy Warship in the Arabian Gulf, a series of seemingly unrelated attacks crop up around the globe.

On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, the first great revolution of the twentieth century began as working-class men and women occupied buildings throughout Dublin, Ireland, including the general post office on O’Connell Street. Among the commoners in the GPO was a young staff captain of the Irish Volunteers named Michael Collins. He was joined a day later by a fourteen-year-old messenger boy, Eoin Kavanagh.

In back rooms around the world…powerful people gather. Will they decide the next U.S. election? From the first page, the intrigue unfurls into a web of strategy, ideology, and tactics which will be played out on a global stage. Cloaked in secrecy, an ancient organization has plans designed to remake the world. What is the Thule Society? Is the next Civil War their plan?

Robin Moore became one of the first true embedded journalists by training with and fighting alongside the Green Berets in Vietnam. Though fictionalized, his work is an eye-opening exposé of the horrors of the Vietnam War and the basis for the hit John Wayne movie of the same title. Taut, fast-paced, and interspersed with unforgettable accounts of combat, Moore’s novel features an American major who goes "native" with Montagnard tribesmen, a courageous Vietnamese girl who poses as a rabid anti-American Communist to capture a murderous Viet Cong officer, and the unforgettable acts of courage of soldiers in the field.

Kiev suffers from abandonment by the Germans and takeover by the Soviet Bolsheviks. Streamlined for narration and the American ear.

From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally best-selling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. But Circe has neither the look nor the voice of divinity and is scorned and rejected by her kin. Increasingly isolated, she turns to mortals for companionship, leading her to discover a power forbidden to the gods: witchcraft.

Set in the years before and during the 1st Punic War, the series follows the exploits of a young, hot-headed swordsman. From a lad on his father's farm, to a Legion training camp, to the Capital of the Republic, Alerio Sisera learns that sharp steel and quick reflexes are not always a Legionary's best assets.