Resultados para "Carrie" en Guerra y ejército

When tensions in the Taiwan Strait push the world’s two greatest military powers to the edge of war, only one force stands between diplomacy and disaster—a United States Navy Carrier Strike Group. Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, Captain Michael Reynolds commands nearly five thousand sailors and one of the most powerful warships ever built. Alongside guided missile destroyers, a cruiser, an attack submarine, and an elite carrier air wing, the battle group sails into one of the most dangerous regions on Earth as Chinese military forces mass for what could become an invasion of Taiwan.

They never fired a shot. They didn’t have to. When the USS Constitution, America’s most advanced aircraft carrier, enters contested waters, the crew expects surveillance and posturing. What they don’t expect is infiltration. A subtle telemetry spike. A shadow beneath the hull. A satellite drifting into perfect position. Then the ship’s own systems begin to respond. Captain Daniel Mercer and Commander Elena Varga uncover a coordinated multi-domain operation targeting sea, cyber, and space — not to destroy the carrier, but to map it, predict it, and manipulate the perception of power itself.

Fifteen years ago, the remote Russian city of Nobilsk goes dark. Three hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, this closed city is shrouded in secrecy and home to a level-four security bio-research facility. But when a Russian virologist sends a desperate message to the British Consulate, claiming that the worst has happened, it's all hands on deck. SAS trooper Solomon Church, alongside a small team, are dropped into the Siberian tundra with a vital mission: extract the virologist, secure his research, and destroy everything else.

Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Commander Jacob Miller is now on his second combat tour in the Western Pacific. He's survived the Battle of Midway and been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. But now the war is grinding away at him. And another bloody battle is always just around the corner.... Commander Warren Troost is determined to prove himself worthy of his family's outstanding naval legacy. He's already earned a Navy Cross for his bravery at Pearl Harbor, but now he has to do all he can just to stay alive....

Tensions in the Persian Gulf are rising. When a series of mysterious attacks disrupts shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, the United States deploys a carrier strike group to stabilize the region and protect one of the world’s most critical waterways. Aboard the aircraft carrier USS Independence, intelligence reports reveal that the attacks may not be random acts of aggression. Hidden behind the escalating conflict is a sophisticated technological threat capable of disrupting modern naval warfare.

When the German march across Europe reaches France, young Michelle Naget and her family join the throngs fleeing for safety. But their flight ends in capture by the Nazis, with one member of the family taken, while the rest of the family is sent back to their village of Braquis, France, to serve the enemy who has commandeered their home.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

From the bestselling author of Auschwitz Lullaby and The Teacher of Warsaw, Mario Escobar's "powerful portrait of a woman fighting to preserve knowledge in a crumbling world" (Publishers Weekly) is based on a true story of an inspiring librarian who risked everything to save her community and...

Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight. Because that’s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force so technologically advanced that there seems little hope. That’s why he disobeyed his orders in the first place - to figure out a way to stop them. But now he’s beached.

Having battled aliens to prove humanity’s worth as a star-faring species, Admiral Trevor Gray has a new mission: follow the directives of the super-AI Konstantin and lead the star carrier America on a mission through time and space to determine if humanity can truly transcend into Singularity...and avoid the pitfalls that have plagued so many of the aliens Earth has encountered since it gained faster-than-light travel. But there are those out there who don’t want an answer, who wish to maintain their own power with the status quo.