Resultados para "The Heathen" en Guerra y ejército

Hay numerosos libros sobre el Holocausto, pero ninguno como este. Se basa en una increíble historia real detrás de uno de sus símbolos más potentes: los números azules tatuados en los brazos de los prisioneros de los campos de concentración. Cuando a Lale Sokolov le fue encomendada la...

Hará todo para proteger a su familia, incluso si eso implica ignorar el horror Berlín, 1930. Cuando el partido nazi se encumbra en el poder, el esposo de Sofie, Jürgen Rhodes, se ve beneficiado por el nuevo gobierno. Aunque ellos no comparten la ideología de Hitler, la nueva posición de...

Una conmovedora historia de superación en la Segunda Guerra Mundial contada con la maestría de la autora de El tatuador de Auschwitz. Cuando lo perdieron todo, el destino las unió. El 14 de febrero de 1942, el Vyner Brooke, un barco mercante que transportaba a un grupo desesperado de...

Quando meninas, as irmãs Cibi, Magda e Livia fizeram uma promessa ao pai: sempre estariam juntas, não importa o que acontecesse a elas. Anos depois, com apenas 15 anos, Livia é enviada a Auschwitz pelos nazistas. Cibi, 19 anos, decide cumprir a promessa e vai com Livia, determinada a proteger a irmã ou a morrer com ela. Magda, 17, escapa da captura por um tempo, mas eventualmente também é transportada para o terrível campo de extermínio.

The Space Infantry are here! Conducting covert missions throughout the galaxy's frontiers, these elite units are humanity's greatest hope for its future survival. It is the 27th century, and humanity has reached out to the stars only to find itself surrounded by hostile alien races who work tirelessly to destroy what we have built. The United Planets Colonial Government dispatches these small teams of brave men and women to fight back against alien aggression.

SNAFU: Contagion, featuring action-filled tales of viral, fungal and bacterial horror, from some of your favorite authors including New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry.

Ryan Mullins is used to dealing with terrorists. Working for the private military company Excera International, he’s spent his career moving through the ranks and completing missions for intelligence agencies across the globe. And when he uncovers a deadly terrorist plot to devastate America and Europe, he knows time is of the essence. As the world’s terrorist organizations grow stronger, a threat looms that could shape the face of politics forever.

London, 1944. Two young nurses meet at a train station with a common purpose: to join the war effort. Scarlet longs for the chance to find her missing fiancé, Thomas, and to prove to her family - and to herself - that she's stronger than everybody thinks. Nursing is in Ellie's blood, but her humble background is vastly different from Scarlet's privileged upbringing. Though Ellie puts on a brave face, she's just as nervous as Scarlet about what awaits them in France.

New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgettably romantic novel of the Great War. August 1914. England is at war. As Evie Elliott watches her brother, Will, and his best friend, Thomas Harding, depart for the front, she believes—as...

Summer, 1936. In England, an assassin is loose. Someone is killing young people who possess Talents. As terror overtakes Britain, Kim Tavistock, now officially employed by England's Secret Intelligence Service, is sent on her first mission: to the remote Sulcliffe Castle in Wales, to use her cover as a journalist to infiltrate a spiritualist cult that may have ties to the murders. Meanwhile, Kim's father, trained spy Julian Tavistock, runs his own parallel investigation - and discovers the terrifying Nazi plot behind the serial killings.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. When Lale, given the job of tattooing the prisoners, saw Gita waiting in line, it was love at first sight. In that moment he determined to keep them both alive.

Feral: Having escaped from domestication and become wild. Our nation which was once domesticated, is no more. The free fall from civilized society has come to the conclusion of a failed state. The refractory few left are the hardened survivors that would not yield or bend to the will of the foreign forces that wish to see our nation and its people on their knees. The Parkers and their tribe, however, continue to resist the Global Alliance for Governance and refuse to bend to the will of their would-be masters. This obstinance comes at a cost.

A voice from the past calls Bobby Bridger to warn him before the old team is brought back together to face the threat. After members were singled out for assassination, Bravo Team is pointed in the right direction and takes the fight to them. Columbian cartels, Mexican Federales, militia members,and even the CIA collide in the jungles of Mexico with Bravo Team stuck in the middle. They all should have brought more guns....

When they are girls, Cibi, Magda and Livia make a promise to their father - that they will stay together, no matter what. Years later, at just 15 years old, Livia is ordered to Auschwitz by the Nazis. Cibi, only 19 herself, remembers their promise and follows Livia, determined to protect her sister or die with her. In their hometown in Slovakia, 17-year-old Magda hides, desperate to evade the barbaric Nazi forces. But it is not long before she is captured and condemned to Auschwitz.

Society’s free fall has begun. The people at the top were scrambling for power and to control the descent. Those at the bottom were dying. Or, they were looking to their masters to solve their problems abandoning their God given rights and liberties for a loaf of bread and the promise of safety. Then there were the obstinate, the uncontrollable, the refractory that were fighting back. These were the ones that everyone at the top has been trying to control.

The Parkers are separated once again by forces out of their control. The bloated behemoth of the federal government is taking its last dying breaths, but it is fighting to stay alive.

1942 wird Singapur von der japanischen Armee eingenommen. Während die Insel brennt, versuchen die australische Krankenschwester Nesta James und die englische Musikerin Norah Chambers mit vielen anderen an Bord der HMS Vyner Brooke zu fliehen. Doch das Schiff wird bombardiert und versenkt. Nesta und Norah können sich an die Strände von Indonesien retten, werden aber gefangen genommen und in einem der berüchtigten japanischen Kriegsgefangenenlager festgehalten. Tapfer kämpfen die beiden Seite an Seite ums Überleben: mit außergewöhnlichem Mut und der Magie der Musik.

Colonel Katie Green fights to save her Air Force career after a senior-level review board decided to revoke her Top Secret security clearance. Katie's misgivings about just war leads to her clearance kerfuffle because she fears a US preemptive nuclear strike would fail God's litmus test, yet nuclear weapons are her ticket to promotion to general officer. Haunted and challenged by her father's suicide after losing his clearance, she seeks refuge in God's Word.

A truly delightful piece of writing that takes the listener on a journey back in time to the beginning of the Second World War, just after the Dunkirk evacuation. Winston Churchill was desperate; the German army was ripping its way through Europe with France about to fall. Adding another world power into the fold was the only option.

American aircraft are going down, victim to missile batteries hidden deep in the jungles of South Vietnam, and they bring in an Air Force expert, Colonel Dan Carter, to analyze the defenses and devise a strategy to destroy them. Yet, the Vietcong gets wind of the colonel’s arrival, and plan to murder him. Joe Cooper, Air Cav, returns from an abortive mission to grab an important and high-ranking North Vietnamese. A mission gives MACV an idea to protect their expert.