Títulos en Guerra y ejército

From bestselling novelist Nadia Hashimi—a gripping, occasionally terrifying, yet ultimately hopeful novel focusing on the women of Afghanistan in the years since the Taliban regained power. In February 2020 the US began to withdraw troops from Afghanistan after nearly twenty years of...

Como tantos casais, Michael e Jolene não resistiram às pressões do dia a dia e agora estão vendo seu relacionamento de doze anos desmoronar. Alheio à vida familiar, Michael está sempre mergulhado no trabalho, não dá atenção às duas filhas e não faz a mínima questão de apoiar a carreira militar da esposa. Então Jolene é convocada para a guerra. Ela sabe que tem um dever a cumprir e, mesmo angustiada por se afastar de casa, deixa para o marido a missão de cuidar das meninas e segue para o Iraque.

FROM THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WAR LORD COMES AN EPIC RETELLING OF THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND In the Dark Ages, a legendary warrior arises to unite a divided land . . . _________ Uther, the High King of Britain, is dead. His only heir is the infant Mordred. Yet each of the country's lesser kings...

The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens' seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers—all while dulling his searing memories of battle with alcohol and meds.

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison. But not for long.... Maggie and Nell are both 21 and full of hope and excitement. Iris, on the other hand, is feeling apprehensive about returning to civilian life. At the age of 30, her only wish is to have a baby, but sadly this wish is yet to come true.

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.

Au fin fond de la Sibérie, une femme est en fuite, poursuivie par un homme dissimulant de lourds secrets et déterminé à la tuer. Un officier de la CIA ayant trahi les services a quant à lui trouvé refuge auprès de la mafia russe, avec pour obsession de neutraliser définitivement James Reece, un ancien sniper des Navy SEAL. À l'autre bout du monde, au Montana, James Reece se remet d'une opération chirurgicale tout en cherchant à reprendre le contrôle de sa vie avec l'aide de la journaliste Katie Buranek et de son vieil ami SEAL Raife Hastings.

È una mattina azzurra, accecante e senza vento quella in cui il giovane ingegnere minerario Martín Garret Ortiz, spagnolo ma da qualche mese assegnato a una miniera in Messico, sente un rumore di spari dalla sua stanza d'hotel ed esce per strada vinto dalla curiosità. Tanto basta perché s'infili in un destino ritenuto fin lì inimmaginabile.

Mulheres também podem ser heroínas. Quando a jovem estudante de enfermagem Frances McGrath ouve essas palavras, sua vida ganha uma nova perspectiva. Criada na idílica Coronado Island e superprotegida pelos pais conservadores, ela sempre se orgulhou de fazer a coisa certa e de ser uma boa garota. Mas o ano é 1966 e o mundo está mudando. De repente, Frankie começa a imaginar um futuro diferente para si mesma. Quando seu irmão vai servir no Vietnã, ela age por impulso e resolve se juntar ao Corpo de Enfermagem do Exército.

Some ghosts wear boots. Some just whistle.Guatemala, 1977. Private Diego Morales didn't volunteer for the jungle — nobody in Second Platoon did. But the Petén doesn't care whose idea it was. It swallows roads, swallows silence, and, if the old stories are true, it sends something ahead of the...

“Simply astounding. . . . The Kindly Ones is unmistakably the work of a profoundly gifted writer.” — Time A literary prize-winner that has been an explosive bestseller all over the world, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has been called “a brilliant Holocaust novel. . . a world-class...

Una inolvidable historia de corte costumbrista en uno de los momentos más duros de la historia reciente de España. En Las Hurdes, a finales de los años cincuenta, campan el hambre, la tristeza y la desolación que ha engendrado la dictadura franquista. Nuestros personajes intentarán llevar la vida adelante a pesar del peso de los recuerdos y la esperanzas rotas.

In the year 2043, the Ngumi War rages. Limited nuclear strikes have been used on Atlanta and two enemy cities, but the war goes on, fought by 'soldierboys' - indestructible war machines operated by remote control by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for...

Premi Proa de Novel·la 2025. Quan la por domina Europa, ells decideixen fer el que cal fer En els temps més cruels, quan la violència i la por dominen Europa, un grup de persones s'uneixen per fer el que cal fer. Sense preguntar a ningú l'origen ni la religió ni la ideologia. Perquè no...

Bloomsbury presents Vindolanda by Adrian Goldsworthy, read by Adrian Noble. Gripping, authentic novel set in Roman Britain from bestselling historian, Adrian Goldsworthy. AD 98: VINDOLANDA. A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier...

Han pasado más de cuarenta años desde que fueron liberados del “Hilton de Hanói”—un campo de prisioneros de guerra en Vietnam—y tres soldados estadounidenses y ex prisioneros finalmente regresan a Vietnam. Como parte de un esfuerzo del gobierno de EE. UU. para establecer un importante acuerdo comercial, estos tres hombres han aceptado hacer las paces con uno de sus antiguos captores más brutales—un guardia al que apodaron «Sr. Maravilla». 

Un coronel de ejército va a ser fusilado debido a que durante una intervención militar, junto a otros compañeros de armas, cometió un error. Sin embargo, la inocencia de su pequeña hija jugará en esta tragedia, un rol que él jamás habría imaginado.

Álvaro Colomer reconstruye en clave de ficción una de las batallas más importantes de cuantas ha librado el ejército español en los últimos años: la batalla de Najaf en la guerra de Irak. Como si de un retrato bélico se tratara, esta novela construye una ficción valiéndose de los...

The Battle of Gettysburg is over. Tens of thousands lie wounded and untended across the battlefield, and thousands are dead. Basil Biggs returns through the devastation to find his farm ruined by Confederate troops, but soon finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of Union spymaster John...

Outnumbered by the superior forces and firepower of the Syndicate Worlds, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous retreat across the enemy star system. Led by the legendary Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who returned to the fleet after a hundred-year suspended animation, the Alliance is desperately trying to return home with its captured prize: the key to the Syndic hypernet, and the key to victory…