Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Guerra y ejército

In 1941, when she was turned into an armed merchant cruiser, the SS Benbecula was already old. Yet even she was needed to protect the vital Atlantic sea lanes. Commander Lindsay, her new captain, had to work desperately to mould the ship’s company - raw recruits and old-timers - into a fighting force. And better than anyone, Lindsay knew this could be his last command, his last chance.

September 1804: England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, anticipating invasion. Vice-admiral Richard Bolitho has his own troubles to settle at home too. But his time on land is broken by an urgent summons from the King. Once more Bolitho hoists his flag above the veteran 74-gun ship Hyperion and sets sail - this time with a new squadron headed for the Caribbean.

This is the story of a rifleman's resourcefulness in a single-handed war against the forces of Napoleon. Separated from his regiment, he uses a band of undisciplined Portuguese guerrillas to battle his way back to his own lines.

The first in a gripping new series of detective novels set at the birth of Stalin’s Russia. It is the time of the Great Terror. Inspector Pekkala – known as the Emerald Eye – was the most famous detective in all Russia. He was the favourite of the Tsar. Now he is the prisoner of the men he once hunted. Like millions of others, he has been sent to the gulags in Siberia and, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, he is as good as dead....

In February, 1806, the frigate carrying Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Bolitho drops anchor off the shores of southern Africa. Bolitho's instructions are to assist in hastening the campaign in Africa where an expeditionary force is attempting to recapture Cape Town from the Dutch. Bolitho is still brooding over the loss of his flagship, and hi socntinuing personal troubles are only brightened by his love for Catherine, Lady Somervell.

Chi è il vero responsabile del ritorno della guerra in Europa? Secondo il mantra della narrazione occidentale dominante, c'è un solo e unico colpevole: Vladimir Putin, novello Hitler, che avrebbe invaso l'Ucraina senza alcuna motivazione, se non quella di un violento e sfrenato espansionismo. Ma è lecito porsi ulteriori dubbi. In realtà, secondo lo storico americano Benjamin Abelow, sono gli Stati Uniti e la NATO a essere i principali responsabili della crisi ucraina.

Se lasciati a loro stessi, i corpi si accartocciano, si deformano, si imbruttiscono, ma grazie al lavoro costante alla disciplina, ai sacrifici è possibile modificare il corso «naturale» degli eventi. Questa ricerca di una perfezione utopica e variamente declinata, esasperata per difetto e per eccesso, è alimentata da canoni estetici imposti dal contesto culturale e dalle specifiche discipline – il body building, la danza, la ginnastica – ma spesso si innesta su un disagio del quale anoressia e vigoressia sono sintomi opposti e complementari.