Catálogo de libros: Ficción de guerra y combate

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  • Captain James Lockwood
    Mark Bois
    Newly promoted, Captain James Lockwood returns to active service. Following a painful departure from his family, he is to travel to his regiment at Gibraltar with a draft of new recruits, but at the last minute he is diverted to help suppress a slave revolt in the British colony of Guyana. Nearing Guyana, their transport is attacked by a pirate vessel, and in a bloody battle at...
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    16,58 €

  • Steamboat Seasons and Backwater Battles
    Kendall D. Gott / Kendall DGott
    This is the story of a young man with the ambition to crawl his way up in Victorian society by leaving the farm and signing onto a steamboat. After becoming a certified pilot, he is quickly swept up in the war he does not understand that divides the country and threatens his goals. He witnesses the militarization of the steamboat trade and the coming rise of the railroads. When...
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    17,11 €

  • His Most Italian City
    Margaret Walker
    Fascist Italy 1928. Trieste, once the port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, has become Italian. As fascism strives violently to create a pure Italy along its streets, Matteo Brazzi is forced to choose his loyalties with care. When his office is bombed, the police are baffled, but Brazzi knows who committed the crime, and he knows why. Though he is no seaman, he can easily identi...
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    16,73 €

  • Nick Hardeman, Confederate Cavalryman
    Benjamin Hord
    Major Benjamin Hord, CSA wrote this novel sometime between 1865 and 1922 when he died. Since then his book lay unpublished among his family’s records until this year of publication. In it, he develops a fascinating and curious tale of a young cavalryman’s service during the Civil War, mostly in Missouri. It is a rare eyewitness depiction of the battles and skirmishes in which h...
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    35,56 €

  • Where the Sun Rises
    Suzanne Strong
    For most, the war with ISIS plays out on a faceless global stage. For these two best friends, it’s personal…Kurdish Syria, 2014. Karin longs to fight for her freedom. Except she’s forced to stay home while her brother heads into battle and ISIS advances. But when death and destruction arrive at the city gates, Karin shoulders her rifle and prepares to engage.Roza aches for the ...
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    19,67 €

  • Sharpening the Blade
    Frank Rockland
    In 1916 the Canadians’ rough edges were being honed off.First, in February, there is the tragic loss of the Parliament Buildings’ Centre Block by a suspicious fire. Then, in May, Lieutenant-General Alderson’s leaked memo damning the Ross Rifle ignites a political fire- storm. After the Canadian Corps’ disaster at the St. Eloi craters, it doesn’t take long for Major-General Sam ...
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    15,75 €

  • The Maple Conspiracy
    William Begley
    What if Canada had fallen prey to a rearmed Germany in the 1930s? For Evan Macroy, a Royal Canadian Air Force military fighter pilot and intelligence adviser in Toronto, the very real threat of German intrusion catalyzes a mission of espionage, aviation, and international intrigue.The Maple Conspiracy tells the story of squadron leader Macroy who is travelling across the world ...
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    33,22 €

  • War and Music
    Max Evans
    Ty Hale, a young corporal from Lovington, New Mexico, finds himself alone in the middle of a grain field in Normandy after being knocked unconscious by the explosion of a German artillery shell. Stunned from the explosion and overwhelmed by visions of the grandfather who raised him and the simple life of the New Mexico prairie he has left behind, Ty attempts to rejoin his unit ...
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    28,52 €

  • Still Come Home
    Katey Schultz
    When the odds are stacked against you, doing everything right still might not be enough to protect yourself and the ones you love.The three characters in Katey Schultz’s novel are each searching for the best way to be, the best way to live—all the while fighting cultural, societal, and political forces far beyond their control. As their paths intersect over the span of three da...
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    22,04 €

  • Still Come Home
    Katey Schultz
    When the odds are stacked against you, doing everything right still might not be enough to protect yourself and the ones you love.The three characters in Katey Schultz’s novel are each searching for the best way to be, the best way to live—all the while fighting cultural, societal, and political forces far beyond their control. As their paths intersect over the span of three da...
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    13,70 €

  • NORTHERN FURY
    Bart Gauvin / Joel Radunzel
    August 1991. Soviet hardliner Pavel Medvedev knows that only bloodshed can save the USSR from complete collapse. With violence breaking out in the streets of Moscow. few realize that he is piloting the Soviet Union on a collision course with its deadliest enemy yet: NATO. US Marine Colonel Robert Buckner. passed over for a coveted command. takes a post working for Vice Admiral ...
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    32,93 €

  • Vietnam Journal - Book 2
    Don Lomax
    The acclaimed Vietnam Journal series from Don Lomax, nominated for a Harvey Award, is collected and presented as a series of graphic novels. Vietnam Journal is a look at the Vietnam War through the eyes of a war journalist, Scott 'Journal' Neithammer, as he chronicles the lives and events of soldiers on the front line during the Vietnam War. Collects comic book issues 5...
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    14,29 €

  • No Footprints of Existence
    Theodore G Rork
    Liang is orphaned twice before he’s nine years old.His existence is based on begging, then later—when he’s less childlike—on his ability to adapt to the lands he roams. He triumphs, thriving off the fish he taught himself to catch, and avoiding dangers more egregious than wild beast.The Japanese occupation promises slave labor, so he flees to the mountains, where he meets an ab...
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    8,49 €

  • Unchon-ni
    Codis Hampton II
    Mr. Hampton emails of continuous comments on sportswriter’s/reporter’s newspaper articles amused his friend. He also saw Hamp’s raw talent of detailing facts or description of events. So much so that he noted the commentary was better than the articles. Our author took his friends' critique to heart. Already a very opinionated individual, he realized he loved to write comme...
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    22,67 €

  • INVISIBLE WARRIOR and FULL DISCLOSURE
    Tino Randall
    The first Volume, INVISIBLE WARRIOR, is a comprehensive narrative nonfiction based on the vulnerability of the United States defense system. Due to the complexity of my life, and career, this story expands in volume size over the average book, and many chapters were necessary in its development. Making up the chapters within the sphere of this writing were dozens of characters,...
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    30,30 €

  • First Spear
    Brent Nielsen
    First Spear: Pro Denuo presents the saga of Roman Centurion Gaius Crastinus vividly to life. Up close and personal, this often-dark look into the Legions of Rome is seen through the eyes of a brave soldier and man of honor.Gaius “Killer” Crastinus and his fellow veterans, Vorenus, Pullo and Bacculus, have won honor and glory in the service of the SPQR. Now these comrades must i...
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    20,81 €

  • Since You Went Away
    Nan McCarthy
    School’s out but the Mahoney family’s summer is anything but lazy. As they inch closer to the halfway point of Liam’s year-long deployment to Iraq, tensions heighten each time he goes outside the wire, challenging Emilie’s ability to keep it together. Meanwhile Finn and Rory find themselves in some unorthodox situations, providing comic relief for the makeshift family Emilie ha...
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    11,88 €

  • War Under the Mango Tree
    Glenn Voelz
    “Loaded with plenty of whiskey-tango-foxtrot moments, War Under the Mango Tree is a thoroughly entertaining lampoon of the US military machine via a fictionalized mission in an equally fictional Central African country... Not since Catch 22 has a novel this brilliant come along. Five cheeky stars!” —David Edlund, USA Today bestselling author of “Guarding Savage” “. . . a brilli...
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    33,91 €

  • Requiem Guatemala
    Marshall Bennett Connelly
    Fleeing the horrors of civil war that have destroyed her family, Maria Xquic, a diminutive, traditional Mayan woman, seeks refuge in the United States, having suffered the humiliation and degradation common to the experiences of many who have sought relief through flight in hostile lands. Against a sweeping international canvas, novelist Marshall Bennett Connelly addresses the ...
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    22,35 €

  • War Under the Mango Tree
    Glenn Voelz
    “Loaded with plenty of whiskey-tango-foxtrot moments, War Under the Mango Tree is a thoroughly entertaining lampoon of the US military machine via a fictionalized mission in an equally fictional Central African country... Not since Catch 22 has a novel this brilliant come along. Five cheeky stars!” —David Edlund, USA Today bestselling author of “Guarding Savage” “. . . a brilli...
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    22,96 €

  • The Maiden’s War
    Tyler Weaver
    Rise of the Empire!Not too long ago it seemed as though the Western Kingdom had finally won the Thousand Years’ War against the Empire of Masks.They were wrong.Rising like a phoenix after decades of brutal insurgency broke the Royal occupation, the Empire is stronger than ever and hell-bent on revenge.  Now the Emperor has unleashed his forces in a lightning campaign, shatterin...
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    27,81 €

  • The Maiden's War
    Tyler Weaver
    Rise of the Empire!Not too long ago it seemed as though the Western Kingdom had finally won the Thousand Years’ War against the Empire of Masks.They were wrong.Rising like a phoenix after decades of brutal insurgency broke the Royal occupation, the Empire is stronger than ever and hell-bent on revenge.  Now the Emperor has unleashed his forces in a lightning campaign, shatterin...
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    17,30 €

  • A Far Cry From Green Mountain
    Paul J. Barbero / Paul JBarbero
    Based on the true story of Frank Peregoy, A Far Cry From Green Mountain reveals the struggles and triumphs of the only soldier in American history to have earned the nation's two highest awards for valor, The Soldier's Medal and The Congressional Medal of Honor. Frank’s story captures Appalachian life in early Twentieth Century America and opens our eyes to how one pove...
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    15,02 €

  • CAMPAIGN IN BRITAIN 1940-41
    Anthony Genualdi
    This is the story of German General Horst von Halen, as he recalls for us the invasion of Great Britain in 1940. He tells us of the landing at Dover and drive north to London against fierce resistance, and the battles for London and the Midlands, ending in Scotland.He tells us of his promotion to field marshal and, as he drives north, about concern that a female Russian observe...
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    20,16 €

  • Sword Of The Caliphate
    Clay Martin
    What would a mad mullah actually do with a weapon of mass destruction? Simple. He would use it. Derek Martell is in a dead end career, manning a fuel point in Eastern Iraq. It’s a far fall from a life of fortune and glory, but he’s lucky to have any job at all. Until he wakes up after a sand storm, to find Doomsday is at hand. The apocalypse has started, and his invite was late...
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    12,03 €

  • A Son at the Front
    Edith Wharton
    2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition.  Largely criticized or ignored by a war-weary public when it was originally published in 1922, A Son at the Front is an extraordinarily poignant novel chronicling the effects of WWI on painter John Campton and his only child, George.  Wharton's antiwar masterpiece, now once again available, probes the devastation of World War I on the home fron...
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    15,46 €

  • The Executioner’s Son
    Robert E Townsend
    The Executioner's Son, the third book in a five-book series, The Long War, is set against a background of ruse and stratagem between the Soviet Union and the United States. The novel opens in 1953 in Suzdal, Russia's medieval religious center and ancient capital, now a GULAG. Its former monasteries, nunneries, and fortresses are NKVD prisons. Screams punctuate the night...
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    13,00 €

  • The Stars and Their Places
    Vince Guerra
    Four years after a heroic rescue mission in Afghanistan, former Pararescueman Aiden McCoy continues to fight for the lives of veterans – this time at home, as they struggle with the physical and psychological effects of war.Meanwhile in Iraq, Aiden’s lifelong friend Jake Lyons impresses everyone with his combat rescue skills. As Jake’s reputation grows, so does his exposure to ...
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    18,62 €

  • The Stars and Their Places
    Vince Guerra
    Four years after a heroic rescue mission in Afghanistan, former Pararescueman Aiden McCoy continues to fight for the lives of veterans – this time at home, as they struggle with the physical and psychological effects of war.Meanwhile in Iraq, Aiden’s lifelong friend Jake Lyons impresses everyone with his combat rescue skills. As Jake’s reputation grows, so does his exposure to ...
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    30,06 €

  • The Soldier and The Bear
    Patricia DeGrace
    Mental illness and trauma often lead good people down a very dark road, but there is light at the end of the tunnel-and no, it's not a train headed toward you.The story of The Soldier and the Bear is about one man's battle with post-traumatic stress disorder and major depressive disorder and his journey back to hope and believing life is worth living again. With his new...
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    9,99 €