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A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love and vanishing illusions.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Recalled home from the West Indies, Lieutenant James Merriman is promoted to the rank of Post Captain and given command of the frigate "Lord Stevenage." It is known that the French are amassing an army and a fleet to invade Ireland and join with Irish rebels. If it succeeds, then England will be ringed by enemy countries under the control of Napoleon Bonaparte, and only the navy stands between France and England.

The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.

It is the late summer of 1863 and the third year of the war in North America. In the wake of the defeat at Gettysburg, Robert E. Lee has returned, with his Confederate army, to Virginia. But a further crisis to the west, in the Tennessee theatre of the war, compels the general to detach a part of his army, to journey west to north Georgia in order to reinforce the beleaguered southern forces there.

A Deepening Twilight, the sequel to A Season for Killing, continues the story of Daniel Ryan, an Irish immigrant serving in Robert E. Lee's confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. The novel relates Ryan's experiences in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, and in the trenches around Richmond, during the closing months of the war. As the army and the south sink towards defeat, he, and the remnant of his Georgia company continue the struggle against the odds, experiencing at first-hand how war can reveal the best, as well as the worst, of those on either side.

The third exciting audiobook in Griff Hosker's incredible historical action series - Conquest!

Born to a groom at the elegant manor house Foxden Hall, the Dudley sisters never imagined the impossible choices World War II would force upon them. When London’s bombs destroy her teaching dreams, Bess returns to Foxden Acres as a Land Girl, watching on as the man she’s always loved plans a life with another, until tragedy violently changes everything. In the glittering West End, her sister Margot grasps stardom on the stage, only to be trapped between her ambitions and falling bombs. And in Nazi-occupied France, Claire gambles her life as an undercover agent.

When the call to arms comes, Vance, Ice, Mitch, and Bishop answer with unwavering resolve. These highly trained operatives have gone rogue, forming PRIMAL, a global vigilante unit dedicated to protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty in the name of justice. Their first target: a wealthy jihadist supporter plotting to eradicate Western influence in the UAE. With cutting-edge tactics and unwavering resolve, they challenge his murderous ambitions head-on. As their success grows, so does their list of targets, from Russian mobsters to corrupt politicians.

Commander Derek Lloyd, the Senior Medical Officer of the USS Carl Vinson is finally getting to take a vacation with the woman he hopes to spend the rest of his life with. Their dream vacation is interrupted by a terrorist event that pulls the former Navy SEAL into an operation to bring those responsible to justice. He becomes much more involved than anyone anticipated, and he and his team become the targets of powerful and ruthless men willing to do anything to keep their secrets from ever seeing the light of day.

A U.S. warship has been sunk without warning. No survivors. No answers. Jack Tate and the Grave Diggers must find out who’s behind it. Their hunt for answers will take them from the dark corridors of the Pentagon to the dangerous barrios of West Africa and to a quarantined island crawling with the undead.

Can a secret weapon change the course of war and history? Himmler is convinced of this, so much that he commissions the best expert in ancient history to search for a relic that originates in the mists of time. Does it exist or is it just an ancient legend? The adventurous search in burning Europe leads the archaeologist to go back over history and places, risk his own life, and make unexpected encounters. In the shadows, however, someone tries to protect the precious relic, but a dilemma grips Heinrich von Schuster throughout the investigation: is it right to hand it over to the Third Reich?

When the Government wants you dead, you can run or you can hide. But for Kaine, it's time for the third option. This has gone far enough. Too much has happened, there's too much to lose. He swore a loyalty to those bereaved by the loss of flight BE1555, he's not about to let them down, even if that means starting his own war. It's time to face the enemy.

Роман «Собиратели тишины» Дмитрия Филиппова имеет все шансы стать эталонным текстом складывающегося корпуса новой русской военной литературы, рождённой СВО, которую по аналогии с «лейтенантской» можно назвать «прозой добровольцев». Филиппов уходил на войну сложившимся писателем, а вернётся — классиком. «Собиратели тишины» свидетельствуют о значительных потенциях художника: здесь и продуманная архитектура текста, и логически выстроенная композиция, и гремучая смесь эпоса и репортажа.

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Kulisse eines fiktiven Dritten Weltkriegs: Juli 1985 – die Truppen des Warschauer Pakts rollen über die innerdeutsche Grenze und lösen damit den Dritten Weltkrieg aus. Fortan tobt auf den Schlachtfeldern Europas ein erbitterter Kampf um die Vorherrschaft über den Kontinent. Von den vordersten Frontlinien bis zu den letzten Verteidigungsstellungen: Schlachtfeld Deutschland erzählt die Geschichte mutiger NATO-Soldaten, die sich der unaufhaltsamen sowjetischen Kriegsmaschinerie entgegenstellen.

DIE KREATUREN RUHEN NICHT – ZEIT FÜR DAS S|SQUAD! Wieder einmal hätte es ein Routine-Einsatz werden sollen - eine Gruppe von Archäologen sicher aus der Wüste Gobi zu führen. Aber als unerwartet Regenfälle einsetzen, gerät das S|Squad in Schwierigkeiten …Da ist irgendetwas im Sand, riesig, und zieht unterirdisch seine Bahnen. Es giert nach Wasser ... und nach Menschenfleisch ... Monster. Riesige Kreaturen. Kugeln. Und Flüche ... jede Menge Flüche.

Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia. Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels. But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.

Young and eager to prove himself, Ranger Lieutenant Jim Hollister leads his six-man reconnaissance team on risky missions deep into enemy territory. The special volunteers who make up Long Range Patrols are tasked with setting up ambushes and conducting dangerous night patrols, helicopter insertions behind enemy lines, and fire support in the hottest of fights.

HUR BESEGRAR MAN RYSSLAND UTAN ATT KRIGA? Ett sabotage har avslöjat Sveriges hemliga kärnvapen inför hela världen. Ryssland svarar med att gå in med en militär styrka i finska Lappland för att ta Norden som gisslan. Den stridshärdade operatören Mattias Kassian får leda ett internationellt team på ett hemligt uppdrag för att tvinga fram fred. Deras operationer kommer att ta dem från det brinnande Bakhmut i krigets Ukraina till Tel Aviv i Israel.

Mattias Kassians kamp fortsätter Sverige och Ryssland befinner sig i en väpnad konflikt. För att hitta en fredlig väg ut ur krisen går den svenska elitsoldaten Mattias Kassian med på att hjälpa ryssarna att krossa ett nätverk av internationella narkotikasmugglare. Det är en jakt som kommer att ta honom från Moskva till Afrika och den arabiska halvön. Men hur frivilligt är Mattias samarbete med Ryssland?