Risultati per "Geneva Lee" in Di guerra e militare

I Lee Childs forbløffende thriller bemærker den tidligere militærpolitimand Jack Reacher mere end de fleste – og bliver netop af den grund kastet ud i en farlig konfliktsituation, der er tæt på at eksplodere mellem hænderne på ham. For den eneste måde at finde frem til sandheden på – og redde to uskyldige menneskers liv – er ved at gøre det på den hårde måde. Som også er Reachers foretrukne.

To afsides byer i Colorado: Hope og Despair. Imellem dem tyve kilometer øde landevej. Jack Reacher vender aldrig om. Det ligger ikke i hans natur. Han skal bare have en kop kaffe. I stedet får han store problemer. I Lee Childs medrivende nye roman går Reacher - en mand uden frygt, uden illusioner, og med intet at tabe - i krig mod en by, der ikke blot vil af med ham, men også se ham død. Det var ikke ligefrem den velkomst, Reacher havde forventet. Han var bare på gennemrejse og passede sig selv.

Seks skud. Fem døde. En by i det centrale USA gribes af rædsel. Men blot få timer senere har politiet opklaret sagen. Med en enkelt undtagelse. Den anklagede hævder selv, at man har fanget den forkerte. Derefter beder han om at få hentet Jack Reacher. Og ganske rigtigt, den tidligere efterforsker i militærpolitiet er på vej fra sin helt særlige verden - uden telefon, uden fast adresse og uden forpligtelser. I Lee Childs overrumplende nye thriller kommer Reachers ankomst til at ændre alt ved en sag, der viser sig at være helt anderledes end først antaget.

As the Nazis come to power in Germany, a violent argument over a secret key causes young Johann to lose the only parent he has left. Worse, it is his half-brother, Dieter, who commits this horrific act of betrayal. Though their fragile family bonds are irrevocably destroyed, the brothers’ paths are destined to cross again. Years later, in 1945, Hitler’s army is on the verge of defeat as Soviet forces enter Germany. Hiding in plain sight, Johann works to save German lives, secretly despising the Führer to whom Dieter has sworn his allegiance.

In Aleppo, irrepressible Sawsan flirts with militias, the ruling party, and finally religion, seeking but never finding salvation. She and her siblings and mother are slowly choked in violence and decay, as their lives are plundered by a brutal regime. Set between the 1960s and 2000s, No Knives in the Kitchens of This City unravels the systems of fear and control under Assad. With eloquence and startling honesty, it speaks of the persecution of a whole society.

The incidents of the book are real ones, drawn in part from the writer's personal experiences and observations as a soldier of the Union during that war. He is also indebted to many comrades for reminiscences of battle and prison life. The perilous escape of Jed and Dick, from Andersonville down the Flint and Apalachicola Rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico, is in substance the narrative of a comrade whom the writer knew at Andersonville, and afterwards met when the war had closed. The descriptions of the prison are especially truthful, for in them the author briefly tells what he saw.

1776. A fleet of British transport ships are looming off Staten Island, while the remnants of General George Washington's army huddle behind hastily constructed fortifications on Brooklyn Heights. There, Washington is preparing for the final destruction of the Continental army. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb receives a monumental order – to transport to France the most dangerous secret weapon in the country's arsenal: scientist and philosopher Benjamin Franklin. Biddlecomb's seemingly simple mission to deliver Franklin to the court of Louis XVI is just the first volley in a grand scheme.

1775: General George Washington has discovered his store of gunpowder has dwindled to next to nothing. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is despatched to Bermuda to capture the British gunpowder known to be there. But the plan is a trap, hatched by a traitor among the Patriots. Washington's aide-de-camp Major Edward Fitzgerald is tasked with hunting the traitor down; Biddlecomb meanwhile must work to free his ship and his men and capture the gunpowder so vital in the fight for freedom. Will Biddlecomb and Fitzgerald overcome their common enemy – the greatest military power on Earth?

Jack Reacher betritt den Stützpunkt seiner ehemaligen Einheit bei der Militärpolizei und ahnt nicht, was ihm bevorsteht. Er ist nach Virginia gereist, um seine Nachfolgerin Major Susan Turner kennenzulernen, doch wenig später wird klar, was für ein großer Fehler das war. Denn wie jeder ehemalige Soldat der USA ist Reacher Reservist. Prompt erhält er seinen Einberufungsbefehl und wird außerdem des Mordes angeklagt und verhaftet. Reacher gelingt die Flucht aus dem Gefängnis, doch seine wichtigste Frage bleibt zunächst ungeklärt: Wer versucht ihn auf diese Weise kaltzustellen?

Unversöhnlich, unerbittlich, unschlagbar: Jack Reacher, der eigenwilligste Ermittler der amerikanischen Thrillerliteratur. Jack Reacher betritt den Stützpunkt seiner ehemaligen Einheit bei der Militärpolizei und ahnt nicht, was ihm bevorsteht. Er ist nach Virginia gereist, um seine Nachfolgerin Major Susan Turner kennenzulernen, doch wenig später wird klar, was für ein großer Fehler das war. Denn wie jeder ehemalige Soldat der USA ist Reacher Reservist. Prompt erhält er seinen Einberufungsbefehl und wird außerdem des Mordes angeklagt und verhaftet.

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.

1775. The American War of Independence is starting in earnest and Captain – and smuggler – Isaac Biddlecomb, pursued by HMS Rose, sacrifices his ship, the Judea, rather than surrender to the British. Forced to go on the run, and to disguise himself as a lowly ship's mate on a brig bound for Jamaica, he finds himself captured by the enemy. Can he use his wits to survive a life of servitude under the deranged captain and sadistic crew of the HMS Icarus...?