Titoli in Di guerra e militare

Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, arrives in the Dutch East Indies to find himself appointed to the command of the fastest and best-armed frigate in the Navy. He and his friend Stephen Maturin take passage for England in a despatch vessel. But the War of 1812 breaks out while they are en route. Bloody actions precipitate them both into new and unexpected scenes where Stephen's past activities as a secret agent return on him with a vengeance.

Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O’Brian’s now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels, regarded by many as the greatest series of historical novels ever written. It establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship’s surgeon and an intelligence agent. It displays the qualities which have put O’Brian far ahead of any of his competitors.

In un inverno del XXI secolo, quattrocentocinquantamila abitanti di una moderna città europea scoprono che la guerra esiste anche fuori dalle serie di Netflix e assomiglia ancora a quelle del Medioevo. Una violenza inattesa e spietata taglia viveri, acqua, luce, riscaldamento, Internet, telefonini e, ovviamente, uccide. C’è chi scappa, chi resta, chi combatte e chi muore, ma tutti vengono cambiati, nel profondo e per sempre. È il romanzo vero di Mariupol, la città simbolo della resistenza ucraina, raccontato da chi l’ha vissuto.

Mourning the death of his father and gravely injured at the hands of the English, Jamie Fraser finds himself running with a band of mercenaries in the French countryside, where he reconnects with his old friend, Ian Murray. Both are nursing wounds, both have good reason to stay out of Scotland, and both are still virgins despite several opportunities to remedy that deplorable situation with ladies of easy virtue.

1915: l'Italia entra nella Grande Guerra. C'è la mobilitazione generale e Giuseppe, un contadino emiliano di quarant'anni, con moglie e tre figli, viene richiamato alle armi e spedito in trincea. Il giorno prima del suo arrivo, la sua compagnia si è resa colpevole di un “atto di codardia": i fanti, usciti per l'ennesimo assalto, hanno voltato le spalle al nemico e sono rientrati nei rifugi, approfittandodel fatto che gli austriaci hanno eliminato il plotone dei carabinieri incaricati di sparare su chi ripiegava.

Almeno un battaglione di carri lanciafiamme gira su se stesso come una mandria di cinghiali impazziti. Lunghe lingue ardenti di fiamme sbuffano dalle torrette e bruciano tutto ciò che incontrano. Dalla prigione GPU escono frotte di prigionieri in una nube rossa. È come se i russi avessero capito che stanno pensando alla fuga e volessero evitarla con un impenetrabile muro di fuoco, che si alza fino a dove arriva la vista. Sven Hassel fu reclutato in una compagnia di disciplina come soldato semplice dell’esercito tedesco.

'Ken Follett can't write a bad book, and Never is his best' – Stephen King Expertly researched and visionary in scale, international no. 1 bestseller Ken Follett’s Never is more than a thriller. It imagines a World War Three scenario we all hope never comes true, one which will keep you...

Il sogno di gloria di Caterina la Grande. La musica di Mozart e Cimarosa. La storia d’Europa è una profezia scritta col sangue. Vienna, 1792. Sull’Europa illuminata dalle idee della rivoluzione francese si allunga l’ombra di una donna diabolica, sublime e dal carisma irresistibile: Caterina II di Russia, la potente zarina che insieme all’imperatore Giuseppe II d’Austria sogna di riportare alla luce l’Impero romano d’Oriente.

In a transformed mid-19th-century America dominated by plantation owners and kept in line by Southern military forces, a mild-mannered academic from Maine, Professor Joshua Chamberlain, stands accused of crimes against the nation. In court alongside him is Abraham Lincoln, whose fiery rhetoric brands him a "threat to the security of the United States of America". Convicted, Chamberlain is sentenced to 40 years hard labor, while Lincoln's fate is indefinite detention at Fortress Monroe.

As far from explored space as any human has ever been, Geary and the Alliance fleet are on their own, protecting a diplomatic mission in territory belonging to an alien species with still-unknown motives. His already complex and dangerous mission is further imperiled by deadly challenges from other human factions seeking to harm or exploit the aliens. When another alien species whose technology is far more advanced than humanity’s arrives, the stakes are raised to the highest possible level.

Bulgakov’s first full-length novel is set in the harsh and chaotic winter of 1918-19, as power struggles start to play out with brutal consequences. Echoing Tolstoy’s approach in War and Peace, Bulgakov contrasts the concerns of domestic life with the wide-ranging and destructive historical events; but where Tolstoy’s structure is clear, Bulgakov interweaves narrative, details of military action, snatches of songs, dreams, dialogue and fragments of thought to capture this swirl of confusion on every level.

An impossible mission in wartime Italy: the next explosive bestseller from Damien Lewis. In the hard-fought winter of 1944 the Allies advanced northwards through Italy, but stalled on the fearsome mountainous defences of the Gothic Line. Two men were parachuted in, in an effort to break the...

De la autora de Circe, una epopeya inolvidable Grecia en la era de los héroes. Patroclo, un príncipe joven y torpe, ha sido exiliado al reino de Ftía, donde vive a la sombra del rey Peleo y su hijo divino, Aquiles. Aquiles, el mejor de los griegos, es todo lo que no es Patroclo: fuerte, apuesto, hijo de una diosa. 

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?)...

Alla fine del ventesimo secolo, in un mondo orfano della Guerra Fredda, l'ex colonnello dell'Armata Rossa Sergej Orlov, eroe dell'Afghanistan, si è reinventato lavorando come mercenario per una delle tante società di sicurezza privata sorte in Russia dopo il crollo dell'Urss. Un nuovo contratto porta Orlov nell'Iraq ancora governato da Saddam Hussein, insieme al compagno Peter Jennings, un ufficiale inglese passato ai sovietici alla fine degli anni Settanta.

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if...

World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War is a new version of Max Brooks' episodic zombie novel. The abridged versions of the original stories are now joined with new, unabridged recordings of the episodes that were not included in the original...

As Napoleon's tenacious infantry rampages across Europe and his armada lies in wait for Nelson's smaller fleet, the war does not rage on land and water alone. Squadrons of aviators swarm the skies - a deadly shield for the cumbersome canon-firing vessels. Raining fire and acid upon their enemies, they engage in a swift, violent combat with flying tooth and claw...for these aviators ride dragons.

Four thousand years ago, three brothers grow up in a land that is now Britain. One becomes a warrior, ruthless in his pursuit of gold and power. One is a mystic who sees visions of the future and hears the gods speak to him. Between them stands Sagan, the gentle brother who will dedicate his life to building a temple he hopes will bring health and peace to the land.

Servendosi del monologo interiore, tecnica narrativa ai tempi ancora agli albori nel panorama della letteratura tedesca, Arthur Schnitzler delinea la figura del sottotenente Gustl e ne mette a nudo le debolezze e la piccolezza di carattere. Alla sua pubblicazione nel 1900 sul giornale Neuen Freien Presse, la novella suscitò non poco scalpore per via della sua forte critica al codice d'onore e al carattere fortemente antisemita della gerarchia dell'esercito asburgico, causando la rimozione dell'autore dal grado di ufficiale e alla sua identificazione come "nemico di stato".