War & Military

Jack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands War thriller Exocet.

They double-crossed him and left him for dead. Now they're going to wish they made sure ... Solomon Church is a ghost. An ex-SAS trooper living in self-imposed exile, his fragile existence relies on one thing: that everyone thinks he's dead. Ten years ago, a mission to take out a tyrannical warlord in the DRC went sideways and his own brothers-in-arms turned on him. Now, the past has come calling, and the events that transpired in the African town of Maroua are echoing all the way to number 10 Downing Street.

883AD, Scandinavia. Harald Fairhair is King of Norway, and Bjorn Ironside King of Sweden. To the west, the Crippled King of Mann builds an army in thrall to Loki. He threatens to destroy the Viking world and set Midgard on the road to the Ragnarök, the end of days.

A year or so before the beginning of World War I, a young woman named Lisa la Giuffria is seduced by a white magician, Cyril Grey, and persuaded into helping him in a magical battle with a black magician and his black lodge. Grey is attempting to raise the level of his force by impregnating the girl with the soul of an ethereal being — the moonchild. To achieve this, she will have to be kept in a secluded environment, and many preparatory magical rituals will be carried out. The black magician Douglas is bent on destroying Grey’s plan.

Ana Mirante saw the brutality of the SNC first hand during the Long Night. Never again. Months later, Mirante and her crew arrive on the planet Mar Nosso, disguised as refugees. Their targets: the Brigadors who wrecked their homeworld and cashed out to live a life of SNC-sponsored luxury… Their callsign: Pilgrim. Meanwhile off-world, Zhe, a pariah commando of spacer Clade Vocc, sits restless between missions while his former blood-ally Aline Vocc entertains corpos on Mar Nosso as a Brigador celebrity.

Alex Coleman had a chance to end World War III before it started. Instead, he lost an unwinnable battle. Now, he finally has command of his own submarine, but USS Jimmy Carter is old enough to drink, his crew is a few beers short of a six pack, and no one—particularly the admiral who hates him—expects him to make a difference.

Hauptmann Tanja Storm glaubte, ihr gefährliches Leben hinter sich gelassen zu haben. Als Ausbilderin an der Offiziersschule führt sie einen ruhigen Alltag, der ihr genügend Kraft gibt, um ihrem Sohn William bei den täglichen Herausforderungen im Rollstuhl zu helfen. Doch das Schicksal hat andere Pläne. Ein verzweifelter Hilferuf zieht Tanja in eine lebensgefährliche Mission im bürgerkriegsgeplagten Mali. Ihr enger Freund Albert wurde von einer brutalen Rebellengruppe entführt.

Jack Powers has it all figured out. Born in the gritty shadows of Alphabet City, he clawed his way from nothing to the ivy-covered halls of Wharton Business School. With Wall Street in his sights, he’s poised to claim everything he’s fought for—until the CIA makes him an offer he can’t refuse. Jack’s new mission? Weaponize the one force more dangerous than missiles, guns, or bombs: inflation.

Though Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower is Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord, the invasion of France, he doesn’t have absolute power over the Allied forces. He fights with the Bomber Barons and Prime Minister Winston Churchill for control of the Allied heavy bombers to support the invasion. As D-Day approaches, Mother Nature interferes, and Eisenhower must decide whether to go forward, risking catastrophic defeat in stormy seas. After breaching Hitler’s Atlantic Wall, Eisenhower’s dueling prima donna generals Montgomery and Patton cause him unending headaches.

A prequel to the bestselling Jon Hunt series based on the actual war time experiences of one man. It’s 1939 and war with Germany is inevitable. Already qualified as a pilot, John Hunt can see the writing on the wall and decides to join the Royal Naval Air Service. He goes through the training system but at the end is asked to volunteer for service with the RAF who are desperately short of pilots as the Battle of Britain ramps up. At the same time Heather, his fiancé, joins the Air Transport Auxiliary and also qualifies as a war time pilot.

The Navy would not allow this book to be printed unless certain changes were made and I had to call it a work of fiction. The time is 1960; the setting; the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of the so called Cold War. that was getting even worst in its intensity. It follows the adventures of a crew that flew on board the Navy's first nuclear bomber the P2V-7 Neptune Patrol Bomber. It gives you, the listener, a behind the scenes look at the anti-submarine intelligence gathering, surveillance, and exercises from the perspective of one crew.

Dies ist meine Geschichte, die Geschichte einer Frau im Krieg. Spätsommer 1939. Elke, eine junge deutsche Frau, hat alles: ein sicheres Zuhause und eine wunderbare Familie, ihren liebenden Ehemann Ulrich und ihren siebenjährigen Sohn Klaus, der sorglos am Strand spielt. Doch die Ruhe wird durch den ausbrechenden Krieg ersetzt, der die ganze Familie mitreißt und ihr Leben für immer verändert. Nachdem ihr Mann zur deutschen Wehrmacht eingezogen wird, bleibt Elke allein zurück, um den kleinen Familienhof zu führen.

Tras perderlo todo en un doloroso divorcio, decide regresar al lugar donde creció, la casa de su bisabuela Scarlett Stanton, una famosa escritora que murió dejando una novela inconclusa. Noah Harrison, es el atractivo y arrogante autor de bestsellers que la editorial designó para terminar el manuscrito. Aunque a ella no le entusiasma la idea, ahora él y Georgia están obligados a trabajar juntos para encontrar el mejor final de la obra.

In the not-so-distant future, life as we know it, will disappear. In a few decades, humans will be responsible for the decimation of most of the Earth’s natural resources. Greed and entitlement plague humanity and devastate the natural evolution of the Earth. The hope for the future is locked in the past! An average Joe holds the key. The problem is, he has no memory... How can he unlock the secrets from the past to save the world from the Black Death and mindless drones? Will he be the hero everyone hopes he can be?

In the near future, Vanguard Solutions, a tech giant veiled in secrecy, creates an AI network capable of controlling every facet of modern life—from military drones to global financial systems. When one of its nodes, K-57, goes rogue, a NATO task force sends Jack Torrance’s elite team to Siberia to neutralize the threat. But what begins as a single mission spirals into a global chase. The team discovers K-57 was just the start. Vanguard’s true plan—a network of AI-controlled nodes designed to eliminate human error—threatens to destabilize the world.

Can love find a place in the hearts of two veteran intelligence officers? In 1986, a veteran CIA officer is dispatched to Central America as part of America's clandestine support for the Contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's socialist president, Daniel Ortega, and his Sandinista government.

Ernest ma zasady, jest pewny tego, co chce osiągnąć w życiu. Zawsze marzył o karierze. Udało mu się zdobyć wykształcenie i pozycję w wojsku, a nawet na dziesięć lat zapomnieć o rodzinnym piekle… Nie jest jednak w stanie wyrzucić z głowy tych, których kocha. Ich ból i doświadczenia na zawsze pozostaną we wspomnieniach i nigdy nie przestaną dręczyć, jeśli nie odkryje prawdziwej przyczyny cierpienia swoich bliskich.

El nuevo thriller histórico de uno de los autores de Carmen Mola Almería, 1952. Un hombre huye despavorido de unos jóvenes que lo acosan con perros adiestrados para matar. Su cadáver es abandonado, brutalmente mutilado, en una playa de la idílica Mojácar. Para resolver el crimen, la Guardia Civil envía al joven cabo Javier Bermejo a una misión que parece superarlo. ¿Quién es ese hombre?

It is 1972 and Alicia Talbot, a Vietnam war widow with a two-year-old son, has traveled to the poor, mostly illiterate nation of Botswana to teach English. At the nearby border, civil war roils Rhodesia. Alicia’s remote school harbors a saboteur, someone runs guns to Rhodesian guerrillas, and students sense the rising tension. Alicia falls for a new teacher, Jake Hunter, but just when romance seems possible, the sunbaked Kalahari Desert and guerrilla warfare threaten all she loves.

Freuen Sie sich auf den 5. Band der brachialen Military Science-Fiction-Serie über einen anderen 2. Weltkrieg jetzt als rundum überarbeitete Neuausgabe! Nie war Alternativweltgeschichte aus Deutschland besser! Synopsis: Die Invasion Nordfrankreichs ist abgeschlagen, doch die Regierung unter Kanzler Halder hat im Inneren des Reiches nach wie vor Feinde. Während sich die Wehrmacht auf den entscheidenden Schlag gegen die Sowjetunion vorbereitet, tritt der gefährlichste Mann der Opposition in Aktion – der von NS-Widerständlern aus dem Gefängnis befreite frühere "Reichsführer SS“ Heinrich Himmler.

Ted Bronsky is an ex-marine, and ex-husband and will soon become an ex-employee if he doesn't get on board his sleazy boss's new plan. He is a quiet, patient man who takes life's punches on the chin and never returns them until dead women begin turning up downstream of his favorite running spot. When his loved ones are threatened by the ghosts of his past, he turns into someone he doesn't recognize. Despite struggling with PTSD and migraines from his last deployment in Afghanistan, he manages to uncover the filthy politics at play in the cut-throat world of upper-echelon military advancement.

Mexico, 1936: Hidden gold, shotguns, Nazis, a Mexican posse, and two drifters heading into hell.

Appena vieni a sapere chi ha potuto fare del male ad Ariane, o chi la conosceva meglio degli altri, appena hai un nome... devi dirmelo. Hai la mia parola di ex prigioniero: ti aiuterò a evadere. È il 1945, è quasi estate, quasi tempo di pace. La Francia del sud è stata liberata ma le ferite della guerra sono ancora aperte e il terreno è pieno di insidie: sotto la sabbia della Costa Azzurra, milioni di mine inesplose intrappolano la riviera.

In a world ravaged by war and a devastating virus that kills on your 30th birthday, humanity's last hope soars through the skies aboard massive airships. The Revenant, commanded by the respected Captain Jim Thackleford, becomes a sanctuary for survivors fleeing the mysterious Trench—cybernetically enhanced beings bent on humanity's extinction.

Chimps, nukes, what could go wrong? It seemed like a good idea at the time: train chimpanzees to fly planes to deliver nuclear bombs. We’d just won the biggest war the world had ever seen, so why not? The project was going really well, right up to the moment that it wasn’t. In June of 1947, a mysterious aircraft crashed on a ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico, and over the years, many have speculated about what (and who) it might have been. But now, now you’ll learn the truth. Maybe.