Catálogo de libros: Ficción de guerra y combate

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  • All for the Cause
    Gail Kittleson
    The news was grim in May 1942. The Philippines had fallen to the Imperial Japanese Army. Rommel is on the move in Northern Africa. The Russian Army is pushed back toward Stalingrad. In the sweltering jungles of Corregidor, PFC Stan Ford battles illness and injury as he and his comrades escape and evade a tenacious enemy. And in the Heartland, women mourn the loss of husbands, s...
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    17,82 €

  • So Others May Live
    Lee Hutch
    In the space of a single night, four lives collide as Berlin staggers under the weight of British bombsMick, a Lancaster pilot, proposed to Grace on his last leave but one more mission stands in between him and the end of his tour. Grace harbors a secret, one which she fears might change the nature of their relationship forever. Unsure of how he will respond, she has decided to...
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    21,27 €

  • So Others May Live
    Lee Hutch
    In the space of a single night, four lives collide as Berlin staggers under the weight of British bombsMick, a Lancaster pilot, proposed to Grace on his last leave but one more mission stands in between him and the end of his tour. Grace harbors a secret, one which she fears might change the nature of their relationship forever. Unsure of how he will respond, she has decided to...
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    16,12 €

  • Creed of Vengeance
    Aubrey Dasher
    Pedophile Catholic priests have been luring and raping young victims with impunity for two thousand years. How and why? What punishment should a pedophile Catholic priest receive if caught raping your child? The novel Creed of Vengeance answers these questions and many more as it details the events following the sexual abuse of a young Louisiana boy, Remy Garceau.A group of Caj...
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    18,89 €

  • The Tree
    Lars D. H. Hedbor / Lars DHHedbor
    Planting the Tree of LibertyAbe is haunted by the sudden loss of both of his parents. Left to manage a New-Hampshire land grant and its troublesome Royal Navy mast trees, with only his eccentric aunt to guide him, he finds comfort in a new friendship with Betty, a decidedly odd neighbor. Defying the Royal Governor’s crackdowns and his aunt’s commands, Abe makes choices that put...
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    16,44 €

  • Pretty Much True
    Kristen Tsetsi
    When Jake deploys in 2003 to fly Apache helicopters in Iraq, Mia, a former adjunct English professor and Jake's fiance, passes the time working as a cab driver with an ear constantly on the news for updates from talking TV heads hungry for soldier tragedies (great for ratings!). Numbed by the fear that she'll never see Jake alive again, Mia does her best to limit her en...
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    9,94 €

  • Saga of a Lesser War
    Emmett Slake
    Saga of a Lesser War is an intense account of the early stages of the Korea War candidly presented without pretense or heroic embellishment. The novel provides a unique fictional journey that traces the lives of two young American soldiers, who from a common beginning diverge to their separate fates: one heroic and the other treasonous. Involved in the course of action is a div...
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    13,18 €

  • How the Steel Was Tempered
    J.T. Marsh / Nikolai Ostrovsky
    A classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai Ostrovsky's experiences in fighting for the Bolsheviks during the Civil War and his difficulty in overcoming crippling injuries after the war ended. Centering on a young man named Pavel Korchagin, How the Steel Was Tempered follows his journ...
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    25,10 €

  • Napoleon's Blackguards
    Stephen McGarry
    Spain 1808. A remarkable debut novel, Napoleon’s Blackguards introduces Captain James Ryan - brutally courageous, but haunted by the horrors of war - wanted by the British for his part in the 1798 Irish Rebellion, he escapes to France and joins Napoleon’s Irish Legion. The Irish unit’s reputation as the most hard-fighting and ill-disciplined unit in the French Army has been har...
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    16,63 €

  • How the Steel Was Tempered
    J.T. Marsh / Nikolai Ostrovsky
    A classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai Ostrovsky's experiences in fighting for the Bolsheviks during the Civil War and his difficulty in overcoming crippling injuries after the war ended. Centering on a young man named Pavel Korchagin, How the Steel Was Tempered follows his journ...
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    25,38 €

  • And Throw Away the Skins
    Scott Archer Jones
    Bec Robertson is starting over. She's broke, recovering from breast cancer, and lives in a rundown cabin in northern New Mexico. Her husband is deployed in Afghanistan as a chaplain, and can't stand to touch her. The people she meets, her villagers, are batty if not wacko, and her hawk Amelia can't keep up with the mice. She lives next door to a dubious veterans'...
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    14,73 €

  • Winds of Fédon
    Dunbar Campbell
    Inspired by true events - a slave rebellion led by a slave owner In a time and place like no other. With people like no other.A British island with a French population-whenBritish and French hated each other. African slaves and white owners-whenblacks and whites hated each other. Brown slave-owners-whenblacks distrusted them and whites hated them. A perfect storm in an imperfec...
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    34,20 €

  • Uma Invasão Sem Precedentes
    Jack London / Philipe Pharo da Costa / ContraatircsE Edições
    Em 1910, Jack London, publicava este conto baseado na primeira década do século XX, num imaginário de um novo método de guerra que mais tarde viria a surgir, ainda que sem as dimensões que London descreveu através desta sua ficção científica especulativa com base histórica da época. Depois da Guerra Rússia-Japão, o Japão entra em conflito com a China tentando ocupá-la, London d...
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    10,07 €

  • Crisis in the Congo
    Anthony C. Fabiano / Anthony CFabiano
    A New CIA operative, Tom Russell, continues his adventures in Africa. First introduced in Madness in Liberia... when the United States needs a tough man to count on in Africa, they send in a Marine-Russell. One of the most tragic stories in the history of Africa unfolded in the dark abyss of the Congo. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) could not escape widespread and u...
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    18,34 €

  • Sinfonia da Estrela Solidão
    JB Castro Oliveira F.
    O que é Estrela Solidão?Novíssima, Quatorze anos de paz espontânea...Após enfrentar autoridade rancorosa e tirânica por socorrer adolescente misterioso, uma família enveredará pelo desconhecido numa aventura repleta de ipupiaras, capelobos e outras tantas criaturas fantásticas. Logo, eles descobrirão que não só suas vidas dependem dessa jornada, mas o futuro de toda a humanidad...
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    15,81 €

  • Forgotten
    Marc Liebman
    The Forgotten are six Americans who did not come home at the end of the Vietnam War.  Kept hidden in a remote camp in the jungle near the Laotian/Vietnamese border, their captor – a People’s Army of Vietnam lieutenant colonel - has them converting raw opium into morphine base.  His goal: ransom them back to the Americans for millions years after the war ended. Before she marrie...
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    18,63 €

  • U.S. Marine Close Combat Fighting Handbook
    United States Marine Corps. / US Army
    There are currently more than 200,000 active-duty U.S. Marines and another 40,000 in the reserves. These Marines depend on the skills and techniques taught in this concise manual—and now you can, too! This fully illustrated guide features the LINE (linear in-fighting neural-override engagement) system, which is designed to be learned and memorized through repetition. Once the t...
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    10,52 €

  • The United States of Americans
    jmax young
    Officer Eric Ruiz responded to the frantic call from the campground on his reservation. As a Native American policeman, he was used to calls regarding typical reservation crime, theft, brawling, as well as domestic and foreign violence, mostly fueled by alcohol. But this call started the metamorphosis that would transform Officer Ruiz completely to his real identity, Swift Deer...
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    12,74 €

  • The United States of Americans
    jmax young
    Officer Eric Ruiz responded to the frantic call from the campground on his reservation. As a Native American policeman, he was used to calls regarding typical reservation crime, theft, brawling, as well as domestic and foreign violence, mostly fueled by alcohol. But this call started the metamorphosis that would transform Officer Ruiz completely to his real identity, Swift Deer...
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    19,84 €

  • Three Military SF Novellas
    Kevin J. Anderson
    What if you were trapped on an alien battlefield with an enemy soldier as your only companion—and both armies are hunting you down to kill you?What if you were designated as cannon fodder fighting against a bloodthirsty alien invasion, assigned to die just so an incompetent commanding officer walks away unscathed? What if you were born and bred to be a heartless, deadly soldier...
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    10,82 €

  • Three Military SF Novellas
    Kevin J. Anderson
    What if you were trapped on an alien battlefield with an enemy soldier as your only companion—and both armies are hunting you down to kill you?What if you were designated as cannon fodder fighting against a bloodthirsty alien invasion, assigned to die just so an incompetent commanding officer walks away unscathed? What if you were born and bred to be a heartless, deadly soldier...
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    16,52 €

  • General Meade
    Robert Kofman
    As the Civil War rages on, President Lincoln desperately seeks a commander to defeat the seemingly invincible Confederate general, Robert E. Lee, whose army has invaded Pennsylvania. Lincoln turns to the Old Snapping Turtle, General George Meade—a courageous man with remarkable integrity and a fiery temper—to save the Union during its greatest time of need. Just three days late...
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    14,76 €

  • Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece
    Friedrich Hölderlin / Howard Gaskill
    Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes...
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    28,93 €

  • Hyperion, or the Hermit in Greece
    Friedrich Hölderlin / Howard Gaskill
    Friedrich Hölderlin’s only novel, Hyperion (1797–99), is a fictional epistolary autobiography that juxtaposes narration with critical reflection. Returning to Greece after German exile, following his part in the abortive uprising against the occupying Turks (1770), and his failure as both a lover and a revolutionary, Hyperion assumes a hermitic existence, during which he writes...
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    45,86 €

  • Sunshine
    Kim Kelly
    A tale of longing, loss and growing love under the bright Australian sun.It’s 1921 and the Great War has left in its wake untold tragedy, not only in lives lost, but in the guilt of survivors, the deep-set scars of old wounds and the sting of redoubled bigotries.In the tiny hamlet of Sunshine, on the far-flung desert’s edge, three very different ex-servicemen – Jack Bell, an Ab...
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    14,11 €

  • A Place Called Home
    Jessica Scott
    "Scott displays a deft touch with her main and supporting characters, and a realistic, moving development of Reza and Emily's romance. Readers will ache, cheer, and worry in all the right places." ~Publishers Weekly (starred review)Welcome home to the great place, the home of America’s Army, where the men are strong and the women are tough enough to love them.There’s no cry...
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    18,19 €

  • Vietnam Blues
    D. R. Van Wye
    In the final years of the Vietnam War, as the United States cuts troop strength, American military advisors and their allies face Viet Cong spies and guerilla fighters building up forces for the massive Easter Offensive. Even while engaged in combat in the difficult terrain of the Mekong Delta, the adversaries struggle with doubts, fears, loss and despair as grim events unfold ...
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    10,37 €

  • The King of Dunkirk
    Dominic Fielder
    In the war of the First Coalition, friend and foe know one simple truth: trust your ally at your own peril. February 1793. Private Sebastian Krombach has joined the army to escape the boredom of life in his father’s fishing fleet. Captain Werner Brandt yearns to leave his post and retire into civilised society and Lieutenant Erich von Bomm wants nothing more than to survive his...
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    16,04 €

  • To So Few - Deflection
    Cap Parlier
    Deflection is the seventh book of Cap Parlier’s epic To So Few series of historical novels.  Accomplished American volunteer fighter pilot RAF Flying Officer Brian Drummond and his brethren of No.71 ‘Eagle’ Squadron finally overcome their frustration with being a show squadron and fly their first combat missions into German occupied France.  The improving spring weather of 1941...
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    15,27 €

  • Ride Into the Sun
    Patric Verrone
    The heroic story of a teenager who took on one of the world’s greatest generals.For his entire life, the Roman Empire had been at war. And now the shrewd African general Hannibal had implausibly navigated his herd of elephants over the Alps, leaving thousands dead in his wake. For historians, it would become one of the most important wars of all time. For Scipio Africanus, it w...
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    12,51 €


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