Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it’s drop-dead gorgeous.

But there’s a catch. The Vulcan has only one role: to make a second strike. To act in retaliation for a Russian nuclear attack. Silk knows that knows that if he ever flies his Vulcan in anger, he’ll be flying from a smoking wasteland, a Britain obliterated. But in the mad world of Mutually Assured Destruction, the Vulcan is the last—the only—deterrent.

When German troops surround Leningrad and cut off food supplies in the fall of 1941, no one imagines that the siege will last 900 long days and take hundreds of thousands of lives. As the first “hunger winter” sets in, the city’s residents strip the bark off trees, boil and eat moss-covered stones, and trade priceless antiques for half a loaf of bread—and sex for a chunk of sugar. But the scientists at the Institute of Plant Industry pledge to protect their collection of rare seeds, painstakingly gathered from all over the world, no matter the human cost. One scientist describes how his small group of colleagues, including his quietly determined wife, Alena, splinters between those who would preserve their principles at the price of starvation, and others who turn to deception—and more sinister measures—to survive. His memories of the years before the war, when he traveled throughout the world and tasted the sensual pleasures of life’s lush richness, offset his heartbreaking account of the most wrenching decisions a human being can make. HUNGER is a powerful, beautifully crafted novel about human nature under life’s harshest pressures, and the beauty and pain that can come of it.• Like Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, HUNGER is a deeply personal story of ordinary people caught up in devastating historical events.• Like Andrea Barrett’s Ship Fever and Servants of the Map, the central characters are scientists who see the natural world in a unique way.• A small, lovely, literary package, in the tradition of best-sellers Einstein’s Dreams and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.

THE ZONE 3 • HUNTER-KILLERThe Russian plan a sea borne attack on the NATO flank through the Baltic. Parachuted on to a Swedish island Major Revells’ team ambush the Soviet warships and transports using captured weapons to ensure it is not NATO that takes the blame.SYNOPSISThe Warsaw Pact land forces, brought to a halt by determined NATO defences and counter attacks, plan a powerful sea borne assault on the NATO flank through the Baltic sea in the depths of winter. Parachuted on to a Baltic island in the grip of viciously cold weather, the Special Combat Force has to avoid detection. If they are discovered then some of the Scandinavian countries, presently in a precarious state of neutrality might no longer supply the west with essential materials. To avoid any such accusation Revells’ men have to employ an array powerful captured weapons to destroy the enemy warships and transports. In terrible frigid conditions they must fight first the cold and then without being detected, rain destruction on the massively armed Soviet task force.PUBLISHEDFirst NEL Paperback Edition March 1981First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007

Боевые будни немецких летчиков Второй Мировой войны

Эрих Мария Ремарк – один из самых известных немецких писателей ХХ века. Роман «На Западном фронте без перемен» рассказывает о поколении, которое погубила война, о тех, кто стал ее жертвой, даже если спасся от пуль. Это отчет о реальных событиях Первой мировой войны, рассказ о солдатском товариществе.

Книга предназначена для широкого круга читателей, владеющих немецким языком, для студентов языковых вузов, а также может быть рекомендована лицам, самостоятельно изучающим немецкий язык.

Книга включает краткую биографию писателя, текст романа, задания, направленные на достижение более глубокого понимания текста, и комментарий. Цель лингвистического и лингвострановедческого комментария – облегчить читателю понимание реалий текста, а также разъяснить значения слов разговорной и военной лексики, часто встречающихся на страницах романа.

It is the 1st November 1945 and, once again, the soil of Europe is being soaked in blood and tears. Soviet armies have crossed the Rhine and now occupy the larger part of Germany. The Red Army has experienced its first major defeat, hand in hand with Pyrrhic victories, bought with high losses in materiel and extreme casualties. Zhukov has been replaced by Konev, paying the price for falling too far behind the schedule of war. Soviet forces open a new front, striking south from Bavaria and Austria, aiming at the plains of Northern Italy. Winter approaches and brings with it the harshest conditions in living memory. However, the war stops for nothing and, even as snow falls on snow, plans are laid on both sides of the divide. [The ‘Red Gambit Series’ novels are works of fiction, and deal with fictional events. Most of the characters therein are a figment of the author’s imagination. Without exception, those characters that are historical figures of fact or based upon historical figures of fact are used fictitiously, and their actions, demeanour, conversations, and characters are similarly all figments of the author’s imagination.]

In Danger’s Hour is a thrilling novel of the least-known, least glamorous and most dangerous areas of war by the master storyteller of the sea. Reeman’s previous novels include Battlecruiser, Iron Pirate, Horizon, White Guns and Sunset.

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I.It's 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News of the heroic deaths of their friends only makes the war more exciting. Gaunt, half German, is busy fighting his own private battle — an all-consuming infatuation with his best friend, the glamorous, charming Ellwood — without a clue that Ellwood is pining for him in return. When Gaunt's family asks him to enlist to forestall the anti-German sentiment they face, Gaunt does so…

It’s all-out war for ruthless red state special operator Kelly Turnbull when he returns in this blockbuster prequel to “People’s Republic,” Kurt Schlichter’s top selling novel of America after the polarized politics of blue versus red have split our country apart.“Indian Country” finds Turnbull sent back into the blue states to help those trapped inside resist a politically correct police state. As the progressive government ratchets up the violence, Turnbull must mold regular Americans into a fighting force capable of resisting the People’s Republic Army, led by his former US Army Special Forces mentor.Longer, bigger and bolder than the original, “Indian Country” is filled with Kurt Schlichter’s trademark snarky humor and even more non-stop action, drawing on his work as a television commentator and Senior Columnist for Townhall.com, and his experience as a retired Army infantry colonel.

The sixth in a series of books that cover World War Three, from July 1945 through to its close in September 1947.1946 has moved out of its suspended state, and violence has blossomed once again.In the Pacific, the war reaches a peak of horror previously undreamt of in the history of man.The severe European winter is a fading memory, but its after effects still resonate, particularly with the Red Army, deprived of the chattels of war. The fighting drags on, with little to show for the plans and devices of the politicians and generals.Each side has its new efforts; each side experiences new disappointments.Germany is strengthening and starts to shoulder more of the Allied burden, filling gaps left by the weakening of Britain and the United States.Logistically bankrupt, the Red Army strives for one more struggle, one focussed effort against one of the Allies, in an effort to knock that nation out of the war, knowing that failure could spell the end, but that success could pluck victory from the jaws of defeat.[The ‘Red Gambit Series’ novels are works of fiction, and deal with fictional events. Most of the characters therein are a figment of the author’s imagination. Without exception, those characters that are historical figures of fact or based upon historical figures of fact are used fictitiously, and their actions, demeanour, conversations, and characters are similarly all figments of the author’s imagination.]

03:15, 22nd June 1941◦— Barbarossa is unleashed and Kampfgruppe von Schroif are right there at the cutting edge of the battle for Russia. Thrown into action against the fortress of Brest-Litovsk, von Schroif and his crew drive a new weapon into battle◦— the legendary Sturmgeschütz. However, even with this latest armoured marvel there is hard fighting as the Reds dig in and doggedly defend the island fortress to the last man.Penetrating, authentic and stunning in its detail, the long awaited prequel to the highly acclaimed “Tiger Command!” is a powerful addition to the series. Based on a true story of combat on the Eastern Front, this atmospheric new novel puts the reader right into the action and unveils the story of how a legend was forged in the heat of the first great battle of the campaign.Written by Emmy™ Award winning writer Bob Carruthers and newcomer Sinclair McLay and edited by Mark Farr, this much anticipated Eastern Front novel also explores the dark underside of war as von Schroif is faced with the malevolent presence of Oskar Dirlewanger.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Legion of the Damned® Novels and The Mutant Files comes the first novel in a post-apocalyptic military science fiction series about America rising from the ashes of a global catastrophe…

On May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded around the globe with a force greater than a nuclear blast. Earthquakes and tsunamis followed. Then China attacked Europe, Asia, and the United States in the belief the disaster was an act of war.

Washington D.C. was a casualty of the meteor onslaught that decimated the nation’s leadership and left the surviving elements of the armed forces to try and restore order as American society fell apart.

As refugees across America band together and engage in open warfare with the military over scarce resources, a select group of individuals representing the surviving corporate structure makes a power play to rebuild the country in a free market image as The New Confederacy…

From the author of Pacific Rising.

Jurassic War is an action-packed novel of special operations during WWII in the Pacific Theater. U.S. Marines land on a remote atoll to carry out a seek and destroy mission. They encounter Japanese infantrymen, and the Raiders must also overcome deadly indigenous wildlife. Dinosaurs have not become extinct in all parts of the uncharted world. Ripped from historical accounts of the Raid on Makin Island, this book provides a close examination of Raider training and tactics. A man verse man, and human verse beast struggle, Jurassic War opens with force and steamrolls to the ending like a locomotive.

This novel by John W. Dennehy follows great critical reception for his prior books Clockwork Universe and Pacific Rising. Many of his stories have been featured in leading pulp magazines, such as Crimson Streets, Disturbed Digest, Beyond Science Fiction, SQ Mag, and Weirdbook. His story “Ancient Ruins” was published in SNAFU: Wolves at the Door. The SNAFU anthology series has been commended by Tim Miller, director of Deadpool and creator of Love, Death + Robots, which features a few shorts based upon stories in the SNAFU series.

“John W. Dennehy is a name to keep an eye on.”— Scream Magazine

„Kai dingo balandžiai“ – tai estų kilmės Suomijos rašytojos Sofi Oksanen trečiasis romanas iš tetralogijos apie netolimą Estijos praeitį ir politinį Europos suskaldymą. Ankstesnės dalys – „Stalino karvės“ ir „Valymas“. Romane vaizduojami neramumų ir tariamos taikos dešimtmečiai: Estijos Respublikos pirmojo laikotarpio pabaiga, Antrasis pasaulinis karas ir „atšilimas“ bei stagnacijos pradžia Sovietų Sąjungoje. Tai pasakojimas apie žmogaus santykius su valdžia, apie gebėjimą ir nenorą prisitaikyti, apie kaukes, kurias vieni pajėgia dėvėti, kiti – ne. Ką rinktis: ištverti tiesia nugara traiškomam krumpliaračių, ar pačiam tapti tokiu krumpliaračiu? Kartu knygoje gvildenamas tragiškas vienos šeimos likimas, ją supančių žmonių viltys ir netektys.

Gabrielis Bagratianas su žmona Žiuljete ir sūnumi Stefanu 1915-ųjų pavasarį grįžta į gimtąjį kaimą Musa Dago papėdėje. Gabrielis – turkų kariuomenės atsargos karininkas – Antiochijoje aplanko keletą pažįstamų, nueina į krašto valdytojo biurą; vyras visur jaučia priešiškas nuotaikas armėnų tautai. Turkas, senas šeimos draugas, aga Rifaatas Bereketas pataria jam nekišti nosies į valdiškas institucijas ir pažada nuvykti į Stambulą ir armėnus užtarti. Blogos nuojautos jau sklando ore, prasideda pirmosios armėnų deportacijos. Pastorius Lepsijus, vokiečių dvasininkas, stengiasi įtikinti karo ministrą Enverą Pašą sustabdyti armėnų trėmimus ir taip užbėgti lemtingiems posūkiams už akių. Bet įvykiai veja įvykius ir paaiškėja – kraujo upės nepavyks išvengti…

THE ZONE 7 • KILLING GROUNDMajor Revell has kept his men together in the face of relentless Soviet attacks. They discover a huge unguarded dump of NATO stores. Employing the supplies, they set about turning the surrounding countryside into a huge killing ground, causing enormous casualties and hoping they can hold out until relieved.SYNOPSISThe Warsaw Pact has been keeping up relentless pressure and the NATO forces, low on ammunition and every manner of stores is in retreat. Time after time Major Revells’ men take casualties but still he keeps the survivors together, inflicting what damage on the enemy he can. By chance they come across a huge NATO supply base, abandoned and left virtually unguarded. Already the skeleton staff have used surplus and condemned ammunition to turn the surrounding countryside into a massive killing ground, Now the Special Combat Force throw themselves into the defence of the vast resources, hoping they can hold out against over whelming enemy strength until help comes.PUBLISHEDFirst NEL Paperback Edition October 1988First IMPRINT Publication E-Book Edition May 2005First Revision IMPRINT Publications E-Book Edition April 2007* * *Mankind’s last war continues in the contaminated strip of European hell known as “The Zone”. But an American major and a British sergeant are sick of retreating. In a huge, abandoned ammunition dump, they prepare their forces to hit the ruthless Russian aggressors—and hit hard!

One nation taking a desperate gamble of war.Another fighting for survival.Two armies locked in a bloody cataclysm that will decide history…David L. Robbins has won widespread acclaim for his powerful and splendidly researched novels of World War II. Now he casts his brilliant vision on one of the most terrifying—and most crucial—battles of the war: the Battle of Kursk, Hitler’s desperate gamble to defeat Russia, in the final German offensive on the eastern front.Last CitadelSpring 1943. In the west, Germany strengthens its choke hold on France. To the south, an Allied invasion looms imminent. But the greatest threat to Hitler’s dream of a Thousand Year Reich lies east, where his forces are pitted in a death match with a Russian enemy willing to pay any price to defend the motherland. Hitler rolls the dice, hurling his best SS forces and his fearsome new weapon, the Mark VI Tiger tank, in a last-ditch summer offensive, code-named Citadel.The Red Army around Kursk is a sprawling array of infantry, armor, fighter planes, and bombers. Among them is an intrepid group of women flying antiquated biplanes; they swoop over the Germans in the dark, earning their nickname, “Night Witches.” On the ground, Private Dimitri Berko gallops his tank, the Red Army’s lithe little T-34, like a Cossack steed. In the turret above Dimitri rides his son, Valya, a Communist sergeant who issues his father orders while the war widens the gulf between them. In the skies, Dimitri’s daughter, Katya, flies with the Night Witches, until she joins a ferocious band of partisans in the forests around Kursk. Like Russia itself, the Berko family is suffering the fury and devastation of history’s most titanic tank battle while fighting to preserve what is sacred–their land, their lives, and each other–as Hitler flings against them his most potent armed force.Inexorable and devastating, a company of Mark VI Tiger tanks is commanded by one extraordinary SS officer, a Spaniard known as la Daga, the Dagger. He’d suffered a terrible wound at the hands of the Russians: now he has returned with a cold fury to exact his revenge. And above it all, one quiet man makes his own plan to bring Citadel crashing down and reshape the fate of the world.A remarkable story of men and arms, loyalty and betrayal, Last Citadel propels us into the claustrophobic confines of a tank in combat, into the tension of guerrilla tactics, and across the smoking charnel of one of history’s greatest battlefields. Panoramic, authentic, and unforgettable, it reverberates long after the last cannon sounds.

Dans ce roman mené sur les chapeaux de roues, on découvre les nouvelles aventures de Maurice, le truand de Pigalle, et de Bams, le marlou catalan, dans la France de Vichy. Résistants involontaires mais déterminés à aller jusqu'au bout de leur engagement accidentel, les deux hommes incarnent la révolte absolue face au désordre établi. Cette farandole canaille du bal des vermines ou la mort nazie sarabande avec l'adipeuse collaboration est devenue Danse de mort…Macabre, grotesque, l'œuvre d'Héléna n'a rien perdu de son actualité historique et humaine. La corruption et le vice sont inexorablement liés à la politique et au pouvoir. On croyait le savoir depuis toujours, on l'avait oublié, et c'est un écrivain désormais immortel qui nous rappelle que la mort et l'ignominie sont toujours au rendez-vous de l'Histoire. Avertissement d'autant plus fort qu'André Héléna, maître du roman noir français, renoue avec la verve rabelaisienne et l'ironie populaire.Narbonnais de naissance, Leucatois de prédilection, Parisien par amour, André Héléna (1919–1972) est le plus authentique représentant du roman noir à la française. Conjuguant polar, existentialisme, réalisme poétique et pessimisme, cet anarchiste des lettres pousse l'écriture au paroxysme de la révolte. Un maître enfin reconnu.

Viktors SuvorovsLedlauzis: Kurš sāka Otro pasaules karu?Pēc autora versijas par galveno iemeslu kāpēc sākās karš ir Staļina politika, kuras mērķis bija sagrābt centrālo un rietumu Eiropu tieši 1941. gada vasaras mēnešos, un Hitlers tikai pa divām nedēļām apsteidza Sarkanās armijas militāro ekspansiju Rietumeiropā.No krievu valodas tulkojis Jānis Kalve Dienas Grāmata 2005 FB2 failu izveidojis Imants LočmelisSATURS Manam krievu lasītajam……………………………………………………………………………………… 6Kurš saka Otro pasaules karu?…………………………………………………………………………….. 81. NODAĻA. Ceļš uz laimi………………………………………………………………………………… 102.  NODAĻA. Galvenais ienaidnieks…………………………………………………………………… 143.  NODAĻA. Kamdēļ komunistiem ieroči?………………………………………………………….. 174.  NODAĻA. Kapēc Staļins sadalīja Poliju?…………………………………………………………. 225.  NODAĻA. Pakts un ta rezultati……………………………………………………………………….. 256.  NODAĻA. Kad Padomju Savienība iestajas Otraja pasaules kara?………………………… 287.  NODAĻA. „Kara bazes paplašinašana"……………………………………………………………. 338.  NODAĻA. Priekš kam čekistiem haubiču artilērija?…………………………………………… 389.  NODAĻA. Kapēc kara priekšvakara tika iznīcinata nodrošinajuma josla?……………… 4310. NODAĻA. Kapēc Staļins iznīcinaja "Staļina līniju"?…………………………………………. 5111. NODAĻA. Partizani vai diversanti…………………………………………………………………. 6012. NODAĻA. Kamdēļ Staļinam desmit gaisa desanta korpusu?……………………………… 6413. NODAĻA. Par sparnoto tanku………………………………………………………………………. 6814. NODAĻA. Līdz pašai Berlīnei!…………………………………………………………………….. 7115. NODAĻA. Jūras kajnieki Baltkrievijas mežos…………………………………………………. 7616. NODAĻA. Kas ir piesegšanas armija?……………………………………………………………. 7817. NODAĻA. Kalnu divīzijas Ukrainas stepēs…………………………………………………….. 8618. NODAĻA. Kam bija paredzēts pirmais stratēģiskais ešelons?…………………………….. 9219. NODAĻA. Staļins maija………………………………………………………………………………. 9420.  NODAĻA. Vardi un darbi………………………………………………………………………….. 10221.  NODAĻA. Zobainais miermīlīgums…………………………………………………………….. 10522.  NODAĻA. Vēlreiz par TASS paziņojumu…………………………………………………….. 10923.  NODAĻA. Par pamestajiem kara apgabaliem……………………………………………….. 12624.  NODAĻA. Par melnajam divīzijam……………………………………………………………… 13025.  NODAĻA. Par kombrigiem un komdiviem…………………………………………………… 13426.  NODAĻA. Kapēc tika izveidots Otrais stratēģiskais ešelons?…………………………… 13727.  NODAĻA. Kara nepieteikšana……………………………………………………………………. 14528.  NODAĻA. Kapēc Staļins izveidoja frontes?………………………………………………….. 15029.  NODAĻA. Kapēc Staļins neticēja Čērčilam?………………………………………………….. 16230.  NODAĻA. Kapēc Staļins neticēja Rihardam Zorgem?…………………………………….. 16731.  NODAĻA. Ka Hitlers izjauca karu?…………………………………………………………….. 17332.  NODAĻA. Vai Staļinam bija kara plans?……………………………………………………… 17833.  NODAĻA. Karš, kura nebija………………………………………………………………………. 182Monuments cilvēces aklumam…………………………………………………………………………. 187Fotografijas…………………………………………………………………………………………………… 190Izmantotie avoti…………………………………………………………………………………………….. 201