The land of Ossa is in the midst of change. The old prophets have been murdered and the holy cities razed. Kings are now gods and a gigantic empire of nomads founded by the greatest ruler of the age, the mighty Bar Lev, is sweeping through the plains, across the broad rivers, and over the mountain barriers of Ossa. Against Bar Lev stands one man: the famous captain of mercenaries from the west, Talo the Talein. Their struggle is interrupted, however, by the unfolding of an old prophecy and by the emergence of a new power in the land. The girl-child Getlof, daughter of an ancient race. As...

Black Phoenix is the first in-depth English-language work to cover the operations, organization, and order of battle of the Marina Repubblicana -- the naval force of Benito Mussolini's fascist state that fought alongside Germany from September 1943 to May 1945. Not even in Italian has such a rich and detailed study of this subject ever been published. Black Phoenix tells of the navy created by Prince Junio Valerio Borghese from the kernel of the X MAS Flotilla special attack force. Borghese's navy used small and expendable units to wage asymmetrical warfare and in the process tied down a...