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All the Brave Fellows
ISBN: 9780671038472 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James L. Nelson, "the American counterpart to L. Patrick O'Brian" (David Brink), writes breathtaking descriptions of the age when saliors became warriors and warriors became legends. Now his acclaimed Revolution at Sea Saga continues as General George Washington fights a loosing battle to keep Philidelpia from the hands of the British.
ALL THE BRAVE FELLOWS It is 1777, the Year of the Hangman, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is bound for Philidelphia with his wife and child in the Continental brig of the Charlemagne. His orders are to take command of the newly built... James L. Nelson, "the American counterpart to L. Patrick O'Brian" (David Brink), writes breathtaking descriptions of the age when saliors became warri...
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102,72 |
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Good Soldier
ISBN: 9780679722182 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assignation. As their story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the fragile surface propriety of the pre -- World War I society in which these four characters live is ruptured -- revealing deceit, hatred, infidelity, and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" is Edward Ashburnham, who, as an adherent to the moral code of the English upper class, is nonetheless consumed by a passion for women younger than his wife -- a stoic but fallible figure in...
At the fashionable German spa town Bad Nauheim, two wealthy, fin de siecle couples -- one British, the other American -- meet for their yearly assigna...
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91,48 |
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Buffalo Soldiers
ISBN: 9780679742036 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, Robert O'Connor's viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle.
In that hell, Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. Elwood is contemplating cleaning up his act, although doing so will require one last, epic heroin deal. But of course it's then that his life will careen totally out... Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, R...
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64,80 |
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A Song of Stone
ISBN: 9780684855363 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A European nation not unlike Bosnia: armed forces roam the lawless land where dark columns of smoke rise up from the surrounding farms and houses. The war is ending, perhaps ended. But for the castle and its occupants, a young lord and lady, the trouble is just beginning.
Fearing an invasion of soldiers, the amorous couple takes to the road with the other refugees, disguised in rags. But the brutal female lieutenant of an outlaw band of guerrillas has other ideas. Just hours into their escape, the fleeing aristocrats are delivered back to the castle, where, now prisoners in their own... A European nation not unlike Bosnia: armed forces roam the lawless land where dark columns of smoke rise up from the surrounding farms and houses. The...
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76,04 |
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Shopping Cart Soldiers
ISBN: 9780684856056 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shopping Cart Soldiers is a modern day Odyssean tale of the atrocities of war and its even more appalling aftermath. Set against the brutal realities of the conflict in Vietnam, John Mulligan tells the story of Finn MacDonald, an eighteen-year-old boy who is drafted soon after he emigrates with his family from Scotland. Upon returning from Vietnam, Finn is plagued by the terrible memories of all he has seen and is pushed into a haze of self-destructive behavior that tests his will to survive. Shopping Cart Soldiers chronicles Finn's painful and remarkable journey -- and his...
Shopping Cart Soldiers is a modern day Odyssean tale of the atrocities of war and its even more appalling aftermath. Set against the brutal rea...
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68,42 |
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MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors
ISBN: 9780688149550 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on earth.
The doctors who worked in the Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) during the Korean War were well trained but, like most soldiers sent to fight a war, too young for the job. In the words of the author, "a few flipped their lids, but most of them just raised hell, in a variety of ways and degrees." For fans of the movie and the series alike, here is the original... Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest of th...
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72,38 |
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The Serpent Sleeping
ISBN: 9780714642796 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fictional tale of espionage and courage, disloyalty and betrayal set in Cherbourg, August 1944.
A fictional tale of espionage and courage, disloyalty and betrayal set in Cherbourg, August 1944.
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175,19 |
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Mission: Apline Redoubt
ISBN: 9780738802428 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,62 |
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Silent Echoes: Story of a Man Torn Between Duty and Conscience
ISBN: 9780738847498 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,87 |
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Kruger's Gold: A Novel of the Anglo-Boer War
ISBN: 9780738865867 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,81 |
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Ice Beneath You
ISBN: 9780743227841 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just as The Things They Carried and Catch-22 spoke to their generations with truth and dark humor, this brilliant first novel defines the experience of war for its era.
Benjamin Jones, twenty-three, discharged after an army tour in Somalia, heads cross-country on a Greyhound, seeking refuge on the West Coast. He has left behind his best friend, Trevor, and Liz Ross, a female soldier with whom Jones has fallen in love. But Jones has also left behind a tragedy -- a horrible, split-second action made in Somalia -- that Trevor, Jones, and the army have implicitly agreed to... Just as The Things They Carried and Catch-22 spoke to their generations with truth and dark humor, this brilliant first novel defines th...
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64,75 |
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Waverley
ISBN: 9780748605675 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. Edward Waverley is a young, cultured man whose sensibilities lead to his involvement in the Jacobite Rising of 1745. In his journey into Scotland, down to Derby, and back up again, he explores the cultural and political geography of Great Britain. Waverley, or 'tis Sixty Years Since was Scott's first novel, but like its final chapter, 'A Postscript, which should have been a Preface', it...
Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, mi...
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608,48 |
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Peveril of the Peak
ISBN: 9780748605781 / Angielski / Twarda / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. Set against the backdrop of the Popish Plot to overturn Charles II, Peveril of the Peak explores the on-going tensions between Cavalier and Puritan loyalties during the fraught years of Restoration England. Ranging from Derbyshire to the Isle of Man and culminating in London, it is a novel which interweaves political intrigue, personal responsibilities and the ways in which the forces of...
Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, mi...
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511,12 |
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Innocence Dies: A Viet Nam War Novel
ISBN: 9780759606883 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Realistic, gritty portrayal of combat in Viet Nam as seen by American Doug Andrews, who seeks to make a difference, and by Le Qui Thanh who, mourning the loss of all he holds dear, is willing to die for his cause.
Realistic, gritty portrayal of combat in Viet Nam as seen by American Doug Andrews, who seeks to make a difference, and by Le Qui Thanh who, mourning ...
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99,68 |
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Innocence Dies: A Viet Nam War Novel
ISBN: 9780759606890 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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133,01 |
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And We Were Young
ISBN: 9780759612495 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,68 |
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Moveable Forts and Magazines: A Novel of Vietnam
ISBN: 9780759617339 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conscience, friendship, and responsibility are tested as a young helicopter pilot, son of an admiral, goes underground rather than return to his unit in the Mekong Delta in 1968. Framing this is the Navy's attempts to conceal the incident.
Conscience, friendship, and responsibility are tested as a young helicopter pilot, son of an admiral, goes underground rather than return to his unit ...
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74,04 |
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Crisis Clock
ISBN: 9780759617469 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Captain Rose Rosencrans must spearhead a rescue mission to free the "USS Abraham Lincoln". The aircraft carrier is held hostage in the Suez Canal by revolutionary forces in Egypt in the year 2014.
Captain Rose Rosencrans must spearhead a rescue mission to free the "USS Abraham Lincoln". The aircraft carrier is held hostage in the Suez Canal by r...
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73,00 |
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Marking Time
ISBN: 9780759620643 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A compelling story about a handful of young Marine Recons thrust into a series of adventures and the horrors of war. The book tells of the brotherhood shared among people who face danger and share a common cause.
A compelling story about a handful of young Marine Recons thrust into a series of adventures and the horrors of war. The book tells of the brotherhood...
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97,98 |
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Belly of the Dragon
ISBN: 9780759622012 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is 1951 and UN forces have just achieved air superiority over the North Koreans. But when word is received in Washington that China has begun producing jet engines a decision that could prolong the war and cause a greater loss of American lives the fledgling CIA formulates a plan to destroy the factory. Assigned to complete the mission is a highly skilled team of nine men, comprised of mostly United States Marines. When the target is successfully destroyed, two of the original nine men are left alive. One is Sergeant John Armstrong. The other is Fred Toscaro, a wounded, mentally unstable...
It is 1951 and UN forces have just achieved air superiority over the North Koreans. But when word is received in Washington that China has begun produ...
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46,75 |
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