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The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9780375759420 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian peasant farmer s part in the rebellion against Porfirio Diaz, and his subsequent loss of belief in the cause when the revolutionary alliance becomes factionalized. Azuela s masterpiece is a timeless, authentic portrayal of peasant life, revolutionary zeal, and political disillusionment."
Hailed as the greatest novel of the Mexican Revolution, The Underdogs recounts the story of an illiterate but charismatic Indian...
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The Thin Red Line
ISBN: 9780385324083 / Angielski / Miękka / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They are the men of C-for-Charlie company--"Mad" 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them--infantrymen who are about to land, grim and white-faced, on an atoll in the Pacific called Guadalcanal. This is their story, a shatteringly realistic walk into hell and back.
In the days ahead, some will earn medals, others will do anything they can dream up to get evacuated before they land in a muddy grave. But they will all discover the thin red line that divides the sane from the mad--and the living from the... They are the men of C-for-Charlie company--"Mad" 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and doze...
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One to Count Cadence
ISBN: 9780394735597 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob "Slag" Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by breeding, assumes command of the 721st Communication Security Deteachment, an unsoldierly crew of bored, rebellious, whoring, foul-mouthed, drunken enlistees. Surviving military absurdities reminiscent of those in Catch-22only to be shipped clandestinely to Vietnam, Krummel's band confront their worst fears while finally losing faith in America and its myths.
Powerful, scathingly funny, and eloquent, One to Count Cadenceis a... The time: late summer, 1962. The place: Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines. Sergeant Jacob "Slag" Krummel, a scholar by intent but a warrior by bre...
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68,80 |
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Flight of the Old Dog
ISBN: 9780425108932 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America s military superiority being surpassed as our greatest enemy masters space-to-Earth weapons technology neutralizing the U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles.
America s only hope: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art armaments known to man "Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America s milita...
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Shadows of Steel
ISBN: 9780425157169 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an electrifying novel ripped from today's headlines, Dale Brown takes to the skies to deliver a covert battle in the Middle East--a battle that America can't afford to lose.
The new gulf war is erupting... And this one will be far bloodier than the first. A newly powerful Iran is flexing its military muscle in the Middle East. The Iranians have declared the Persian Gulf their territorial waters--and an American ship has just been sunk to prove the point. With a military racked by budget cuts and a public reluctant to fight, the president must end the crisis before it... In an electrifying novel ripped from today's headlines, Dale Brown takes to the skies to deliver a covert battle in the Middle East--a battle t...
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The Majors
ISBN: 9780515089950 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--proven on the bloody beaches of Normandy and in the minefields of Korea--are summoned to help beat back the guerilla forces of Ho Chi Minh. To some, the "secret" war in Indochina was the depth of folly. To others, like the Majors, it pointed to the heights of glory...
Dien Bien Phu. Saigon. Hanoi. In 1954, they were only exotic names from a French campaign halfway around the world. But now American fighting men--pro...
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The Lieutenants
ISBN: 9780515090215 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They are the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they answer the call gladly. War is their duty, their job, their life. They march off boys, and they come back--those who survive--as soldiers in the Brotherhood of War.
They are the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they a...
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Counterattack
ISBN: 9780515104172 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First there was the riveting epic Brotherhood of War, which took the nation by storm. Now, there is The Corps, and Book Three, Counterattack sweeps from the devastating surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to America's first bold counterstrike against the Japanese on the beaches of Guadalcanal.
First there was the riveting epic Brotherhood of War, which took the nation by storm. Now, there is The Corps, and Book Three, Counterattack sweeps fr...
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Battleground
ISBN: 9780515106404 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 487 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book Four in the continuing saga of The Corps, from the author of Counterattack which became an immediate national bestseller in hardcover. "The Corps combines the best elements of military history and the war story", wrote Publishers Weekly, "the telling detail and political tangle of one mated to the energy and sweep of the other". Here is a story of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Pacific, the epic struggle for Guadalcanal.
Book Four in the continuing saga of The Corps, from the author of Counterattack which became an immediate national bestseller in hardcover. "The Corps...
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Line of Fire
ISBN: 9780515110135 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Line of Fire brings to life a desperate mission of World War II that captures the drama and courage of the men who fought it. Two Marines, reporting on Japanese air activity, are trapped on a small Coastwatcher island. A special rescue team is assembled to save them--under enemy gunsight. It is am exciting and powerful story of real heroism that only W.E.B. Griffin could tell...
Line of Fire brings to life a desperate mission of World War II that captures the drama and courage of the men who fought it. Two Marines, repo...
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Close Combat
ISBN: 9780515112696 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-month New York Times bestseller brings the saga of The Corps into exciting arenas all over the Pacific, as American forces brace to defend Guadalcanal from an all-out effort by the Japanese to recapture the island. From Iwo Jima to Australia to Washington, old faces and new are faced with the challenge of their lives.
This two-month New York Times bestseller brings the saga of The Corps into exciting arenas all over the Pacific, as American forces brace to defend Gu...
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Behind the Lines
ISBN: 9780515119381 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behind the Lines is W. E. B. Griffin's powerful novel of World War II -- and the courage, patriotism, and sacrifice of those who fought it. By 1942, the Japanese have routed the outnumbered American forces and conquered the Philippines. But deep in the island jungles, the combat continues. Refusing to surrender, a renegade Army officer organizes a resistance force and vows to fight to the last man. A Marine leads his team on a mission through the heart of enemy territory. And the nation's proudest sons fight uncelebrated battles that will win -- or lose -- the war . . .
Behind the Lines is W. E. B. Griffin's powerful novel of World War II -- and the courage, patriotism, and sacrifice of those who fought it.
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In Danger's Path
ISBN: 9780515126983 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 723 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two urgent missions face Brigadier General Fleming Pickering in the Gobi Desert: rescue a band of former American servicemen and their families from the Japanese and set up a weather station to help direct aerial attacks against Japan. One of his Marines is a "scapegrace" pilot, who, together with his son, venture incognita. With luck, they may even survive.
Two urgent missions face Brigadier General Fleming Pickering in the Gobi Desert: rescue a band of former American servicemen and their families from t...
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34,36 |
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Secret Honor
ISBN: 9780515130096 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 609 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series, by the master of the military thriller.
As with his other enormously popular series, the first two novels in W. E .B. Griffin's saga of World War II espionage in Germany and Argentina - Honor Bound and Blood and Honor - became immediate bestsellers and were hailed as "immensely entertaining adventures" (Kirkus Reviews). Now, in Secret Honor, Griffin creates his most rousing novel yet. In Wolf's Lair, a German general works toward the assassination of Adolf Hitler. In Buenos Aires, the... The crackling new novel in the bestselling Honor Bound series, by the master of the military thriller.
As with his other enormously pop... |
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38,18 |
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Special Ops
ISBN: 9780515132489 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. W.E.B. Griffin returns to the series that launched his phenomenal career-- in an explosive new novel that pits a team of Special Forces warriors against the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara.
W.E.B. Griffin returns to the series that launched his phenomenal career-- in an explosive new novel that pits a team of Special Forces warrior...
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Under Fire
ISBN: 9780515134377 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 723 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare--with new weapons, new strategies, and a new breed of warrior--on the battlefields of Korea... In 1950, Captain Ken McCoy's report on North Korean hostilities meets with so much bureaucratic displeasure that he is promptly booted out of the Corps--and just as promptly picked up by the fledgling CIA. Soon, his predictions come true: on June 25th the North Koreans invade across the 38th parallel. Immediately veterans scattered throughout military...
After the epic struggle of World War II, W.E.B. Griffin's bestselling chronicle of the Marine Corps enters a new stage of modern warfare--with new ...
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'Twixt Land and Sea
ISBN: 9780521871266 / Angielski / Twarda / 538 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in this edition of 'Twixt Land and Sea with numerous words, sentences, and entire paragraphs restored from Conrad's manuscripts and typescripts. Written while he was working on Under Western Eyes, these stories, when collected together in 1912, marked the turning point in Conrad's professional fortunes that Chance would soon confirm. Published for the first time as Conrad meant them to be, these authoritative texts are accompanied by a new Introduction that discusses their sources, composition, and...
New texts of Joseph Conrad's modern classic 'The Secret Sharer' and of two other tales appear in this edition of 'Twixt Land and Sea with numerous wor...
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514,62 |
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A Close Run Thing: A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815
ISBN: 9780553380439 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, a young cavalry officer in Wellington's army of 1815. A Close Run Thing For two decades, since the French Revolution, England and her allies have fought a seemingly endless war to loosen Bonaparte's stranglehold on Europe. Matthew Hervey, a twenty-three-year-old parson's son, has risen through the ranks of His Majesty's cavalry to a junior command in the 6th Light Dragoons. Torn by ambition and ensnared in the intrigues of...
In the tradition of Patrick O'Brian's beloved historical military adventures comes the first in a dashing new series featuring Cornet Matthew Hervey, ...
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72,62 |
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Three Wars Two Loves
ISBN: 9780595001651 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,32 |
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The Slot
ISBN: 9780595003952 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,61 |
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