検索キーワード： 戦争・軍事

Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the world's great authors, and The Brothers Karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil.

When Muslim fundamentalists blow up a key Soviet oil complex, making an already critical oil shortage calamitous, the Russians figure they are going to have to take things into their own hands. They plan to seize the Persian Gulf, and more ambitiously, to neutralize NATO. Thus begins Red Storm, an audacious gamble that uses diplomatic maneuver to cloak a crash military build-up.

Жизнь Валентина Шестакова круто изменилась после его квеста в виде игры в прошлом. А то, что был в прошлом, он теперь уверен. И вот, новая игра и новый квест, однако время уже другое, но задачи те же… И снова рев дизелей, где под лязг траков уходит вперед бронегруппа Шестакова. Ему нужно повторить Рейд Храбрых, и он сможет это сделать. И пока в баках плещется соляра, а в боеукладках имеются снаряды, танки идут в бой.

Алесь Адамович знал о войне не понаслышке. В 1942 году, когда ему было всего четырнадцать лет он стал связным партизанского отряда. Именно потому все то, что в последствии создал писатель, написано так реалистично и правдиво, ведь он описывал свою реальную войну. Произведения Алеся Адамовича переведены более чем на двадцать языков, и не оставили равнодушным никого в цивилизованном мире.

November 1943. Stalin is pressing the Allies to open a second front in Europe in order to ease the pressure on the bloody grinding war in the East. Roosevelt and Churchill agree to meet the Soviet premiere in Tehran. Wild Bill Donovan, the charismatic leader of the OSS, has intelligence that someone is planning to assassinate either or both of the Western leaders at the conference. He sends his best agent, Dick Canidy, to thwart the plan, but how can he do that when he doesn't even know if the killer is a Nazi or an Ally?

Combat veteran Vince Marcotte has hung up his uniform in favor of a quiet, comfortable life. But ghosts from his past are raised when Nick Batson announces his Senate campaign. Vince is convinced Nick got away with murder 15 years ago when they were both deployed to Afghanistan. When another person close to Nick dies under mysterious circumstances, Vince enlists the help of amateur detective Hadley Collins to prove Nick's guilt.

Als Commander Smith, der angehende "Infinity"-Agent Jack Chance und der britische Außenminister Argentbright in der Arabischen Republik Dschahur eintreffen, finden sie das Land im Ausnahmezustand. Ein Teil des Militärs hat sich unter der Führung des brutalen Generals Emin abgespalten, und die Angriffe seiner Truppen werden immer präziser. Eine High-Tech-Drohne, die Chance am Himmel über der Hauptstadt entdeckt, deutet darauf hin, dass hinter Emin noch eine viel größere Macht steht. Aber wer könnte das sein, und was sind die Gründe für den geplanten Umsturz?

"Anche le donne sanno essere eroiche." Per la ventenne Frances "Frankie" McGrath, studentessa di infermieristica, questa frase è una rivelazione. Cresciuta nell'idilliaco mondo assolato della California del sud e protetta dai suoi genitori di idee conservatrici, si è sempre vantata di fare la cosa giusta, di essere una brava ragazza. Ma è il 1966, il mondo sta cambiando, e Frankie si ritrova all'improvviso a immaginare un futuro diverso, così, quando suo fratello parte per il Vietnam, lei decide di arruolarsi nel Corpo infermieristico dell'esercito.

War has come to the continent, and Lieutenant Commander Ky, a test pilot from the far future and Consul of the Britannic Empire, leads armies scattered across Germania and Hispania to liberate them from Carthaginian rule. The Carthaginians, however, refuse to surrender without a fight. Led by a seasoned commander, new armies with weapons from the Far East are sent to counter the Britannians, with the entirety of Europe as the ultimate prize.

Usaron su influencia y poder para ayudar a los nazis, ahora tendrán que pagar el precio. Mientras Europa se prepara para la inminente guerra contra los alemanes, en Inglaterra las fascinantes hermanas Mitford dominan la escena política, literaria y social. Aunque en el pasado han enfrentado escándalos por su comportamiento libertino, todo se sale definitivamente de control cuando Diana se divorcia de su acaudalado esposo —el heredero de la tradicional cervecería Guinness— para casarse con un líder fascista.

Jorge Mondragon, a retired Army vet, just wanted to escape. Taking a job at Big Bend Texas State Park seemed like the perfect way to distance himself from people and find peace. But tranquility is the last thing he finds. Things at the park are getting…weird. Strange sightings and reports have left eyewitnesses terrified that something is out there. Something dangerous. As the reports keep flowing in, people say they saw a massive cougar-like creature that possesses indescribable speed and strength. Jorge refuses to let anyone else be killed.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Audie Award Winner, Audiobook of the Year, 2013. Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013. Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King's Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.

Audiobook narrators Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin bring Hemingway's classic masterpiece "The Sun Also Rises" to life. Travel with them through pre-WWII Europe as Hemingway explores the dysfunctional relationship of friends drawn together by a beautiful, troubled, and often confused woman, plus the drama and excitement of the bullfights.

The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war: under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals and dressing stations. Although there are vividly described incidents which remain in the mind, there is no sense of adventure here, only the feeling of youth betrayed and a deceptively simple indictment of war—of any war—told for a whole generation of victims.

In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive.

When war broke out in 1914, Somerset Maugham was dispatched by the British Secret Service to Switzerland under the guise of completing a play. Multilingual, knowledgeable about many European countries, and a celebrated writer, Maugham had the perfect cover, and the assignment appealed to his love of romance, and of the ridiculous. The stories collected in Ashenden are rooted in Maugham's own experiences as an agent, reflecting the ruthlessness and brutality of espionage, its intrigue and treachery, as well as its absurdity.

1948, Japan. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.