War & Military

Ralph Wrenn went to sea at the age of ten. Now nineteen and recently promoted, he serves as the fourth officer on the HMS Kingfisher. It masquerades as a merchant ship to capture Barbary pirate vessels. On one such mission, Ralph meets a beautiful and intriguing young woman. Now, he must contend not just with battles at sea but with a beguiling stranger who is not what she appears to be.

Humanity has started to colonize other worlds and learned the lessons of colonization anew. A recent war with a neighboring alien race has prompted changes in Earth's military. Straining the relationship between Earth and her colonies. Worlds such as Tronis, now a trade center that was spared from the war. Pirates have started to attack the Tronis trade routes. The latest attack has taken hostages, and the government is forced to ask for help from Earth. Enter Gamma Squadron, the United Nations Space Corps' latest evolution of Earth's special forces teams.

Este relato es considerado uno de los más convulsivos análisis sobre el espíritu colonial de Occidente. En “El corazón de las tinieblas”, Conrad nos habla de hombres blancos enfrentándose a las incongruencias de sus propios métodos. Una oscura historia sobre el viaje del marinero Marlow por las aguas de un gran río africano, el Congo. Su misión: ir en busca de un agente europeo, Kurtz, un empresario que se había vuelto loco en medio de la jungla. Francis Ford Coppola se inspiró en esta novela para su película Apocalypse Now, aunque ambientada en la guerra de Vietnam.

Ein packender Erlebnisbericht über die harten Kämpfe an der Ostfront 1942/1943. Unteroffizier Paul Oberländer, Kampfpilot der Luftwaffe, gerät eines Abends im März 1942 in eine Kneipenschlägerei in Frankreich. Er wird verhaftet und degradiert. Fortan fristet er ein trostloses Dasein beim Bodenpersonal der Luftwaffe, wohl wissend, dass die Wehrmacht ihn nie wieder fliegen lassen wird. Oberländer will sich mit seiner Lage aber nicht abfinden. Um seine Soldatenehre zurückzuerlangen, meldet er sich daher freiwillig zur 8. Luftwaffen-Felddivision.

In a near-future world ruled by corporate greed and political corruption, The Flock is a covert LGBTQ+ mercenary group that operates in the shadows, taking on high-risk, off-the-books jobs for governments and powerful elites. Bound by their skills and their shared pasts, they fight for more than money—they fight for justice.