French Military

This audio program has all the ingredients of a high-flying adventure story. Unbeknownst to the combatants, the War of 1812 has ended. But Andrew Jackson, a brave, charismatic American general, sick with dysentery and commanding a beleaguered garrison, leads a desperate struggle to hold on to New Orleans and to thwart the army that defeated Napoleon.

Before America joined World War I, a small group of Americans volunteered for the French Foreign Legion to help defeat the Central Powers. Historian David Hanna profiles seven of these volunteers: a poet, an artist, a boxer, a stunt pilot, a college student, a veteran of the Spanish American War, and an advertising executive. All seven men were united in courage; and some, like poet Alan Seeger, paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Former CIA Agent Greg Nielsen thought he had escaped his shadowy past. He was wrong. Someone has found him and is blackmailing him to enter the dangerous game of international espionage once again.But there's one deadly difference: this time, the target is his own country...

In 1798, an initial review of France’s naval forces had led Napoleon to conclude his navy could not hope to outfight the power of the Royal Navy, which had been the dominant naval power for centuries, so he was forced to look elsewhere. After months of planning, Napoleon crafted a scheme to attack and conquer Egypt, denying the British easy access to their colonies in India, with the ultimate goal of linking up with the Sultan Tipoo in India itself and defeating the British in the field there. Napoleon sailed with Admiral Brueys and 30,000 troops that June, heading for Egypt.

The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris. As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive...

A London intelligence agent pursues a money launderer to expose the dealings of a shadowy Russian oligarch. In a world where national borders shrink to insignificance in the face of colossal wealth and corporate power, The Silent Oligarch offers a new kind of hero to combat a new kind of crime...

On the outer banks of the Carolinas in 1941, fishermen and a few lonely sailors constitute the human population. Dominating the rough yet beautiful landscape is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, run for generations by the Thurlow family. But Josh Thurlow, the lighthouse keeper's son, has...

Many writers have highlighted South Florida's colorful characters, but John Deal is a remarkably normal man, put in extraordinary situations. Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined. Cuba has just normalized relations with...

Les carnets de guerre de deux observateurs français. Après avoir notamment couvert la guerre en Libye, Liseron Boudoul et Charles d’Anjou décident, en février 2022, de partir en Ukraine pour témoigner de ce qui se passe dans le Donbass prorusse. C’était deux semaines avant le début de cette guerre fratricide entre l’Ukraine et la Russie, que personne autour d’eux n’imaginait.

This comprehensive military biography of George Washington entertainingly examines Washington's capacity as a military leader. Acclaimed historian Edward G. Lengel, an associate editor of the University of Virginia's Papers of George Washington project, bases this engrossing work on the most extensive collection of Washington's personal correspondence.

Jusqu'où iriez-vous pour votre liberté ? Pendant des années, Sonya a été le visage de la Délégation, un régime totalitaire impitoyable. Mais depuis que les rebelles ont pris le pouvoir il y a dix ans, la jeune femme croupit dans la ville-prison réservée aux opposants politiques. Quand un vieil ennemi lui demande l'impossible en échange de sa liberté, l'ex-Poster Girl ne peut qu'accepter. Quitte à déterrer un sombre passé.

Das Unheil ist den Thousand Sons auf den Fersen. Der Rubrica-Zauber hat einen Fluch aus Feuer und Staub heraufbeschworen, der sie über die Grenzen von Raum und Zeit hinweg verfolgt. Die Geister der Rubricae verschwinden aus den Kerkern ihrer Rüstungen, während die lebenden Hexer nach und nach ihren Platz einnehmen. Getrieben von der Not, seine Legion zu retten, und im Streben nach Wiedergutmachung sucht Ahzek Ahriman nach der zeitverändernden Technologie des vergessenen Necron-Volkes, um die Vergangenheit umzuschreiben.

Es hat viele Jahre und unzählige Opfer gefordert, doch letztendlich ist Ahriman, ehemals oberster Librarian der Thousand Sons, doch nun Exilant und Hexer, bereit, die bedeutendste und wagemutigste Tat seines ganzen Lebens zu vollbringen. Seine Suche nach Wissen und Macht diente einem einzigen Ziel, das nun zum Greifen nahe ist. Welches Ziel? Nichts Geringeres als die Wiedergutmachung seines größten Scheiterns, die Umkehrung des Rubrica-Zaubers, der seine Legion verdammte.

Ahriman, der größte Hexer der Thousand Sons und Erschaffer des Rubrica-Zaubers, der einst seine Legion zu Fall brachte, wandert weiter dem Pfad zur Erlösung oder zur Verdammnis. Auf der Suche nach einer Heilung für seine Legion wird er gezwungen, sich einer schwerwiegenden Frage zu stellen – war das große Ritual von Anfang an zum Scheitern verurteilt? Die Antwort auf diese Frage könnte ein mysteriöses Artefakt bieten: das Athenäum von Kalimakus, ein Grimoire vergessenen Wissens.

Staub und Asche... Von seinem Vater Magnus dem Roten und seinen Brüdern verschmäht, ist Ahriman ein heimatloser Hexer des Tzeentch, dessen Taten eine ganze Legion für alle Ewigkeiten verdammten. Einst war er ein vielgepriesener Bruder der Thpusand Sons, doch jetzt ist er ein Ausgestoßener und Abtrünniger, der sich im Wirbel des Chaos verbirgt. Dort schmiedet er Pläne, um seine alte Macht wiederzuerlangen. Er ist ein Architekt des Schicksals, ein Meister des Warp, der danach trachtet, seine Feinde zu zerschmettern.

The soldiers called her the Angel of Waterloo...Henrietta Bartlett, the esteemed surgeon's daughter who was born on a battlefield, lost her mother on a battlefield, and was widowed on the battlefield, where she worked alongside her father on that fateful day in June 1815. But after the carnage of war, Hen dreams of peace, and her own home, and a society that would allow a woman to practice medicine. The new and faraway colony of New South Wales seems a paradise, where even convicts have a chance of a good life.

At 3 a.m. on February 21, 1865, a band of 65 Confederate horsemen slowly made its way down Greene Street in Cumberland, Maryland. Thinking the riders were disguised Union scouts, the few Union soldiers out that bitterly cold morning paid little attention to them. In the meantime, over 3,500 Yankee soldiers peacefully slept. Within 30 minutes, McNeill’s rangers had kidnapped Union generals George Crook and Benjamin Kelley from their hotels and spirited them out of town.

1942, Ontario. Lorsque le Canada et les États-Unis entrent en guerre contre l'Allemagne nazie, les jumelles Dot et Dash Wilson, aussi inséparables que différentes, s'engagent dans la branche féminine de l'armée. Dash rejoint l'aviation britannique, risquant chaque jour sa vie à bord de son Spitfire, quand Dot, passionnée par les énigmes et le morse, rejoint le camp X, une école d'espionnage ultra-secrète. Mais lorsque la mort frappe leur famille, le lien qui unissait les deux jumelles est soudainement brisé

A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, the author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the ground in Occupied France.

The invasion across the Channel came in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944. That day, forever known as D-Day, the Allies commenced Operation Overlord by staging the largest and most complex amphibious invasion in human history. The complex operation would require tightly coordinated naval and air bombardment, paratroopers, and even inflatable tanks that would be able to fire on fortifications from the coastline, all while landing over 150,000 men across nearly 70 miles of French beaches.