War Short Stories

Андрей Платонович Платонов (настоящая фамилия Климентов; 1899-1951) - выдающийся русский советский писатель: прозаик и публицист, драматург и поэт. В годы Великой Отечественной войны в звании капитана служил военкором газеты "Красная звезда".

Erika Manns Prosazyklus beschreibt alltägliche Begebenheiten aus Deutschland zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus kurz vor Kriegsbeginn: Die 1940 im amerikanischen Exil in New York verfassten Geschichten sind eine geschickte Mischung aus Fiktion und Tatsachenbericht und erzählen von Schicksalen, Leid und Resignation, aber auch von Menschlichkeit und der Hoffnung auf eine Zeit, in der die Schrecknisse des Dritten Reiches vorbei sind. 65 Jahre später liest die Schauspielerin Lena Stolze die Texte nun auch auf Deutsch.

Death and destruction follow the demon wherever he treads, and Gabriel is rarely far behind, waiting for his chance to extinguish the creature known as Temple once and for all. But in Singapore during the Second World War, a lone soldier in possession of a shattering secret gets caught up in their battle. The knowledge he holds could change the course of their ancient conflict...and the fate of the world.

Napoli, estate del '43, il cielo non appartiene più alla città, ma ai bombardieri alleati. A luglio il fascismo collassa; in agosto le truppe alleate si avvicinano e a Napoli s'incattivisce l'occupazione tedesca; a settembre la resa dell'esercito italiano, rastrellamenti e deportazioni di uomini: la città sta nella tenaglia di due eserciti, uno dentro e uno fuori. Qui si svolge la vita di nove persone in quell'estate. Età, mestieri e storie differenti, compresse in un assedio, rompono le distanze tra loro e vanno insieme, prima al passo, poi fino al galoppo.

"Wellen" - gelesen von Jana Reiss. Sophie Scholl kehrt in das München von heute zurück und besucht die Orte, an denen sie gelebt und gewirkt hat. "Wie ein Schwan sei Deine Seele" - gelesen von Kevin Dickmann. Ein Freund von Hans Scholl wurde von ihm zum Widerstand aufgefordert. Er betrachtet alles aus einer Perspektive der Liebe. "Der NSDAPedell" - gelesen von Martin Birnbaum. Geschildert werden die Verhaftung der Geschwister Scholl und die Verhandlung vor dem Volksgerichtshof aus der Sicht des Pedells der Universität in München, der die beiden verhaftet hat.

The scene is a traditional English garden located in the splendour of the English countryside. The plants and wildlife have an ability to communicate with each other which the humans who reside in the house are totally unaware of.

Pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1919, "Berecche e la guerra" verrà poi inserita da Pirandello in "Novelle per un anno". Pirandello ci presenta la storia del Prof. Berecche, studioso e cultore della Germania, che dovrà confrontarsi con il dramma e l'insensatezza della Prima Guerra Mondiale.

Sordo, mudo y ciego, probablemente uno de los relatos de H. P. Lovecraft menos conocidos, narra la historia de un veterano de la Primera Guerra Mundial que ha quedado ciego, sordo y mudo, pero que aún así debe enfrentarse con fuerzas siniestras en su decrépita casona rural.

From Charlie Avinash Nicholas comes a short tale of a passionate, platonic love, haunting memories, and a creature who can shatter his victims' realities.

Children fighting on the front lines? Maybe in some other country. But things have gone from bad to worse in the U.S. as the South American war drags on. Now the government has hatched a scheme to attract teens and even preteens into the army: they are offering kids a chance to be the star of The Johnny America Show, a reality show set on the battlefront. In a country wracked by shortages and draft sweeps and despair, maybe picking up a gun isn't such a bad idea after all.

A collection of previously published and new short stories by author Martin Roy Hill. In the title story, "Duty," a Cold War soldier faces the prospect of starting WWIII. In "Something Far Away," a former Coastguardsman must face his ghosts from the past.

When young dive-bomber pilot is dismissed for reckless behavior, he’s reassigned to the Black Cat squadron as the co-pilot of a giant Catalina seaplane, The Sea Witch. He’s thrown into a whole new world, where a Catalina carries five tons of bombs, a half-dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a fine line between valor and a death wish.A daring rescue mission forces them deep into enemy territory, where the crew of the Sea Witch must band together as never before.

Y un día que fui a Tarleton a cortarme el pelo me encontré a un tal Bill Knowles, un antiguo compañero de Harvard, muy simpático. Había formado parte de la división de la Guardia Nacional que nos había precedido en el campamento; a última hora se había pasado a la aviación y se había quedado en Tarleton. "Me alegro de verte, Andy", dijo con excesiva seriedad. "Te pasaré toda la información que tengo antes de irme a Texas. Sabes, en realidad aquí sólo hay tres chicas..." "Me interesaba el asunto: era algo místico que sólo hubiese tres chicas. ... y ahora mismo vas a conocer a una."

هذه المجموعة تقدم مشاهدات من حروب مختلفة كان جيل الكاتب إما شاهداً عليها وضحية لها، أو خاض غمارها. وتمتد من هزيمة حزيران التي تم تجميلها بتسميتها "النكسة"، مروراً بكل الحروب الأخرى التي لم تنتهِ بالحرب الأخيرة الدائرة رحاها الآن.

Four from Mangrove is a four-story collection, all involving different aspects of the city-nation of Mangrove. The audiobook is a classic fantasy, sword, sorcery tale. Once, there was a land like no other. It was a city-state, a nation. The reach of its rulers sometimes spanned continents, and at other times reached no farther than the walls of a war-torn palace. Giants lived in Mangrove - powerful kings and generals who ruled all within their sight; and lands far beyond. And it gave birth to the least of us - powerless serfs and homeless orphans.

Diese Compilation enthält die Texte "Die Kücheruhr" (gelesen von Hans-Peter Bögel), "An Ruth Hager" (gelesen von Jan Schreiber), "Lesebuchgeschichten" (gelesen von Jürgen Andreas) und "Die drei dunklen Könige" (gelesen von Hans-Peter Bögel). Regie: Günter Guben. Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und einer der bekanntesten Autoren der Trümmerliteratur nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

On the night before her Choosing, there were whispers of war in the air. After binding herself to Clarent, Opal is given a grim prophecy of her future. Alone and ostracized from her clan, she finds an unlikely ally in the sorceresses' leader, Joan. Joan is the reason the Sorceress clan wants to attack. She's prophesied to pull Excalibur from its stone. But her clan wants its powers for a darker purpose. They have to band together to stop the Sorceress clan's invasion. Excalibur is on their side, but they’re outnumbered five to one. Can Opal escape this war unscathed?

Stephen Crane was an American novelist, poet and journalist. Crane is noted for his early employment of naturalism, a literary style in which characters face realistically portrayed and often bleak circumstances, but Crane added impressionistic imagery and biblical symbolism to the austere realism.

Barto is a genetically engineered soldier in a future war. He has body armor, enhanced reflexes, and a laser lance as a deadly weapon, but he can kill with his bare hands as well. His entire life has been designed for combat, to kill and die on the battlefield, to destroy the enemy. That is all he knows. He doesn’t have to worry about making complex decisions. But when he is cut off from the rest of his squadron, freed from the constant drone of commands, he is confronted with the most terrifying crisis - the possibility of peace.

Lee’s too wild for the military, but too good at his job to get rid of. The government's solution is to banish him to the outer planets until he’s deemed civilized. His latest attempt at rehabilitation has him signed on with an outpost colony. He hates ranching. He hates taking orders from his boss. But he likes shooting aliens. Luckily, the planet he’s on is about to face a full blown infestation.