War Short Stories

Chip's luck has run out. He's been on the dole for most of his life and now the government wants to ship him off to fight in the never-ending war in Mexico. But he has two things going for him: a cocky attitude and his thinkmate, an all-knowing personal digital assistant named Mr. Jimmy. Maybe the way to escape is to get in line to step through the mysterious door down the alley. Hundreds of people have passed through, but no one has come out.

A través de sus ojos, el lector experimenta las emociones y desafíos de la guerra, así como la camaradería y valentía de los soldados. Enrico se convierte en un tamborcillo, un músico que toca el tambor para guiar a las tropas en la batalla. A medida que avanza la historia, Enrico se enfrenta a situaciones difíciles que ponen a prueba su coraje y determinación.

"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.

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.

"Narrator Janina Edwards's compelling tone draws listeners into Wilson's searing narrative as a family reckons with a supernatural legacy...A stark and enduring listen, well told and unforgettable." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious...

Dan 'Spider' Shepherd was sipping his first coffee of the day as the sweat from his morning run slowly dried on his skin. Kept on standby in Cyprus, Shepherd and his patrol mates are getting fed up with the lack of action. When they're offered the opportunity to spend some time in Nepal, they jump at the chance. Whilst there, they meet an SAS living legend, and are roped into a mission.

Dan Shepherd stared at the canvas ceiling above his bed as the dawn light slowly strengthened. His tent was pitched on the edge of the airfield outside Sarajevo in Bosnia. 1995, and Dan 'Spider' Shepherd is on active service as a paratrooper in war-torn Sarajevo. Frustrated by the army, when he is tasked with accompanying an SAS patrol in the area, he realises that the SAS is where he belongs.

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."

His pulse hammers as guards tighten their grip on East Berlin’s crumbling borders. Doubt creeps in like cold air, but he’s come too far to be captured now. Each step toward freedom weighs heavier than the last. Betrayal shattered her world. The man she once loved stands at the center of a devastating truth. Her heart aches with disbelief, but denial can no longer shield her from what’s real. A new life in America should bring peace, but shadows of the past refuse to fade. With each revelation, her hope dims, and nightmares creep into the daylight.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

It's just another day at the Silver Train Diner until Relish goes missing. Ketchup, along with his trusty sidekick Mustard, must cross the treacherous caverns of dining booths to reach the fiery infernos of Kitchen to save their old friend. Along the way they will meet old friends, and make new enemies.

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.

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.

Nostalgische Lesungen für die Winterzeit. Schon immer hat das Weihnachtsfest einen besonderen Zauber auf die Menschen gewirkt. Sieben gefühlvolle Erzählungen und Gedichte großer Autoren lassen die vergangenen Zeiten nostalgisch aufleben. Gelesen von Gert Heidenreich, Laura Maire, Sabine Kastius u. v. a.