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Brandenburgers is a historical fantasy set during Operation Barbarrossa, the German invasion of Russia in June of 1941. It is a fast-paced tale about a squad of soldiers racing across the Baltic States toward Leningrad. The squad is held together by the main character, Sergeant Wolfgang Steiner, and Corporal Fritz Schumann. These two drive their companions forward through one difficulty after another. These Special Forces are wrapped up in the epic...
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1908. The United Kingdom stands upon the cusp of a tumultuous century; a century of far-reaching political, social, and economic change. That change will accelerate rapidly within a few short years, as Liberals found the welfare state and reform the British constitution, and as a Sarajevo gunman plunges the world into total war.
But what if the meteor that harmlessly crashed into remote Siberian forest in the summer of 1908, had instead brought death...
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Journeys kept, views shared, disable veteran, USMC, thanks Uncle Sam, crazy for a fee. Voices in dark, words in waves to share. History In The Works, Stories Told, History recorded, ties to the notes, songs record for the best to be, bumps in the roads, back on track.
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"Welcome to the BBC's coverage of the 2015 UK Presidential Election..."
In 'President Ashdown Is Retiring', the authors of Shuffling the Deck team up once again to explore the aftermath of a thoroughly modern and fundamentally Blairite republican revolution.
Now, join David Dimbleby and many familiar faces on Election Night 2015, including Business Secretary Peter Mandelson MP, Green Party Lord Senator Robert Llewellyn, a blonde-haired eccentric...
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Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman, and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous anti-hero of Michael Moorcock's most controversial work
Published in 1981 to great critical acclaim-then condemned to the shadows and unavailable in the U.S. for thirty years-Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, is not a book for the faint-hearted. It's the story of a cocaine addict,...
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Imagine Abraham Lincoln walking the streets of Evanston, Illinois, on Easter weekend in 1955, just a man suddenly and magically free of the terrible burden of leading the nation through war. How will the Great Emancipator react to this new world, where he finds comfort and love in the arms of a young widow? How will learning of his own death affect his efforts to end the war when he suddenly returns to the horrors of 1865? "Abraham Lincoln: A Novel...
88) The Red Führer
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Adolf Hitler is regarded as history's most notorious villain for good reason. As an individual filled with hate, he was a natural convert to the extremist movements spreading around Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and his warped ability to harness the desperation of millions of dispossessed Germans enabled his regime to slaughter countless victims. The Nazi movement that he founded was, and is, universally regarded as a dark reflection...
89) The Elder Rose
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George III is actually sane? The American Revolution quashed? Nelson survives Trafalgar? Napoleon is defeated by... Who??? Read these gripping situations from the 18th century in The Elder Rose, the new book in the Knight and Daye series!
Within these tales of alternative history, the stories of the Woodes-Hastings dynasty are, told by an 18th-century British soldier, Colonel William Alexander Woodes-Hastings and his daughter, Cynthia Rose. Aside...
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This story began in 2016 at my apartment in New York.
I had a dream that I was going on a military mission in a submarine from the U.S to the South Indian sea, the entire crew was about to discover the place where the race began human, I invite you to continue reading, and together we explore the mystery of paradise.
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In 1958, Gabon chooses union with France over independence. In 2015, with the powerful Alain-Bernard Bongo on trial in Paris, two murders in the oil fields reverberate from the Libreville underworld to the heights of French corporate towers, and threaten to unravel a web of corruption that joins politicians, oil companies and organized crime. Can a foreign journalist find the secret that Elf Aquitaine wants to keep buried, and will it shake Gabon's...
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The Great War has been raging for eighteen years. In celebration of Christmas, Tsar Nicholas II attends the theatre in St. Petersburg but he is not to survive the evening.
His successors determine that taking part in the peace talks which Pope Benedict has mooted may well be to Russia's advantage. After deliberate delays, they travel to Rheinfelden to meet with British Prime Minister Bonar Law, French President Georges Clemenceau and American Prime...
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Today, Oswald Mosley is remembered as one of Britain's most unpleasant and despised political figures. Yet at the opening of his career he was a rising star of British politics. Charismatic, talented and intelligent, it seemed that that Mosley was destined for greatness. If he had not abandoned mainstream politics for his journey towards fascism, he could have reached 10 Downing Street.
So what if things had turned out differently?
In A Greater...
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The forces of Evil arewinning the war for our souls, oursense of decency and our innateability to love one another. If thisbook helps to change just one ofus, from apathy and ignorance, toa champion of the truth - we canbegin the journey to a New Age ofEnlightenment - for all of humanity"
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'Great man' history is flawed. But it can be fun.
A group of alternate history authors try their hand at imagining different figures at the top of the British establishment. Be they Prime Ministers or something less conventional, the men and women in these pages inhabit very different worlds to that in which we live.
Could Britain have had a female PM much earlier in its history? Who might emerge to lead Britain from the ashes of a fascist dictatorship?...
96) Aya
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As the two travel throughout the world pursuing their mission of revenge, they will come across many different forces and many hidden worlds. Some of these people will be helpful for Aya and Ajax's goal. People will be equally vengeful towards the same people the Okura's are hunting. As Ajax and Aya Okura follow down this dangerous path, they must decide what is right for both them and humanity. Will they continue to hunt this treacherous path, killing...
97) Taletyper
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The tales we know, the stories we tell, these are tightly connected to the world. If the tale is lost or changed, the world reacts. So the Factory makes sure tales remain unchanged forever. But if someone has the skill to change the tales, results will be unpredictable.
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Twenty-Two Tales of Christmas Terror ranging from ancient Iceland to modern-day Iraq by New York Times Bestselling and award-winning authors, including: a new ghost story by Heather Graham, a Repairman Jack Christmas adventure by F. Paul Wilson, a spine tingling tale by master of horror Thomas F. Monteleone, and a special tale of Christmas wonder by Jon Land.
In a unique experience-a story within a story-you will follow along when the MacDonald...
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The Boy In The Storm' chronicles three days in the lives of a family and a government agent in Nazi-occupied Britain in 1957. This moving and personal tale of human survival under totalitarianism is intertwined with the historical events, starting in 1941, that led to the current situation. Past and present come together to weave a powerful new story from Sea Lion Press.
100) La Quinta Estación
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A raíz del colapso económico de Indonesia, las mujeres chinas son el objetivo de las Fuerzas Espciales imprudentes y brutales del yerno del Presidente. En un ambiente islámico en evolución, el sentimiento anti-chino lleva al país al borde del colapso, a medida que el interés internacional se ve reforzado por los relatos de periodistas protagonistas, sobre historias reales de supervivencia.
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