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EMP Year 1: ‘Desperado’ by W.Wm.Mee. Meet Sheriff Wayland Crow, a modern day ‘cowboy’ living in a Post Apocalyptic world. In the first half of the 21st century, extreme jihadist created a mega EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse), that knocked out every motor, electronic chip and digital device in...

Thirty years after he graduated from the Navy's fighter/attack school, Robert Gandt returns to participate in the rigorous training program of the class of eight Navy and Marine pilots learning to fly the F/A-18 Hornet. Meet the identical twins from Middle America, the computer nerd with a penchant...

When conscription was eliminated in the early 1970s, the US Army found itself with a very different kind of soldier. While the personality of the Army remained the same, the organization of its higher levels of command and combat formations, and the internal structure of its units underwent major...

In April 1862, the stage was set for one of the greatest locomotive chases in history. Union forces planned to steal a train and travel at high speed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, disabling the line as they went, in order to cut off vital rail supplies to the Confederate stronghold of Atlanta, Georgia,...

The first 50 years of the US Army airborne arm is a story of continuing battles with the nation's enemies, of battles within the Army's hierarchy, of change, and of adaptation. If there is any single attribute the airborne soldier can claim as his most sterling, it is his uncanny ability to adapt...

For decades, the only thing that kept China from invading Taiwan was the American promise to defend it, even if that meant World War III. To date, China hasn't been ready to go that far. But what if China figured out a way to put the United States on the sidelines of their fight to regain Taiwan?...

For the first time in English, this book offers a concise but fact-packed account of the organization, equipment, and all operations of Japan's small but elite wartime parachute forces. Correcting and amplifying previous accounts based on wartime intelligence, it traces the Imperial Army's Raiding...

As a society, the Interstellar Web was dying. Enormous fortunes were amassed in the face of unspeakable want, and avarice thrived as sport. With no villains left to fight but each other, quarreling factions stood prepared to devour one another at the slightest provocation. None of this mattered...

HELPING OTHER PEOPLE WAS LIKE HELPING HIMSELF “Members of Alpha Rescue Recon, please proceed to Port B10 to board the U.N.D. Heisenberg. The vessel is departing in five minutes,” an automated female voice announced over the intercom system. Private Mulls hurried down the corridor,...

WHY WOULD ANYONE POSSIBLY SAY NO Pain surged down Dan’s arm. The orc’s sword had sliced between his middle and ring finger all the way to the wrist. A second later, the orc’s head was sliced off and Dan couldn’t see for all the blood in his eyes. When he opened his eyes again,...

Fantascienza - romanzo (308 pagine) - Gli alleati sono stati spazzati via dalla furia nazista. E dal suo invincibile alleato: l'Eroe Ariano. Romanzo finalista al Premio Urania La Germania nazista ha vinto la Seconda guerra mondiale. Un'ipotesi che si può ormai definire "classica"...

In 1798, the Irish rose up against the corrupt English government run out of Dublin. Joined by both Protestants and Catholics, the rebellion quickly spread across the country. Although the Irish peasantry were armed mostly with pikes, they were able to overwhelm a number of small, isolated British...

This handsome archive depicts richly detailed armor and weaponry dating from the early ninth century to the mid-1700s. Adapted from decorative ornamentation on burial monuments and manuscripts, hundreds of finely executed images depict authentic shields, swords, crossbows, helmets, and ornate suits of body armor for knights and their steeds. 100 black-and-white plates.

First entering service in 1941 the legendary 'all-wooden' Mosquito was one of the best twin-engined aircraft of its size to see action in World War II. The addition of radar turned the Mosquito into the RAF's premier night fighter, and it achieved great success in the defence of Britain, with some...