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Author | : Anthony Riches |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2019-04-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473628695 |
Download The Scorpion's Strike: Empire X Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
With his compelling Centurions trilogy complete, Anthony Riches returns to his bestselling Empire sequence of novels with his storytelling skills polished to perfection. Set in the second century AD, The Scorpion's Strike continues the story of Marcus Aquila's fight for justice for a family ripped asunder by imperial assassins. Still seeking revenge, Marcus finds himself thrown back into the heart of the chaos that is shaking the Roman Empire to its roots. Fresh from their close escape from imperial betrayal in the German forest, Marcus and the Tungrians are ordered to Gaul, where an outlaw called Maturnus is wreaking havoc. Havoc that may be more than mere banditry, as deserters and freed slaves flock to his cause: rebellion is in the air for the first time in a generation. And if escape from Rome's memories is a relief for the young centurion, he soon discovers that danger has followed him west to Gaul. The expedition is led by Praetorians whom he has every cause to hate. And to fear, if they should discover who he really is. 'A masterclass in military historical fiction' Sunday Express on Retribution
Author | : James Oakes |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-05-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393239934 |
Download The Scorpion's Sting: Antislavery and the Coming of the Civil War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement, specifically highlighting the plan to help abolish slavery by surrounding the slave states with territories of freedom and discusses the possibility of what could have been a more peaceful alternative to the war.
Author | : Peter Sasgen |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612512844 |
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The USS Rasher had an extraordinary record in World War II: she sank 18 enemy ships and destroyed 99,901 tons--the second highest tonnage of the war. Her fifth war patrol is the stuff of legends. In August 1944 during a single night surface attack on a Japanese convoy off the Philippines, she sank the escort carrier Taiyo and three marus, and later during that same patrol she sank another ship. Reading more like a novel than an operational history, this book covers all aspects of the Rasher's combat history in a way that both the general reader and veteran submariner will appreciate. Author Peter Sasgen is the son of a Rasher crew member, and from his father's perspective he follows the sub from the builder's way through eight action-packed patrols to war's end. His richly detailed descriptions of submarine operations include lively commentary by former shipmates and excerpts from patrol reports along with a close examination of patrol procedures, communications, life guarding, and other topics rarely covered in such detail. Sasgen also explores the essence of submarine combat--aggressive leadership--and its role in the Rasher's success.
Author | : Brian A. Nelson |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1458777766 |
Download The Silence and the Scorpion Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
On April 11, 2002, nearly a million Venezuelans marched on the presidential palace to demand the resignation of President Hugo Chvez, Led by Pedro Carmona and Carlos Ortega, the opposition represented a cross-section of society furious with Chvez's economic policies, specifically his mishandling of the Venezuelan oil industry. But as the day progressed, the march turned violent, sparking a military revolt that led to the temporary ousting of Chvez. Over the ensuing, turbulent 72 hours, Venezuelans would confront the deep divisions within their society and ultimately decide the best course for their country - and its oil - in the new century. An exemplary piece of narrative journalism, The Silence and the Scorpion provides rich insight into the complexities of modern Venezuela.
Author | : Anthony Riches |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473628865 |
Download River of Gold: Empire XI Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Don't miss the latest instalment in the Empire series, Vengeance, which is available to pre-order now! Coming November 2021. After saving the emperor's life in Rome, Marcus and his comrades have been sent across the sea to the wealthy, corrupt Greek metropolis of Aegyptus, Alexandria. An unknown enemy has slaughtered the garrison of the Empire's last outpost before its border with the mysterious kingdom of Kush. Caravans can no longer reach the crucial Red Sea port of Berenike, from which the riches of the East flow towards Rome. The Emperor's most trusted and most devious adviser has ordered Marcus's commander Scaurus and his trusted officers to the south. With orders that are tantamount to a suicide mission, and with only one slim hope of success. Can a small force of highly trained legionaries restore the Empire's power in this remote desert no-man's-land, when faced by the fanatical army of Kush's iron-fisted ruler?
Author | : Anthony Riches |
Publisher | : Hodder Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : Aquila, Marcus Valerius (Fictitious character) |
ISBN | : 9781444732009 |
Download Thunder of the Gods: Empire VIII Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Centurion Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians march East, to the heart of the Parthian empire. Ordered to relieve the siege of an isolated fortress, their task is doomed to bloody failure unless they can turn the disaffected Third Legion into a fighting force capable of resisting the terrifying Parthian cataphracts. And Marcus must travel to the enemy capital Ctesiphon on a desperate mission, the only man who can persuade the King of Kings to halt a war that threatens the humiliation of the empire and the slaughter of his friends. Acclaim for Empire 'Some authors are better historians than they are storytellers. Anthony Riches is brilliant at both.'Conn Iggulden 'A damn fine read . . . fast-paced, action-packed.' Ben Kane 'Muscular in prose and approach, the novel is riveting and direct.' History Today on The Leopard Sword Find out more about Anthony Riches' books at www.anthonyriches.com
Author | : Anthony Riches |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1473628903 |
Download Vengeance: Empire XII Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After saving the Empire's richest province from a foreign army, Marcus and the men who protect him have been in hiding. Their lives will be forfeit if they are seen in Rome. But times have changed. Marcus's protector, the patrician legion commander Scaurus, has been summoned home by his mentor, a powerful senator who has decided he must act to save the empire from its debauched ruler's reign of terror. Rome is a hotbed of conspiracy and treachery: and the senator is not the only contender for power. The emperor himself plans to destroy those he mistrusts and no-one is safe. Marcus is assigned his own, unique role in the conspiracy. He will become a gladiator once more. But this time, his only opponent will be Commodus himself . . .
Author | : Anthony Riches |
Publisher | : Hodder & Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2013-08-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1444711946 |
Download The Eagle's Vengeance: Empire VI Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'A master of the genre' The Times The Tungrian auxiliary cohorts return to Hadrian's Wall after their successful Dacian campaign, only to find Britannia in chaos. The legions are overstretched, struggling to man the forts of the northern frontier in the face of increasing barbarian resistance. The Tungrians are the only soldiers who can be sent into the northern wastes, far beyond the long abandoned wall built by Antoninus, where a lost symbol of imperial power of the Sixth Victorious Legion is reputed to await them. Protected by an impassable swamp and hidden in a fortress atop a high mountain, the eagle of the Sixth legion must be recovered if the legion is to survive. Marcus and his men must penetrate the heart of the enemy's strength, ghosting through a deadly wilderness patrolled by vicious huntresses before breaching the walls of the Fang, an all-but-impregnable fort, if they are to rescue the legion's venerated standard. If successful their escape will be twice as perilous, with the might of a barbarian tribe at their heels.
Author | : Jim Shepard |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2008-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307277607 |
Download Like You'd Understand, Anyway Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, caught in the star-crossed orbits of their joint mission. Two Texas high school football players at the top of their food chain, soliciting their fathers’ attention by leveling everything before them on the field. And the rational and compassionate chief executioner of Paris, whose occupation, during the height of the Terror, eats away at all he holds dear. Brimming with irony, compassion, and withering humor, these eleven stories are at once eerily pertinent and dazzlingly exotic, and they showcase the work of a protean, prodigiously gifted writer at the height of his form. Reading Jim Shepard, according to Michael Chabon, “is like encountering our national literature in microcosm.”
Author | : Whit Gibbons |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1998-03-20 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0817309195 |
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"The book celebrates the intrinsic worth of all plants and animals in order to motivate people in a unified effort to preserve the Earth's rich array of life forms."--Cover.