As war grows more deadly, Violet Sorrengail joins the elite Navarre: the dragon riders. But she'll need to keep her wits because once you enter the Basgiath War College, there are only two ways out: graduate or die.

A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from “a remarkably good writer” (The New York Times). It was the greatest of battles—the defining military engagement of the nineteenth century that forever ended one man’s dreams of a European empire unified under his rule. This epoch-defining conflict would ultimately be remembered for the showdown...

"On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of the fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, from heroes and villains, to droids and creatures."--

In "The Horror Days of Nidwalden" Lukas Stofer reveals the dark side of Swiss history. He relentlessly exposes the failures and selfishness of the old Swiss Confederation that sealed the downfall of the community. Stofer challenges us to rethink the heroic narratives and learn from the past. This book is a memorial that encourages us not to glorify history, but to take responsibility and stand together for a better future.The Dark Side of the Confederation
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"War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the world of mecha fiction. WHEN AN AI DIES, ITS CITY DIES WITH IT WHEN A CITY FALLS, IT LEAVES A CORPSE BEHIND WHEN THAT CORPSE RUNS OFF, ONLY DEVOTION CAN BRING IT BACK When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests, its city, and all its wondrous works. But in its final death throes,...

Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) fue un general prusiano, uno de los más influyentes historiadores y teóricos de la ciencia militar moderna y que tuvo como uno de sus principales legados la obra clásica: "De la guerra", una referencia obligada sobre guerras y estrategias militares. La obra ocupó doce años de la vida de su autor y su mujer, la condesa de Brühl, se encargó de la edición póstuma de este breviario estratégico. De la Guerra segue...

I never saw any regiment in such order, said Wellington before the Battle of Waterloo, it was the most complete and handsome military body I ever looked at. The object of the Duke's admiration was the 23rd Regiment of Foot the famous Royal Welch Fusiliers and this is their story during the tumultuous and bloody period of the wars with France between 1793 and 1815. Based on rare personal memoirs and correspondence and new research, this compelling...

"Politics is the art of the possible," Otto Von Bismarck famously said, and here, in his own words, the art of politics is laid bare by one of the most prominent and influential European statesmen of the nineteenth century. These are the intimate reflections and reminiscences of the man who unified the independent Germanic states into one nation, and whose subsequent promotion of the new country's colonial ambitions earned him the title of the founder...

Originally published in 1906 as part of the valued "Pall Mall Series' of military text books, works that are now regarded as classics of military theory Intended for serious or professional students of military history, each volume in this sought after series is interspersed with strategical and tactical comments and illustrated by numerous coloured maps. This is a well written and accurate account of a large mass of German cavalry on service patrol,...