Жанр: Книги о войне

Война рождает не только героев. Но и героинь. 1935 год. Войска Муссолини вот-вот войдут в Эфиопию. Недавно осиротевшая Хирут попадает служанкой в дом к офицеру Кидане и его жене Астер. Когда разражается война, Хирут, Астер и другие женщины не хотят просто перевязывать раны и хоронить погибших. Они знают, что могут сделать для…

Время Z — это время, когда многое решается или уже решилось, только мы пока об этом не знаем. А может быть и не узнаем никогда.Время, когда решается или уже решилось какой быть и быть ли вообще Украине, Европе, России, миру. А зачем нам мир, в котором не будет России? Время Z, это время, когда начались (закончились?) тысячи…

В этом сборнике представлены наиболее удачные стихи написанные мною в 2021-ом и 2022-м году. Желаю приятного…

«Много ли мы на самом деле знаем о прошедшем времени? Так ли мы знакомы с бесконечной Вселенной и ее тайнами? И хорошо ли знаем наше звездное небо? Я и сам не знаю. Но хотел бы уточнить: мы (люди и лунные кошки) многие тысячи лет пожелали бы никогда не встречаться. Сама воля Вселенной решила за нас, обрушивая самые горькие…

Жизнь бросила лейтенанту Джану вызов, который он вынужден принять. Ему предстоит пройти через многие испытания, чтобы получить ответы на вопросы, оставшиеся открытыми после неожиданного исчезновения всех людей. Но одиночество далеко не самое страшное, что его поджидает. Поистине опасные вещи находятся не снаружи, а внутри…

A clandestine treaty. A death-bed confession. And the hunt is on for Sean Dillon, who must go head to head with the Mafia.The year is 1944. Just outside Delhi a British Dakota crashes, taking lives and destroying a clandestine treaty signed by Lord Mountbatten and the Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung. An historic agreement, one set to change the course of history.Over thirty years later, a death-bed confession from a Mafia kingpin reveals the answers to untouched secrets about the treaty, and just how much the British and Chinese governments would pay for its destruction.It’s not long…

The third book in the epic saga of humankind’s war of transcendenceThere is an unseen power in the universe—a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh’daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets.As humankind approaches the Singularity, when transcendence will be achieved through technology, contact will be made.In the wake of the near destruction of the solar system, the political powers on Earth seek a separate peace with an inscrutable alien life form that no one has ever seen. But Admiral Alexander Koenig,…

The fifth book in the epic saga of humankind’s war of transcendence…An enemy might just have to become an ally . . . in order to save humankindThe United States of North America is now engaged in a civil war with the Earth Confederation, which wants to yield to the demands of the alien Sh’daar, limit human technology, and become a part of the Sh’daar Galactic Collective. USNA President Koenig believes that surrendering to the Sh’daar will ultimately doom humankind.But when highly advanced, seemingly godlike aliens appear through an artificial wormhole in the Omega…

Big, bold military science fiction action from one of the genre’s biggest names.In the 23rd Century, war is still hell…Corpsman Eliot Carlyle joined the Navy to save lives and see the universe. Now, he and Bravo Company’s Black Wizards of the interstellar Fleet Marine Force are en route to Bloodworld – a hellish, volatile rock, colonized by the fanatical Salvationists who desired an inhospitable world where they could suffer for humanity’s sins. However, their penance could prove fatal – for the mysterious alien race known as the Qesh have just made violent, bloody first…

There’s no more time…There’s always more time…Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America, and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight.Because that’s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force so technologically advanced that there seems little hope. That’s why he disobeyed his orders in the first place – to figure out a way to stop them. But now he’s…

When called to do battle many light years from home, the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary Unit rose to the challenge – and now thousands of enslaved humans have been freed, but the earth has moved on…Earth is twenty-one years older than the home planet they originally left, and the Marines need time to retrain and readjust – time they do not have, due to the bizarre disappearance of a detachment of their brothers- and sisters-in-arms. It is a mystery, but there is a starting point: an ancient wormhole threading through the Sirius system.Whatever waits on the other side must be…

The seventh book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series – STAR CARRIER.The civil war might be over, but war for the galaxy might just be beginning…2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over. But before a new era of peace on Earth can begin, humankind must martial its interstellar forces as one fleet to engage in a war against an alien entity in Omega Centauri.Without provocation, it destroyed a Confederation science facility inhabited by 12,000 people, and it must be neutralized before it sets…

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle ‘Canopus in Argos: Archives’.The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a ‘totally crazed species’, racing towards annihilation: his orders to…

In the vein of the hit television show “Battlestar Galactica” comes the fourth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling, science fiction series in which humankind is in a vast power struggle to bring down an evil empire.20 years after the fragile truce with the Sh’daar, Koenig is now President of the USNA, and Gray is skipper of the CVS America… soon to be promoted to commander of the entire battle group, Koenig’s old position, and one which he might not be ready for. The truce with the alien Sh’daar is unraveling as many predicted, and Humankind still knows little…

The second book in the epic saga of humankind’s war of transcendenceIn the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology.The warlike Sh’daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the creatures known as human.On the far side of known human space, the Marines are under siege, battling the relentless servant races of the Sh’daar aggressor. With a task force stripped to the bone and the Terran Confederation of States racked by dissent, rogue Admiral Alexander Koenig must make…

The first book in the epic saga of humankind’s war of transcendenceThere is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous turning point.But an armed threat is approaching from deepest space, determined to prevent humankind from crossing over that boundary—by total annihilation if necessary.To the Sh’daar, the driving technologies of transcendent change are anathema and must be obliterated from the universe—along…

The final conflict has arrived…Chaos has erupted throughout the known galaxy, threatening countless colonies and orbital habitats—as the Associative struggles vainly to keep the peace. Extreme measures are called for in these times of dire crisis, and the Star Marines are awakened from their voluntary 850-year cybe-hibe sleep. But General Trevor Garroway and his warriors are about to discover that the old rules of engagement have drastically changed . . .The end begins with an old-style assault on rebels at the Tarantula Stargate. But true terror looms at the edges of known reality.…

В произведении рассказывается о событиях двух чеченских войн, раскрываемых через жизнь главной героини чеченской девушки Лалы. Время повествования с 1991 по 2010 годы. В основе произведения лежит история любви чеченки Лалы и русского парня Вани, с которым она училась в школе военного городка в Грозном. Война и связанные с ней…