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The battlefield struggles of the officers and men of Lieutenant Colonel Kusch’s battle group continue as the Eastern Front draws inexorably closer to Berlin. Long gone are the days of heady victories – now it is all about stopping the Red Army’s steamroller from reaching Germany. Yes, there are offensive moves against Soviet armored spearheads east of Warsaw or in western Pomerania, but none of these can promise anything but a temporary relief to a situation that is getting worse by the day. And as hope for victory fades, it is no longer about glory but more and more about survival.

The men of Lieutenant Colonel Ketterle's battle group see that the fall of France did not mean the end of the war. Instead, they are sent east to take part in Operation Barbarossa - the invasion of the Soviet Union - fighting in battles of the first two Eastern Front campaigns of the game Maneuver Warfare: Panzergrenadier Battle Group. In this book, follow them – and their opponents – as they cross the Soviet border and fight in battles that culminate in the massive encirclement of Soviet troops at Kiev. Then, when that fails to deliver a final victory, the battle group is sent to ...

A brutal rape by a migrant in Bulgaria serves as the spark that ignites a new war. An outraged mob burns down a Turkish mosque in Sofia and a government in Ankara mobilizes for revenge. Soon Turkish troops are pouring across the border and outnumbered Bulgarian battalions face them in a desperate battle to avert a repeat of the country's previous brutal occupation while her politicians scramble for outside help. Jonasz writes exciting combat scenes and lots of them. If you’ve enjoyed this genre of novel by the likes of Tom Clancy, John Hackett, Ralph Peters, etc., you’ll feel right at ...

A Stryker company from the Pennsylvania National Guard is on an exercise in Turkey. Everything is going perfectly until war breaks out and what many of the men thought would be an exotic adventure turns into a nightmare. Cut off inside an increasingly hostile country, the National Guardsmen are abandoned by their government which tells them to be patient in the name of big politics. However, when American nuclear weapons in Turkey go missing, the time for patience is over and the Strykers have to act.

The men of Lieutenant Colonel Ketterle's battle group begin their odyssey across the fronts of the Second World War, taking part in the battles of the first two campaigns of the game Maneuver Warfare: Panzergrenadier Battle Group. In this book, follow them – and their opponents – as they they fight in the Polish campaign's less well known battles of 1939, from the first shots fired on the 1st of September to the bitter scenes that precede victory for one and defeat for the other side. Then advance with the battle group across the Belgian and French countryside in 1940 and experience the...

1939 – the first year of the biggest conflict that humanity has ever seen. Encouraged by inaction on the part of Britain and France, Hitler decides to send his armies east into Poland. Yes, he knows that the Allies have signed a treaty to support his eastern neighbor in case of war but believes it to be nothing but a bluff. That the Allies will not follow through their promisses. Hence, on the 1st of September, the German armies step off. Follow the men – the infanteers, the uhlans, the tankers, the pilots and the sailors – who fought on the 1939 battlefields of Poland under the eagle...

In 77 AD, the eighth year of the reign of Caesar Vespasianus Augustus, an expediton to map out the Mare Sarmaticum sets out on a Roman war galley from a port on the northern coast of Gaul. Pulled by a mysterious pendant carried by the expedition's cartographer, it meets a dark fate on a distant island far beyond the Empire's borders. The expedition's demise sets of a chain of events that lead others to follow in its steps over the next two thousand years. And all of them end up on that same island attracted by the invisible pull of the long dead cartographer's pendant.

Driven by personal loss, a group of men declare their own war against terrorism. From the rugged mountains of Afghanistan to the glittering glass towers of Dubai, they hunt their prey while, in the background, fire begins to engulf the world.

A team of German special forces troops from the Brandenburg Regiment is sent to Tibet to retrieve an artifact that is supposed to help Nazi Germany win the war. Led by a ruthless SS officer, they must cross thousands of kilometers of hostile territory by air, sea and land, looking for unlikely allies to help them survive. To complete their mission they must face not only the Allies or deadly storms and blizzards but, the most dangerous of all, betrayal.

The end of the Second World War is nearing and Germany's leaders realize that they will lose, so they must secure what the country will need to rebuild once the dust settles. And this means money. A lot of money. Fortunately, the vaults of the Reichsbank are full of gold that can be liquidated when the time comes. But first, it all needs to be kept out of Allied and Soviet hands. Part of the Reichsbank's treasure is sent to the icy wastes of the Far North under the protection of Sergeant Bachmann's Brandenburgers. At first, the men count themselves lucky to get pulled out of the collapsing ...

Sergeant Bachmann's team of Brandenburg Regiment special forces men gets called into action again. Pulled out of their anti-partisan operations in the Balkans, the troops return to Africa. This time, though, instead of just passing through, they head directly into the heart of the continent to track down a German scientist working on biological weapons at a research facility named Durant Station deep in the jungle. They need to reach him because, with the Eastern Front cracking under Soviet pressure, the Brandenbugers' masters have decided that what the scientist is working on can turn the ...

Home from the battlefields of the Caucasus, Dima is stuck in a dead end job in Moscow and with dim prospects for his future. One day, though, an e-mail from an old army friend and an offer of work in Chicago change all that. First an American job. Then an American girlfriend. A decent car and apartment and life finally begins looking up. However, as Dima gets thrust into a war with a violent street gang and into the trade in African blood diamonds, he starts to wonder just where will this American Dream take him.

After the failure to capture Moscow, the battle group redeploys to the south and takes part in the offensive towards the oil fields of the Caucasus. But despite the generals' promises, this drive fails just as the one on Moscow had and the men are forced into desperate battles to survive. Then, comes the Battle of Kursk and once more the troops are exhorted to ever greater efforts with the promise of victory. They grind forward through endless minefields and lines of Soviet trenches only to come face-to-face with masses of enemy tanks outside a village named Prokhorovka just as it feels ...

As the war between Turkey and Greece rages, sucking in more of the world, a team of US Navy SEALs secretly enters the region. The Americans have to search for the two nuclear bombs stolen from the US airbase at Incirlik before these can be used by terrorists. Not only that, but they must find the bombs before other players hunting for the prize which these represent, do. And this means making the difficult moral choices that come with having to accomplish a mission at any cost. Smoke over the Bosporus series: "...exciting combat scenes and lots of them. If you’ve enjoyed this genre of ...

"...dramatic and entertaining... If you enjoy near-future, speculative, military fiction you can’t go wrong here." CounterFact Magazine. With Turkey weakened by its failed invasion of Bulgaria and by a raging Kurdish insurgency, the Greeks decide that the opportunity has come for them to recover Northern Cyprus. Special forces men sent to help the Kurds and an armored thrust into Eastern Thrace help to tie the Turkish Army down while Greek marines land on Northern Cyprus' beaches to liberate the island. Soon the smoke from burning armored fighting vehicles fills the air as Greece and ...

A dying planet – Mars with its magnetic field finally gone. Without the field's protection, the planet's atmosphere is slowly blown away by the solar wind, killing off its ecosystem. Without the field's protection, the planet's population is exposed to solar radiation and decimated by cancer. Four men - a dying prince, a tough treasure hunter, a dedicated soldier and a scholar with a dark past fight for survival and look for answers to a question if this is just a cycle of nature or truly the end of their world.