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Behind the legend of Admiral Richard E. Byrd lies a stranger, colder, and far more human story than the myths suggest. From early naval ambition and the rise of polar aviation to the frozen outpost of Little America, Byrd traces the life of one of America’s most famous explorers. Richard E. Byrd became a national hero through daring flights, Antarctic expeditions, radio broadcasts, scientific missions, and the dream of conquering the last blank spaces on the map. But his legacy is not simple. This book follows Byrd through his disputed 1926 North Pole flight, his celebrated South Pole ...

Lena Mohlin är datachef i Svenska Säkerhetstjänsten, kodknäckare och ute på hemligt uppdrag för att infiltrera den politiska, populistiska rörelsen "Den Nya Världs-ordningen". Hon har hackat deras databas, blivit upptäckt och tillfångatagen. Nu måste hon ta sig loss för att stoppa de maktgalna kuppmännen. För att köpa sig tid säger hon att hon är Lena Mörk - en journalist ute på resa för att skriva om kvinnors arbete på Nordkalotten.

THEY SURVIVED THE CRASH. NOW SOMEONE HAD TO REACH THEM. Across Greenland’s immense ice cap, an aircraft could disappear within minutes. A whiteout erased the horizon. Hidden crevasses swallowed vehicles and men. Engines froze, radios weakened, and wreckage vanished beneath snow that hardened into moving glacial ice. For stranded airmen, surviving the crash was only the beginning. For the rescuers sent after them, the mission could become another disaster. Frozen Rescue tells the true story of the pilots, radiomen, medics, mechanics, sailors, sled drivers, and ground teams who risked their...

Disgraced cartographer Dr. Elias Ward purchases a damaged 16th-century portolan chart showing Antarctica as a ring rather than a continent. When anonymous buyers offer escalating sums and threats to acquire the map, he contacts investigative journalist Mara Kline, who has built her career exposing institutional disinformation. Together, they uncover a 200-year pattern of suppression: expedition journals that end abruptly, satellite imagery systematically manipulated, and the Antarctic Treaty designed not to prevent territorial disputes but to maintain a geographic lie. Their investigation ...

The sun won't rise for forty days. Neither side can wait that long. December 2045. A thousand Chinese Marines are slowly freezing to death in ships never meant to survive an Arctic winter. Their government has declared the mission a success. Their Admiral knows better. And the men who could rescue them have been ordered to treat them as a threat. As polar night descends on Victoria Strait, a British intelligence officer pieces together what the Americans already know but won't share. A Canadian sergeant prepares her section for a tactical situation she doesn't understand. And deep in the ...

A gripping science thriller in the Arctic! Mysterious nanoparticles in a Greenland ice core confront biologist Nora Grimm with a fascinating puzzle. At first, she believes the 400,000-year-old ice is contaminated. But then the bizarre crystals suddenly show signs of life. Nora realizes that she has discovered far more than just prehistoric climate records. Also, Exobiologist Robert Greaves is on his way to Greenland to investigate a connection to a similar finding by the Mars rover Curiosity. Is this really an extraterrestrial life form that has been lying slumbering in obscurity since ...

Ernst Stavro Blofeld, chef de l'organisation terroriste SPECTRE, a détourné un avion américain chargé d'armes atomiques. Si ses exigences ne sont pas satisfaites, il détruira l'une des principales villes du monde. Ne disposant que d'une semaine pour retrouver les bombes manquantes, Bond se rend aux Bahamas où il rencontre le bras droit de Blofeld, Emilio Largo, et sa maîtresse Domino. Alors que le temps presse, Bond apprend que les requins ne sont pas les seuls tueurs de la mer des Caraïbes.

Fans du "Bureau des légendes", découvrez le "Service Action", l'unité spéciale de la DGSE en charge des opérations les plus secrètes, clandestines et illégales de la République. Août 2020, Beyrouth. Le lieutenant-colonel Coralie Desnoyers, chasseur alpin et sniper d'élite, sauve le président de la République d'un attentat. Quelques semaines plus tard, elle devient la première femme à diriger le Service Action. Elle doit s'imposer comme patronne de ce groupe dans un monde dominé par les hommes, tout en accomplissant les missions à très hauts risques de "l'Action".