Disaster Wars

Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent reconstruction.

They survived capture—only to be imprisoned aboard ships designed for death. During the Second World War, tens of thousands of Allied prisoners of war and civilian internees were transported across the Japanese Empire aboard vessels that became known as hell ships. Packed into dark, airless cargo holds, the prisoners endured suffocating heat, starvation, disease, dehydration, beatings, and conditions so overcrowded that men could barely sit or breathe. There were few toilets, almost no medical supplies, and little hope of escape. Yet the greatest danger often came from above. Because many...

The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before told On the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before cheering crowds in Lakehurst, New Jersey, when suddenly, a titanic inferno...

The EMP has officially crippled the nation and her infrastructure sits in ruin. Can a burned-out DEA agent, a Guatemalan-born cartel daughter, and an estranged brother find their way back to their families, or will they succumb to the perils of a nation in steep decline? The Complete Age of Embers is a no-holds-barred post-apocalyptic adventure series chronicling a nationwide descent into a powerless world.

This book contains five apocalyptic thrillers that involve nuclear warfare, EMP attacks, and other terrorist-related scenarios. These are end-of-the-world stories in which the protagonists fight for survival when the odds are stacked against them. Warfare Season Rising Resistance Ocean Stowaway Field of Echoes Riot Zone

Leo Ferrel was the terror of the school system in Kooskia, Idaho. Leo was the product of a single parent who spent more time beating on her son than raising him. When Leo’s mother decides that she has an opportunity for a better life, she abandons her son at age 14. Leo is left with an old pickup truck and just enough money to survive while trying to find a better home than the old rusted trailer that was the only home he had ever known. Leo decides to make one of the caves on his property livable in order to escape the dilapidated trailer and try to build a better life. Along the way, ...

The worst maritime disaster in American history did not happen at sea. It happened on the Mississippi River, in the dark hours before dawn, when the overloaded steamboat SS Sultana exploded north of Memphis and turned a journey home into a river of fire. In April 1865, the American Civil War had just ended. Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated. The nation was exhausted, grieving and distracted. Thousands of released Union prisoners of war, many weakened by months in Confederate prison camps such as Andersonville and Cahaba, were being sent home. They boarded Sultana believing the worst was...

Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. In a nationwide blackout lasting months or years, the entire population of the US could be at risk. There would be no food. No water. Communications, transportation, industry, business, and finance - all of the critical infrastructures that support modern civilization would be paralyzed. Threats to the electric power grid are posed by cyber-attack, sabotage, a geomagnetic super-storm, and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) from the high-altitude detonation of a nuclear weapon.

Most disasters do not begin with sirens. They begin quietly. A strange headline on the evening news. A sudden shortage at the grocery store. A neighbor mentioning something unusual happening far away that suddenly feels much closer than expected. Life rarely stops all at once. Instead, it changes slowly at first. Before the confusion. Before the rush to prepare. Before the noise begins. Before the Sirens is not a book about fear. It is a book about calm preparation. Inside these pages you will discover how ordinary families can recognize early warning signs, prepare their homes, organize ...

Ben Bova's The Silent War is the breakneck continuation to The Asteroid Wars series that can end only in earth's salvation--or the annihilation of all that humankind has ever accomplished in space. When corporations go to war, standard business practice goes out the window. Astro Corporation is...

Billy Turner is forced to grow up at an early age after surviving a broken home. The uncertainty he experiences influences his tendencies towards being prepared from the age of nine. Forced into a situation where he lives by himself during the week while his father is away at work, Billy is smart and resourceful to avoid becoming entrapped in the foster care system. Together, he and his dad embark on a mission to become prepared for the bad times that both fear are coming. Along the way Billy meets Heather who shares his secrets and leads him to the Lord in her father’s church. Tragedy ...

One pulse… and civilization crumbles. A catastrophic EMP attack plunges the world into darkness, igniting a global nuclear war that wipes out 90% of humanity. With law and order collapsing, survivors must fight not only for food and shelter—but for their lives. Colonel Thomas Bradley, a brilliant electronic warfare expert, leads a desperate group of survivors deep into the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. Inside the massive underground facility, they battle against dwindling resources, radioactive fallout, and relentless attacks from militant factions determined to take what ...

Post-Apocalyptic Fiction by Jerry D. Young The Mechanic An expert mechanic adds prepping to his long list of skills when he meets a woman that opens his eyes to the world around him. More Great Stories by Jerry D. Young The Hermit Low Profile Cowboy Home Sweet Bunker Habitat The Liddy Scenario Scavenger A Penny for Your Thoughts Ozark Retreat The Dark Times The Keys to the Kingdom Disaster in the Burbs Shipwrecked And many more! ABOUT AUTHOR JERRY D. YOUNG Jerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 ...

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019! A New York Times Best Book of the Year A Time Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that...

On October 30, 1938, rising radio star Orson Welles boondoggles the American public into believing that Martians have attacked Earth. With his clever adaptation of The War of the Worlds, the great showman proves he can get away with anything - maybe even murder. Minutes before the fictitious invasion goes live on the air, a dead body is found in the studio and the polarizing Welles is the obvious suspect.

Inspired by the classic Star Trek episode Balance of Terror. Hollywood actress by day. WWII inventor by night. Hedy Lamarr believes her revolutionary frequency-hopping technology will help the Allies win World War II. But when her invention is tested aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer during a violent Atlantic storm, the impossible happens. Locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse battle with a German U-boat, both warships are pulled through a mysterious time vortex... into the past. Now sworn enemies face an impossible choice: Prevent the worst maritime disaster in history... Or save themselves and find...

Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year award A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle...

A harrowing account of Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare.

"Both readers are brilliant and nail the characterization in a way that instantly connects them to the listener..Everything here is top-notch." -- Booklist, starred review The Expanse meets Game of Thrones in J. S. Dewes's fast-paced, sci-fi adventure The Last Watch, where a handful of soldiers...

A “balanced, engrossing account” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) of the Bay of Pigs crisis drawing on long-hidden CIA documents and delivering the vivid truth of five pivotal days in April 1961. At the heart of the Bay of Pigs crisis stood President John F. Kennedy, and journalist Jim...