European Weapons

Nine-year-old Oscar Rosenfeld chases his runaway kitten, delighted to be outdoors after months of being cooped up in a small Viennese apartment. His parents and sister Miriam race after him in alarm. He immediately runs into two policemen who catch hold of him. But they have no intention of returning him safely to his family. Their faces contort in disgust and rage. For Oscar has Down’s Syndrome and as such is targeted by the Nazis for extermination. Oscar’s parents fight to save him, their father is killed and their mother is beaten to the ground. Her last words to Miriam are to take ...

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history–and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the...

Bloomsbury presents Duel of Beasts by Boyd and Beth Morrison, read by Mark Elstob. Savage beasts, fabulous treasures, perilous duels, and deadly treachery abound in this thrilling adventure novel set in medieval Spain. Málaga, Spain, 1352. Knight-errant Gerard Fox and his daring wife Willa seek...

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe. Most people couldn't find it on a map before February 2022. Four years later, it is the place where the shape of the twenty-first century is being decided — where a new kind of warfare is being invented under fire, where the credibility of the Western alliance is being tested in real time, where the lessons of the Cold War are being learned again at catastrophic human cost, and where a country of forty-four million people is holding its own against one of the largest military powers on earth. War in Ukraine: Seven Things You Should Know About the ...

Jason King and Will Slater, the two most lethal operatives in government history, are out on their own. They’ve been through their personal journeys into hell, but they unite in New York City as brothers in arms. So begins a vigilante crusade against the city’s morally bankrupt inhabitants. But their private war doesn’t last long. Sometimes you can’t escape the past, no matter how hard you try. They’re revisited by old government contacts with an agenda, and soon enough they’re fighting tooth and nail to prevent the destabilization of the entire country.

Some time in the 1920s Salmson Creak wrote this instructional manual which reads like a rambling love affair with the art of Jiu-Jitsu. I think that this is something many of us can relate to in this day and age, as we recall the recent golden age of Jiu-Jitsu in the various MMA formats, and the sense among all martial artists that this form of grappling was indeed the last word in fighting, a holy grail of hand-to-hand combat. But Creak is advising the reader to replace his other self defense preferences with jiu-jitsu for the very reasons we once heard offered for using more modern ...

Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinarily atmospheric and powerful history of the world's largest country and its decline and fall. With Stalin's death, the Soviet Union remained a repressive, harsh and belligerent place, but one which became more predictable for its citizens and one which...

La prima persona a notare la barca non fu Jane Lee Redwine né lo sceriffo Dalton. Era un pescatore di nome Carl Henson, un uomo che si era svegliato prima dell'alba per così tanti anni che il suo corpo non si preoccupava più di chiedersi il perché. Arrivò al lungomare alle quattro e mezza di quella mattina, come sempre, portando un thermos di caffè e un secchio di esca che odorava di bassa marea e rimpianto. Il cielo era ancora scuro, quel tipo di oscurità che faceva sembrare l'acqua un foglio di vetro nero. I gabbiani non avevano ancora iniziato il loro baccano. Il mondo era ...

La primera persona en notar el barco no fue Jane Lee Redwine ni el sheriff Dalton. Era un pescador llamado Carl Henson, un hombre que llevaba tantos años despertándose antes del amanecer que su cuerpo ya no se molestaba en preguntar por qué. Llegó al paseo marítimo a las cuatro y media de la mañana, como siempre, llevando un termo de café y un cubo de cebo que olía a marea baja y arrepentimiento. El cielo seguía oscuro, de esas que hacían que el agua pareciera una lámina de cristal negro. Las gaviotas aún no habían empezado su estruendo. El mundo estaba en silencio. Demasiado ...

Si dice che un regno inizi con un'incoronazione, ma questa è una menzogna raccontata per il conforto della folla. Un regno inizia nel momento in cui capisci cosa intende portarti via la corona. Ho imparato questa lezione presto, e l'ho imparata di nuovo, in stanze più tranquille e ore più buie, molto tempo dopo che gli applausi si erano fermati. C'è un momento ogni notte, sempre alle 11:54, in cui il palazzo sembra trattenere il respiro. Le pareti ricordano le cose. Le pietre ricordano di più. E rimango in silenzio sapendo che la storia sta ricominciando, che io lo voglia o no. Una ...