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Robert Ludlum's The Janson Command - Robert Ludlum - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Robert Ludlum's The Janson Command - Robert Ludlum - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

From the creator of the JASON BOURNE series, a brand new thriller by the undisputed master of the genre. Reformed from his days of assassination and conspiracy, Paul Janson has a new mission and a new partner. Working with kick-ass sharpshooter Jessica Kincaid, he helps other disenchanted covert operatives to create new lives. He also accepts independent jobs, but only missions he believes will contribute to the greater good. Janson takes the job to rescue a doctor who has been kidnapped by West African rebels. At first, it appears that the doctor''s life was spared in order to treat the rebels'' wounded leader, but when the mission goes haywire, Janson realises he''s in the middle of something much bigger - and that he may be fighting for the wrong side...

DKK 127.00
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Men Of Air - Kevin Wilson - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Men Of Air - Kevin Wilson - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The story of the everyday heroism of British bomber crews in 1944 - the turning point year in Bomber Command''s war against Germany. There were many ways for a combat crew to die during Bomber Command''s war of 1944. Over German territory, bursts of heavy flak could tear the wings from their planes in a split second. Flaming bullets from German fighter planes could explode their fuel tanks, cut their oxygen supplies, destroy their engines. In the spring of that year, thousands of young men were shot, blown up, or thrown from their planes five miles above the earth; and even those who returned faced the subtler dangers of ice and fog as they tried to land their battered aircraft back home.The winter of 1944 was the most dangerous time to be a combat airman in RAF Bomber Command. The chances of surviving a tour were as low as one in five, and morale had finally hit rock bottom. In this comprehensive history of the air war that year, Kevin Wilson describes the most dangerous period of the Battle of Berlin, and the unparalleled losses over Magdeburg, Leipzig and Nuremberg. He tells how ordinary men coped with constant pressure of flying, the loss of their colleagues, and the threat of death or capture. And, by telling the story of the famous events of this period - the Great Escape, D-Day, the defeat of the V1 menace - he shows how, through sheer grit and determination, the ''Men of Air'' finally turned the tide against the Germans.

DKK 141.00
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Lake of Darkness - Bog af Adam Roberts - Paperback

Lake of Darkness - Bog af Adam Roberts - Paperback

Good is a construct. Evil is a virus.The Starship Sa Niro and the Starship Sß Oubliette were in orbit around a black hole, one afternoon... by the end of the day, the crews of both starships were dead, victims of a single killer: Captain Alpha Raine.Raine claims he's acting under the command of a voice emanating from the black hole: Mr Modo. No one believes him.Everyone knows that things go into black holes; nothing comes out.But something inexplicable has been happening to Raine, and whatever it..

DKK 117.95
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March Battalion - Sven Hassel - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

March Battalion - Sven Hassel - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Danger was forgotten, death was forgotten, the war was forgotten. They only knew they had to kill... The figures in khaki were no longer soldiers, no longer men. Sven Hassel and his comrades are once more hurled into the ferocity of the frontline.The Eastern Front is a sight of unprecedented destruction. The soldiers there - the tank battalions of Hitler''s penal regiments - are considered expendable by the German high command. Treated like animals, they learn to live like animals, to fight like beasts. The only other option is to die a bloody death... This is a gripping testament to the soldiers sacrificed on the Russian Front.

DKK 120.00
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The Road To Stalingrad - John Erickson - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Road To Stalingrad - John Erickson - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The first of two volumes in John Erickson''s monumental history of the Soviet-German war. In THE ROAD TO STALINGRAD Professor Erickson takes us in detail from the inept command structures and strategic delusions of the pre-invasion Soviet Union, through the humiliations as her armies fell back on all fronts before the Barbarossa onslaught, until the tide turned at last at Stalingrad. Unsparingly he assesses the generals and political leaders, and analyses the confusions and wranglings within both Allied and Axis commands. The climax, the grinding battle for Stalingrad, leaves the Red Army poised for its majestic counter-offensive, Operation ''Uranus'', discovering it had ''caught a tiger by the tail''.

DKK 139.00
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The Rhinemann Exchange - Robert Ludlum - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Rhinemann Exchange - Robert Ludlum - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

An explosive novel of suspense and intrigue set at the turning point of the Second World War. David Spaulding is the most feared and efficient Allied agent in wartime Europe. Expert, deadly and professional, he is also high on the Gestapo''s ''most wanted'' list. Now Spaulding has been selected by Allied Command to transact an undercover deal in Argentina involving top-secret Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew who is awaiting the end of the war with his millions in an impenetrable retreat near Buenos Aires.But there''s something Spaulding doesn''t know: the other side of the deal. And it involves the most bizarre, horrific intrigue of the Second World War...

DKK 127.00
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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands - Sharkey Ward - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Sea Harrier Over The Falklands - Sharkey Ward - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The controversial account of what really happened in the south Atlantic skies Sharkey Ward commanded 801 Naval Air Squadron, HMS Invincible, was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command, flew over sixty missions and was awarded DSC. Yet had he followed all his instructions to the letter, Britain might well have lost the Falklands War.His dramatic first-hand story of the air war in the South Atlantic is also an extraordinary, outspoken account of inter-Service rivalries, bureaucratic interference, and dangerous ignorance of the realities of air combat among many senior commanders. As Sharkey Ward reveals, the 801 pilots were fighting not just the enemy, exhaustion, and the hostile weather, but also the prejudice and ignorance of their own side.

DKK 141.00
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Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear - Richard Connaughton - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Rising Sun And Tumbling Bear - Richard Connaughton - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The definitive history of the Russo-Japanese war The Russians were wrong-footed from the start, fighting in Manchuria at the end of a 5,000 mile single track railway; the Japanese were a week or so from their bases. The Russian command structure was hopelessly confused, their generals old and incompetent, the Tsar cautious and uncertain. The Russian naval defeat at Tsushima was as farcical as it was complete. The Japanese had defeated a big European power, and the lessons for the West were there for all to see, had they cared to do so. From this curious war, so unsafely ignored for the most part by the military minds of the day, Richard Connaughton has woven a fascinating narrative to appeal to readers at all levels.

DKK 127.00
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The Unlikely Spy - Daniel Silva - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Unlikely Spy - Daniel Silva - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A tale of spies and betrayal in the Second World War from the bestselling author of THE COLLECTOR ''A wartime thriller in the mould of Robert Harris''s ENIGMA ... and every bit as good'' THE TIMES Germany, 1944. The Allied invasion is not far away, and the high command desperately need to know where it will take place. It is time to activate one of Hitler''s last spies in Britain - Catherine Blake, a sleeper planted before the war and awaiting orders . . . British intelligence also has its orders, and academic Alfred Vicary has been recruited by Churchill himself to carry them out. It is his job to find Catherine and stop her before it is too late.But whose side are his own people on?

DKK 127.00
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The Dambusters Raid - John Sweetman - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Dambusters Raid - John Sweetman - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A comprehensive account of the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. Operation Chastise - the Dambusters Raid, as it became known - undertaken by 19 Lancasters of 617 Squadron on the night of 16 May 1943, was the most audacious bombing raid of the Second World War. For the loss of 11 aircraft, the Mohne and Eder dams in Germany''s industrial heartland were breached, and a famous if controversial victory won. John Sweetman''s book is the most comprehensive account of this legendary mission, from the development of Barnes Wallis'' ''bouncing bomb'' (in reality a revolving depth-charge) to every moment of the raid itself, under the charismatic command of Guy Gibson, VC. It recalls a time of commitment, perseverance and sheer dogged determination in the face of dangerous and improbable odds.

DKK 127.00
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Hitler's War - Heinz Magenheimer - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Hitler's War - Heinz Magenheimer - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

This is the book that answers the question: Could Germany have won World War Two? This is a closely argued and wide-ranging assessment of just how, with so many alternatives open, the German High Command chose the path that led, ultimately, to its own destruction. Heinz Magenheimer examines in detail the options that were open to the Germans as the war progressed. He identifies the crucial moments at which fateful decisions needed to be taken and considers how decisions different from those actually taken could have propelled the conflict in entirely different directions. Using the very latest source material, in particular new research from Soviet/Russian sources, the author analyses motives and objectives and considers the opportunities taken or rejected, concentrating especially on specific phases of the conflict.

DKK 127.00
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Pathfinder - David Blakeley - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Pathfinder - David Blakeley - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance... First in - the official motto of one of the British Army''s smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade''s Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son of the SAS. And, like their counterparts in Hereford, the job of the Pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep behind enemy lines. When British forces were deployed to Iraq in 2003, Captain David Blakeley was given command of a reconnaissance mission of such critical importance that it could change the course of the war. It''s the story of nine men, operating alone and unsupported, 50 miles ahead of a US Recon Marine advance and heading straight into a hornets'' nest, teeming with thousands of heavily armed enemy forces. This is the first account of that extraordinary mission - abandoned by coalition command, left with no option but to fight their way out of the enemy''s backyard. And it provides a gripping insight into the Pathfinders themselves, a shadowy unit, just 45 men strong, that plies its trade from the skies. Trained to parachute into enemy territory far beyond the forward edge of battle - freefalling from high altitude breathing bottled oxygen and employing the latest skydiving technology - the PF are unique.Because of new rules introduced since the publication of BRAVO TWO ZERO , there have been no first-hand accounts of British Special Forces waging modern-day warfare for nearly a decade. And no member of the Pathfinders has ever told their story before. Until now. PATHFINDER is the only first-hand account of a UKSF mission to emerge for nearly a generation. And it could be the last.

DKK 127.00
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The Sixth Extinction - James Rollins - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Sixth Extinction - James Rollins - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author returns with a gripping, high-concept adventure thriller in the Sigma Force series - for fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton. A remote military research station in Utah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! By the time help arrives every living thing for fifty miles has been annihilated. And blight is spreading.To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and life on Earth balanced on a knife edge. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice, and the coming extinction of mankind.

DKK 139.00
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The Road Past Mandalay - John Masters - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The Road Past Mandalay - John Masters - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

The second part of the bestselling novelist''s autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters'' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill''s obsession with ''special forces'' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.

DKK 120.00
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Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

''The historians can''t seem to settle whether to call this one ''The Third Space War'' (or the fourth), or whether ''The First Interstellar War'' fits it better. We just call it ''The Bug War''. Everything up to then and still later were ''incidents'', ''patrols'' or ''police actions''. However, you are just as dead if you buy the farm in an ''incident'' as you are if you buy it in a declared war. ''5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination. Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as ''Bugs.''This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon. And his destiny is a war that will span the galaxy.

DKK 139.00
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Uncle Bill - Russell Miller - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Uncle Bill - Russell Miller - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Masterly biography of the ''greatest commander of the 20th century''. Field Marshal Slim is less well known than other Second World War generals, but is now widely regarded as the best. To the men under his command he was ''Uncle Bill'', probably the most respected and loved military leader since the Duke of Marlborough. Born into an impoverished family in Bristol in 1891 and brought up in the Black Country, he was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant on the outbreak of the First World War. Twice seriously wounded, in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918. After the war he was unable to remain an officer in the class-ridden British Army without private means and transferred to the Indian Army, where he developed an enduring affection for the Ghurkhas and began writing short stories to supplement his income.Slim''s career stalled between the wars, but during this time he developed the leadership techniques that would make him a national hero within a decade and which are still taught today at Sandhurst. Promotion came rapidly with the Second World War, and in March 1942 he was sent to Burma to take command of the British-Indian First Burma Corps, then in full flight from the advancing Japanese. Through the force of his leadership, Slim turned disorderly panic into a controlled military withdrawal across the border into India. Two years later, having raised and retrained the largest army ever assembled by Britain, Slim drove the enemy out of Burma and shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility which had hamstrung the Allied operations in the East for so long. Slim returned to Britain laden with awards and honours. He became a popular Governor-General of Australia in 1953, was raised to the peerage, and died in London in 1970.This important biography will be written with the full cooperation of the Slim family, and Russell Miller has had access to all their papers.

DKK 152.00
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Tank Action - David Render - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Tank Action - David Render - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944, David Render was a nineteen-year-old second lieutenant fresh from Sandhurst when he was sent to France. Joining the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry five days after the D-Day landings, the combat-hardened men he was sent to command did not expect him to last long. However, in the following weeks of ferocious fighting in which more than 90 per cent of his fellow tank commanders became casualties, his ability to emerge unscathed from countless combat engagements earned him the nickname of the ''Inevitable Mr Render''.In Tank Action Render tells his remarkable story, spanning every major episode of the last year of the Second World War from the invasion of Normandy to the fall of Germany. Ultimately it is a story of survival, comradeship and the ability to stand up and be counted as a leader in combat.

DKK 127.00
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A Thousand Suns - Alex Scarrow - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

A Thousand Suns - Alex Scarrow - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

On 29 April 1945 the Allies secretly surrendered unconditionally to Nazi Germany. Four hours later, that surrender was withdrawn. The world never knew - until now... It is early April of 1945. The Nazi regime is being slowly throttled by the oncoming Russian and Allied armies and Hitler rages uselessly in his Berlin bunker. But the high command have one more throw of the dice to make...An audacious plan is hatched to save the Fatherland and beat off the approaching apocalypse. All it will take is a hodge-podge squadron of escort fighters, a captured US bomber and one suicidally brave pilot to fly it over the Atlantic into the beating heart of America. Half a century later, a rusting plane is discovered, sunk with its crew, off the coast of New York - a relic from a bygone age. Chris Roland, a brilliant young photographer, is sent to take photos of this time capsule. But it is only when he discovers the fragments of Nazi uniforms on the decaying corpses that he realises he has come across a secret so terrible that even fifty years later it could still kill him...

DKK 120.00
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Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES FEB 2018 This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.

DKK 127.00
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Blood, Sweat and Arrogance - Gordon Corrigan - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Blood, Sweat and Arrogance - Gordon Corrigan - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Why the British forces fought so badly in World War II and who was to blame Gordon Corrigan''s Mud, Blood and Poppycock overturned the myths that surround the First World War. Now he challenges our assumptions about the Second World War in this brilliant, caustic narrative that exposes just how close Britain came to losing. He reveals how Winston Churchill bears a heavy responsibility for the state of our forces in 1939, and how his interference in military operations caused a string of disasters. The reputations of some of our most famous generals are also overturned: above all, Montgomery, whose post-war stature owes more to his skill with a pen than talent for command. But this is not just a story of personalities. Gordon Corrigan investigates how the British, who had the biggest and best army in the world in 1918, managed to forget everything they had learned in just twenty years. The British invented the tank, but in 1940 it was the Germans who showed the world how to use them. After we avoided defeat, but the slimmest of margins, it was a very long haul to defeat Hitler''s army, and one in which the Russians would ultimately bear the heaviest burden.

DKK 141.00
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Agent Zo - Clare Mulley - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Agent Zo - Clare Mulley - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025: ''A masterfully written biography... inspiring and powerful'' Agent Zo tells the incredible true story of Elżbieta Zawacka, the WW2 resistance fighter known as ''Zo''. The only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, Zo undertook two missions in the capital before secret Special Operations Executive training in the British countryside. As the only female member of the Polish elite Special Forces - the SOE-affiliated ''Silent Unseen'' - Zo became the only woman to parachute from Britain to Nazi German-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo (who arrested her entire family), she played a key role in the Warsaw Uprising and ultimately in the liberation of Poland. After the war, Zo was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her but ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years.Now, through new archival research and exclusive interviews with people who knew and fought alongside Zo, Clare Mulley brings this forgotten hero back to life, transforming the way we see female agency in the Second World War.

DKK 139.00
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Operation Mayhem - Steve Heaney - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

Operation Mayhem - Steve Heaney - Bog - Orion Publishing Co - Plusbog.dk

''Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly'' THE TIMES ''Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily armed rebels with bamboo sticks and home-made grenades, and you''ll be asking the question... Why wasn''t he given TWO MCs?'' SUNDAY SPORT 2,000 blood-crazed rebels. 26 elite British soldiers. One man''s explosive true story.Airlifted into the heart of the Sierra Leone jungle in the midst of the bloody civil war in 2000, 26 elite operators from the secret British elite unit X Platoon were sent into combat against thousands of Sierra Leonean rebels.Notorious for their brutality, the rebels were manned with captured UN armour, machine-guns and grenade-launchers, while the men of X Platoon were kitted with pitiful supplies of ammunition, malfunctioning rifles, and no body armour, grenades or heavy weapons.Intended to last only 48 hours, the mission mutated into a 16-day siege against the rebels, as X Platoon were denied the back-up and air support they had been promised, and were forced to make their stand alone. The half-starved soldiers, surviving on bush tucker, fought with grenades made from old food-tins and defended themselves with barricades made of sharpened sticks.Sergeant Steve Heaney won the Military Cross for his initiative in taking command after the platoon lost their commanding officer. OPERATION MAYHEM recounts his amazing untold true story, full of the rough-and-ready humour and steely fortitude with which these elite soldiers carried out operations far into hostile terrain.

DKK 120.00
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