Gate of Djau (Umbrakin Book 3) by Juho Pohjalainen (5 Reviews)    Price verified 3 minutes ago

The Gate has been closed for millennia, but the scars it left on the moon remain fresh and aching. And now it has been found - and stolen. Bold rebels sail away with the autocratic Empire of Law in hot pursuit, bearing the relic whose power all tyrants dread. Great Lords of Chaos are summoned forth to do battle and sow discord. Heroes and champions gather from around the moon as the flames of war are fanned. And Rime, little Rime, finds herself in the thick of it. She should be our greatest soldier. Half-demon, half-shadow, a warlock of great power and conviction, my loyal servant since before she was born, she's given little to complain about. And yet complain she does! Doubt she does! How just is her cause, she wonders? How far may she take the concept of freedom, she ruminates, before she is as bad as her foe? Are all laws without worth, and who is she to decide these things for others? What kind of a warrior of ruination would ever ponder such things? Sickening! As the great cosmic war brews once more, brings itself to the mortal realm, Rime should have her work cut for her with the greatest and oldest and most hidebound Empire this moon has ever seen - but she insists on confronting her masters as well, and even herself. Fine. If she so wants it, then let her have her reckoning. From the Gate's cracks, a breeze...

Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy

Churchill and Hitler: In Victory and Defeat by John Strawson (17 Reviews)    Price verified 6 minutes ago

In 1940 two enemies faced each other across the English Channel, both giants in their own way, as the fate of the world hung in the balance. General John Strawson, in this first dual biography of these two towering figures, allows us to see the history of World War II in a new and surprising way, through the actions of these two major antagonists. How did their lives and experiences before the war prepare them for the fateful encounter? How did they set about conducting their grand strategic affairs for the war that spanned the globe? After tracing Hitler's early rise to power and Churchill's many youthful political and military accomplishments before and during the Great War, Strawson takes the reader to the battlefields of Europe and North Africa as well as to Churchill's war cabinet meetings and Hitler's headquarters. Contrasting the two most influential men of the twentieth century, Churchill and Hitler: In Victory and Defeat, is an essential study of leadership and warfare. Major General John Strawson CBE was a British Army Officer best known for his service in the Second World War. After retiring from the military he wrote a number of historical works and biographies.