Strhující příběh z tichomořského bojiště. Marsh, Mick a Tommy. Tři nerozluční kamarádi z US námořní akademie. A samozřejmě Glory, krásná a nedosažitelná žena, o kterou usilují všichni tři. Jeden z nich ji nakonec získá, ovšem do jejich osudů krutě zasáhne válka. Píše se totiž rok 1941 a Japonci právě zaútočili na Pearl Harbor... Tato kniha bohatě odmění všechny čtenáře milující pulsující akci v takřka filmových kulisách, neohrožené hrdiny, ale i lásku a romantiku.
Eine kühne Rebellentruppe versucht, die Entstehung des Todessterns zu verhindern, indem sie dessen Pläne stiehlt – kann das gutgehen? Dieses Sachbuch zum Film stellt mit Originalfilmbildern die atemberaubende Handlung von Rogue One: A Star Wars Story™ vor und zeigt die neuen Figuren und spektakulären Schauplätze! Wusstet ihr, dass Rebellin Jyn Erso vor Ihrer Aktivität als Widerstandskämpferin bereits für mehrere Straftaten verurteilt wurde? Ob tapfere Rebellen oder böse Vertreter des Imperiums – in ausführlichen Porträts erfahrt ihr alles zu euren Lieblingsfiguren sowie zu ihrer persönlichen Geschichte, Kleidung und Ausrüstung. Erkundet anhand von Original-Filmbildern und großformatigen Szenenfotos das faszinierende Star Wars™ Universum und entdeckt viele neue Details! Dazu gibt es viele interessante und verblüffende Hintergrundinformationen zum Film.
'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary feel.' Ben Macintyre, The Times 'A gripping story of courage, professionalism, and betrayal in the secret world.' Rodric Braithwaite, British Ambassador in Moscow, 1988-1992 'One of the best spy stories to come out of the Cold War and all the more riveting for being true.' Washington Post January, 1977. While the chief of the CIA's Moscow station fills his gas tank, a stranger drops a note into the car. In the years that followed, that stranger, Adolf Tolkachev, became one of the West's most valuable spies. At enormous risk Tolkachev and his handlers conducted clandestine meetings across Moscow, using spy cameras, props, and private codes to elude the KGB in its own backyard - until a shocking betrayal put them all at risk. Drawing on previously classified CIA documents and interviews with first-hand participants, The Billion Dollar Spyis a brilliant feat of reporting and a riveting true story from the final years of the Cold War.
What Saddam told John Nixon during the conversations he had with him after his capture in late 2003 and early 2004 was to make Washington policymakers very unhappy. He convincingly rebutted the justifications used by the Bush administration for going to war. Were people ready to listen to this information? Even if they listened, did they hear? At the start of the debriefings, Nixon felt he knew Saddam. But in the ensuing weeks, he learned that the West had vastly misunderstood both him and his role as a determined foe of radical currents in the Islamic world, including Sunni extremism. And this was to prove a very expensive mistake indeed.
In Mind Change, Susan Greenfield discusses the all-pervading technologies that now surround us, and from which we derive instant information, connected identity, diminished privacy and exceptionally vivid here-and-now experiences. In her view they are creating a new environment, with vast implications, because our minds are physically adapting: being rewired. What could this mean, and how can we harness, rather than be harnessed by, our new technological milieu to create better alternatives and more meaningful lives? Using the very latest research, Mind Change is intended to incite debate as well as yield the way forward. There is no better person to explain the situation in a way we can understand, and to offer new insights on how to improve our mental capacities and well being.