War Short Stories

In Brisance, you never know when your childhood will end. With unusual raiders on his father's estate, Liem, only son of an Altolnan Baron and Baroness, discovers through a harrowing and violent experience just how quickly his life can change. With the whole of Brisance on the brink of war, it is often recognition of the smallest acts that effect change and create hope where there was little.

New research has uncovered deeply buried military secrets—both the Allied and Axis special operations during WWII included monsters. Did the Soviets use a dragon to win the Battle of Kursk? Did a vampire fight for the Canadians in Holland? Did the US drop the second atomic bomb on a kaiju? This collection takes real events from World War II and injects them with fantastical creatures that mirror the “unreality” of war itself. Each story—and two poems—feature mythical, mystical, and otherwise unexplainable beings that change the course of history.

Nineteen gut-wrenching reports from the front lines of the War of the Worlds, as logged by Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, H.P. Lovecraft, Winston Churchill, Jules Verne, and many of the other most famous writers of the time. The most popular and acclaimed science fiction writers of today relive the Martian invasion through the eyes of their famous predecessors.

Los seis relatos reunidos en este volumen son una nueva muestra de la capacidad inagotable de Andrea Camilleri para ahondar, con su fino ingenio y su imaginación desbordante, en los recovecos más absurdos del alma humana. Concebidas a partir de evocaciones literarias y vestigios del pasado del autor, estas historias perfectas y muy logradas suponen una magnífica oportunidad para saborear la estrambótica realidad de la Italia de ayer y de hoy a través del pequeño mundo de Vigàta.

The fourth audiobook the Artifacts series follows our companions into a war for control of the Scarlet Coast.

The HG Wells Collection includes 4 of Wells' most beloved novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Dr Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. All read by the new voice of H.G. Wells, Malk Williams, this collection is the perfect opportunity to delve into some of Wells' most formative and iconic writings.

Was bei den Sternen war, Erzählung von Peter Rosegger: Selbst der Naturforscher gibt es diesmal zu, was der Poet behauptet, dass nämlich im Waldland die Sterne heller leuchten als sonst wo. Das macht die reine, feuchte Luft, sagt der eine; der andere hingegen meint, der kindliche Glaube der Einschichtbewohner sei Ursache, dass der Sternenhimmel so hell und hold niederfunkle auf den weiten, stillen Wald.

This short story by Mark Twain was not published until 1916, six years after his death in 1910, because his family considered it too scandalous. After all, what could be more scandalous then attacking religion and war. Narrator John Greenman takes us inside that church as the preacher beseeches God to grant them victory and protect our troops when a stranger appears.

A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart of the human experience of World War I. Each author was invited to choose an object that had a connection to the war - a writing kit for David Almond, a helmet for Michael Morpurgo - and use it as the inspiration for an original short story.

Following the events of Planet of the Dead, survivors of the expanding outbreak take shelter in homes and bunkers and apartment complexes. Across the world, armed police and military struggle to maintain safety. Tensions mount as the worst imaginable comes to pass when nuclear weapons are used on civilian populations overrun with the living dead.

This story is from The Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (His Last Bow) collection. Further adventures by the master of observation and deduction, as faithfully recounted by his companion and greatest admirer, Dr. Watson. "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans," "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", and "The Adventure of the Dying Detective" are among the stories. David Timson's award-winning performances continue with this series.

War is a serious business - or is it? Christopher Anvil turns his sardonic sense of humor loose on the subject. Hard-SF legend and Analog regular Christopher Anvil brings together mind-bending ideas and grim-but-true black humor in the face of war's utter destruction in this mega-compilation.

Als ich das Ofenhückerl war, Erzählung von Peter Rosegger: Warum es so frostig wird heutzutage? Warum wir gefroren sind? Weil wir keinen ordentlichen Ofen mehr bauen können. Allen Respekt vor den schwedischen und russischen Öfen, gar zierlich sind sie und ein Zimmerschmuck und alles Mögliche, aber so recht gemütlich? So recht gemütlich ist nur der große, breite, behäbige Kachelofen mit seinen grünen oder braunen Augenreihen, mit seinem Holzgeländer und seiner Ofenbank. Die Ofenbank, wo die Kindheit und das Alter hocken, das Enkelein und die Großmutter – und die alten Märchen!

Get rich. Wield incredible power. Get revenge. But avoid paradox, or get erased from the timestream so you never existed. Time travel offer endless possibilities and limitless dangers. What would you do if you could go back and relive your past? What if others could too? Who polices time? How do you win a time war?

Als ich der Müller war, Erzählung von Peter Rosegger: Etwa ein Jahr nach dieser Wallfahrt gab's ein merkwürdig Geschichtchen daheim. - Nicht gar weit vom Hause, zwischen und unterhalb von Waldrainen und Wiesenlehnen, ist eine Schlucht. Sie ist voll dichtem und hohem Erlen- und Haselnussgebüsch, zwischen welchem Germen (Liliengewächse), Schierling und Sauerampfer wuchern.

Als ich im Walde beim Käthele war, Erzählung von Peter Rosegger: Seit Menschengedenken standen in unseren Wäldern die Lärchenbäume nicht so hoch im Preis als zur Zeit des Eisenbahnbaues durch das Tal. Mein Vater verkaufte an die dreißig Stämme um schöne Banknoten. Aber er gab die schönen Banknoten bald wieder weg, zuweilen gar eher, als er sie hatte. Er nahm beim Krämer Mehl und Salz, und sagte: "Sobald ich Geld vom Holzhändler krieg, kriegt Ihr's von mir." Zuletzt sagte er dasselbe sogar den Steuerbeamten.

Antonio J. Hopson blends speculative fiction, historical fiction, and narrative force to imagine what it would be like if our nation's forefathers were attacked by the world’s most deadly war machine: The United States of America. Washington, Franklin, and Revere are insurgent foes pursued by Allied Forces. An embedded reporter pens a stark, first-person reflection of America’s war on terror/war on itself.

It wasn't about revenge; it was about love, and justice. When I heard about what Mariya Oktyabrskaya did, I realized what was required of me. I was only 23, but my destiny was clear. I had never met Oktyabrskaya, but I knew all about her. She was a heroine, a zavodila, and her mission was tattooed on my heart.

Wer in den zwölf weißen Bänden von Christoph Ransmayrs Spielformen des Erzählens nach dem klassischen Ton großer Erzählungen sucht, wird jene 13 Geschichten entdecken, die nun erstmals in einem Band versammelt sind. Die Entdeckungsreise führt von Irland in den Transhimalaya, aus dem oberösterreichischen Bergland zu den Bürgerkriegsschauplätzen Sri Lankas oder in die Sahara, in den Frieden afrikanischer Nebelwälder und ins Südchinesische Meer.

Il racconto è un viaggio attraverso gli anni antichi, I Guerra mondiale, II Guerra, i partigiani, i migranti, un viaggio dell'esistenza sempre attuale con la famiglia, dolce amaro come la vita.