Bizarre tentacled things are prowling the front. Neither animal, vegetable, or insect, they somehow combine elements of all three! Yet these marauding giants also possess near-humanlike intelligence-for their unstoppable tentacles seek to snare and crush only Allied warplanes.... What are The Death Monsters? Why do they fight for Germany? What fiendish brain controls them? These are the questions G-8 and his fighting comrades must answer-or the ...
Out of war-torn skies soars…G-8 and His Battles Aces! The greatest combat pilot of the War to End All Wars, G-8's true name was stricken from all official records. Flying a supercharged warplane, backed by his wild wingmen, Bull Martin and Nippy Weston, G-8 fought the most horrific foes the Kaiser could throw at him. His skin was green, his uniform was a suit of glittering armor and he came – so he said – from Mars. As he thundered through ...
Das Jahr 26 n. Chr.: Der 16-jahrige Vespasian verlasst Familie und Hof in Richtung Rom. Er will einen Schutzherrn suchen und sich der Armee anschlie?en. Doch Rom ist in der eisernen Gewalt von Sejanus, Kommandeur der Pratorianergarde. Seine Spione sind uberall. Jedes falsch gesprochene Wort kommt einem Todesurteil gleich. Vespasian flieht aus der Stadt: Blutjung und unerfahren nimmt er einen Posten als Tribun an der Grenze zum Balkan an. Rebelli ...
Rom, im Jahr 30 n. Chr.: Vespasian hat einen schier unlosbaren Auftrag. Er soll heimlich den thrakischen Priester Rotheces in seine Gewalt bringen, aus einer Festung unter Belagerung der romischen Legion. Denn der Mann konnte Sejanus zerstoren, den Kommandeur der Pratorianergarde, der alle Macht in Rom an sich gerissen hat. Vespasian uberwindet Hinterhalte: verschneite Berge, Piraten auf hoher See und Sejanus' Spione. Doch die schlimmste Ge ...
No two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of the complex and ever-evolving relationship between these two American icons. Assassinated only sixty-two days apart in 1968, King and Kennedy changed the United States forever, and their deaths profoundly alt ...
Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer expressions of trickiness do share some qualities with the Trickster archetype seen in myths. Rock stars who break taboos and get away with it, hero ...
This book follows the journey of a Jew who fled Nazi Germany but could not exorcise its evils from his theological and literary imagination. Having spent his early years trying to escape from his encounters with Nazism, Rolf Gompertz spent his later years trying to interpret the contours of evil that he had experienced in Hitler's Germany. The spiritual journey of Rolf Gompertz offers intrigue, instruction, and challenge. It is the story o ...
