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"THE FUTURE CRASHED INTO THE PAST. NOW, 1955 IS BURNING.
It has been six weeks since the Cold War went hot.
In a timeline broken by the arrival of a twenty-first century naval task force, history has derailed. The year is 1955, but it is a world transformed. The Soviet Union armed with history books that told Stalin exactly how the West would win. The United States and its allies are scrambling to hold the line with a terrifying mix of dwindling futuristic tech and gritty 1950s industrial might.
The Cold War is over. Total war has begun.
THREE DAYS OF CHAOS
World War 3.3 drops you directly into the firestorm. This is alternate history at its most ferocious.
For the accidental time-travelers of Kolhammer's Multinational Force, the nightmare scenario has arrived. Their satellites are going dark. An enemy armed with future knowledge and sci-fi weapons. A war for the timeline itself."
"The relationship of people with hills and mountains has been complex, rich and varied–from awe and wonder to fear and loathing, from spiritual longing to peaceful acceptance.
As he explores our high places, Ian Crofton conjures up those who have been there before: Neolithic axe-makers, mass trespassers, shepherds, quarrymen, botanists, poets, and pioneering cragsmen and women among them. At the same time, he is ever attuned to the present moment–a flash of bright moss in a bog, the swoop of an eagle above a skyline, a winter sun sinking into a sea of cloud.
Following an arc from the gentle Downs of southern England to the wild peaks of Scotland's far north, Upland combines personal experiences with a keen curiosity about the history and nature of mountain landscapes, and the people who once worked and wandered among them. The result is a meditation on the enduring yet ever-changing hills, on the transience of human experience, and on the shifts and twists of time itself."
"This book provides listeners with a new working model of the human mind based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts. The listener is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates.
The text explores the mind's basic architecture examining how its family of eleven systems interact flexibly and collaboratively to process information, mostly subconsciously. Key topics include the five systems that build specialized representations from sensory input, consciousness, memory, emotions, comparisons between human and animal cognition, language processing, and concepts of Self, Free Will, and spirituality. The book illuminates how general principles of activation, association, and competition act in combination with the unique principles that govern each of the mind's specialized systems. One chapter explains two of these systems in more detail to illustrate how expertise from any relevant area of research can be used elaborate the basic model.
Written in an accessible style, The Human Mind Revealed offers valuable insights for students and scholars across cognitive science disciplines as well as general listeners curious about how the mind works."
"This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941.
Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant. In this terrifyingly plausible scenario, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow on September 30th, 1941—and the Soviet Union collapses.
Although Russian resistance continues, German ambition multiplies after this signal success. They launch offensives in Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Hitler's armies, assured of victory, make their leader's dreams reality and Allied hopes of recovery seem almost hopelessly doomed.
With a convincingly blend of actual history and alternate events, The Moscow Option is a chilling reminder that history might easily have been very different."
"THE EPIC ALTERNATE HISTORY OF MILITARY FICTION RETURNS.
History didn't just change. It exploded.
The war that erupted with a Soviet orbital strike on Western Europe now rages across the globe. Alliances falter, empires fall, and dictators drive all before them. In the White House, President Kolhammer faces enemies abroad and a nemesis at home.
War rages in every domain—fought in the skies by stealth drones and supersonic jets, beneath the waves by hunter-killer subs and autonomous swarms, and across the blood-soaked fields of Western Germany, where modern mechanized divisions clash with old-world armies in a storm of steel and fire. No front is stable. No weapon is off-limits. And no one is safe.
Meanwhile, spies, mercenaries, and heroes thought long dead fight their battles in the shadows of Cairo, Marseille, and Mississippi."
"Bloomsbury presents War at the Edge of the World by Ian Ross, read by Peter Noble.
AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE.
Centurion Aurelius Castus – once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube – believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern Britain, battling to protect an empire in decline.
Here he must face the barbarians beyond Hadrian's Wall, in a mission riven with bloodshed and treachery. Can Castus keep his promise to a woman he has sworn to help? And is anything about this doomed enterprise what it seems?
War at the Edge of the World is the epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Emperor Constantine. C 2016 Ian Ross P 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"
"Bloomsbury presents Swords Around the Throne by Ian Ross, read by Peter Noble.
Rome is in peril...
The old order is changing. Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain to find himself caught up in a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine.
Rewarded for saving the emperor's life, Castus is promoted to the elite imperial bodyguard: the swords around the throne.
But he soon discovers the court to be as dangerous as the battlefield.
Behind the gilded facade of empire lurks a nest of traitors and one relentless enemy. C 2015 Ian Ross C 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"
"The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war...
Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west.
Aurelius Castus is now a tribune in Constantine's army. But great honour brings new challenges: Castus is tormented by suspicions that his young wife has been unfaithful. And as Constantine becomes increasingly devoted to Christianity, he is forced to ask himself whether he is backing the wrong man.
The coming war will decide the fate of empire. But Castus's own battle will carry him much further... C 2016 Ian Ross P 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"
"Ross presents us with a vision of late Rome that is tense, exhilarating, complex and exotic...
When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces into turmoil, Aurelius Castus is ordered to take command of the military forces on the Rhine.
But he soon discovers that the frontier is a place where the boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, freedom and slavery, honour and treason have little meaning.
At the very heart of the conflict are two vulnerable boys. One is Emperor Constantine's young heir, Crispus. The other is Castus's own beloved son, Sabinus. Only Castus stands between them and men who would kill them. With all that he loves in danger, Castus and a handful of loyal men must fight to defend the Roman Empire.
But in the heat of battle, can he distinguish friend from enemy? C 2016 Ian Ross P 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"
"THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS NO MERCY IN ITS QUEST FOR POWER.
Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war. As the Emperor Constantine grows ever more ruthless in his pursuit of power, Castus fears that the world he knows is slipping away.
On the eve of the war's final campaign, Castus discovers that the emperor's son Crispus aims to depose his father and restore the old ways of Rome.
Castus must choose between honour and survival, and face a final confrontation with the most powerful man in the Roman world, the ruler he has sworn loyally to serve: the Emperor Constantine himself. C 2016 Ian Ross P 2026 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC"
"WORLD WAR 3.1
The year is 1954. A decade has passed since Berlin and Tokyo were consumed by nuclear fire, but war claws its way back to a world forever altered. The ailing Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, strikes NATO with a colossal orbital assault, propelling waves of tanks and over a million soldiers westward—all armed with twenty-first-century tech plundered from a future they never knew.
Admiral Kolhammer, Prince Harry, and Charlotte Francois are compelled to once again take arms. They're fighting not only to save the world but history itself. Yet, in this complex web of time and conflict, not everybody wants to be saved.
Brimming with the raw combat intensity and high-octane alternate history that fans adored in Weapons of Choice, this fresh installment revitalizes the groundbreaking Axis of Time series for both returning fans and newcomers."
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