Isbn: 9780786891221 - the second objective (7 risultati)

Condizione: Fair. Bestselling author Mark Frost makes a triumphant return to fiction with this riveting World War II thriller, based on a shocking real-life German operation run by "the most dangerous man in Europe." Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler's Commando," famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation Greif: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs, where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new offensive. And from those men, Skorzeny is to select a smaller group, made up of the twenty most highly skilled commandos fluent in American culture, to attempt an even more sinister mission--the second objective--which, if completed, not only would change the course of the war, but would change the course of history. Filled with real characters and details only recently released by the United States military, The Second Objective is historical fiction at its most pulse-pounding, its most unpredictable, and its most compulsively readable.…

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Condizione: Fair. Bestselling author Mark Frost makes a triumphant return to fiction with this riveting World War II thriller, based on a shocking real-life German operation run by "the most dangerous man in Europe." Fall 1944. Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler's Commando," famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation Greif: He is to assemble a new brigade of 2,000 men, all of whom speak English, and send them behind Allied lines disguised as GIs, where they will wreak havoc in advance of a savage new offensive. And from those men, Skorzeny is to select a smaller group, made up of the twenty most highly skilled commandos fluent in American culture, to attempt an even more sinister mission--the second objective--which, if completed, not only would change the course of the war, but would change the course of history. Filled with real characters and details only recently released by the United States military, The Second Objective is historical fiction at its most pulse-pounding, its most unpredictable, and its most compulsively readable.…

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Condizione: Fair. : El autor de bestsellers Mark Frost regresa con un emocionante thriller de la Segunda Guerra Mundial basado en una impactante operación alemana real. En el otoño de 1944, mientras Alemania pierde terreno, el teniente coronel Otto Skorzeny organiza una brigada de hombres que hablan inglés para infiltrarse tras las líneas aliadas disfrazados de soldados estadounidenses.La misión, conocida como Operación Greif, incluye un grupo de élite encargado de un objetivo aún más siniestro que podría cambiar el curso de la historia. Mezclando personajes reales con detalles militares recientemente desclasificados, esta novela es una obra de ficción histórica trepidante y compulsiva. EAN: 9780786891221 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Literatura y Ficción|Historia Título: The Second Objective Autor: Mark Frost Editorial: Hyperion Idioma: en Páginas: 416 Formato: tapa blanda.…