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Skyhorse Publishing Black Sun Rising: Book One: Praetorian Series
A new ultra-elite force, developed over the last two decades and now ready to deploy, has entered the scene of worldwide clandestine military operations: The Praetorians. The Praetorians is made up of the best of the best WORLDWIDE and hand-selected to make up the most elite special operations unit in history. Armed with incredible, beyond cutting-edge technological equipment and weapons, the Praetorians is prepared to face the worst threats known to mankind. Operating out of a secret underground base in Cyprus, the men and women of this unit train relentlessly to be ready. In book one of this new series, we will explore the origins of the Praetorians as well as introduce their first major enemy: the terrorist group known as the Black Sun. The Black Sun organization is primarily made up of those former ISIS and Al-Qaeda members who thought their previous groups were too soft…these men represent the most barbaric of any previous known terrorist group. Imagine having Attila the Hun meshed with a violent religious ideology, but also now add advanced technological weapons to the mix. Extremely dangerous doesn’t even begin to do justice to the term…
£18.71
Skyhorse Publishing History's Assassins: Motives for Murder
A fact-based book that highlights political assassins in history. The book includes the stories of the assassins rather than just their famous victims. The book dissects selected political assassinations and and why the assassins acted; details their political goals, addresses why they chose the methods they chose, and describes the ultimate outcome of the assassination. In many cases, the assassinations were not effective and actually worked against the stated goals of the assassins. People of questionable sanity and cases where the act was strictly personal are not included. For the more modern subjects, there is supporting documentation with detailed accounts written at the time in question. However, with some of the historic cases, specifics on methodology, coconspirators, etc. are not well known or there are conflicting accounts. In such cases, reasoned dramatizations are used to ensure the stories are entertaining to the reader as well as educational.The book is organized chronologically with examples from Ancient Persia and Rome and ending with several of the 19th and 20th Centuries’ high profile assassinations. The assassins and the victims are representative of men and women, and eastern and western civilizations.
£18.00
