An assignment on a backwater world turns deadly for a combat vet and her AI tank. Military SF with heart and humor from up-and-coming author Marisa Wolf. Sometimes the only way forward is to burn it all down. Talinn Reaze and Bee serve as “Breezy,” part of the United Colonial Force’s elite Artificial Intelligence Troops. Trained for full integration since before Talinn’s birth, they exceeded expectations and became one of the premier heavy tanks, leading assaults on several fronts of the long war against the Interstellar Defense Corps. When they’re thrown to a backwater base without cause, boredom becomes their main enemy—until the world falls out from under their treads and they begin to question everything they’ve ever known. As they orient to their new reality, they have a decision to make: Uphold the status quo, or risk burning civilization to the ground? Talinn and Bee always did have a fondness for fire. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government--even in the face of long-term nonviolent opposition led by activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991--has puzzled scholars. In a book relevant to current debates about democratization, Mary P. Callahan seeks to explain the extraordinary durability of the Burmese military regime. In her view, the origins of army rule are to be found in the relationship between war and state formation.Burma's colonial past had seen a large imbalance between the military and civil sectors. That imbalance was accentuated soon after formal independence by one of the earliest and most persistent covert Cold War conflicts, involving CIA-funded Kuomintang incursions across the Burmese border into the People's Republic of China. Because this raised concerns in Rangoon about the possibility of a showdown with Communist China, the Burmese Army received even more autonomy and funding to protect the integrity of the new nation-state.The military transformed itself during the late 1940s and the 1950s from a group of anticolonial guerrilla bands into the professional force that seized power in 1962. The army edged out all other state and social institutions in the competition for national power. Making Enemies draws upon Callahan's interviews with former military officers and her archival work in Burmese libraries and halls of power. Callahan's unparalleled access allows her to correct existing explanations of Burmese authoritarianism and to supply new information about the coups of 1958 and 1962.

At the onset of the Gulf War, God inspired the author with a vision that reveal the tactical secrets of warfare. The author had no previous understanding or exposure to war, military terminology, or warfare strategy. Beyond Enemy Lines is a poignant collection of spiritual revelations of the challenges that confront Believers and the intervention of the Holy Spirit to provide the strategies that set captives free. The book exposes the tactics of the enemy and offers insight into the warfare that occurs daily in all of our lives. The book outlines the Believer's responsibility to go beyond comfort zones into territory where loved ones are spiritually imprisoned. It challenges Believers to cross the line of demarcation into the areas where people are overcome by problems and troubles that paralyze and cripple them. It charges the Believer to become more effective and spiritually equipped to deal with the problems facing families and friends in today's troubled world. And it gives real life tesitmonies of victories. Now as the book is finally released, America is again engaged in war. Beyond Enemy Lines is most relevant for such a time as now.

A North and South Enemies to Lovers American Civil War Sweet Historical Romance Love Blossoms in the Midst of Battle Emma Winters. A candlemaker's granddaughter born and raised in Boston. Trapped in Vicksburg during the siege of 1863. Caught between two worlds, she must rely on the enemy to protect her life. Jameson Roberts. A Confederate officer. Sworn to protect his countrymen. Even a misplaced young lady with a slightly northern accent. Can Emma trust an enemy soldier to keep her safe? Or will she be left alone in enemy territory with nowhere to turn? Would the dangers of war change both their lives in a way neither of them could have imagined? An enchanting story of enemies to lovers set against the background of the turbulent time of the American Civil War.

Stalinism is the name that is used to identify the political and economic systems introduced and implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union from the time that Stalin became the supreme power in the Russian Communist Party in 1927 to his death in 1953. During those years, Stalin’s economic policies turned the Soviet Union into an industrial giant with all industries under State management and control. The State was, Stalin and the Party. Stalin’s policies also brought about the collectivization of almost all the agricultural land in the Soviet Union. Each collective farm was regulated by the State. Stalin was a committed Marxian socialist who believed that it was possible to transform the Soviet Union into a Marxian socialist society without assistance from abroad. It was to be a society without the presence of Christianity or any other religious faith. People in the Soviet Union who opposed Stalin’s policies were arrested by Stalin’s feared secret police organizations. The victims were either exiled from the Soviet Union, detained in city prisons, sent to prison labor camps located in Siberia or executed. No Soviet citizen was immune from arrest. This was evident during periods of time when Stalin purged the Russian Communist Party, the only recognized political party in the Soviet Union. The citizens who were declared guilty of the charge or charges brought against them by the State were labeled” enemies of the people.” Family members, close relatives and friends of the victims would suffer serious consequences as well.