William R. Forstchen

"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging. Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an "Army of National Recovery" and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he's offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government"--

A Novel

One Year After

"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. The thrilling follow-up to that novel, One Year After, will be published this September. This third novel in the series will pick up a month after One Year After ends, emersing readers once more in this story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and death"--

The Final Day

Raymond E. Feist

As the Riftwar tears Midkemia apart, enemies trapped in the frozen Northlands must trust each other to stay alive. . . . In the sprawling, embattled land of Midkemia, fate can form strange alliances. Nine years into the bloody and ongoing Riftwar, Dennis Hartraft's Marauders are cold, hungry, and exhausted. Having only just survived a disastrous encounter with their sworn enemy, the Tsurani, the soldiers are headed for a frontier garrison, where they will be able to rest and recover. But Hartraft's company arrives at the same time as a Tsurani patrol, and both sides discover the stronghold overrun by a migrating horde of dark elves called moredhel, a foe so deadly and vicious the bitter enemies must band together and fight as one. But can their hatred for their mutual enemy overcome their distrust of each other? As the two groups, bound to each other by their common foe, make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle with not only the elements and the enemy, but also their consciences. For, with both sides carrying painful scars from past wars, each man must ask himself what is more important: one's life or one's honor?

Legends of the Riftwar

Honored Enemy

A Union regiment marches aboard a transport ship only to be buffeted through space and time and shipwrecked in an alien land, where these Civil War soldiers introduce unheard-of ideas of freedom, equality, and democracy

Rally Cry

A John Matherson Novel

Five Years After

From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash hit One Second After series comes 48 Hours, a nail-biting and prescient thriller about a solar storm with the power to destroy the world's electrical infrastructure In 48 hours, the Earth will be hit by a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) from the Sun, a "Carrington Event" that has the power to shut down and possibly destroy the world's electrical infrastructure. To try and prevent permanent damage, everything goes dark prior to the hit: global communications are shut down; hospital emergency generators are disconnected; the entire internet, media broadcasting, and cell phone systems are turned off. Will the world's population successfully defend itself in the wake of the CME, or will mass panic lead to the breakdown of society as we know it? William R. Forstchen is at his best in 48 Hours, a tale of the resilience of American citizens when faced with a crisis.

48 Hours

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As the fighter-mages of the four great Houses prepare for their annual battle, a powerful stranger arrives and he is interested in the fifth House, destroyed a generation ago--but why is the Grand Master afraid of him? Original.

Arena

Newt Gingrich

Albert S. Hanser

After two bestselling series examining the Civil War and WWII, Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen have turned their sharp eye for detail on the Revolutionary War. Their story follows three men with three very different roles to play in history: General George Washington, Thomas Paine, and Jonathan Van Dorn, a private in Washington’s army. The action focuses on one of the most iconic events in American history: Washington cross - ing the Delaware. Unlike the bold, courageous General in Emanuel Leutze’s painting, Washington is full of doubt on the night of December 25, 1776. After five months of defeat, morale is dangerously low. Each morning muster shows that hundreds have deserted in the night. While Washington prepares his weary troops for the attack on Trenton, Thomas Paine is in Philadelphia, overseeing the printing of his newest pamphlet, The Crisis. And Jonathan Van Dorn is about to bring the war to his own doorstep. In the heat of battle, he must decide between staying loyal to the cause and sparing his brother who has joined up with the British. Through the thoughts and private fears of these three men, Gingrich and Forstchen illu minate the darkest days of the Revolution. With detailed research and an incredible depth of military insight, this novel provides a rare and personal perspective of the men who fought for, and founded the United States of America.

A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom

To Try Men's Souls

Union Colonel Andrew Keane and his men discover that descendants of Roman soldiers, sixteenth-century corsairs from the Spanish Maine, and some of Ghengis Khan's men have also been transported in time to the distant future

Union Forever

One Year After is the New York Times bestselling follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s smash hit One Second After, the novel cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read

The story begins one year after One Second After ends, two years since nuclear weapons were detonated above the United States and brought America to its knees. After months of suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to recover technology and supplies they had once taken for granted, like electricity, radio communications, and medications. When a “federal administrator” arrives in a nearby city, they dare to hope that a new national government is finally emerging.

That hope quickly diminishes when town administrator John Matherson learns that most of the young men and women in the community are to be drafted into the “Army of National Recovery” and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. He and the people of Black Mountain protest vehemently. But “the New Regime” is already tyrannizing one nearby community.

Will Matherson’s friends and neighbors be next?

Days of Infamy

Describes the world that would have existed in 1945 if Adolf Hitler had not declared war on the United States after Pearl Harbor.

1945

The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucian Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappears during a battle with the alient Tarn. Generations later, Captain Picard discovers the descendants of Murat and his crew stranded on a desolate planet, still fighting a war that ended decades ago.

The Forgotten War

In a future ice age Michael Ormson leads a violent uprising against the forces of tyranny and brings hope of a new way of life for mankind

Ice Prophet

William R. Forstchen trilógiájának harmadik kötete az Egy másodperccel később és az Egy évvel később New York Times bestseller regényeinek nyomán, újból az amerikai nemzet élet-halál küzdelmét tárja elénk. Az áramellátó hálózatot megsemmisítő elektromágneses csapás (EMP) óta a túlélők közel teljes sötétségben, az éhezés és a terror árnyékában próbálják újjáépíteni egykor virágzó országukat. Az önjelölt kormányerők ellenében aratott győzelem után John Matherson és közössége az EMP-támadás következtében elveszett technológiák és a közrend helyreállításán munkálkodik, a kormány azonban váratlan bejelentést tesz: fontos régiókat enged át véglegesen a kínai és mexikói megszállóknak. Az alkotmány nincs érvényben többé, a hivatásos hadsereg még bevethető csapatait pedig a megmaradt államokban dúló belső lázadások leverésére vezénylik. John váratlanul egykori parancsnokával és legközelebbi barátjával, Bob Scales tábornokkal találja szemben magát. Vajon Scales tábornok is aggályok nélkül teljesíti a kormány parancsait vagy az újból egyesített amerikai nemzetért vívott küzdelem kulcsfontosságú alakjává válik? Lehetséges, hogy a szabadságjogokat folyamatosan kurtító és saját szuverenitását áruba bocsátó kormány éppen azt kapja majd, amitől a legjobban retteg: egy valódi forradalmat? A trilógia első részét az amerikai Kongresszus folyosóin már megjelenése előtt úgy emlegették, mint az apokaliptikus thrillert, melyet minden amerikainak el kell olvasnia. William R. Forstchen a magyar közönséget is meggyőzte: "Ilyen érzelmi töltetet pedig hasonló zsánerirodalmi műtől ritkán kapunk, és pont ezért válhat a könyv a műfaj egyik kiemelkedő darabjává." - Könyvesblog.hu ajánlója az Egy másodperccel később című könyvről "Azt gondolom, minél több emberhez kéne, hogy eljusson ez a – számomra zseniális jelzőt megérdemlő – könyv, és nem pusztán azért, hogy tisztában legyünk a potenciális veszélyekkel. Azért is, mert olyan témákról és olyan szinten készteti elgondolkozásra az embert, amelyek alapvetőek, ugyanakkor más körülmények között nem biztos, hogy eszünkbe jutnának." - tiz kicsi könyv blog ajánlója az Egy másodperccel később című könyvről

Az utolsó nap

Két év telt el ,,a nap", vagyis a világ több országát egyszerre sújtó összehangolt, elektromágneses hullámokat (EMP) gerjesztő támadás óta. Áramszolgáltatás híján az Egyesült Államok kontinentális területeinek nagy részén középkori állapotok uralkodnak, s becslések szerint az offenzívát, valamint az azt követő káoszt az ország lakosságának csupán húsz százaléka élte túl. Az észak-karolinai Black Mountain városa - lakóinak hősies helytállása folytán - nem semmisült meg teljesen, de a halál és az emberfeletti megpróbáltatások őket sem kímélték. Vezetőjük, John Matherson otthona porig égett, és az inzulinkészletek kiapadása miatt a férfi elveszítette egyik lányát, a cukorbeteg Jennifert is. A Bluemontban újjászerveződött amerikai kormány látszólag mindent megtesz annak érdekében, hogy feltartóztassa az országba humanitárius segítségnyújtásra hivatkozva benyomuló idegen katonai erőket. Az új vezetés tervének részeként John egyetlen életben maradt lánya, a tizennyolc éves Elizabeth is megkapja a katonai behívóját...

Egy évvel később

Egy másodperccel később

The first of a major new Feist acquisition, returning to his best-loved series. Written with Bill Forstchen, acclaimed writer of great military fantasy novels in the US. FREEDOM AT ANY PRICE? Hartraft's Marauders, a crack band of Kingdom raiders, are a special unit designed to infiltrate and fight behind enemy lines. They are currently heading for a frontier garrison, after a disastrous encounter with the Tsurani. Meanwhile, a Tsurani patrol is sent to support an assault on the same garrison. Both sides arrive at the same time and discover the garrison has been overrun by a migrating horde of moredhel (dark elves) and they are forced by circumstances to band together and fight as one unit to survive. The only problem is, who do they hate the most -- their mutual enemy, or each other? As they make their way across the unknown Northlands to freedom, they have to struggle not only with the elements and their enemies, but also their conscience. For what is more important -- one's life or one's honour?

Honoured Enemy

Stranded on a distant world ruled by alien creatures, Union Colonel Andrew Keane and his regiment must rely on a brute force when a human traitor among them gives the aliens the secret to air power. Original.

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