The world is safe. Or is it? Jack Brown has settled into the life he loves, as a police officer, and a married, caring father. He is also a former operative of the Omega Squad, and is considered a superb operative by his peers. But he refuses to be swayed by the praise they heap on him and only seeks the new life he has made for himself. Then danger comes calling. Stinger missiles have gone missing and Colonel Dax wants Jack to find them. Jack declines, not wanting any more dangerous missions. But after an attack in his own backyard, he is forced to fight an enemy he once thought long gone. Can he survive a new breed of warrior, even more deadly than the last? Find out in the action-packed novel Honor with a Vengeance III: The Stinger Missile Crisis.

Jack Brown is once again asked to go on a mission, this time to locate a person of extreme importance. This person is Jacks friend and mentor who was investigating rumors of terrorists building a massive army. Jack soon realizes the rumors to be true and the army had infiltrated to the highest levels of government of almost every major civilized country. There is a high possibility that Jacks own country may not be able to stop the take over by the Crimson Brigade.

Among the more intriguing documentary sources from late medieval Europe are pardon letters—petitions sent by those condemned for serious crimes to monarchs and princes in France and the Low Countries in the hopes of receiving a full pardon. The fifteenth-century Burgundian Low Countries and duchy of Burgundy produced a large cache of these petitions, from both major cities (Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp, and Dijon) and rural communities. In Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble, Peter Arnade and Walter Prevenier present the first study in English of these letters to explore and interrogate the boundaries between these sources' internal, discursive properties and the social world beyond the written text.Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble takes the reader out onto the streets and into the taverns, homes, and workplaces of the Burgundian territories, charting the most pressing social concerns of the day: everything from family disputes and vendettas to marital infidelity and property conflicts—and, more generally, the problems of public violence, abduction and rape, and the role of honor and revenge in adjudicating disputes. Arnade and Prevenier examine why the right to pardon was often enacted by the Burgundian dukes and how it came to compete with more traditional legal means of resolving disputes. In addition, they consider the pardon letter as a historical source, highlighting the limitations and pitfalls of relying on documents that are, by their very nature, narratives shaped by the petitioner to seek a favored outcome. The book also includes a detailed case study of a female actress turned prostitute.An example of microhistory at its best, Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble will challenge scholars while being accessible to students in courses on medieval and early modern Europe or on historiography.

It isn't always those in command of a starship that make the important decisions -- sometimes those below decks can hold the fate of the ship in their hands... The news from Starfleet Command is grim: the Federation is on the brink of a full-scale war against the Klingon Empire -- a war that they may not be able to win. In anticipation of the coming conflict, the USS Enterprise is assigned to guard a strategically vital starbase located close to Klingon space. But even as their mission brings them into a tense confrontation with a Klingon battle cruiser, a equally deadly menace lurks within the ranks of Kirk's own crew: Klingon infiltrator agents, posing as Starfleet officers and sworn to destroy the enemies of the Empire -- even at the cost of their own honour.

Book three in the nationally best-selling Manticore Ascendant series, a prequel series to David Weber's multiple New York Times best-selling Honor Harrington series. Sequel to A Call to Duty and A Call to Arms. After the disastrous attack on the Manticoran home system by forces unknown, the Royal Manticoran Navy stands on the brink of collapse. A shadowy enemy with the resources to hurl warships across hundreds of light years seeks to conquer the Star Kingdom for reasons unknown, while forces from within Manticore’s own government seek to discredit and weaken the Navy for reasons very much known: their own political gain. It’s up to officers like Travis Long and Lisa Donnelly to defend the Star Kingdom and the Royal Manticoran Navy from these threats, but the challenge is greater than any they have faced before. Weakened but not defeated, the mercenary forces and their mysterious employer could return at any time, and the anti-Navy faction within Parliament is growing. The situation becomes even more dire when fresh tragedy strikes the Star Kingdom. While the House of Winton faces their enemies at home, Travis, Lisa, and the other officers of the Royal Manticoran Navy must reunite with old friends and join new allies to hunt down and eliminate the forces arrayed against them in a galaxy-spanning conspiracy. Manticore has learned that the universe is not a safe place, but the Star Kingdom’s enemies are about to learn it's dangerous to mess with the Manticore!

The British Royal Navy entered the War of 1812 expecting victory. Naval victories of the previous two decades and the mythos of Lord Nelson had built a naval culture accustomed to aggressive action and victory against all odds. No one expected the tiny United States Navy to triumph, and yet by the year's end three British frigates and two sloops ha

An example of microhistory at its best, this book offers a new perspective on the socal history of medieval and early modern Europe and on historiography more broadly.