GERRY DUGGAN & DAVID O'SULLIVAN of ANALOG fame reteam on the perfect comic book to celebrate Halloween. It's the first appearance of HECTOR SMALLEY, a guitar tech known as THE PALADIN OF AXES. He's working for the world's biggest rock band, and when he and the whole band are killed in a plane crash, it's unexpectedly just the beginning of his bad times. It's a sad tale of working yourself to death—literally. Equal parts Evil Dead and Time Bandits, this horror comedy will put a smile on your face on one page and punch it off on the page turn. Throw your horns in the air for THE PALADIN OF AXES!

Mega book bundle. Over 1400 pages/ 4000,000 words. Contains the exciting conclusion to the Paladin Chronicles. Book 5The Man who Never Was: the origin of the cursed armour. Set in Copper Age Norway, early in the Illvættir war, the first time the elves were hunted to the brink of extinction. Hervor, a young woodland elf is taken captive by savage Norse raiders. She has been told that without her, there may be no hope for her people but how can a slave-girl help the elves fight demons and ever-more dangerous raiders while caring for the small group of elf children she has to care for? And how can she resist the surprising kindness with which she is treated, cope with her dangerously attractive slave master, and tame her own rebellious heart? Meanwhile, her beloved brother is destined to become Hjørvard, the Man who Never was and wear the cursed armour made by the Dwarves. Book 6The Enemy Within: the plot to kill Gansükh. While Gansükh rules Āzar Pāyegān (Azerbaijan) , the elves cannot be safe and yet while he can summon his daimôn lord, he cannot be killed and cannot be displaced. A very special assassin is sent. She must get closer to him than anyone else. She must become his lover, his ‘enemy within the gates’. She is very dangerous herself and she will face intrigue, powerful enemies, great danger and desperate battles. What she least expects is to fall in love with the man she has been sent to kill. Book 7 The Last City of the Dwarves : Set in the picturesque Caucasus of Chechnya and Georgia. The final show down and the search for what was the last city of the Dwarves: To master the power within her, Jacinta has been forced to travel back to the daimôn world. She returns, driven half mad and with her memories gone and lost in the foothills of the mountains. There she is captured by a treacherous band of adventurers searching for the Last City of the Dwarves. If she find it, she must face the monsters within, wear the armour that will steal her life and immortal soul and fight Æloðulf, the ancient sorcerer, that no one will ever kill or defeat. Hakeem and Kynane approach take a small force into the mountains to search for Jacinta, find the lost city and investigate isolated reports of monsters in the mountains. The barriers protecting the last city of the Dwarves is about to finally fall and , when they do, a huge army of monsters will issue forth.

Major Pacific actions from April through August 1942 include the Japanese attack on Ceylon, the Doolittle Raid on Japan, the battle of the Coral Sea, the battle of Midway Island, the U.S. landing on Guadalcanal, the battle of Savo Island, and the battle of the eastern Solomon Islands. Arctic actions include battle for convoy PQ.17. In Mediterranean, the Royal Navy interdicts Axis supply lines along Libyan and Egyptian coasts. In the Atlantic, the U.S. implements convoys along the East Coast.

Examines how Charles Lindbergh's support for Nazi militarism and U.S. isolationism and Henry Ford's business dealings with Germany tarnished their idealized images. Drawing on original lsources, Wallace brings out some pertinent connections between the two men's anti-Semitism and their ties with the rising Nazi regime. Their influence culminated in an abuse of power that helped strengthen Hitler's regime and undermined the Allied war effort.

An astonishing journey through the creation of the seminal role playing epic, officially available in English for the first time ever! This holy grail of Final Fantasy fandom is packed full of original concept art, process pieces, and notes from the original artists and designers chronicling the creation of these timeless games. Dark Horse and Square Enix are thrilled to offer the first of three volumes celebrating the entrancing lore and exciting development of the initial six entries into the Final Fantasy saga. Totaling over three-hundred pages and collected in a high-quality hard-cover binding, Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive Volume 1 remains faithful to its original Japanese source material while simultaneously offering unparalleled accessibility for Western readers. No Final Fantasy collection is complete without this beautiful tome of art, lore, and history.

From September through November 1942, the Allies defeated the Axis forces on all active fronts. On land, the British defeated Rommel in Operation SUPERCHARGE, the US Marines defeated the Japanese on Guadalcanal, and the Russians trapped the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad and disrupted the entire Axis southern front in Russia. At sea, the Royal Navy landed desperately needed supplies on Malta in Operations PEDESTAL and STONEAGE; the USN defended the US Marines on Guadalcanal from a Japanese attack in the Battle of Cape Esperance; the Allies landed troops at Morocco and Algeria in Operation TORCH; USN cruisers sank a Japanese battleship in the 1st Battle of Savo Island; the 2nd Battle of Savo Island was the only battleship-to-battleship engagement of the war in the Pacific; the Battle of the North Atlantic increased in intensity; and the Germans tried to capture the French Fleet at Toulon, France, in Operation ANTON, only to arrive as the ships sank beneath the sea.