Gunnar Gunnarsson

The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours, Krause will play a desperate cat and mouse game against the submarines, combating exhaustion, hunger, and thirst to protect fifty million dollars' worth of cargo and the lives of three thousand men. Acclaimed as one of the best novels of the year upon publication in 1955, The Good Shepherd is a riveting classic of WWII and naval warfare from one of the 20th century's masters of sea stories.

Nous sommes en Norvège à la fin du IXe siècle, au début de l'épopée viking. Leif et Ingolf sont les fils respectifs de deux seigneurs : Rodmar et Orn. Ingolf, le sensible, le raisonnable, est de deux ans l'aîné de Leif, l'intrépide. Devant la force de leurs sentiments respectifs, les deux amis décident de lier à la vie à la mort. Paroles d'enfants? Non, et c'est ainsi qu'au cours d'une cérénomie officielle ils deviennent "frères jurés" ...

In this comprehensive study, specialists from all eighteen countries of non-Communist Europe address and examine alternative security scenarios over the next thirty years. Each contributor has written a chapter in which he or she analyzes threat perceptions in a national context and evaluates various prescriptions for improving the security situation within a long-term framework. In addition, the contributors propose a series of concrete measures for building a stronger European consciousness in the security and defense area. This volume also contains bibliographic information on research institutions and recent books in the field