 | The 13th Valley
Publication Date: July 27, 2012A work that has served as a literary cornerstone for the Vietnam generation, The 13th Valley follows the strange and terrifying Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelini, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in territory controlled by the North Vietnamese Army. Spiraling deeper and deeper into a world of conflict and darkness, this harrowing account of Chelini's plunge and immersion into jungle warfare traces his evolution from a semipacifist to an all-out warmonger. The seminal novel on the Vietnam experience, The 13th Valley is a c...
 |  | 1945: A Novel
Release Date: May 29, 2007America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . .In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame–their aim: to take America down with them.In Robert Conroy’s brilliantly imagined epic tale of World War II, Emperor Hirohito’s capitulation is hijacked by extremists and a weary United States is for...
|  | Death and Honor (Honor Bound)
Release Date: May 26, 2009| Series: Honor Bound In 1943, Argentina Marine pilotturned- agent Cletus Frade is setting up an OSS-operated airline. But before Frade can get airborne, two interwoven German operations must be grounded. And for Frade-whose father was killed by the Nazis-the mission is about to get personal. ...
|  | Sharps
Publication Date: July 17, 2012K.J. Parker's new novel is a perfectly executed tale of intrigue and deception.For the first time in nearly forty years, an uneasy truce has been called between two neighbouring kingdoms. The war has been long and brutal, fought over the usual things: resources, land, money...Now, there is a chance for peace. Diplomatic talks have begun and with them, the games. Two teams of fencers represent their nations at this pivotal moment.When the future of the world lies balanced on the point of a rapier, one misstep could mean ruin for all. Human nature being what it i...
|  | Song for Night: A Novella
Publication Date: September 1, 2007"Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing novel about what it’s like to be a young person in a war. That Chris Abani is able to find humanity, mercy, and even, yes, forgiveness, amid such devastation is something of a miracle.”—Rebecca Brown, author of The End of Youth"The moment you enter these pages, you step into a beautiful and terrifying dream. You are in the hands of a master, a literary shaman. Abani casts his spell so completely—so devastatingl...
|  | Siege of Castellax (Space Marine Battles)
Release Date: November 27, 2012| Series: Space Marine Battles (Book 10) The Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Legion, long renowned as the masters of siege warfare, find the tables turned as they become the target of a massive ork invasion. ...
|  | The Year of the French
Release Date: October 31, 2004| Series: New York Review Books Classics In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landedwith a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They weresupposed to be an advance guard, followed by other French ships with the leader ofthe rebellion, Wolfe Tone. Briefly they triumphed, raising hopes among the impoverishedlocal peasantry and gathering a group of supporters. But before long the insurgencycollapsed in the face of a brutal English counterattack.Very few books succeedin registering the sudden terrible i...
|  | Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles #1)
Release Date: September 18, 2001When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. To repay his generosity, he enlists in the Faulconer legion to fight against his home, the North, and against his abolitionist father. When the regiment joins up, ready to march into the ferocious battle at Buff Run, the men are prepared to start a war . . . but they aren't ready for how they—and the nation—will be forever changed by the oaths they have sworn for their beloved Sout...
|  | Stand Into Danger (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 2)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Series: The Bolitho Novels (Book 2) In 1774, Richard Bolitho is a newly appointed Third Lieutenant, joining the 28-gun frigate Destiny. Dispatched on a secret mission, Destiny and her company face the hazards of conspiracy, treason, and piracy. It is amidst the broadside battles and clashes of swords that Bolitho learns to accept his new responsibilities as a King's officer. ...
|  | Copperhead
Release Date: September 18, 2001| Series: Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles (Book 2) The beloved Confederate Captain Nate Starbuck returns to the front lines of the Civil War in this second installment of Bernard Cornwell's acclaimed Nathaniel Starbuck Chronicles. It is the summer of 1862, and Nate has been bloodied but victorious at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Seven Pines. But he can't escape his Northern roots, and it is only a matter of time until he's accused of being a Yankee spy, pursued, and brutally interrogated. To clear his name, he must find the real traitor—a search that wi...
|  | G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Volume 4 (G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: June 5, 2012| Series: G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels) (Book 4) The mission has begun: Flint, Lady Jaye, and Heavy Duty take point on a top-secret operation to find an elusive foe that was long-thought dead. Meanwhile, Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, and Billy face the largest threat to the Arashikage clan yet! The continuation of the original A Real American Hero storyline brings more danger, battles, and surprises from longtime G.I. Joe scribe Larry Hama. ...
|  | Face of the Enemy: A New York in Wartime Mystery (Helluva War)
Publication Date: September 4, 2012| Series: New York in Wartime December, 1941: With New Yorkers painfully aware of their vulnerability after the Pearl Harbor attack, the FBI prowls the city snatching up Japanese residents. Tension increases for a sensitive Japanese artist when she’s accused of murder as well as espionage. Is Masako Fumi guilty? Or a victim of racial paranoia? Nurse Louise Hunter is outraged and vows to help her friend.When the murdered body of Masako’s art dealer is discovered in the gallery where he’d been closing down her controversial show, Masako&rsqu...
|  | Charlotte Gray
Release Date: July 11, 2000From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own.In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when he fails to return from a daring flight into France she is determined to find him. In the service of the Resistance, she travels to the village of Lavaurette, dyeing her hair and changing her name to conceal her identity. H...
|  | Brotherhood of War: The Lieutenants, the Captains, the Majors- 3 Complete Novels
Release Date: June 4, 2001Hailed by Tom Clancy as "an American epic," the Brotherhood of War series is a sweeping military saga that probes the hearts and minds of those who fight our nation's wars. Packed with adventure and realism, loyalty, victory, and betrayal, the absorbing stories in this omnibus edition are classics of the genre. ...
|  | Gone For Soldiers
Release Date: November 4, 2003With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in th...
|  | The Power and the Glory: A Novel (Historical Nautical Fiction)
Publication Date: October 15, 2011This third novel in William C. Hammond's nautical fiction series is set in the late 1790s during the Quasi-War with France and offers readers a thrilling look at the new American Navy during the Age of Fighting Sail. Following in the wake of his previous novels, A Matter of Honor and For Love of Country, it features the adventures of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and an ever-expanding cast of characters some real, some fictional that includes Lt. Richard Cutler along with Capt. Thomas Truxtun, Capt. Silas Talbot, and other naval hero...
|  | Under Fire
Publication Date: April 27, 2011This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works. ...
|  | In at the Death (Settling Accounts, Book Four)
Release Date: June 24, 2008| Series: Settling Accounts Franklin Roosevelt is the assistant secretary of defense. Thomas Dewey is running for president with a blunt-speaking Missourian named Harry Truman at his side. Britain holds onto its desperate alliance with the USA’s worst enemy, while a holocaust unfolds in Texas. In Harry Turtledove’s compelling, disturbing, and extraordinarily vivid reshaping of American history, a war of secession has triggered a generation of madness. The tipping point has come at last.The third war in sixty years, this one yet unnamed: a grinding, ho...
|  | A Matter of Honor
Publication Date: November 1, 2008The first volume in a series of maritime novels set in the early years of the United States, A MATTER OF HONOR is a dramatic account of a young man's coming of age during the American Revolution. Introducing Richard Cutler, a Massachusetts teenager with strong family ties to England, the novel tells his story as he ships out with John Paul Jones to avenge the death of his beloved brother Will, impressed by the Royal Navy and flogged to death for striking an officer. On the high seas, in England and in France, on the sugar islands of the Caribbean, and on the...
|  | Blood Alone: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
Release Date: September 1, 2009| Series: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery Billy awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. Despite this and numerous attempts on his life, he manages to carry out his mission to enlist the cooperation of the head of the Sicilian Mafia on behalf of the Allies. He also foils a plot by Vito Genovese to counterfeit army scrip. ...
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