 | 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. ...
 |  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Point Omega: A Novel
Release Date: February 2, 2010DON DELILLO HAS BEEN "WEIRDLY PROPHETIC about twenty-first-century America" (The New York Times Book Review). In his earlier novels, he has written about conspiracy theory, the Cold War and global terrorism. Now, in Point Omega, he looks into the mind and heart of a "defense intellectual," one of the men involved in the management of the country's war machine.Richard Elster was a scholar -- an outsider -- when he was called to a meeting with government war planners, asked to apply "ideas and principles to such matters as troop deployment and counterinsurgency."W...
|  | Three Comrades
Release Date: January 27, 1998THREE COMRADESThe year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love, and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can never have imagined. . . .Written with the same overwhelming simplicity and directness that made ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
|  | Black Cross
Release Date: November 1, 1995It is January 1944. The whole world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe. But in England, Winston Churchill has learned that Nazi scientists have developed Sarin—a horrifying new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. Only a desperate gamble can avert disaster. Two men—a pacifist American doctor and a fanatical Jewish assassin—must embark on a murderous mission into the heart of Germany. Their target: a human hell where Jews fuel Hitler's last hope for victory. Their only allies: a young Jewish widow fighting to save her children and a German...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | Cold Mountain
Publication Date: May 16, 1997Cold Mountain is an extraordinary novel about a soldier’s perilous journey back to his beloved at the end of the Civil War. At once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man’s long walk home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author’s great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier, Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman’s odyssey through th...
|  | The Bloody Ground (The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 4)
Release Date: September 18, 2001In this fourth, final, and rousing installment of Nathaniel Starbuck's Civil War adventures, Nate is given command of a punishment battalion: a motley collection of cowards, thieves, deserters, and murderers. Setting off to Join General Robert E. Lee's army, Starbuck's men reach Harper's Ferry in time to take part in Stonewall Jackson's capture of the Union garrison. From there, the regiment moves on to the legendary horror of Sharpsburg, beside the Antietam Creek, forever to be remembered as the bloodiest single day of the war. There, Starbuck and his troop w...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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. ...
|  | 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...
|  | 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...
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