 | Barefoot Gen, Vol. 3: Life After the Bomb
Publication Date: May 1, 2005Volume three follows Gen, his mother and baby brother as they search for a place to rest in the bomb's aftermath. Facing rejection, hunger and humiliation, they come to realize that they still have--and can share -- self-respect, hope, and inner strength. ...
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 | Into the Crucible
Release Date: December 6, 1999This book describes the 54 hour exercise in which recruits are put through a series of taxing challenges whilst being denied sufficient food or sleep. Woulfe compares this training exercise with other schemes in other branches of service.' ...
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 | Relentless Pursuit (The Bolitho Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: The Bolitho Novels (Book 25) Summoned to the Admiralty by Sir Edward Pellew, Captain Adam Bolitho is ordered to sail his 46-gun frigate Unrivalled into African waters to aid His Majesty's campaign against slave-runners. Preoccupied with avenging his uncle Richard's death while confronting an entrenched adversary and the aggressive opposition of the Algerian overlord, he fears he may be setting his crew on a course of doom. ...
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 | Oliver Wiswell
Publication Date: June 1940| ISBN-10: 0385047932 | ISBN-13: 978-0385047937| Edition: 1st Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran ...
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 | Her Privates We
Publication Date: November 15, 1999A brilliant book that makes it impossible to forget the barbarity of war. ...
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 | A Soldier of the Great War
Publication Date: May 6, 1991An old man's magnificent tale of love and war-a recapitulation of a life and a reckoning with mortality told by one of America's most acclaimed novelists. ...
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 | The Assassin: The Explosive Badge of Honor Novel (Badge of Honor 05)
Release Date: May 1, 1993A political assasin is ready to make his move. The police department's only clue is a single, perfectly typed bomb threat. And worse yet, the police aren't sure they can trust their own people. In a few short days, the corruption of one cop--and the madness of an assasin--could blow the whole city sky high... ...
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 | With Every Drop of Blood:A Novel of the Civil War
Release Date: December 1, 1996Despite his promise to take care of his family, Johnny embarkson a bold mission to supply the Confederates, only to be taken prisonerby a runaway slave, in a novel that explores the reasons for the CivilWar. Reprint. VY. SLJ. PW....
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 | Evil for Evil: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries)
Release Date: September 1, 2010| Series: Billy Boyle World War II Mysteries Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. His “uncle” Ike Eisenhower sends Billy to recover the weapons, which might be used in a German-sponsored IRA uprising. Bodies begin to accumulate as Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns. ...
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 | Billiards at Half-Past Nine (The Essential Heinrich Boll)
Release Date: December 28, 2010| Series: The Essential Heinrich Boll Böll’s well-known opposition to fascism and war informs this movingstory of a single day in the life of traumatized soldier Robert Faehmel,scion of a family of successful Cologne architects, as he struggles to return to ordinary life after the Second World War. Anencounter with a war-time nemesis, now a power in the reconstruction ofGermany, forces him to confront private memories and the wounds of Germany’s defeat in the two World Wars. ...
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 | The Recipient's Son: A Novel of Honor
Publication Date: September 15, 2012Set at the U.S. Naval Academy in the 1990s, this novel tells the story of a young man's struggle to come to terms with his legacy as the son of a war hero and with doubts about his own courage. Donald Durago's father was killed in the Vietnam War where his actions as a POW earned him the Medal of Honor. That honor provided Durago with an appointment to the Naval Academy, a benefit offered to all children of Medal of Honor recipients. But in his plebe year, Durago struggles under the burden of being worthy of his father s memory. With the help of Master Chi...
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 | Dark Lady's Chosen (Chronicles of the Necromancer, Book 4)
Release Date: December 29, 2009The fourth thrilling installment of Gail Z Martin's Chronicles of the Necromancer series sees Tris's kingdom on the brink of collapse and fate of Jonmarc Vahanian hanging in the balance as the vampires and the undead enter into a deadly civil war and threaten to unleash an even greater danger onto the world ...
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 | Attila: The Judgment
Release Date: October 26, 2010AD 449: the future of the world hangs in the balance. The once mighty Roman Empire lies open and vulnerable to attack from a huge Hunnish army that has gathered on the banks of the Danube and is poised and ready to strike - but only one man has seen the danger. Master-General Aetius knows Attila still thirsts for blood and destruction, but he is helpless to stop the the pending onslaught. For Atilla plans to march on the mighty city of Rome, the very heart of the empire. but is the risk too high, even for the most battle-hardened of warlor...
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 | G.I. Joe: Cobra Command Volume 1 (G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels))
Publication Date: June 19, 2012| Series: G. I. Joe (Graphic Novels) The Cobra Civil War is over, but there's no risk of a peace outbreak. "Cobra Command" starts here as the new Cobra Commander kicks off his reign with total war as he invades a sovereign nation with all the military might under his power. The world is outraged but uncertain of how to retaliate. So the JOEs take to the field to battle a new, more dangerous version of their oldest foe. ...
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 | Tandia
Publication Date: September 27, 2007Tandia sat waiting anxiously for the fight to begin between the man she loved the most and the man she hated the most in the world. Tandia is a child of Africa: half Indian, half African, beautiful and intelligent, she is only sixteen when she is first brutalised by the police. Her fear of the white man leads her to join the black resistance movement, where she trains as a terrorist.With her in the fight for justice is the one white man Tandia can trust, the welterweight champion of the world, Peekay. Now he must fight their common enemy in order to save b...
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 | The Eagle's Prophecy: A Novel of the Roman Army
Release Date: August 4, 2009In this sixth entry of Scarrow’s page-turning Roman historical series, it is spring a.d. 45 and Centurions Macro and Cato are trapped in Rome, waiting for the investigation in their involvement in the death of a fellow officer. It is then that the imperial secretary, the devious Narcissus, makes them an offer they can’t refuse: to rescue an imperial agent who has been captured by pirates operating from the Illyrian coast.With him were scrolls vital to the safety of the emperor and the future of Rome. However, Narcissus also sends Vitellius, an old enem...
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 | Hide and Seek: A Novel
Publication Date: July 1, 2012Amelia Lennon no longer wears a uniform or carries a weapon. An Army trained Foreign Affairs Officer, she’s negotiating a dispute with the Kyrgyzstan government that threatens to leave the U.S. without an airbase in that region. She traded her gun for the power of words, but now she needs both.While following her government contact - Jildiz Oskonbaeva, the lawyer daughter of Kyrgyzstan’s president - Amelia witnesses an attempt to abduct her. She manages to prevent the kidnapping, but now the two women are on the run in a city that’s erupting in...
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 | In Gallant Company (Richard Bolitho Novels, No. 3) (The Bolitho Novels) (Volume 3)
Publication Date: April 1, 1998| Series: The Bolitho Novels (Book 3) As the American Revolution rages on the mainland, the British Navy prepares for action at sea. Against a growing fleet of American and French privateers, the navy must maintain its blockade of Washington's vital military supplies. Caught up in the turmoil, junior officer Richard Bolitho finds himself having to make momentous decisions in the heat of battle—decisions that could affect the lives of many men and, perhaps, even the fate of nations. ...
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 | Those Who Dare: Book One in the Raiding Forces Series (Second World War Fiction)
Publication Date: August 1, 2010| Series: Second World War Fiction The first in a series of meticulously researched World War II novels about hit-and-run raids against Hitler's war machine by British forces - under the command of a U.S. soldier - "Those Who Dare" is sure to appeal to avid military fiction fans. By May 1940, panzer divisions had decimated Belgium and reached Calais. Lieutenant John Randal of the U.S. 26th Cavalry Regiment volunteers his expertise to help slow their advance. What unfolds is a blend of military guerrilla tactics, suspense, humour, cultural and social co...
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 | Men in Blue (Badge of Honor)
Release Date: October 1, 1988| Series: Badge of Honor (Book 1) A cop has been shot--cold-bloodedly gunned down while trying to prevent a holdup. Regulations say the investigation is to be handled like any other homicide. But when a cop is killed in the line of duty, it is different. And the brotherhood in blue will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice. Original. ...
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