War, combat and military adventure fiction

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A bullet is fired from a gun and follows the shortest path between two pointsin most cases.

If you like Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale, you will love this emotional and captivating saga, set amongst the romantic clay potteries of South Wales, from the pen of bestselling author Iris Gower.

"e;Over my dead body would I ever leave him and return to the agency.

OCTOBER, 1962: The discovery of soviet missiles in Cuba has sparked a confrontation with global implications.

It is the early twentieth century, and aspiring journalist Howard Andrews has been nurturing a love affair with Eleanor Arlingtonpartly in his own imaginationsince he was fifteen years old.

Warrior of Rome: The Wolves of the North by Harry Sidebottom marks the start of a new trilogy within the Warrior of Rome series.

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'.

Embittered by past failures and broken dreams, American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause-his own.

Sweeping epic of adventure and enduring love, from the revolutionary upheaval in Russia to the chaos of post-War Berlin.

From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the third instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'.

Vibrant and vivacious, Sarah Onion takes it upon herself to find employment when she is orphaned at nineteen.

The Cruise of the Raider "e;Wolf"e; is not intended as another war book; it is the story of one of the strangest and greatest sea adventures of modern times.

Written well over ninety years ago while the experiences of youth were still fresh in the authors mind, this is the story of a seventeen-year-old boy from the time he joined Kitcheners Army, as one of the first hundred thousand in 1914, until he found himself in hospital-an officer with the Military Cross-recovering from his last wound, on the day of the Armistice, 11 November, 1918.

The war in Vietnam, like all wars, was about politics and power.

Perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian, Bernard Cornwell and CS Forester, another captivating Matthew Hervey adventure from the pen of THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Allan Mallinson.

Oh well, shes not my girl back home anyway.

The heartwarming and moving new Wartime Midwives story of three brave women's fight to protect their shelter for mothers and their children .

Once fashionable and plush with flowers, post-war Mayfair has lost its dazzling charm.

Ultimate soldier.

'Has all the pace of the previous three, and is bang on form' Daily Mail'Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics.

'ENORMOUS FUN' GUARDIAN'SO ENTERTAINING' THE TIMES'GOSSIPY, LIGHT AND FUN' TLSQueen Bees looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including Lady Astor, who went on to become the first female MP, and Mrs Greville, who cultivated relationships with Edward VII, as well as Lady Londonderry, Lady Cunard, Laura Corrigan and Lady Colefax.

As a World War rages in Europe, a very different kind of war rages in the Barton household.

Dead Dodo presents the definitive John Carter volume for Kindle, presenting the complete trilogy encompassing the first three books: A Princess of Mars; The Gods of Mars; Warlord of Mars.

The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author Christopher ClarkSUNDAY TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick* *An Indie Next Great Read*'[A] vivid depiction of a family's heartbreak, its rending and rebuilding.

'They can say what they bloody well like, but we're a fuckin' fine mob.

Still in search of her real self, a frustrated young woman leaves the US in a late summer day to go overseas seeking help and advice from a father she didn't see since she was twelve.

Billy Pilgrim - hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower and soldier - has become unstuck in time.

Ice Flotilla is a story about ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary horrors and challenges of World War Two.

Lieutenant Colonel Jake Gregg is a marine recruiters dream: handsome, well-respected, and on the fast track to making general.

Present oil prices are destroying the economies of Iran and Russia.

An island of secrets.

After thirty years, Brigadier General Carolyn McKenzie Marshall is retiring and leaving the US Army behind.

The final heartbreaking instalment of The Guernsey Girls wartime trilogy by Mary Wood, bestselling author of The Orphanage Girls series.

By autumn 1943 in Danton, Kentucky, the government has converted the small town's college into an Army Air Corps pre-preflight facility, the nearby state mental hospital into a treatment center for soldiers suffering battle fatigue, and installs a satellite POW camp in the south end of town.