War, combat and military adventure fiction

The battles of Belleau Wood and Soissons in June and July of 1918 marked a turning point in World War I and in the stature of the US Marine Corps, whose fighting proved so critical in repelling the Germans that the French would later rename Belleau Bois de la Brigade de Marine.

The engines are started, twenty shiny propellers glistening in the sun, forty exhausts rumbling and belching blue smoke.

Winner: Southern Historical Association Smith Award for Best Book in European HistoryWinner: Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Book AwardThey are war stories, filled with danger and deprivation, excitement and opportunity, sorrow and trauma, scandal and controversyand because they are the war stories of nurses, they remain largely untold.

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardNovember 1917.

The train was packed with men.

Winner: Norman B.

"e;It is impossible to reproduce the state of mind of the men who waged war in 1917 and 1918,"e; Edward Coffman wrote in The War to End All Wars.

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn June 11, 1937, a closed military court ordered the execution of a group of the Soviet Union's most talented and experienced army officers, including Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii; all were charged with participating in a Nazi plot to overthrow the regime of Joseph Stalin.

George C.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front.

Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted.

No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great Duty First!

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardNovember 1917.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF STASILAND & WIFEDOMA powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II that resonates deeply in today s political climate.

Jeremy Paxman's magnificent history of the First World War tells the entire story of the war in one gripping narrative from the point of view of the British people.

7 days.

Europe was in chaos at the end of the second World War.

Achille Ratti, bekannt als Papst Pius XI.

The story of the first cadet-midshipmen to join the Royal Australian Naval College is without parallel.

Edith Florence ';Queenie' Avenell was twenty-five years old when she enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service the day after the Australian and New Zealand forces stormed the beaches of Turkey on that first Anzac Day in 1915.

The intense action thriller from million copy bestseller Rob Sinclair, perfect for fans of Mark DawsonThis mission will test him to his limit.

Moving letters and photographs from Anzacs of the Wimmera.

Paul and Marie Pireaud, a young peasant couple from southwest France, were newlyweds when World War I erupted.

During the Vietnamese War, a Washington-approved sanctuary for enemy troops in Laos and Cambodia is a recipe for disaster, but a covert CIA operation made up of Special Forces volunteers deemed expendable, penetrates the borders and neutralizes the enemy's advantage.

Jason Henson is just sixteen years old when he witnesses the homecoming parade of soldiers returning from duty in the Middle East.

Warmones, hormones, and conscience compete for the souls of young pilots in the VietNam war.

The tragedy of war is measured by destruction, death, and heartache.

As night falls on December 13, 1862, bitter winds sweep the battlefield of Fredericksburg, Virginia.

North Carolina, 1917.

They were college kids and young soldiers who wanted to fly, and they knew little about Vietnam other than what they read in the newspapers before going there.

The High Ground is the story of Private Ty Nichols' 365-day tour of duty in Vietnam, told with the honesty of a youthful infantryman simply trying to make it to the next day.

As a society, the Interstellar Web was dying.

On March 12, 1938, the German Army marched into Austria, greeted enthusiastically by much of the population, making the country part of Nazi Germany.

Sasebo is the story of young Mason McCabe, an enlisted sailor whose leisurely tour of duty at the U.

After decades of downsizing the U.

Four young men are recruited into the O.