War, combat and military adventure fiction

Three people.

It's November 1917 and the Third Battle of Ypres is lurching towards its bloody conclusion.

April, 1945.

FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRE'An epic novel .

In the midst of the fighting, two Russian soldiers seek refuge in the crypt of a German church.

Ireland, World War One.

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONWINNER OF THE E.

Night and the City (1938) made Gerald Kersh's reputation, but it was as a war novelist that he reached a wide readership in 1942, via a pair of books about British army recruits, led by Sergeant Bill Nelson, preparing to see service in France.

Imaginary Toys (1961) marked the literary debut of the then 26-year-old Julian Mitchell, who would eventually set aside his prizewinning career as a novelist and achieve wider renown as a dramatist, most famously with Another Country (1981).

First published in 1976, Until the Colours Fade was Tim Jeal's fourth novel, set in 1852 in a Lancashire mill town transformed by the Industrial Revolution.

Winner of Wales Book of the YearPink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan.

Welcome to our warThe Two Worlds of Charlie F.

'This powerful and subtle play .

Tom Stoppard's dramatisation for BBC TV of Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford will bring new readers to the novel as well as giving Stoppard's audience much that is original to his inventive version of a masterwork of modernist English literature.

'Well, Sergeant, here we go then', I said.

Love is not consolation, it is light.

As Hitler's forces smash into Soviet territory, annihilating the Red Army divisions in its path, a lone German scout plane is forced down.

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Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets.

In February 1940, the Nazis established what would become the second largest Jewish ghetto in the Polish city of Lodz.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe Dream of the Celt explores the life of the Irish revolutionary Sir Roger Casement who was executed for treason after his involvement in the 1916 Easter Rising, travelling with its protagonist from Liverpool and Dublin to the Congo and Peru, where Casement worked as a British consul, and to London, where he ended his life in Pentonville jail.

'Martin handles this theme with the skill of such illustrious predecessors as Graham Greene - and there is no higher praise than that.

A soldier returns from the frontline of battle to report that Pekkala's charred body has been found at the site of an ambush.

Alan Hackney's first novel, Private's Progress tells the story of the hapless Stanley Windrush.

1961.

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery.

Michaelmas term, 1940.

WINNER OF THE ELLIS PETERS AWARD'Superb.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road** Order Andrew O'Hagan's new novel Caledonian Road now **How much do we keep from the people we love?

In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire, hoping to seize its 'lost' territories of Trieste and Tyrol.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Irish Guards in the Great War: The First & The Second Battalion (Volume 1&2 - Complete Edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GOSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future.

NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY KEI ISHIKAWA'A macabre and faultlessly worked enigma.

The New York Times bestselling author of THE PARIS LIBRARY returns with a moving new novel based on the true story of a New York librarian determined to bring books to the children of war-torn France.

The train was packed with men.

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.

An abandoned young woman and her infant son find a new home among the unusual residents of New England town in the 1970s in this poignant novel.

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 novel that reads like science fiction but bristles with rich detail about how the next World War could be fought.

An explanation of the frequency of war and its specific causes and consequences, first published in 2010.

Winner: Norman B.

An explanation of the frequency of war and its specific causes and consequences, first published in 2010.

The American Army in Germany, 19181923: Success against the Odds by Dean A.

Comparative essays on the political and cultural ''mobilization'' of populations during the First World War.

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire''s fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.

Smith reexamines German continuities and sheds new light on nationalism, anti-Semitism and genocide.

Revisionist account of the Ottoman Empire''s fateful decision to enter the First World War in 1914.