War, combat and military adventure fiction

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event.

Trotz Krankheit wird Lothar Herrmann einer Gebirgsjägerdivision zugeteilt und 1944 an die Ostfront geschickt.

When French troops occupy the Italian port city of Ancona, freeing the city’s Jews from their repressive ghetto, it unleashes a whirlwind of progressivism and brutal backlash as two very different cultures collide.

On September 1, 1910, France became the last great naval power to lay down a dreadnought battleship, the Courbet.

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank “Toronto” Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI.

Neil Quiller, Pilot der Royal Air Force, erfährt, dass der Krieg im Pazifik begonnen hat, als er von japanischen Truppen über dem malaiischen Dschungel abgeschossen wird.

Covering the daily lives of American soldiers from their training through their arrival in France and participation in the final battles of the war, this book offers a breadth of perspectives on the experiences of doughboys in the First World War via primary documents of the time.

Civil War Memories is a collection of nineteen stories of the Civil War written in the late 1800's, giving them a ring of authenticity.

Leutnant Wenks Gebirgsjäger-Division soll zügig den Kaukasus Richtung Schwarzmeerküste überqueren.

Three classic Richard Sharpe adventuresRichard Sharpe and the Vitoria Campaign, February to June 1813Major Richard Sharpe awaits the opening shots of the army's new campaign with grim expectancy.

Disentangling a controversial history of turmoil and progress, this Handbook provides essential guidance through the complex past of a region that was previously known as the Balkans but is now better known as Southeastern Europe.

A collection of the fifth through eighth installments of Bernard Cornwells bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, "e;like Game of Thrones, but real"e; (The Observer, London)the basis forThe Last Kingdom, the hit television series.

The greatest threat to humanities survival is about to emerge from the depths of space.

The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal.

Stories of the residents of Jersey, Guernsey, and other Channel Islands and their service and sacrifice during the First World War.

The year 1917 was dominated by the Russian Revolution and America entering the war.

Belgium in the First World War--the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten.

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory.

A detailed and absorbing narrative of the campaigns fought on the 'forgotten' Eastern Front of the Great War, vividly illustrating that these campaigns were no less costly, tragic and important than the catastrophes of the Somme, Verdun and Passchendaele.

It's 1862, and Spain is a little rueful about letting Peru have their independence.

In one of the few book-length treatments of the subject, Nina Mjagkij conveys the full range of the African American experience during the Great War.

Tomorrow morning, you and Frank Armitage are getting wed.

Places Greenville's experience during World War I within the context of the progressive era to better understand the rise of this New South cityGreenville, South Carolina has become an attractive destination, frequently included in lists of the "e;Best Small Cities"e; in America.

In the third volume of the Quinn family saga, Ansel Quinn is caught in an international scandal with reverberations across two world wars.

In the blasted, radiation-scorched, wastelands of the Earth's surface, towering mecha do battle, defending the interests of one of the few remaining arcology governments, providing security for wilderness outposts, or seeking out loot and supplies as a mercenary company.

Eigentlich ist Kunstgeschichte das Spezialgebiet der französischen Dozentin Madeleine de la Tour, doch mitten im Zweiten Weltkrieg nimmt sie eine Stelle als Sprachlehrerin in einem englischen Internat an.

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

One of the decisive battles of the 20th century began on August 29, 1914 with the cry that echoed throughout France: ';The Prussians are coming!

The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb.

A rethinking of the factors which led to the American entry into the war.

First published in 1953, A Place To Stand is set in Budapest in the spring of 1941, Hope - a spoilt but attractive society girl and daughter of a leading American business man - finds herself playing the lead in a dangerous and most unexpected affair of underground intrigue, through the machinations of her journalist fianc .

As with many other aspects of the British army the outbreak of World War One started a process of change that was to result in a radically different provision of chaplaincy care once the war was over.

This 2003 text examines the role of Kaiser Wilhelm II, focusing on the final years of his reign.

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.

In response to the devastating trauma of World War I, British and American authors wrote about grief.

After such conflicts as World War II, Vietnam, and now the Persian Gulf, the First World War seems a distant, almost ancient event.

September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914.

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irishman who in June 1922 was assassinated on his doorstep in London by Irish republicans, was one of the most controversial British soldiers of the modern age.

"e;Exceptional military history worthy of its heroic subject.

Women 'kept the home fires burning' while their men went off to war.

Read the experiences of the men and women who served in a horrific war, across the sea-the Great War.

This book explores the life courses of children born of war in different twentieth-century conflicts, including the Second World War, the Vietnam War, the Bosnian War, the Rwandan Genocide and the LRA conflict.

World War I has long captured the macabre imagination for the seemingly willful manner in which nations sent their young men to die in droves while fighting over essentially the same patch of land for four long years.

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914.

World War I fighter pilot William C.

This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century.

This new edition of a classic work on British battleships is the most sought after book on the subject.

Still segregated in World War I, the U.

A novel set during the reign of Genghis Khan and his Mongol Empire from the acclaimed author of Ghost on the Steppe, “a master storyteller” (Houston Chronicle).