From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses stationed in the South Pacific who wage their own battle for freedom and survival.
Back from their mission as the Bad Love Tigers to secure the secrets of Area 51 and the White Hole Project, the Bad Love Gang are summoned to the Oval Office by President Gerald Ford.
The British army was almost unique among the European armies of the Great War in that it did not suffer from a serious breakdown of discipline or collapse of morale.
At War in Distant Watersinvestigates the reasons behind Great Britains combined military and naval offensive expeditions outside of Europe during the Great War.
In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford is caught in a deadly feud between two families in this thirteenth book in the beloved mystery series fromNew York Timesbestselling author Charles Todd.
A troubled debutante contemplates her future in the glittering world of English society and one of the last debutante seasons on the eve of World War II.
De Sarajevo a Mostar, trincheras, francotiradores, mercenarios, milicianos alucinados, periodistas en busca de sí mismos, mafiosos adolescentes y víctimas de una masacre consentida por occidente, ciudades asediadas que sirven de escenario a un retrato de la condición humana en su lado más oscuro.
Set in Berlin, Germany, in 1961, Blue Heaven's Tent tells the story of Klaus Franke, whose life is changed forever when he wakes one morning to find himself separated from his family by barbed wire.
An evocative and finely detailed novel of ordinary life under apartheid that follows the lives of a family, particularly the women of various generations, who are named Dikeledi, who together form the backbone of the story.
Una fabulosa historia sobre el compañerismo, la amistad y la solidaridad, donde la vida de la Legión Extranjera en el marco trágico del desierto africano encuentra en la mayoría de sus capítulos un acento muy humano y unos escenarios muy vivos; sus tres protagonistas principales, los hermanos Geste, Michael (Beau), Digby y John, son la representación de la irracionalidad humana, del impulso y la curiosidad que cimientan todo afán aventurero; hacen de la Aventura un sentimiento antes que una condición, un estado de ánimo que puede aflorar en las más adversas circunstancias.
'As with all the best novelists, Husband's talent seems to draw its energy from the experience of writing from perspectives far removed from her own as she inhabits other genders, other sexualities, other eras' Patrick Gale Lieutenant Paul Harris returns from the trenches to his father's home after suffering from shell shock.
Fought during 1916, the Battle of the Somme was conceived by the French and British as a great offensive to be waged against Germany even as France poured incredible numbers of men into the slaughterhouse that was the desperate defense of Verdun.
A magnificent debut novel, which follows in the spirit of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, in which an alienated student named Lopez joins the Vietnam war to escape from his past and himself.
El autor se ufana de su propia edad, contemplando el mundo con la mirada límpida que dan los años, desprendido de todo, excepto de su enorme capacidad de gozo, de asombro, y del cariñoso esmero con que plasma la belleza del instante.
"e;The padre of the 86th Brigade, 29th Division, gives an account of his experiences at Gallipoli where he landed on 25th April 1915 to his evacuation on medical grounds on 12th August.
Peter Liddle was a pioneer in the recording of memories of personal experience in the First World War and in the social background of those who lived through those years.
It seems strange that any book should be composed in a war-zone as difficult and dangerous as the Somme area in 1917, but that is exactly what Hector Dinning did.
