War, combat and military adventure fiction

"e;Steel, mud, blood and courage on the Western FrontThis is a fine book because it is a superb first hand eye-witness account of British Tanks in action throughout the First World War.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

The First World War was the first 'total war'.

The short, but poignant and action filled diary of a public school officer who fought with the Irish Guards in the Ypres Salient.

The witty, bitter and caustic memoirs of an anonymous Canadian stretcher-bearer who served during some of the fiercest fighting on the Western Front in 1916 and 1917 before being invalided back to his native land.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

Captain Sir Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse, now lying in Rue-David Military Cemetery, Fleurbaix, a fallen officer of the Scots Guards who died bravely trying to go to the rescue of his commanding officer during the battle of Neuve Chapelle in 1915.

Mildred Aldrich was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1853.

This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st, 1866 at Atlas House, 46 High Street, Bromley, Kent.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber.

Priestley's England is the first full-length academic study of J B Priestley - novelist, playwright, screen-writer, journalist and broadcaster, political activist, public intellectual and popular entertainer, one of the makers of twentieth-century Britain, and one of its sharpest critics.

At the end of the First World War the victors decided to punish the aggressors and while doing so to establish free, democratic governments of ethnic groups which would, supposedly, have no reason to go to war.

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service.

On 25th September 1915, and for a few days afterwards, the small town of Loos, between Lens and La Bassee in Northern France, became the centre of one of the most intense and bloody battles of the First World War.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl of Khartoum and of Broome, was Britain's last great military hero.

Ernest William Hornung was born in Middlesbrough, England on 7th June 1866, the third son and youngest of eight children.

Frederic Manning was born on 22nd July 1882 in Sydney, Australia, one of eight children to local politician Sir William Patrick Manning.

On 23 April 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in history.

On the 31st of July 1917, the small Belgian village of Passchendaele became the focus of one of the most gruelling, bloody and bizarre battle of World War I.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

John Buchan was born on August 26th 1875 and is most famously known for his novel 'The Thirty Nine Steps'.

Includes The First World War On The Western Front 1914-1915 Illustrations Pack with 101 maps, plans, and photos.

Following its outrageous plan to put the U.

Includes Gallipoli Campaign Map and Illustrations Pack -71 photos and 31 maps of the campaign spanning the entire period of hostilities.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;No Man's Land (Unabridged)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

In December of 1914, veteran Boer commander General Louis Botha landed his forces on the coast of German South West Africa to finish off the colony’s Schutztruppe defenders.

First published in 1917, in support of the Allies, this anonymous pamphlet published by George H.

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched.

Featured on Jeff VanderMeer's "e;Epic List of Favorite Books Read in 2015"e;"e;Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels.

Captain Sad Sam Gerdine is marking time at Camp Pendleton in the summer of 1950.

Tom Selkirk, a mission-weary and haunted British special forces commando, specialises in leading ultra-secret international operations.

Two down on their luck black-marketeers, Dagr and Kinza, have inherited a very important prisoner: the former star torturer of Saddams recently collapsed Baathist regime, Captain Hamid, who promises them untold riches if they smuggle him to Mosul.

This is the first of a two volume series covering early twentieth century colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ranging from Mexico and the Philippines to Africa and the North West Frontier.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTDAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNERA stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War IThe Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherds life in rural Austria-Hungary.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTDAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNERA stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War IThe Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an impoverished shepherds life in rural Austria-Hungary.

World War I was Britain's last moment as the world's naval superpower, and its Grand Fleet was then the most powerful ever seen.

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The Passionate Friends: A Novel - H.

A heartfelt wartime story of love and betrayal, from bestseller Siobhan Daiko1943Lidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini's laws wrenched her from her childhood sweetheart.

Durant la séparation que la Grande Guerre leur a imposée, Désiré et Fernande Sic ont échangé près de 1 500 lettres.

Pour composer ce récit polyphonique sur la Grande Guerre, cinq voix s'ajustent constamment.

Les archives militaires allemandes concernant la Première Guerre mondiale ayant quasiment brûlé en totalité lors des bombardements du 14 avril 1945 sur Berlin-Potsdam, cette traduction d'un livre publié en 1930 permet d'avoir une vision allemande de la terrible bataille du Bois de Belleau au nord-ouest de Château-Thierry en juin 1918, ce qui est totalement inédit à ce jour.

Comment la justice française traverse-t-elle la Première Guerre mondiale ?

The volume focuses on violence during the breakdown of East Central European states brought by one of the most violent periods in modern European history: from the start of the Great War in 1914 until 1923 when Europe, finally, achieved peace after a series of civil conflicts and interstate wars.