War, combat and military adventure fiction

In April 1917, the United States ended its nonintervention policy and entered World War I as an "e;Associated Power"e; to aid the Allies in their fight against the Central Powers.

In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe.

During World War I, a specialized Russian battalion comprised of ethnic Czechs and Czech and Slovak prisoners of war--the Legion--became a pawn in an international game of power and deceit.

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.

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.

This is a new paperback edition of Becky Taylor's history of Britain's travelling communities in the twentieth century.

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.

Vividly atmospheric and brimming with suspense, Mark Ellis presents this insanely captivating wartime thriller of classic espionage.

Before Jutland is a definitive study of the naval engagements in northern European waters in 1914-15 when the German High Sea Fleet faced the Grand Fleet in the North Sea and the Russian Fleet in the Baltic.

By the summer of 1915 Germany was faced with two major problems in fighting World War I: how to break the British blockade and how to stop or seriously disrupt the British supply line across the Atlantic.

';I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream.

An adrenaline-filled war story that depicts the challenges of military special operations in a dangerous, boulder-filled landscapeThe Company has a special secret operation planned for one of their top agents: the leaders of the Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorist groups are hiding out in Pashtun country, and they must be eliminated.

John Edward Masefield was born in 1878 in the sleepy market town of Ledbury in rural Hertfordshire.

John Edward Masefield was born in 1878 in the sleepy market town of Ledbury in rural Hertfordshire.

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Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year's Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford.

Charles Edward Montague was born in London on New Year's Day, 1867 and educated at the City of London School and then Balliol College, Oxford.

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Fresh off their mission to rescue Holocaust victims in 1944 Poland, the Bad Love Gang assemble at the White Hole Project to celebrate New Year's Eve 1975.

In October 1939, Albert Einstein warns President Franklin D.

Edwin Lutyens' Memorial to the Missing of the Somme at Thiepval in Northern France, visited annually by tens of thousands of tourists, is arguably the finest structure erected by any British architect in the twentieth century.

The Battle of Jutland, May 31-June 1, 1916, pitted Great Britain and Imperial Germany-the two largest fleets of World War I-against one another for the first time.

As part of the award-winning Honor Series of historical naval novels, Word of Honor is the personal memoir of protagonist Peter Wake, a veteran of espionage operations for the Office of Naval Intelligence who also has considerable sea and combat experience.

Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet.

This classic study examines the deployment of U.

After Jutland analyses the naval war in Northern European waters following the critical, but inconclusive Battle of Jutland.

A retired Roman soldier looks back on his early life and battlefield adventures fighting under Julius Caesar in this gripping fictional memoir.

In the latest addition to the History of Military Aviation series, Peter Dye describes how the development of the air weapon on the Western Front during World War I required a radical and unprecedented change in the way that national resources were employed to exploit a technological opportunity.

1944, the darkest days of the war.

An F-14 aviator takes his readers into the cockpits, ready-rooms, and bunkrooms of today's Navy to show what it's like to fight in a time of so-called peace.

Hailed as heart stopping and almost unbearably suspenseful, Edward L.

In 1972, following the huge success of Run Silent, Run Deep, Edward L.

This taut thriller provides the behind-the-scenes reality of the national security system at work --the CIA, the Oval Office, the Pentagon, and the National Security Council --and is must-reading for fans of Tom Clancy and W.

In his groundbreaking work, In Defence of Naval Supremacy, Sumida presents a provocative and authoritative revisionist history of the origins, nature and consequences of the "e;Dreadnought Revolution"e; of 1906.

"e;'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner,' Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up as angel, and await the word of God.

Major General Johnson Hagood (1873-1948) was one of South Carolina's most distinguished army officers of the twentieth century.

In the years following WWI, the U.

Jilly was a war baby.

Authentic voices shape this fresh look at a familiar story, the American Civil War, beginning with the rapid buildup of tension between North and South and continuing into early summer of 1862.

At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allied powers met to reenvision the map of Europe in the aftermath of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson's influence on the remapping of borders was profound.

"e;A vivid portrait of a woman whose remarkable role and achievements in history have largely been relegated to the shadows.

The Long and the Short is the second in Allen Saddler's Forties trilogy and the sequel to his acclaimed Bless Em All.

In the early years of the Second World War, respectable Maurice and raffish Bernard are two squabbling brothers who - with the help of sixteen-year-old Jimmy and Miss Tcherny, a pretty invoice clerk - run a wholesale bookselling business near St Paul's.

World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California.

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empireand a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.

Der Captain auf einem gefährlichen Streifzug durch die KaribikEine schier unmögliche Mission bringt den besten Spion des britischen Geheimdienstes in die unbekannten Gewässer der Karibik – der mitreißende dritte Teil der Abenteuerreihe.

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Many volumes have been written setting forth the patriotism and heroism of the fathers of the Republic, but the devotion of the mothers and daughters has received far less attention.

In 'Rilla of Ingleside' by Lucy Maud Montgomery, readers are transported to the captivating world of Ingleside, where they follow the coming-of-age journey of Rilla Blythe during World War I.