Showing results for "On Small War" in Literature & Fiction

“A must-read for booklovers.” —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books that bring them together, by the bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London. In...

"Narrators Shayna Small and Neil Shah transport listeners to 1940s New York in this dark fantasy set against a backdrop of racial tension and brewing war...Both narrators also excel at a range of accents, making this audiobook a fully immersive experience." -- AudioFile Magazine The dangerous...

Doctor O'Reilly heeds the call to serve his country in Irish Doctor in Peace and At War, the new novel in Patrick Taylor's beloved Irish Country series Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to...

As World War II rages in Europe and in the Pacific, the small town of Progress is doing its part for the soldiers in the field with a war bond drive at the annual county fair. Town gossip Ava Dempsey starts a rumor that Clark Gable will be among the participating stars. Instead of Gable, though, the headliner is Freddie Harrison, a B-movie star. When Freddie turns up dead in the dunk tank, Irene Ingram, editor-in-chief of The Progress Herald, starts chasing the real headline. As she draws on her reporter’s instincts to find the killer, nothing is what it seems in Progress.

Oline og Thomas er søskende. I fællesskab driver de deres fædrene gård i Vendsyssel. Thomas har aldrig haft særlig lyst til landbruget; men da hans ældste bror ikke vil have gården og står til søs, føler han sig forpligtet til at overtage gården.

I "En befrielse" afslutter Knud Sørensen den historie, han begyndte at fortælle i "En tid". Anden Verdenskrig nærmer sig sin afslutning, og i takt med at englænderne og amerikanerne vinder frem mod tyskerne, svinger sognets sympati over mod de allierede.