Showing titles in War & Military

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to...

The BRAND NEW instalment of the page-turning Resistance Girls series. January 1943 A girl with nothing to lose… Abandoned as a baby on a London street, Lexi Street has survived by trusting no one but herself. Now one of Major Stapleton’s most daring operatives, she’s used to working alone...

1948, Japan. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

A whirlwind of unrepentant nihilism charged with raw, colloquial language that shocked the listeners of its day, Journey to the End of the Night is a bitter symphony of violence, human cruelty, greed and chaos. Based on the author’s life, Journey follows the antihero Bardamu, Céline’s alter ego, in a relentless adventure that pulls us further and further into an endless night.

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time "[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That...

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Day It Happened is a gripping military action thriller about family, sacrifice, survival, and the terrifying moment when war reaches American soil. Brothers David and Michael Johnson have shared nearly everything in life. After graduating from high...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. They came from different countries. They spoke different languages. They followed different routes. But they shared one dangerous agenda. America believes it is facing an immigration crisis. What it does not know is that hidden among the waves of people...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. La ficción parecía cada vez más real... Le había resultado más sencillo enfrentarse al fuego enemigo que a las insinuaciones de la hija del general. El marine Rad Kozlowski tenía que admitir que estaba en verdadero peligro y sólo había...

Sólo fue necesaria una noche... para cambiar su vida para siempre La última vez que la había visto, habían acabado en la cama. Ahora, dos años después, el soldado condecorado Wade Donelly tenía intención de repetir la experiencia de aquella maravillosa noche. Entonces Phoebe Merriman era...

Se i racconti giovanili di Irène Némirovsky trattavano gli stessi temi dei romanzi coevi – l'amore, la nostalgia, il disinganno, l'ambizione, l'avidità, l'ipocrisia dei legami familiari, il rimpianto per le occasioni mancate, l'impossibile assimilazione – con una leggerezza mondana, sia pur velata spesso di malinconia, quelli composti dal 1938 in poi, nell'ultima, febbrile stagione della sua scrittura, offuscata dalla minaccia della persecuzione e della guerra, hanno un tono più grave, a volte quasi cupo.

Eine alte Rechnung zieht Joe Hawke in die Falle: Er entdeckt ein Geheimnis, das einen der ältesten und grausamsten Kulte der Menschheit wiederauferstehen lässt. Während er und das ECHO-Team in einer tödlichen Hetzjagd fliehen, versuchen sie, eine katastrophale Ritualfeier zu verhindern. Von...

The Peloponnesian War has begun. An army of merciless Spartan invaders have arrived at the gates of Plataea, bent on obliterating the city and its inhabitants. Plataea's oldest allies, the Athenians, are spread too thin in their own campaigns to send help. Cut off and alone, the Plataeans dig in...

Haunted by a horrible memory from the war, alone since his grown children moved out, Vietnam vet Charles Boatman returns to Vietnam after the war. Ada and her brother Jon follow their missing father to Vietnam. Their search for him tears them apart in ways they never could have guessed, and...

A new novel from the Booker Prize–winning Pat Barker, author of the Regeneration trilogy, that unforgettably portrays London during the Blitz and reaffirms her place as a top-ranked British novelist London, the Blitz, Autumn 1940. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver...

In 431 BC, ancient Greece experienced its own "Pearl Harbor"—a treacherous sneak attack that would mark the start of the bloody war between the democracy of Athens and the tyranny of Sparta. Caught between these superpowers, the independent city-state of Plataea became the arena where their...

Two mighty armies blunder toward each other, one led by confident, beloved Robert E. Lee and the other by dour George Meade. They'll meet in a Pennsylvania crossroads town where no one planned to fight. In this sweeping, savagely realistic novel, the greatest battle ever fought on American soil...

It is 1917 and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. A letter she finds hidden among his belongings reveals that...

In this riveting novel of the French and Indian War, master storyteller Harold Coyle takes us back to a time when America’s vast riches were up for grabs. From 1754 through 1759, British and American colonial forces were locked in constant battle with the French and their Indian allies over...

The stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs and Jerusalem, set during an epic cavalry ride across the hot grasslands outside Stalingrad during the darkest times of World War II “The black earth was already baking and the sun was just rising when they...