During the Civil War, a Union Army soldier flees the battlefield in terror and then must contend with his own internal shame. A gripping exploration of heroism, cowardice, and one boy’s maturation, this novel is most remarkable for...
War fiction
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Author:Crane, StephenSummary: - Author:Oliver, NorthSummary:
A gripping, fact-based story of how Daniel Morgan and his courageous riflemen played a crucial role in George Washington's victory in the American Revolution. They wore hunting shirts, deer-skin leggins and moccasins. Each had a...
- Author:Harmel, KristinSummary:
For fans of Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls, this powerful novel of fate, resistance, and family--by the international bestselling author of The Sweetness of Forgetting and When We Meet...
- Author:Newton, AndieSummary:
Sisters. Traitors. Spies. When a British RAF Whitley plane comes under fire over the French coast and is forced to drop their cargo, a spy messenger pigeon finds its way into unlikely hands... The occupation has taken much from the...
- Author:Powell, Mark, Conroy, PatSummary:
"'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." Luther Redding lost his job and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged daughters...
- Author:Griffin, W. E. B.Summary:
Still tying up loose ends from the investigation of a UN scandal in Argentina, Delta Force officer Charley Castillo is pulled into the case of a missing DEA agent who disappeared while trying to interdict a drug shipment. For some...
- Author:Barker, PatSummary:
From the Booker Prize-winning author of Regeneration and one of our greatest contemporary writers on war comes a re-imagining of the most famous conflict in literature - the legendary Trojan War. The great city of Troy is under siege as...
- Author:Miller, MadelineSummary:
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia to be raised in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. "The best of all the Greeks", strong, beautiful...
- Author:Flynn, RobertSummary:
World War II pilot Greg Wallace is shot down over the Pacific. Luckily, he bails out and makes his way to land to await rescue. But with each day that passes, it grows less likely that a rescuer will ever come.
- Author:Penttila, NickySummary:
Some fly to war. Others flee it. No one is safe. When the British army is sent into Spain to help expel Napoleon's invaders, nothing goes as expected. Not for London newsman Sam Kerr, hunting a story that will win him the editor's chair...
- Author:Baron, Aileen G.Summary:
War time Tangier, policed by Franco’s Guardia Civil, thick with many nationalities including Germans and Allies, bitter with the insults of Colonialism, is a dangerous place. Archaeologist Lily Sampson, recruited from her studies in...
- Author:Arthurson, WayneSummary:
A little known chapter of wartime Canada, the government maintained several German prisoner-of-war camps in Southern Alberta during World War II. Camp 133 was one of these camps. Veteran Guards were responsible for securing the...
- Author:Hatcher, Robin LeeSummary:
Margo King fears for her son fighting on the North African front and tries to hide her painful past. Dotty King searches for forgiveness from her mother and God after committing a single ardent mistake. Lucy Anderson struggles to resist...
- Author:Kingsnorth, PaulSummary:
Set in the years after the Norman invasion of England, The Wake tells the story of a fractured band of guerrilla fighters who take up arms against the invaders. Based on known historical facts about the almost forgotten war of...
- Author:Jenoff, PamSummary:
Life is a constant struggle for the impoverished eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three young siblings in rural Poland under the shadow of the Nazi occupation. The constant threat of arrest for even the most minor...
- Author:Hannah, KristinSummary:
From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women - at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. Women can be heroes. When...
- Author:Powers, KevinSummary:
In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger. This novel...
- Author:Hamilton, CicelySummary:
When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to...
- Author:Goodspeed, Michael J.Summary:
Three to a Loaf is the First World War story of Rory Ferrall, a young Canadian officer of Anglo-German descent who, after being wounded and disfigured at Ypres, comes to the attention of British military intelligence. Ferrall’s German...
- Author:McKay, Sharon, Gerszak, RafalSummary:
Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school and threatens the teacher and...
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