The battle of Ten–Go comes to life in this reimagining of one man’s life as a naval officer
April 1945: the aftermath of the battle for Okinawa. Tommy stands on the deck of the USS Bataan, the Independence–class...
War fiction
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Author:Atkinson, William IllseySummary: - Author:Henderson, DeeSummary:
Air Force pararescueman Bruce "Striker" Stanton spends his life rescuing pilots downed behind enemy lines, and Grace Yates flies an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. On their dangerous jobs away from home, they exchanged love letters. Now a...
- Author:Thériault, GabrielSummary:
Janvier 1943. URSS. Cinq Allemands, cinq camarades affrontent l'enfer blanc à bord du char d'assaut tigre. La bête d'acier rencontre désormais toutes ses promesses. Par le fer et le feu, elle sème la mort et la...
- Author:McKay, Sharon E.Summary:
Unbelievable facts about an amazing specimen—YOU! Most of us eat, run, or sleep without thinking about it. But our bodies are masterful machines of intricate design that perform amazing feats daily. The fifth book in Annick’s successful...
- Author:Bear, GregSummary:
The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly sophisticated technology to the human race. But now they face a far more malevolent life form. Master Sergeant Michael Venn and his band of brothers must turn back the Antag...
- Author:Korman, GordonSummary:
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village,...
- Author:Lazurko, AnneSummary:
For readers of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a transportive historical novel about finding morality in the throes of war and colonization Released from Nazi forced labor as World...
- Author:Oksanen, Sofi, Rogers, LolaSummary:
From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge comes a chillingly suspenseful, deftly woven new novel that opens up a little-known yet still controversial chapter of history: the occupation, resistance, and collaboration in Estonia...
- Author:MacNeil, BeatriceSummary:
In 1941, three young men enlist in the legendary Cape Breton Highlanders and sail off to war, leaving their families to wait and wonder at home in Beinn Barra, Nova Scotia. Fisherman Hector MacDonald, gifted musician Benny Doucet, and...
- Author:Clavell, JamesSummary:
The sixth book in James Clavell's epic Asian Saga tells the story of three weeks in Tehran in February 1979-three weeks of passion, self-sacrifice, and heartbreak. When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world...
- Author:Argo, RonaldSummary:
Acclaimed as one of the most important novels of the Vietnam War, Year of the Monkey takes us not only into the savage jungles where death waits in every paddyfield and triple canopy, but into the apocalyptic world of political...
- Author:Simic, GoranSummary:
These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them, where the reality is often much more surreal than fiction.
- Author:Barr, DamianSummary:
South Africa, 1901: At the height of the Second Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise, they will be safe.Johannesburg, 2010: Sixteen-...
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