War, combat and military adventure fiction Books

A myth, a curse, a destiny of ice! Magic has been stripped from society and exists only in folklore. The seasons are dead, the sun dimmed and the lakes frozen. Isolated and starving, the people of Little Creek are held underfoot by a usurper king...

Cyrus Adams is a mage, which is a human being that can perform magic. He resides in the city of Alligaine in the Quansett region. After making a powerful enemy, unforeseen events send Cyrus on an unexpected adventure with an unlikely companion. The two...

Two missions are afoot. The Asturian,Sergeant Massu must seek out a princess in hiding who may hold the key to bringing down the Italian Fascists while Sergeant Dodd and Georgiou are determined to kill the German General Bräuer. On the grander stage...

Nous sommes en Novembre 1918, la Grande Guerre vient de se terminer. Le capitaine-lieutenant Heinrich Spiegel von und zu Triekelstein, commandant d’un sous-marin allemand U-753, reçoit l’ordre de conduire son bâtiment de guerre...

Sie ist Polin. Er ist Deutscher. Erbitterte Feinde auch nach dem Krieg.Richard ist ein Wehrmachtdeserteur und versteckt sich auf einem Bauernhof in Polen.Er dachte, er sei in Sicherheit, sobald der Krieg vorbei ist...... doch er hat sich geirrt.Denn...

"The Thirty-Nine Steps" stands as a literary masterpiece, an electrifying adventure that weaves a tapestry of suspense, intrigue, and unrelenting action. Penned by the prolific Scottish writer John Buchan, this timeless classic takes readers on a...

The women of the Mages' Uprising were never known to take civil war lying down. But Catrine and her fellow war-widows are determined to do just that, avenging their lost husbands, lives, and innocence by engaging in a sustained campaign of seduction...

Bowing to external pressure, the government orders two battalions of the Regiment to Saudi Arabia.Newly married and now promoted Elizabeth Bekebaum and three hundred troops are sent ahead to prepare the Regiments base.Caught between the U.S...

After receiving news that her brother has been killed in action during the Great War, 21-year-old Charlotte Zielinski enlists as a medical volunteer. She eventually begins working in the death ward of the field hospital near Soissons, France,...

Alaska, 1987. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigoriy Grigorievich has a stained past-as a major in the Czar's Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now, ten years later, Grisha charters...

SAD EYES: 1939 TO 1951 is the story of a blossoming woman, Mary Ellen Murphy, from Waterloo, Iowa. She finds herself stationed at Hickman Hospital in early December 1941, and she's halfway through her honeymoon when the Japanese bomb the fleet in the...

It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their drama, but the entire drama of the country/countries in which they...

Ray Gagnon is the leader of one of the United States' most elite Black Ops teams. Ray is the man who gets the call when the unimaginable happens, because Ray always delivers. But the years have taken their toll on Ray's body and on his psyche, and he is...

DEROS Vietnam: Dispatches from the Air-Conditioned Jungle presents a unique, fictional montage of the war, and postwar, experiences of Vietnam support troops. Structurally based on Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time, DEROS Vietnam (the acronym stands...

Originally written in 1877 and then reworked for inclusion in the 1880 Naturalist anthology Les Soirées de Médan, this novella tells the story of the daily life of a French conscript during the Franco-Prussian war—a life of tears,...

Two young U.S. Army officers are trying to do their duty in Iraq playing whack-a-mole with at least seven fanatical insurgent groups in the aftermath of the American invasion. Both officers serve in the Big Red One, the vaunted 1st Infantry Division...

Members of The Order of the Saltire in Europe are captured, but who took them and why? The Order discovers an enemy that has existed for almost two thousand years, creating and supplying conflicts for profit. This enemy has a plan to engulf all of Europe...

A last chance to escape. A journey fraught with danger. Based on true events.Vienna, 1938. Newlywed Lilly is looking forward to the future with her husband until the Nazi annexation of Austria throws everything into uncertainty. Suddenly, their Jewish...

A country at war. Men ón the march. Doodlebugs. Air raids and ration books. Spivs and saboteurs. Boy buglers and village cenotaphs. City cinemas and the Tuppenny rush. Ronald Colman, Errol Flynn. Tommy Handley. Colonel Chinstrap. Mister Luvejoy at the...

The Skydiver Who Fell Through TimeAn alternative history of World War OneProfessor Louis Patterson taught War Studies at King's College London. Time and time again, students posed questions about the 'First World War'. Could Britain have fought it...

Everything will change, my love, she whispers to her only baby. I will make sure you are protected, looked after, loved. I cannot let history repeat itself. She commits his smell, the feel of him to memory, the perfect, anchoring weight of him in...

A classic novel arising from the Soviet Union in the thirties, How the Steel Was Tempered is a fictionalized account of author Nikolai Ostrovsky's experiences in fighting for the Bolsheviks during the Civil War and his difficulty in overcoming...

1941, SuffolkWith her in-laws in desperate need of help, Marnie is forced to return to Suffolk, leaving her precious daughter Annie behind in Cornwall.But Lowestoft is a very different town to the one she left. Ravaged by war, and a mere twenty miles...

A syndicate of Rhino poachers have brought harm to one of Petrus' family. Now they will pay the price. He calls on Garrett, and together they embark on a mission of revenge. But this time they may have gone a step too far.In a story that spans the...

Speculative Fiction Indie Novella Championship (SFINCS 1) FINALIST.The Usharian Empire rules the Known World with an iron fist. Imperials protect their world from the tainted hand of the Deceiver, but he is back with an avatar capable of breaking the...

POINT OPTIONA Time-Travel Military ThrillerUnited States Air Force Major Dave Fleming has a job men would kill for. As one of three exchange fighter pilots chosen to fly with the premier US Navy attack squadron aboard America's newest aircraft carrier,...

In Oram Red, G.F. Curry tells a thrilling, chilling story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Join Francis "Franny" O'Dowd as he takes you behind the gates of the Triumph Nuclear Power Plant during a typical refueling outage. What happens is...

Two centuries after the Godfell War, Ilahna knows that the only way to survive in Clearwall is to be faster and smarter than everyone else. She stays on her toes, steals what she needs... and never EVER mentions magic. Because magic is the way of the...

The Faoii have protected Clearwall with both magic and blade for generations. But when her monastery is attacked and her sisters slaughtered, only young Kaiya is left alive. Forced to cope without the traditions of her Order, Kaiya travels the country on...

Adventure. Competition. A duel to the death.While on a journey to the famous city of Thronehold, Volke Savan learns of the Sovereign Dragon Tournament. The massive celebration involves hundreds of arcanists competing for fame and glory, and Volke is...

Author Valerie Baxter explores the life-and-death existence of partisans fighting in the French Resistance during World War II.Nicole du Bois, a young Anglo/French woman, sets out for France as a patriot to help the ever-decreasing Resistance.Her old...

Something is amiss on the American military base Ford Creek. Several different types of accidents have caused the deaths of female soldiers, all within the span of a year. Confounded by these odd occurrences, the base's general invites Detective John Man...

Lieutenant David is a competent officer who decided to return to active duty after a stint in the Naval Reserves. His objective as a career naval officer is sidetracked when he unexpectedly meets Beth, who then becomes his obsession. Her husband also...

When Lieutenant Dorothea Oliver signed up to serve her country during WWII, she had no clue of the terror she would face while providing frontline medical care as a member of the Army Nurse Corps.Ollie and her fellow nurses, who called themselves the...

This epic graphic novel from acclaimed comic's writer and artist Wayne Vansant collects his incredible mini-series that depicts the early days of the United States in the Second World War. Days of Darkness covers the darkest days of World War II,...

WWII rages brutally across the oceans, and the city previously known as Berlin in Canada is shaken by a series of murders that seem to indicate a racial and political vendetta by a communist killer.Decades later, a seemingly harmless diary comes to...

Harry Seymour and Samantha Hazelwood want to get married and build a family. He is a college student from a wealthy New Orleans family, and she is the daughter of an old Virginia family. They could be married without delay, if not for the war that tore...

Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth centuryIn 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well...

These early works by Guy de Maupassant were originally published in the 1880's. As a collection of short stories, this represents Maupassant's tales of the Franco-Prussian War, and includes 'Two Little Soldiers', 'The Prisoners', 'The Lancer's Wife',...

A story of how a straight forward order can come to haunt an officer who did not question enough.

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social...

A collection of the finest examples of the work of Ambrose Bierce, full of horror, death, bravery and war.

Captain Abersouth is a recurring character in the short stories of Ambrose Bierce and here are collected the Abersouth tales for the first time.

This early work by Guy de Maupassant was originally published in the 1880's. Guy de Maupassant was born in 1850 at the Château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe, France. He came from a prosperous family, but when Maupassant was eleven, his mother risked social...