War, combat and military adventure fiction Books

In Our Time, Ernest Hemingway's first collection of short stories, heralded the arrival of an original and distinct literary voice. The stories' richly complicated themes of alienation, loss, grief, and separation contrast with Hemingway's spare but...

In 1942 France, the unoccupied "Zone Libre" was anything but free. Oliver Carmichael has settled into Lyon after his hurried escape from occupied Paris. He owns his own cabaret and directs his own band. But his destiny is not his own when a French...

Over 400,000 dead and one million displaced out of a population of three million. In a fourteen-year span, two catastrophic civil wars ripped apart Liberia. A nation formed by freed American slaves with a dream of justice and seeking the liberties that...

Kerosene Cowboys is soon to be a major motion picture starring Cam Gigandet (Twilight), Shane West (ER; A Walk to Remember), Rachel Leigh Cook (She's All That), Bill Pullman (Independence Day), JC Chasez (*NSync) and directed by Mario Van Peebles (New...

Never before has a historically accurate novel telling of the day-to-day journey to the Little Big Horn featuring interesting characters been written, including the Gatling Gun Battery commander and his men. Custer takes his three Gatling Guns with him...

Nicholas Dixon lives with his mother and brother in London, England between the world wars. His father, Wilfrid, once with the First Battalion, First Canadian Regiment in the trenches of the Great War, now works in the coalmines of South Leeds and rarely...

'It was important that I knew, and someone should have told me. Perhaps then I would understand what I had to do, who to become.'Sydney-based copywriter Tara keeps a composed exterior, but grapples with an underlying sense of unease. When she delves into...

A story of optimism, resilience, and hope by the people left at home during World War 11. A young girl with reading disabilities and lacking in confidence takes on the running of Willup Hall and the estate farms. She successfully increases food...

Maggie Brady lives in Bootle, Liverpool. She is just sixteen when World War Two breaks out in Europe. Maggie and her family must face the possibility of a terrifying Blitz that could destroy all they hold dear.Her father works at the heart of the...

The Last Poppy completes the Marsden trilogy of books, following The Baker's Story and Arthur's War.The date is 1915 and the now global conflict has had a considerable impact on the family. The story continues to reflect the war overseas in Northern...

"I believe in you," Amélie says. She peers up at me, her eyes alight with passion and pain. "Even the ocean wasn't wide enough to keep us apart." June 6, 1944. Gazing over the ocean, Eddie sits on the edge of a stone wall overlooking the beach. The...

"Kevin Fife," his teacher started. "To look at you, you wouldn't think butter would melt in your mouth. You look much younger than you are, freckles and glasses. A cheeky little boy face. But for all that, you are always getting into trouble. Always up...

Italy, 1950. The dawn of a new decade brings with it the promise of lasting peace and prosperity as the hardships of war are consigned to the past.In Pieve Santa Clara, a tiny village in rural Lombardy, Graziella Ponti, now a teenager, lives a simple...

Injured Ethelred the Unready is one of only three elite carrier pigeons trained to undertake two-way flights. Konstantin von Essen is the traumatized 14-year-old son of Generalfeldmarschall Dieter von Essen, the Commander for Operations in the North Zone...

This novel is set in the Armenian mountains sometime in 1915-1960. An old man and a new born baby boy escape from the Hamidian massacres in Turkey in 1894 and hide themselves in the ruins of a demolished and abandoned village. The village soon becomes a...

Charlotte is born, motherless and into a life of tragedy and adventure. She is brought up by her uncaring aunt and uncle, inherits her grandmother's Parisian mansion in Avenue Foch, along with a priceless set of paintings - the Barrett Collection.In her...

In his stories, the author uses the spatio-temporal movements of the characters. Their life and adventures take place, now in the world of socialism, now in capitalism. These are stories about the life of Soviet people in comparison with the American way...

AMERICAN MORALE! Sergeant James Hawk is on a mission-search a large island in the western Pacific and capture a downed Japanese fighter pilot ace named Zanji. Nicknamed The Firebolt for downing 84 Allied planes, he has become a national hero in...

After CIA contract pilot, Duncan Hunter eliminated virtually every man from the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List, it's time for celebration and some down time.Hunter's counterterrorism successes in Africa and the Middle East have propelled the CIA...

American and Russian astronauts and cosmonauts in a daring space rescue. Brave, beautiful, sexy women. Diplomatic intrigue and romantic sub-plots. ISIS terrorists kidnapped astronauts in a plot planned secretly by an American industrialist with a...

In the summer of 1918 Margaret and Beatrice Jerome board the U.S.S. Mongolia, an ocean liner turned U.S. Navy troopship bound for wartime France. They intend to claim the remains of their brother--Margaret's fraternal twin--and accompany it back to the...

1941: the second year of the Blitzkreig. While occupied Europe writes beneath the Nazi jackboot, Hitler’s U-boats dominate the Atlantic trade routes. Kapitanleutnant Konrad Bergman, commander of the UB-44, already responsible for the destruction of...

The year is 1955. Charlie Stanek, a former American operative and major in the U.S. Army, was a man who wanted to mind his own business and live his life free of Cold War espionage. But no matter how far he tries to run or hide, the CIA always finds him...

Sultan's 70000 troups. With huge siege canon that can knock down Constantinoplis walls and open a breach for the Ottomans to pour through. Despite the great naval battles, the Byzantine forces have won over the Sultan their future still looks very grim...

. In the fall of 1970, a young reporter, eager to learn what the Vietnam War is really all about, gets himself sent to a small forward Army camp in the Central Highlands that the men have dubbed Fort Nowhere. As time passes and he becomes more and more...

Times are tough in 1938 during the Great Depression when eighteen-year- old Leslie Charles hears that the navy shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, is hiring college students. A talented musician endowed with exceptional math skills, Leslie believes he's a...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

The Girl of the Guard Line is a novel written by Charles Carey Waddell and first published in 1915. The story is set in the early 1900s in a small coastal town in Maine, USA. The protagonist, Mary Lacey, is a young woman who works as a telephone operator...

Huldy's Whistle is a novel written by Anne Archbold Miller and published in 1919. The story is set in rural America and revolves around the life of a young girl named Huldy. Huldy is a bright and curious child who loves to explore the world around her...

Obeying The Call is a novel written by Pansy and first published in 1878. The story revolves around the lives of two sisters, Ruth and Marion, who have very different personalities. Ruth is a devout Christian who is committed to living her life according...

Around the time of the Cuban missile crisis, British expatriates are detained by the administration of a newly-independent West African country which is under intense Soviet influence.

Queenston Heights is a historical non-fiction book written by Ernest Alexander Cruikshank and published in 1891. The book focuses on the Battle of Queenston Heights, which took place during the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain. The...

""Our Joe"" is a novel written by Silas Kitto Hocking and published in 1885. The story is set in a small Cornish village and follows the life of a young boy named Joe Nankervis. Joe is the son of a miner and grows up in poverty, but he possesses a kind...

Mad Anthony's Young Scout: A Story of the Winter of 1777 to 1778 is a historical fiction novel written by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson and originally published in 1908. The story is set during the American Revolution and follows the adventures of a young...

When Daljan is placed in charge of a team of skilled sailors, on a top-secret mission to fly into a foreign country yet to have been announced, somewhere over the Pacific Ocean their airplane runs into trouble and is forced to crash land on a desolate...

For Love and Glory opens in 1940 as Lange DeLony, a civilian pilot in Texas, is down on his luck-no car, no money saved, and his ex-wife has just been killed in a car accident. With his self-esteem at low tide, he learns Britain is recruiting American...

What Matthew Morrow saw in Protected Wild Space could destroy the government.So they arrested him and kept him on ice for fifteen years. But they couldn't just kill him. Matthew Morrow was special - a cyborg, a prototype for a regiment of ultimate...

William, along with his two marine comrades Randy and Bob, never thought that the papers Bob found would turn their world upside down. Though retired from the marines, they vowed to right a wrong involving their former commander, Frank Kraft.Kraft would...