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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General
Set during the First World War, William Breedlove Martin's IN
ANOTHER TIME is the intense drama of the Lansdownes, a big,
well-to-do family in a small Southern town. As the brothers
Laurence and Victor leave for the front as fighter pilots, their
overbearing father, Buck, and the five Lansdowne women, are left to
face the uncertainly and the fear of a world, and a family, at war.
Some of these women, such as Miss Cordelia, the mother of the two
aviators, are devastated by their anguish, while others, such as
Della, the beautiful new wife of the domineering Laurence, find
strength and redemption in their struggles. The excitement and the
terrors of war, the upheavals of a changing culture, and the
conflicts of nine family members within and among themselves are
woven into a compelling and uplifting story of courage, endurance,
acceptance, and love.
ME 46 BCDreaming of service to the great Gaius Julius Caesar, the
young Tuscan knight, Quintus Dellius, secures the patronage of the
youngest of his generals, the dissolute Cornelius Dolabella.
Dellius distinguishes himself in Caesar's Spanish war against
Pompey, becomes a tribune of cavalry in Caesar's army and looks
forward to an assured and glittering career. But when his hero is
assassinated the Roman republic is plunged into chaos as both his
heirs and enemies jostle for power. In the civil wars that follow,
Dellius is soon caught up in a maelstrom of shifting allegiances
and the young soldier will need to discover reserves of both
tenacity and ruthlessness if he is to survive.As he journeys from
the orgiastic salons of Rome's Palatine Hill to the Palaces of
Alexandria, the rocky fortresses of Judea and the bloody field of
Philippi, he manages to incur the enmity both of Egypt's queen and
Rome's future emperor, but also to snare the affections of a
beautiful and cunning young senator's wife, Livia Drusilla.
An epic tale of the war between the States
This is volume four-incorporating the two novels The Shades of the
Wilderness & The Tree of Appomattox, the seventh and eighth
novels of a series of eight adventures which follow the momentous
events, campaigns and battles of the great American Civil War
between the Northern and Southern states. The central characters of
the story are Harry Kenton-an officer in the Confederate Army and
his cousin Dick Mason a young officer in a similar position
fighting within the Union ranks. The narrative of the whole war is
charted through the action which embraces many actual players in
the real conflict. Beginning with First Bull Run and climaxing at
Appomattox each novel tells the story from an alternate
perspective-from the ranks of the Blue and then the Grey as the
saga unfolds. Altsheler wrote another Civil War novel, Before the
Dawn, concerning the fall of Richmond told from a Confederate
perspective. Although this story is not strictly part of the series
Leonaur have offered it as part of its five volume, nine novel
collection of the author's Civil War adventures for collectors and
readers in complementing designs and soft cover or hard cover.
On a dreary moonlight night in 1943, Malcolm Claussen patrolled the
English Channel in his de Havilland W4052 Mosquito. His routine
World War II patrol mission was disturbed when he encountered a
roaring silver airplane larger than he'd seen before. With no
insignia to identify the craft getting dangerously close to London,
Claussen shot down this gargantuan airship just off the English
shore. There were but two men in the U.K. who officially knew about
the aircraft and its purpose: Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding
and Winston Churchill. There was, however, one person who
unofficially knew: Matt Jacobson. While Matt was sworn to secrecy,
his son was not, and after Matt's passing young Bruce Jacobson
embarks on a search for the truth of this mysterious plane. Who
built this plane, why was it so large, and why was it kept secret?
As the inferno of World War II engulfs 101st Airborne Division
paratrooper Lieutenant Sam Henry, the scholar-turned-soldier is
thrust on a collision course with the embodiment of beauty-and the
horrors of combat. Training and awaiting D-Day in England, Sam's
can-do Yank confidence suffers the harsh realities of a war-weary
nation under siege as well as a tyrannical platoon leader. His
fascination with the beautiful British schoolteacher, Maggie
Elliott, sustains his hopes and softens the bite of military life
but cannot erase the dread of Sam's upcoming mission. When that
fateful day arrives, June 6, 1944, Sam embarks on one of the most
dangerous missions of the war. But the massive parachute night drop
behind Hitler's Atlantic Wall disintegrates into pockets of
fractured units and individuals locked in kill-or-be-killed close
combat chaos, testing Sam's optimistic intellectualism to the
breaking point. His personal mission becomes nothing more than
getting his beloved men out-alive. Yet, with the D-Day airborne
objectives nearly secured, an unforeseen clash against a Russian
Front hardened storm trooper, Helmut Behr, threatens to destroy
Sam's sanity-and his life. "Evocative and haunting. Varner's action
scenes are fantastic he really brought me into D-Day." -Jefferson
Scott, author of the Operation Firebrand series
Afghanistan, 2007. Carl meets Sarah, a nurse, at Camp Bastion and they
feel an instant connection. But she’s the girlfriend of his fellow
soldier, Danny, so he pledges to keep his distance.
Finally back in England, Carl vows to never forget those who didn't
make it home, honouring each of them with a tattoo of a poppy. While
many miles away, Sarah tries to forget the man she swore to leave
behind.
But when Carl and Sarah are thrown back together, it’s clear that both
of them are broken. But do the scars of what they went through run to
deep, or is there a chance they can find happiness again, together . . .
Vietnam, 1968. The start of Tet, the lunar new year, is only weeks
away. The new year will bring the Year of the Monkey, and soon the
lives of four people will collide.
Marine Sergeant Michael Warner. After barely surviving his first
tour of duty in Vietnam, the tough Marine has just returned. Warner
has all the reasons in the world not to come back-but they only
matter to him.
Frank Monin. As regional supervisor for the CIA, Monin has been
in Vietnam for more than five years. Now Monin has a mission to
implement the Agency's newest plan to eliminate the Viet Cong
infrastructure-and he prays it will work.
Wally Brumsfield. As bureau chief for the Associated Press in
Saigon, Brumsfield is an experienced journalist adept at finding
the story behind the story-and he is about to discover the biggest
story of his life.
Tran Van Ky. A barber at the American base in Phu Bai, Tran is
also one of the highest-ranking Viet Cong cadres in Vietnam-and
Tran and his cohorts are planning a Tet surprise for the
Americans.
Four strangers. Four agendas. All caught up in the most
controversial plan of the entire war-the Phoenix Program.
Cover Design Concept: Clayton Thomas
The Riverton Project asks the question, "How much are you, as
American citizens, willing to give up to stop the insanity and
return to a world of safety?" "Would you be willing to give up your
citizenship, your constitutional, legal and inalienable rights?"
The answer, of course, is a resounding, "No " But the citizens of
Riverton, Ohio were not given that choice. These men and women woke
up one morning to find their community had overnight become its own
country within a country, within its borders, its own rules and
regulations, its own rights and responsibilities and its own
Guardian police force. It had become part of a frightening
experiment to save the essence of the American dream by destroying
everything that it had been founded upon. The frightening thing was
that the experiment worked. This is the story of the men and women
who lived it.
Jarred Glickman learned early on that a man is only what he thinks
he is-and nothing more. In his quest to satisfy his father's
values, Jarred discards his dream of becoming a photographer,
marries, and begins attending medical school. Desperate for a loan
so he can continue school, Jarred innocently signs his life away to
a man who promises he will never have financial worries again. But
as the Vietnam War rages, Jarred has no idea he has just signed up
to join a military intelligence operation and, in the process,
forever changed his destiny. As he attends weekly stealth lectures
by a retired submarine commander, Jarred learns more than he ever
wanted to know about war and soon receives his first assignment at
a political rally in downtown Philadelphia. Successful at achieving
his objectives, Jarred is triumphant-albeit only for a short time,
for his success moves him to the next level of intelligence and
sends him to Saigon. He must leave his young family and put his
life in jeopardy for those who now own him. Never in his wildest
dreams could Jarred have predicted what he has become-a dark angel
obedient to his convoluted destiny.
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