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Hong Kong, 1960s: The old submarine-chaser USS Hibiscus, refitting
in a Hong Kong dockyard before being handed over to the Nationalist
Chinese, is suddenly ordered to the desolate island group of
Payenhau. For Captain Mark Gunnar, who is driven by the memory of
his torture at the hands of Viet Cong guerillas, the new command is
a chance to even the score against a ruthless, unrelenting enemy.
But Payenhau is very different from his expectations, and as the
weather worsens, a crisis develops that Gunnar must face alone.
March 1967: HMS Temeraire is Britain's latest and most advanced
nuclear submarine. But when the Temeraire's trials are cut short
and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the British fleet
against a threat from Red China, Captain David Jermain knows that
this is no routine exercise in flag-waving. And once in Asian
waters, he and his submarine find themselves involved in a hidden,
undeclared conflict beneath the sea. While the politicians on land
haggle over a situation that could hold the seeds of a full-scale
war, Commander Jermain must keep his faith in himself and in his
new ship's potential--even when ordered to take the Temeraire to
the edge of a catastrophe.
After more than a quarter of a century and three million copies in print, Michael Shaara’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels, remains as vivid and powerful as the day it was originally published. This handsome new hardcover edition introduces a whole new generation to Shaara’s masterpiece–and offers readers everywhere a literary keepsake for years to come.
July 1863. The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia is invading the North. General Robert E. Lee has made this daring and massive move with seventy thousand men in a determined effort to draw out the Union Army of the Potomac and mortally wound it. His right hand is General James Longstreet, a brooding man who is loyal to Lee but stubbornly argues against his plan. Opposing them is an unknown factor: General George Meade, who has taken command of the Army only two days before what will be perhaps the crucial battle of the Civil War.
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fight for two conflicting dreams. One dreams of freedom, the other of a way of life. More than rifles and bullets are carried into battle. The soldiers carry memories. Promises. Love. And more than men fall on those Pennsylvania fields. Bright futures, untested innocence, and pristine beauty are also the casualties of war.
The Killer Angels is unique, sweeping, unforgettable–a dramatic re-creation of the battleground for America’s destiny.
Mitchell Gant has uncovered a secret, and is about to blow it
sky-highWhen a new American airliner crashes mysteriously in the
Arizona desert on its final test flight, suspicions are raised. Is
it simply an accident? Or could it be foul play? Mitchell Gant, the
hero of Firefox, now an expert on aviation accidents, must risk his
life by repeating the test flight to reveal the truth. Meanwhile,
in Britain, plane manufacturer Aero UK is in trouble - no one wants
to purchase their new passenger jet. Aero's head, David
Winterborne, is ruthlessly determined to prevent his empire's
collapse, whatever the cost - and it hasn't gone unnoticed. MP
Marian Pyott has found evidence of a massive fraud involving
hundreds of millions of pounds, and is tracking it back to him.
When a second airliner crashes off the coast of Finland, Gant and
Marian suspect conspiracy, and they must embark on a dangerous
search across Europe and America. Against the merciless global
market of the Nineties, there are lives as well as fortunes at
stake... From master of the genre Craig Thomas, A Different War is
cold, deliberate and thrilling to the very end. Perfect for fans of
Jack Higgins and Ben Macintyre.
Mankind's history is bound up in the fabric of fate, a strong
cloth, tough and closely woven. It is the beginning of 1918, the
last year of the greatest war in human history to date. All the
belligerents stagger on their feet. Starvation is an ever-pre
Uncover the traitor. End what you started.Rejoining the English
army laying siege to Calais, Simon Merrivale discovers that the
conspiracy against the thrones of England and France has regrouped
and gathered force. New allies have joined their ranks, including a
dark secret society known as the Pilgrims, and the Holy Roman
Empire and the Knights of Saint John have also been drawn in.
Ambush and murder in the war-torn fields of Flanders, clandestine
meetings in ruined castles and assassination attempts in the
streets of Bruges and Paris all follow, as Merrivale relentlessly
hunts the conspirators, in an attempt to finally reveal the
turncoat at its heart. The awe-inspiring finale to the Hundred
Years' War series, perfect for fans of Andrew Taylor, Bernard
Cornwell and C. J. Sansom.
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The Hundred Years' War is over and newly-knighted Sir John Hawkwood
is headed for France to make his fortune as a freebooter. Violence
and extortion are rife, and the freebooters will stop at nothing to
capture the Papal City of Avignon. This is only the beginning:
Italy beckons, and with it, yet more battles against rival
mercenaries, powerful cities and the Papal State.
Elite soldiers known as ghosts are trained to use their special
psychic powers for military operations, and one Ghost Academy
cadet, Nova, must handle both her teammates and her own demons.
'Balkan Glory is an epic chapter in the splendid Kydd canon,
weaving knotty political gambits with stirring naval actions,
expressively re-creating the often harsh reality Jack Tars
witnessed within their wooden walls during the Napoleonic Wars' -
Quarterdeck 1811. The Adriatic, the 'French Lake', is now the most
valuable territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. Captain Sir Thomas
Kydd finds his glorious return to England cut short when the
Admiralty summons him to lead a squadron of frigates into these
waters to cause havoc and distress to the enemy. Kydd is dubbed
'The Sea Devil' by Bonaparte who personally appoints one of his
favourites, Dubourdieu, along with a fleet that greatly outweighs
the British, to rid him of this menace. At the same time, Nicholas
Renzi is sent to Austria on a secret mission to sound out the
devious arch-statesman, Count Metternich. His meeting reveals a
deadly plan by Bonaparte that threatens the whole balance of power
in Europe. The only thing that can stop it is a decisive move at
sea and for this he must somehow cross the Alps to the Adriatic to
contact Kydd directly. A climactic sea battle where the stakes
could not be higher is inevitable. Kydd faces Dubourdieu with
impossible odds stacked against him. Can he shatter Bonaparte's
dreams of breaking out of Europe and marching to the gates of India
and Asia? ************************************* Readers LOVE Balkan
Glory 'I can say without a doubt Balkan Glory is Stockwin's best of
the series. All these elements make it so. It's great, involving
reading (I was surprised when I reached The End!). It's what makes
for great historical fiction' 'By far the best of the Kydd series.
Can the next one possibly be as riveting?' 'One of my must have
books each year'
2014 "Christian Retailing's Best" award finalist All eyes are on
the Middle East. Israel has successfully launched a first strike on
Iran, taking out all of their nuclear sites and six of their
nuclear warheads--and causing The Twelfth Imam to order a
full-scale retaliation. U.S. President William Jackson threatens to
support a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the Jewish
State for unprovoked and unwarranted acts of aggression.Meanwhile,
CIA operative David Shirazi has infiltrated the Iranian regime and
intercepted information indicating that two Iranian nuclear
warheads survived the attack and have been moved to a secure and
undisclosed location. In danger not only from the ongoing missile
strikes on Iran but also from the increasingly hostile and
suspicious governments of multiple countries, David and his team
are in a race against time to find the remaining nuclear warheads
before disaster strikes.
He was interned at Buchenwald during the German occupation and
imprisoned by the Vietnamese when France's armies in the Far East
collapsed. Now Capitaine Degorce is an interrogator himself, and
the only peace he can find is in the presence of Tahar, a captive
commander in the very organization he is charged with eliminating.
But his confessor is no saint: Tahar stands accused of
indiscriminate murder. Lieutenant Andreani - who served with
Degorce in Vietnam and revels in his new role as executioner - is
determined to see a noose around his neck. This is Algeria, 1957.
Blood, sand, dust, heat - perhaps the bitterest colonial conflict
of the last century. Degorce will learn that in times of war, no
matter what a man has suffered in his past, there is no limit to
the cruelty he is capable of.
An intense novel of war at the Roman frontier.On the Empire's
Northern border trouble is stirring. For decades the barbarians
have been at the gates. Now, facing threats from within as well as
outside, the Emperor is provoking war. When his friend Atius goes
missing in Germania, Imperial Assassin Silus is sent into the heart
of the battle-torn region. Plunged into a deadly intrigue and a
brutal conflict, can Silus find out who is betraying Rome? Or will
the legions start falling, one by bloody one? One of the standout
new voices in historical fiction, bestseller Alex Gough is on
riveting form in this brilliant novel, perfect for readers of Ben
Kane and Conn Iggulden.
Featured in PBS's The Vietnam War series by Ken Burns & Lynn
Novick. The New York Times bestselling, powerhouse (TIME Magazine)
debut from Vietnam War veteran, Karl Marlantes. An incredible
publishing story--written over the course of thirty years by a
highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times best seller for
sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next and a USA Today best
seller--Matterhorn has been hailed as a "brilliant account of war"
(New York Times Book Review). Now out in paperback, Matterhorn is
an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer's The Naked and
the Dead and James Jones's The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless
story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades
in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of
Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood.
Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also
monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition.
Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover
between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and
duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself
surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines
are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The
experience will change them forever. Matterhorn is a visceral and
spellbinding novel about what it is like to be a young man at war.
It is an unforgettable novel that transforms the tragedy of Vietnam
into a powerful and universal story of courage, camaraderie, and
sacrifice: a parable not only of the war in Vietnam but of all war,
and a testament to the redemptive power of literature. I wouldn't
be surprised if Matterhorn becomes for the Vietnam War what All
Quiet on the Western Front was to World War I. -James Patterson
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