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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > General
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling
author Kate Quinn, two women-a female spy recruited to the
real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an
unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in
1947-are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and
redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II,
American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and
on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's
also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who
disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be
alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her
"little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to
London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she
loves like a sister. 1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner
burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets
her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into
enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the
"Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right
under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal
that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days
drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young
American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and
launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where
it leads. "Both funny and heartbreaking, this epic journey of two
courageous women is an unforgettable tale of little-known wartime
glory and sacrifice. Quinn knocks it out of the park with this
spectacular book!"-Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling
author of America's First Daughter
A young American infantryman finds himself in a Korean troop train
hurrying north to the front early in 1953. Thus begins a story of
humor, pathos, horror, bitterness, and a chilling look at the class
discrimination whether intended or accidental that created a
warrior class of poor, uneducated men to fight a vicious enemy in a
forlorn, inhospitable country.
War is a religious experience. Mystic. Demonically insane. It
pushes humans to the ragged edge of self-knowledge. Mixing
philosophy, literature, psychology, and memoir, this book carries
us on an odyssey - an odyssey that explores why young men volunteer
for combat, how they live, and how they survive. It is raw in its
portrayal of cowardice, of bravery, of haunting irreversible
mistakes, of guilt, and of love. Confession to a Deaf God is a
thought-provoking exploration of the incomprehensible cosmic game
of Mars, ancient god of war.
A flyer's World War Two diary reveals the terror in combat and
tells of escape in the dark to avoid capture. Returned to Italy,
missing comrades and the secrecy assigned to the status of the
evader, harvest a bewildering new beginning. Army Air Force
unintentionally places us in situations we would never arrange for
ourselves and fails to provide support when we are abandon in enemy
territory. its machinery, is, at first, happy to be alone,
independent, and without supervision only to learn how
unsatisfactory that condition is for needs change to where others
and intact systems are employed to return to Italy. Becoming an
evader, the influence its status document has as an unrecognized
entity, places open acknowledgment of this syndrome far down on the
list of important issues. Important subject matters are fear,
cowardice, and the role the Army Air Force plays in making sense of
it all.
"Upon hearing her words, 'the Somme', Gordon looked at her with
wide eyes. He realized that he had just begun to solve a piece of
his personal puzzle. "Anna, can I ask you to translate something
that might be French, or might be nonsense? Just humor me." "What
do you want me to translate?" "OK, if I say to you, Ill reposing
sir le Somme, does it have any meaning?" After listening to his
short phrase she replied, "Hmmm, yes. Your American accent aside, I
think you are saying 'they rest on the Somme', in French." Later,
as the train moved south, Gordon asked, "Anna, if your parents
don't mind, I'd like to make a few more visits. I feel there is
something in those fields back there, something hidden for me to
find." "That's a strange thing to say, Gordon. Something hidden?
Like what?" "I don't know. But something.special.""
The shadows of war grow ever darker across the Demi-Monde.
Norma Williams knows she was a fool to be lured into the virtual
nightmare that is the Demi-Monde. When the agent sent in the game
to save her goes rogue and a long forgotten evil is awoken, it
falls to Norma to lead the resistance.
Lost, without a plan, and with the army of the ForthRight
marching ever closer, she must come to terms with terrible new
responsibilities and with the knowledge that those she thought were
her friends are now her enemies. To triumph in this surreal
cyber-world she must be more than she ever believed she could be .
. . or perish.
Just before her sixteenth birthday, missionary Reena Pavane
stepped onto African soil and called it home. Four years later,
she's swept from her post in Huzuni amid rumblings of war by
British photojournalist Jim Stone, a man who loves East Africa and
wants to tell its story and show its many faces. Staying true to
their separate callings is complicated by their unexpected feelings
for each other.
When Stone leaves hurriedly for a top-secret story but doesn't
have his malaria medicine, Reena enlists the help of black man
Dakimu Reiman to help her find Stone. Deep in the jungle, they
discover Stone is being held by militants, and death for all seems
inevitable.
The lives of Stone, Reena, and Dak evolve in the political
turmoil of the 1950s and early 1960s in Tanganyika. Their personal
goals, unrelated at the start, become increasingly dependent on and
resolvable only inside their surprising and complex relationship.
From the wild savannahs and forests of East Africa to England and
the United States, spiritual, racial, and cultural barriers
threaten and divide them. There is one thing among them that cannot
be shaken and brings them to the harrowing edge of every choice
they have made and every tenet they have believed. Their road to
redemption is marked with controversy, self-doubt, and pain.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
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- worldwide.
A small band of armed insurgents fell upon Quebec in the winter of
1775. They were sent north to liberate the Canadians, but they were
abandoned in the snow, denied reinforcements, and driven up the
river and out of Canada. The officers and men of the Separate Army
formed their brotherhood in the anguish of their defeat,
established their association following the joy of victory at
Saratoga, and by doing so, launched a pervasive culture and unique
lifestyle that flourished in their clubs and dominated the halls of
power in the state and nation unto the second and third generation.
This is a tale of the second generation, the generation that
followed the American Revolution. They lived in a time of
uncertainty and crisis; a time when men and women struggled against
convention to find out if a nation derived from deceit, created by
rebellion, and governed by greed could long survive. It's the story
of a young man with a desire for success and talent for trouble who
stumbles forth upon a quest for personal fame and glory in the
years of political intrigue, war, and conspiracy that marked the
beginning of the American Empire.
While running tests on a popular microprocessor, gifted chip
designer Ethan Alon makes a puzzling discovery: an undocumented
section with unknown functions. Ethan and his friend Rina Hardin
crack the encryption and discover a clandestine network monitoring
defense systems around the world, but especially focused on the
Middle East.
With the help of military analyst Barrett Parker, they discover
the program is the work of scientists from Project Flower-an actual
Israeli-Iranian missile program from the 1970s. These scientists
came to mistrust politicians and generals and designed a system to
prevent or at least limit wars. Their program is astounding, but it
has a flaw-the Samson Heuristic.
The flaw becomes apparent when intelligence operations come
undone and overtax the system. American, Iranian, and Israeli
militaries are on high alert, and war seems imminent. Ethan and
Rina race to fix the Samson Heuristic while in a Tel Aviv command
center-under the noses of generals who know nothing of Samson.
Meanwhile, Barrett and like-minded analysts build opposition to war
from inside bureaus in Washington and Jerusalem.
The future of the Middle East lies in the balance.
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