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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
Although World War II is over, the world is not a safer place.
The Soviet Union has lowered an iron curtain in front of Eastern
Europe, and Josef Stalin desires complete world domination.
American nurse Jennifer Haraldsson and her former patient and
German POW, Otto Bruner, have returned to their former lives with
unfinished business. Although deeply in love, both realize the
obstacles to spending their lives together are too
overwhelming.
Haraldsson, who now serves as a nurse at Walter Reed Army
Hospital, knows that Jack MacLaine, United States Army Intelligence
Officer, is her best hope for romance. After she accepts his
marriage proposal, she naively thinks her life will return to
normal. Unfortunately, she has never been more wrong. After the
North Koreans attack South Korea, MacLaine is sent overseas. It is
not long before Haraldsson is enlisted by her boss, Dr. Brad
Taylor, to travel to Korea to launch a mobile army hospital. As the
two work tirelessly to set up their MASH unit, Haraldsson has no
idea that an unexpected tragedy is about to strip away her newfound
happiness.
Many twists and turns occur in this continuing historical
thriller. The great political and military dramas of the times
unfold as the legendary Marine First Regiment Commander Chesty
Puller, General Douglas MacArthur, General Matthew Ridgway, and
President Harry Truman assume their commanding roles.
In this continuing historical saga, an American nurse soon
realizes that amidst the chaos of war, nothing is
guaranteed-especially love.
The great Empire of Ice - Chung Kuo - has finally been shaken after
more than two centuries of peace enforced by brutal tyranny. The
Minister of the Edict has been assassinated and the seven ruling
T'ang struggle to maintain Stasis, even as their mile-high,
continent-spanning cities descend into chaos. But the assassination
was orchestrated by men close to the ruling powers; powerful
merchants - Dispersionists - intent on Change, whose betrayal will
lead them into the world-shattering War of the Two Directions.
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Sankya
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Zakhar Prilepin
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Sasha "Sankya" Tishin, and his friends are part of a generation
stuck between eras. They don't remember the Soviet Union, but they
also don't believe in the promise of opportunity for all in the
corrupt, capitalistic new Russia. They belong to an extremist group
that wants to build a better Russia by tearing down the existing
one. Sasha, alternately thoughtful and naive, violent and tender,
dispassionate and romantic, hopeful and hopeless, is torn between
the dying village of his youth and the soulless capital, where he
and his friends stage rowdy protests and do battle with the police.
When they go too far, Sasha finds himself testing the elemental
force of the protest movement in Russia and in himself. Originally
published in 2006, Sankya is a cult sensation in Russia, where it
won the Yasnaya Polyana Award and was shortlisted for the Russian
Booker and the National Bestseller Prize. Sankya is the basis for
Kirill Serebrennikov's popular play Thugs.
Based on a factual account of a previously undisclosed incident
aboard a German U-boat off the coast of Florida in 1942. Two
Americans get involved in Nazi-sponsored sabotage, become unwitting
participants in a mutiny at sea, and are forced underground.
The year is 1992 and Delaware's tumultuous gubernatorial debate
is interrupted by an inspiring speech from a humble citizen named
Karl Bontrager. After the speech, the consequences for Karl are
severe: he is immediately fired from his job and becomes the target
of media frenzy. Even though the news media is responsible for
fueling a riot in his neighborhood, some political chicanery lands
an innocent Karl in jail for creating a public disturbance.
But Karl's inspirational speech has awakened the public.
Concerned citizens, neighbors, Karl's granddaughter and some of her
college classmates converge on the jail and demand Karl's release.
Just as the governor issues an executive order to release him, the
startled jailer tells the crowd that Karl is not there.
The situation that ensues in Delaware has far more international
and political consequences than anyone had imagined. A world away,
the Soviet Union has become a struggling Commonwealth of
Independent States. Faced with his own dilemma, the director of a
former Soviet research facility is confronted by the prospect of
losing many of his nuclear technicians to a wealthy
dictatorship.
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Madeleine
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Euan Cameron
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"Immersive, nuanced, impeccably researched" IAN RANKIN "Beautifully
written and moving" ALLAN MASSIE "Poignant, nostalgic and redolent
of the smell of France" SIMON BRETT Family history has always been
a mystery to Will Latymer. His father flatly refused to talk about
it, and with no other relatives to consult, it seems that a mystery
it shall always remain. Until of course, Will meets Ghislaine, his
beautiful French cousin, in a chance encounter that introduces him
to his grandmother, Madeleine, shut away in a quiet Breton manor
with her memories and secrets. Before long, Will has been plunged
headlong into the life of Madeleine's great love, his longlost
grandfather, Henry Latymer. Reading Henry's old letters and diaries
for the first time, Will discovers an idealistic young man, full of
hopes and optimism - an optimism that will gradually be crushed as
the realities of life under the Vichy regime become glaringly
clear. But the more Will delves into Madeleine and Henry's past,
and into France's troubled history, the darker the secrets he
discovers become, and the more he has cause to wonder if sometimes,
the past should remain buried.
Deceit. Treachery. Treasure.
Lieutenant Jackson Prescott, having just survived the cornfield
at Antietam in September of 1862, is tasked by President Lincoln to
infiltrate a Confederacy group that has obtained five tons of gold
for their side.
In the present, the violent death of an FBI informant thrusts
Special Agent Jason Sparks into a desperate search for the very
same lost gold shipment - and his failure could mean his daughter's
life.
Two men separated by one hundred and fifty years face murder and
betrayal while they fight to complete their missions. Two men,
linked by a vast cache of gold... and the same piece of hallowed
ground.
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Alroy
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Benjamin Disraeli
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From the windswept Ukrainian steppes to frigid Siberia, this
convoluted love story boldly paints a dynamic masterpiece against
the backdrop of the most dramatic event of WWII.
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Black Gold Gray
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Richard David Rosenblatt, George Michael Crall
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Thrilling Action from WWII To Iraq Gripping saga based on the
actual lives of 8 outstanding West Point 1949 classmates who
survived WWII, the Gripping saga based on the composite actual
lives of 8 outstanding West Point 1949 classmates who survived
WWII, the Korean War, and Vietnam, and then went on a secret
mission in 2004. The action moves from Saudi Arabia to Iraq,
through Germany and into Paris, down to Morocco, and into the
Sahara. This expose reveals conspiracies in Washington, London, and
the Middle East and the reasons for American military involvement
in Iraq.
From an unmissable voice in epic fantasy comes a sweeping tale of
clashing guilds, magic-fueled machines, and revolution. The nation
of Torwyn is run on the power of industry, and industry is run by
the Guilds. Chief among them are the Hawkspurs, whose
responsibility it is to keep the gears of the empire turning.
That's exactly why matriarch Rosomon Hawkspur sends each of her
heirs to the far reaches of the nation. Conall, the eldest son, is
sent to the distant frontier to earn his stripes in the military.
It is here that he faces a threat he could have never seen coming:
the first rumblings of revolution. Tyreta is a sorceress with the
ability to channel the power of pyrestone, the magical resource
that fuels the empire's machines. She is sent to the mines to learn
more about how pyrsetone is harvested - but instead, she finds the
dark horrors of industry that the empire would prefer to keep
hidden. The youngest, Fulren, is a talented artificer and finds
himself acting as a guide to a mysterious foreign emissary. Soon
after, he is framed for a crime he never committed. A crime that
could start a war. As the Hawkspurs grapple with the many threats
that face the nation within and without, they must finally prove
themselves worthy-or their empire will fall apart. "A heady blend
of action, arcana, and intrigue." -Gareth Hanrahan, author of The
Gutter Prayer
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