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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
As the Doomsday Clock inches closer to midnight, ten men sit at
a meetings table underground and prepare to launch a nuclear attack
against the world. With a goal of using missiles to scourge the
earth of unbelievers, the men all agree that whatever happens from
this point on us the will of God. As their evil plan falls into
place, no one in the United States has any idea in just two weeks,
their nation will be destroyed.
From a bunker deep beneath Jerusalem, the order comes to attack
and everything changes in an instant. As mushroom clouds hang over
Israel, Mike; his wife, Brie; and their daughter Claire watch the
news in their San Diego home-unaware that in a matter of hours,
they too will be on a perilous quest for survival. As the gates of
hell openup and obliterate everything around them, Mike his family,
and a few other survivorshave no choice but to steal across the
border into Mexico, beginning an odyssey of violence and death that
leads them straight to a small island in the Gulf of Cortez.
In this gipping tale with unanitcipated twist and turn, Mike and
his family embark on a dangerous journey to find a batter life and
soon discover that they will do anything to stay alive.
Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There, they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters who come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.
When Frank Barrett meets Ramsay Davis at Ft. Walton Beach,
Florida, he begins the next chapter of his life and marries her,
quickly finding himself deeply in love and committed to his wife.
But Frank must leave Ramsay behind when he reports for duty as a
pilot in the US Air Force in December of 1970.
When Frank-nicknamed "Bee Sting" Barrett in the service-returns
home to Florida as an ace captain, tragedy strikes. He is a witness
as his beloved, pregnant wife is killed by a drug runner named
Little Eddy. Revenge ravages Frank and compels him to pursue the
man to Panama. Driven by grief and rage, he commits an unspeakable
act, leaving Little Eddy for dead. Frank then returns to Florida to
train for a second tour in Vietnam-only to see Eddy show up as
well. Eddy is a loose cannon and the Mafia wants him dead, but he
may get to Frank before they find him.
A story of love, loss, and revenge that travels from Florida to
Panama and Southeast Asia, "Hollow Vengeance" follows Frank as he
tries to find peace and get retribution for his wife's death-a
quest that involves the trenches of the Mafia's drug ring in
Tampa.
The thrilling new book from Sheila Riley in her Liverpool Saga
series 1916 LIVERPOOL Following the death of her father, Ruby
Swift, and husband Archie finally move back into Ashland Hall. As
the Great War rages, fathers and sons take the King's Shilling and
head off to fight the unknown enemy, not knowing what horrors lie
ahead. With Ned Kincaid in the Navy, Archie signs up to the
volunteer constabulary and nurses Anna Cassidy and Ellie Harrington
enlist to do their bit for King and Country. Soon the true
casualties of war are being brought home in droves, Ruby converts
Ashland Hall into an auxiliary hospital for wounded servicemen.
It's not long before the true cost of war is brought closer to home
and Anna and Ellie enlist in the British Military Nursing Corp and
soon find themselves in the battlefields of France in search of the
truth. But they soon discover more than they bargained for...
Praise for Sheila Riley: 'A powerful and totally absorbing family
saga that is not to be missed. I turned the pages almost faster
than I could read.' Carol Rivers 'A fabulous story of twists and
turns - a totally unputdownable, page turner that had me cheering
on the characters. I loved it!' Rosie Hendry 'A thoroughly
enjoyable, powerful novel' Lyn Andrews 'An enchanting, warm and
deeply touching story' Cathy Sharp 'Vivid, compelling and full of
heart. Sheila is a natural-born storyteller.' Kate Thompson 'This
author knows the Liverpool she writes about; masterly storytelling
from a true Mersey Mistress.' Lizzie Lane
Over two and a half million Americans served in the Vietnam War. Of
those who served, 58,148 gave their lives. Tyler Taylor is a
complex and angry young man who drops out of college after he is
kicked off the USC football team. His life is falling apart, his
parents are separated, and he is in pain and has lost interest in
nearly everything. Almost immediately, though, he is drafted into
the army. Once in the army, he begins to see his life in a new
light, particularly after experiencing the horrors of combat in the
Vietnam War. Tyler and his two friends, John Raab and Mike Petrov,
go from basic training to medical studies and into the airborne.
Each of them comes from a different background, but they form a
friendship that is united by their shared experience of war. They
quickly learn how to be soldiers and in the process discover their
own identities. His transformation from a troubled, angry youth
continues when he meets Maggie in Australia while on R&R. Now
all he has to do survive the jungles of the Vietnam War, so that he
can return to the love that he has been missing in his life.
Gregg Thompson doesn't plan on going to war, but that quickly
changes when he's drafted and sent to Vietnam. The young private
finds that he's a fine soldier, but the military values him even
more for his strategic thinking and smarts. He's promoted to
captain and becomes a lawyer, defending the innocent and
prosecuting war criminals. Thompson becomes a critical player in
cases that reflect the social issues and problems affecting not
only the military but the entire country including desertion, rape,
armed robbery, conscientious objectors and much more. Justice is
not always easy to interpret. When two soldiers get in a fight and
an onlooker kills one of the fighters, it's up to Thompson to get a
murder conviction. Other tough cases include a war hero who goes
AWOL in Vietnam, a decorated major accused of selling high-ticket
items on the black market and a soldier who disobeys an order that
doesn't make much sense in the context of jungle warfare. Victories
are not always won on the field of battle. Follow a master lawyer
as he seeks justice in Boots and the Law, a portrait of American
life during Vietnam.
History comes alive in God's Perfect Scar. A survivor of the 1944
Warsaw Uprising finds himself in Auschwitz, working with a woman
prisoner to plan and implement a harrowing mass escape. A former
Polish lancer turned airborne trooper turned English instructor at
the University of Warsaw finds himself targeted by the
Kremlin-controlled secret police. Two brothers find themselves
conscripted by a pair of ambitious rulers, each itching to fire the
first shot in a war that will ensnare soldiers and nurses from
America, Britain, New Zealand and Korea. An American priest, a
former World War II chaplain, finds himself playing street soccer
in Rome and plotting a rescue in Warsaw. Bullets and shrapnel leave
lasting scars - as do polio, treachery and guilt. Painstakingly
researched, God's Perfect Scar is the story of ordinary people
swept up in extraordinary, history-changing upheavals, contending
with unrelenting stresses and making life-altering choices. During
his research, Johnson learned about Aline Gartner, lost in the
mists of time and history. In the pages of God's Perfect Scar, he
"brings back to life" this remarkably courageous woman. From
Auschwitz to Cracow to Warsaw, London, Moscow, Beijing, Kaesong,
Seoul and small town America, God's Perfect Scar takes readers on a
journey that provides a different and broader perspective on major
happenings that have been shaping history for the last 60 years. As
with Johnson's earlier works, Warrior Priest and Fate of the
Warriors, the pacing in God's Perfect Scar is brisk, the tension
palpable and the outcomes unpredictable.
ADOLF HITLER IS DEAD AND IT'S ONLY 1943
Hermann Goering, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Martin
Bormann are also dead. And the leader of the assassination plot,
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, is the new Chancellor of
Germany.
Stauffenberg unleashes Germany's wonder weapons, the
Messerschmitt 262 jet fighter, the Arado 234 Blitz Bomber, and the
Type 21 super submarine. But it may be too late. The massive Soviet
army is marching relentlessly to the west. And the Americans and
British are bombing Germany day and night, wrecking its war
machine, killing hundreds of thousands, and paving the way for an
invasion in 1944.
Germany is running out of time. But it still has one super
weapon left, and that's the atomic bomb, originally approved by
Hitler in 1934 but abandoned by him in 1940. Professor Werner
Heisenberg and his team of nuclear scientists, now decimated by
Hitler's anti-Jewish hysteria, are Germany's only hope.
Can Germany snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by unlocking
the secrets of the atomic bomb before the scientists of the
Manhattan Project? Can this terrible weapon be used against the
Americans and the British to force them out of the war, and then
smash the Soviet Union? Can Hitler's dream of a thousand-year Reich
be achieved even as his ashes lie at the bottom of a lake on the
outskirts of Berlin?
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