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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
Peter Leonard's jaw-dropping VOICES OF THE DEAD introduced us to
two mortal enemies: Holocaust survivor Harry Levin and Nazi death
angel Ernst Hess. Now, their struggle reaches its dramatic
conclusion in BACK FROM THE DEAD.Bahamas, 1971. Ernst Hess, missing
and presumed dead, regains consciousness to find himself stuck in a
hospital bed on a strange ward in a foreign country. He must do
what he needs to do to get his life back and to finish the job he
has been doing for decades.Harry believes he has already stopped
Hess. When he finds out that the war criminal has somehow survived,
Harry must do the only thing he can do - kill Hess again - even if
it means crossing continents and putting his life and the lives of
those that matter to him on the line.Action-packed and darkly
humorous, BACK FROM THE DEAD is the unforgettable conclusion to a
story that launches Peter Leonard into the pantheon of great
suspense novelists.
It is 1962, and the US Army Special Forces is expanding to confront
the communist challenge in Southeast Asia. Sergeant Jake Campbell
has come a long way from the sharecropper's house he grew up in
near Nickelsville, Virginia. Just three years ago, he and a friend
hitched a ride to Kingsport, Tennessee, and joined the army. Now he
is headed for training camp in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, unaware
that he is about to undergo the biggest challenge of his life.
Campbell immediately immerses himself in the Special Forces
training group, anxious to prove himself. He is expecting a tough
road ahead lined with mental and physical challenges, but soon
finds that he must also face bigotry and class discrimination.
Regardless, Campbell persists through pain, sweat, and blood and
soon earns a coveted spot with the Green Berets. Ordered on a
mission with First Sergeant William Booth-a man who has no love for
Campbell-to Laos to train Hmong soldiers to fight the CIA's secret
war, Campbell's idealistic view of the world is turned upside down
as he witnesses the ugly underbelly of unfettered power,
corruption, and injustice. In this fast-paced, action-packed
military thriller, one soldier must fight for his life in the
steamy Vietnamese jungles amidst murder, conspiracy, and a superior
who harbors a secret that, if revealed, will ruin him forever.
During World War II, Bernie Abraham is unfairly punished by his
anti-Semitic captain. The surprise Nazi attack captures him with
thousands of his division. He escapes to the Americans, who suspect
he's one of the spies they're catching and promptly shooting.
Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the
Holocaust as a series of letters between a Jew in America and his
German friend, Kressmann Taylor's classic novel is a haunting tale of a
society poisoned by Nazism.
First published in 1938, Address Unknown met with immediate success in
English but was banned in Europe by the Nazis. Tragically prescient
about what was to come, it was one of the earliest works of fiction to
warn against the growing dangers of fascism and antisemitism in Europe.
It became an international bestseller and has been translated into more
than twenty languages.
A novel of enduring impact with a memorable sting in its tail, Address
Unknown stands as a powerful reminder of the dangers posed by the
rhetoric of intolerance.
What if the world was faced with a terrorist's nuclear threat,
and there was no top secret agent with super-human, near-telepathic
abilities standing by? What if the best people for the job were
actually the laboratory scientists who had developed the
appropriate diagnostic equipment? What if the decision-makers were
bureaucrats who were possibly more concerned with their political
careers than they were with the actual outcome?
What if the bad guys weren't motivated by an evil desire to
control the world but by circumstance and the need to provide for
their families-and the device wasn't a globe-destroying hydrogen
bomb but a dusty, misplaced remnant of the Cold War?
In other words, what if the threat was real?
Guided to its termination by three distinctly different
ideologies, the convergence of a series of events culminates in
September, 1995, with six scientists sitting in silence deep within
the Parisian catacombs, staring at an armed rogue nuclear weapon.
With tens of thousands of lives hanging in the balance, they are
awaiting a decision from the Control Point-a decision that they are
increasingly beginning to fear might not come in time.
All heads turned as the device started to click.
In the uncertain days before a young America would be torn apart by
a war between the states, a small boy named Morgan Montgomery is
orphaned and sent to live with his mother's wealthy relatives. They
attend her funeral service and take the nine-year-old to live with
them and grow up on their large plantation near Columbia,
Tennessee.
As he begins to grow into manhood, tensions erupt to the boiling
point. And for one frightening year after war breaks out, Morgan
remains on the plantation, torn between his loyalty to his adopted
family and his duty as a Southern man. After much trepidation, he
decides to enlist in the Confederate army and ends up riding with
Nathan Bedford Forrest.
The story tells of the hardships and tribulations of the war,
and of his undying love for Charity, the young lady who helped
nurse him back to health after he was severely wounded near her
home in Mississippi. After the war's end, they are separated by
circumstance, and Morgan begins his quest to find her again.
Morgan, clinging desperately to the hope that he will find her,
travels to Texas. He works his way across the state, surviving any
way he can, hoping that his travels will reunite him with his lost
Charity.
Forty years ago during the Vietnam War, as a Navy SEAL team was
executing a daring mission deep inside enemy territory, they
watched a plane crash into the Cambodian jungle. Now, possessing
new intelligence that the plane contained South Vietnam's gold
bullion, retired SEAL Team Commander Jake Boucher re-assembles his
men to search for the gold. But riches are not the only thing
found. What Jake and his team discover may cost them their lives.
They find themselves targeted by two superpowers who will risk war
to silence them. A vast conspiracy is underway, and only Jake and
his men can stop it.if they survive.
"Battle Stations--Gun Action " Ensign Charley Jason, a Reserve
officer faces the searing experience of submarine warfare in the
Pacific. When a Fleet type submarine went to war in the Pacific it
operated mainly on the surface, attacking convoys at night, always
heavily escorted as well as single vessels, rescuing downed fliers
during intense air battles and shooting up enemy trawlers, junks,
fishing boats and sampans. Often it had to fight to rescue downed
pilots with the submarine at total risk during such daytime
actions.
This WW II novel revolves around the experience of a callow youth
destined to join the Fourth Infantry Division in Hrtgen Forest. The
narrative traces the bonded ties of six comrades in arms, three of
whom are killed and three wounded. Vividly detailed, the stressful
existence of Combat Infantrymen causes some men to break. What
helps those who see it through is their loyalty to one another,
called a "culture of caring" by their Chaplain. In Part I our
innocent recruits are sobered by incidental casualties on the way
up, which initiate them into the inconsequence of death. Part II
takes them into Hrtgen, a battle fought under continuous icy rain
in steep-hilled terrain favoring the well entrenched Germans.
Casualties often run over l00% of a Company's authorized strength.
Attacks are met by unrelenting artillery and mortar fire-machine
guns at close range. In a typical situation, our narrator covers a
Sergeant, who, after taking out a machine gun pinning the Company
down, is himself killed by a sniper. A hard-headed West Pointer
insists on night action, impossible in the Forest, and, after
stepping on a mine that takes his legs off, he rolls on another
that hits those nearby. General Patton called Hrtgen "an epic of
stark infantry combat." Part III deals with how, badly depleted in
numbers and morale, the men successfully withstand the
Breakthrough, thereby saving Luxembourg, a defense for which Patton
gave the Fourth a Unit Citation. In the concluding Part, the
narrator is wounded and put on limited assignment. He dislikes the
rear echelon life-style, guys being obsessed with whores, drinking,
stealing, and feasting, but he holds his peace and decides he'll
return to the world wherereality matters.
"Completing the mission, they have a chance to rescue, as Mickey
put it, "out of all the people we've eliminated somebody in
Washington had a hard on for, how many damsels in distress have we
run across?" "
JD Volt was assigned to room with Mickey Dix his senior year in
high school through junior college at a deep south military
academy. Their constant efforts to find ways to get away from the
academy to seek out members of the fair sex led them to join,
enroll and try out for any team that traveled; the rifle, drill and
football teams.
After graduation from junior college, they were approached by a
special forces officer to be inducted into an eighteen month
training regimen as a special forces sniper team. They spend the
next twenty on active duty and retire when a new regime moves into
the White house and immediately makes gay rights an issue in the
military.
An older gentleman clad in a rumpled three piece worsted suit
that reminded JD of the benevolent God, George Burns played in a
movie offers them contract employment to terminate with extreme
prejudice, a Colombian drug lord that both the U.S. and Colombian
Governments want removed with no one knowing exactly who did it as
reprisals against Colombian officials would be severe.
The Unrequited is an incredible story of the turbulent years of the
Indochina War seen through the multiple eyes of fictional French
and Vietnamese. They live the historical times at the end of the
Second World War through the decisive battle of Dien Bien Phu. In
this time of revolutionary change French colonials and legionaries
are pitted against the followers of Ho Chi Minh and General Giap.
Nguyen van Phan, a reporter in exile, leads his new family from a
rural village back to Ha Noi to report on the Vietnamese struggle
for independence. His wife Thi reluctantly follows. Lieutenant
Pasteur, a newly commissioned French Legionnaire seeking adventure,
is posted to Ha Noi as a platoon leader. An aging Doctor Ashtray
adbandons all hope of returning to France and cares for the few
remaining French civilians and the growing number of military
casualties. The oprhan Lao survives in the streets until he is
forcibly recruited by the Viet Minh. These lives and others are
interwoven in the threads of history, their viewpoints colored by
the past and the sights and sounds of the place and era that lead
them on seperate parallel journeys. Through the years of conflict,
they remain unrequited. Not for the faint of heart, this novel
portrays the grim face of war. History proved the period just the
first act of a much longer tragedy that might have been avoided if
America had learned the lesson of those years.
Transcendence is a dynamic science fiction story with a mix of
comic-book and Manga-type action all in one. Author Jared R. Teer
intelligently incorporates politics and social issues into the
storyline, along with a real time war in Iraq. When Darion Elmore,
a U.S. Army infantryman, meets his fate in the war torn streets of
Mosul, Iraq at the hand of a suicide bomber, he suddenly
materializes in Heaven at his Planetary Endowment (an entire planet
fashioned just for him-the reward of the faithful). Here he meets a
recruiter for the Host of Heaven, who informs him that one of his
teammates who survived the attack in Mosul is now in a comatose
state and being tormented by demonic forces. Darion decides to
forsake the pleasures of eternity for a time to join the Host and
combat the demonic forces on Earth and save his friend. Fantastic
action and adventure ensue. Readers will find themselves cheering
Darion on as he fights against evil to save his friend.
Transcendence's story can be seen as a metaphor for life and
choices that determine one's fate. It is a story about sacrifice
and finding one's higher purpose.
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