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Vendor: Odie Lindsey
We Come to Our Senses: Stories
Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story "Evie M." is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her suicide; in...- $16.95
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Vendor: Patrick O'Brian
The Letter of Marque
Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-captains for a crime he did not commit. His old friend Stephen Maturin, usually cast as a ship's surgeon to mask his discreet activities on behalf of British Intelligence,...- $24.00
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So Speaks the Heart
Born a wealthy French heiress but betrayed into bondage, Brigitte de Louroux swears she will never be any man's slave.Rugged and powerful Rowland of Montville sees only a beautiful enchantress in peasant's rags -- a wench to serve his every need. Defenseless against his...- $8.99
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Vendor: George Eliot
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe
Author: George EliotISBN-10: 037575749XISBN-13: 9780375757495Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)Language: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2001Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.26w x 0.51dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 9.7Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 718 / Silas Marner- $9.00
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Vendor: Giles Foden
Ladysmith
From the author of the Whitbread Award--winning The Last King of Scotland, comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman who finds love and freedom in the midst of a devastating war. The year is 1899,...- $15.95
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Vendor: William Boyd
An Ice-Cream War
"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." --The New York Times Book Review Booker Prize Finalist "Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of his] first novel. . . . He is...- $16.95
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Vendor: Ha Jin
Ocean of Words: Stories
Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award The place is the chilly border between Russia and China. The time is the early 1970s when the two giants were poised on the brink of war. And the characters in this thrilling collection of stories are Chinese soldiers...- $17.00
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Vendor: David Kirk
Sword of Honor
Samurai Musashi Miyamoto may have survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, but not without making enemies among the Yoshioka school of warriors. The second Musashi shows his face in Kyoto, he knows they will do everything in their power to make good on their...- $17.00
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Vendor: Harry Turtledove
Last Orders (the War That Came Early, Book Six)
History is changed by one small act. In an extraordinary saga of nations locked in war, master storyteller Harry Turtledove examines a very different World War II--one which erupts eleven months earlier, and over Czechoslovakia rather than Poland. Now comes the final installment in...- $18.00
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The Man with the Iron Heart
What if V-E Day hadn't ended World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance? Such a movement, based in the fabled Alpine Redoubt, was in fact a real threat, ultimately neutralized by...- $18.00
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Vendor: Jeff Shaara
No Less Than Victory: A Novel of World War II
After the success at Normandy, the Allied commanders are confident that the war in Europe will soon be over. But in December 1944, in the Ardennes Forest, the Germans launch a ruthless counteroffensive that begins the Battle of the Bulge--the last gasp by Hitler's...- $18.00
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Vendor: Robert Conroy
1945
America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . . In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable...- $19.00
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Vendor: Harry Turtledove
West and East (The War That Came Early, Book Two)
What if British prime minister Neville Chamberlain had defied Hitler? What if the Munich Accord had gone unsigned, and Nazi Germany had launched its bid for conquest sooner? How would World War II have unfolded--and with what consequences? Dean of alternate history Harry Turtledove...- $20.00
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Hitler's War (The War That Came Early, Book One)
A stroke of the pen and history is changed. In 1938, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, determined to avoid war, signed the Munich Accord, ceding part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler. But the following spring, Hitler snatched the rest of that country, and England, after...- $21.00
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Vendor: Leonard B. Scott
The Hill
Many good men would die, or survive forever scarred, in the fight for Hill 875 Ty is the grunt. The point man for his platoon with the uncanny instincts to see, hear, and smell out the hidden enemy. Jason is the favored one. The...- $19.00
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Vendor: David Gemmell
Troy: Shield of Thunder
The Sunday Times bestselling author David Gemmell brings the myth and legend of Troy to life in this epic story filled with triumph and tragedy. Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow, Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden. "This is how the oldest tales should be...- $20.00
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Vendor: Ian Slater
Wwiii: Force Of Arms: A Novel
Three Chinese armies swarmed across the trace, with T-59s providing covering fire. The Chinese armor, T-60 tanks 85mm guns and 90,000 PLA regulars rush in. Through the downpour the American A-10 Thurnderbolts came in low, their RAU-B Avenger 30mm seven-barreled rotary cannon spitting out...- $19.00
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Vendor: Jeff Shaara
The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II
General Dwight Eisenhower commands a diverse army that must destroy Hitler's European fortress. On the coast of France, German commander Erwin Rommel prepares for the coming invasion, as the F hrer thwarts the strategies Rommel knows will succeed. Meanwhile, Sergeant Jesse Adams, a veteran...- $9.99
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Vendor: Anne Perry
We Shall Not Sleep
Anne Perry's magnificent Victorian mysteries established her as one of the world's best known and loved historical novelists. Now, in her vividly imagined World War I novels, Perry's talents "have taken a quantum leap" (The Star-Ledger), and so has the number of her devoted...- $17.00
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Vendor: Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories
Oxford offers the most generously annotated edition of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), a vivid psychological account of a young man's experience fighting in the American Civil War based on Crane's reading of popular descriptions of battle. This volume also includes the short...- $8.94
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Vendor: Heriberto Fr?s
The Battle of Tomochic: Memoirs of a Second Lieutenant
Tomochic is a controversial and celebrated example of Mexican fiction. Tomochic is the fictional narration of the 1892 military campaign that resulted in the massacre of the small village of Tomochic, located in the Tarahumara mountains and ordered by the dictatorial regime of Porfirio...- $17.99
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Vendor: Thomas Keneally
Season in Purgatory
During World War II, David Pelham, a young British surgeon, parachutes into Yugoslavia and sets up a hospital to aid Tito's army. There he meets--and loves--the fiery Moja Javich, a resourceful partisan. Their love gives Pelham the strength to endure the atrocities of war...- $16.95
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Vendor: Amos Oz
Elsewhere, Perhaps
"A generous imagination at work. [Oz's] language, for all of its sensuous imagery, has a careful and wise simplicity." --New York Times Book ReviewSituated only two miles from a hostile border, Amos Oz's fictional community of Metsudat Ram is a microcosm of the Israeli...- $18.95
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Vendor: André Brink
The Other Side of Silence
With years of abuse behind her and a bleak future ahead, a young German woman dreams of her country's colony in South-West Africa. When she learns of the women being transported to the colony to attend to the needs of male settlers, Hanna X...- $17.99
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Vendor: Mark Lee
The Canal House
Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he's seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins to see the world in a...- $17.99
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Vendor: Paolo Giordano
The Human Body
From the author of Heaven and Earth, a searing novel of the journey from youth into manhood A heartrending, at times darkly comic but ultimately redemptive novel, Paolo Giordano's The Human Body is an exploration of brotherhood and family, of modern war and the...- $16.00
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Vendor: Sebastian Barry
The Temporary Gentleman
A stunning new novel from the two-time Man Booker shortlisted author of The Secret Scripture. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, A Thousand Moons, is now available. Irishman Jack McNulty is a "temporary gentleman"--an Irishman whose commission in the British army in World War II was...- $17.00
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Vendor: Anthony Riches
Empire I: Wounds of Honour
'A master of the genre' The Times Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure...- $12.99
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Vendor: Evelyn Waugh
Sword of Honor
This trilogy spanning World War II, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers...- $55.00
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Men at Arms
"An eminently readable comedy of modern war" (New York Times), Men at Arms is the first novel in Evelyn Waugh's brilliant Sword of Honor trilogy. Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits...- $29.99
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The Beardless Warriors
In 1944, long before he wrote such classic novels as I Am Legend and What Dreams May Come, author Richard Matheson served as an eighteen-year-old replacement in the 87th Division during the latter part of the war in Europe. His tour of duty there...- $17.99
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Vendor: James Brady
Warning of War: A Novel of the North China Marines
The New York Times Bestselling Author of The Marines of Autumn Late November of 1941. Half the world is at war and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce...- $22.99
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No One Thinks of Greenland
You'll want to scratch. These spoken words open to us the strange and beguiling world of young Rudy Spruance, forced to join the military due to a mysterious past, and sent for some inexplicable reason to a top-secret military hospital in Greenland. There he...- $23.00
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Vendor: Lea Carpenter
Eleven Days
An NPR Great Read of 2013This stunning debut novel opens in May 2011, when Sara's son, Jason, has been missing for nine days following a Special Operations Forces mission that took place the same night as the bin Laden raid. Knowing nothing more about...- $15.95
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Vendor: Stephen Harrigan
Remember Ben Clayton
Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best American Historical Fiction Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, but bad fortune and pride have driven him and his long-suffering daughter Maureen into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I....- $16.95
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Vendor: Ford Madox Ford
Parade's End
Ford Madox Ford's masterpiece, a tetralogy set in England during World War I, is widely considered one of the best novels of the twentieth century. First published as four separate novels (Some Do Not . . ., No More Parades, A Man Could Stand...- $23.00
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Vendor: Dan Fesperman
The Arms Maker of Berlin
An unflinching thriller that takes us deep into the White Rose resistance movement during World War II. - "Compelling...nonstop action." --The Baltimore Sun When Nat Turnbull's mentor, Gordon Wolfe, is arrested for possession of a missing WWII secret service archive and then turns up...- $18.00
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Vendor: Richard Bausch
Peace
This "small masterpiece with the same emotional force and moral complexity as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Tolstoy's Hadji Murad" (Colm Tb匤) inspired the film Recon. Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by...- $15.00
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Vendor: Pat Barker
Toby's Room
A masterfully written World War I-era novel about the secrets between a brother and sister, from the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration Trilogy. It is 1917, and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves...- $15.95
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Day
Funny and moving, wise and sad, this "imaginative tour de force" (The San Diego Union-Tribune) charts the intensity and courage found in a former World War II POW as he looks back on the closeness of death, from one of Britain's most iconoclastic and...- $14.95
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Vendor: Henning Mankell
Depths
From the dean of Scandinavian noir and internationally bestselling author, Henning Mankell, comes a lyrical and evocative novel about a Swedish naval engineer during World War I and his devastating plunge into obsession. In 1914 Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is covertly measuring the depths of Swedish...- $16.95
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Devil's Dream
A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his...- $15.95
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Vendor: Ahmadou Kourouma
Allah Is Not Obliged
ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of the boy soldier Birahima in the final masterpiece by one of Africa's most celebrated writers, Ahmadou Kourouma. When ten-year-old Birahima's mother dies, he leaves...- $19.00
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Vendor: Gore Vidal
Williwaw
Author: Gore VidalISBN-10: 0226855856ISBN-13: 9780226855851Publisher: University of Chicago PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2003Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.90h x 7.12w x 0.54d- $28.00
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Death of a Hero
One of the great World War I antiwar novels--honest, chilling, and brilliantly satirical Based on the author's experiences on the Western Front, Richard Aldington's first novel, Death of a Hero, finally joins the ranks of Penguin Classics. Our hero is George Winterbourne, who enlists...- $22.00
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The Penguin Book of First World War Stories
An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war and after its end. These stories are able to illustrate the impact of the Great War on British society and culture and the...- $20.00
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The Gates of the Alamo
A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history--The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to...- $17.00
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Vendor: Meg Waite Clayton
The Race for Paris
National BestsellerDavid J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction, Honorary Mention for 2015The New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters returns with a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race...- $18.99
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Vendor: Dale Brown
Starfire
New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown--"the best military writer in the country" (Clive Cussler)--is back with Starfire, a masterful military thriller that explores a future all too possible and all too close: the weaponization of space.With the death of his heroic father, bomber...- $27.99
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Guerilla: The Makaum War: Book Two
The second installment of the Markaum War series by Mel Odom takes these military sci-fi books to the next level, perfect for readers of Jay Allan's Crimson Worlds novels.He's behind enemy lines. But those lines are shifting beneath his feet.In the jungles of Makaum,...- $7.99
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Fiction War Military Books
Fiction war military books encompass a wide range of literary works centered around the theme of war and military-related events. These collections are often curated to provide readers with engaging and imaginative stories that delve into the complex world of warfare, providing insights into the experiences, challenges, and triumphs of soldiers and military personnel. These books typically focus on fictional narratives set within various historical time periods, covering conflicts such as World War I and II, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and others. They may also explore fictional future or alternative worlds where military conflicts take place.
One of the key aspects of these collections is their ability to transport readers into the heart of the action, presenting vividly detailed accounts of battles, strategies, and the mental and emotional stresses experienced by soldiers on the front lines. Through these stories, readers can gain a deeper understanding of the human impact of war and the sacrifices made by those who serve. Additionally, fiction war military books often delve into themes such as courage, loyalty, sacrifice, leadership, and the moral complexities of war. They can also provide readers with insights into the politics, tactics, and technological advancements of warfare, as well as the logistical challenges faced by military organizations.
Authors who specialize in crafting military fiction often undertake extensive research to ensure accuracy in their descriptions of military operations, weaponry, and historical events. This attention to detail helps to immerse readers in a realistic and authentic reading experience.
Within the genre, readers can find various sub-genres and themes, including historical war fiction, military thrillers, science fiction war novels, and even romance intertwined with war narratives. This wide range allows for readers to explore different aspects of the military genre and find stories that cater to their specific interests.
Popular Fiction War Military Books
The genre of war military books has always captivated readers with its thrilling and compelling narratives set against the backdrop of conflict and the bravery of soldiers. Within this genre, there are several popular books that have won the hearts of readers worldwide. Here are some noteworthy books from the fiction war military books collection:
1. "The Thin Red Line"
2. "All Quiet on the Western Front"
3. "The Hunt for Red October"
4. "The Killer Angels"
5. "The Yellow Birds"
These are just a few examples of the popular fiction war military books that have captivated readers over the years. Each of these books offers a unique perspective on the human experience of war, utilizing compelling storytelling and vivid imagery to transport readers into the battlefield. Whether exploring historical conflicts or envisioning future wars, these books continue to impact readers and remind us of the sacrifices made by those who serve.
Known Fiction War Military Book Authors
The genre of fiction war military books has captivated readers for decades, providing an intriguing blend of thrilling action, historical context, and compelling characters. Within this genre, several authors have risen to fame and become beloved by readers from all walks of life. These popular authors have crafted literary masterpieces that transport readers to the front lines of epic battles, exploring the emotional turmoil of war and the resilience of the human spirit. Let's delve into the works of some of the most celebrated authors of fiction war military books.
1. Tom Clancy
2. Stephen Coonts
3. Bernard Cornwell
4. Vince Flynn
5. Brad Thor
These authors' contributions to the world of fiction war military books have left an indelible mark on readers worldwide. Their ability to blend real-world military knowledge with gripping storytelling has made them revered figures in the genre. Whether it's Tom Clancy's intricate political thrillers, Bernard Cornwell's historical battlefield epics, or the high-stakes adventures of characters like Jake Grafton, Richard Sharpe, Mitch Rapp, or Scot Harvath, these authors showcase the power of fiction to shed light on the experiences of those involved in war and military operations.