Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> War & Military

Lieutenant Sam Gatlin is back in Vietnam because he has something to prove--to himself. This time, Vietnam takes him deeper into the mysterious yin-yang of the society. From the opening events, there are betrayals, spies, hidden secrets and the beginning of questions--of the meaning of war, of loyalty, of death and love--that Sam might finally understand by the surprising end of the novel. War as the Conradian heart of darkness and life in Vietnam as seen through a Greene-like quiet American. Full of rich characters, multi-cultural soldiers and civilians---and with a protagonist bent, against...

North Carolina, 1917. Charlie Newell lives a quiet life farming as a sharecropper under the hot Southern sun and living in the Negro settlement of Holly Ridge. Even though the world is engaged in the Great War, Charlie's religion forbids him from fighting. He and other Negroes from the community have registered as conscientious objectors, but the U.S. Army ignores their stance and forces them into the service.

Once Charlie begins his duties as a soldier, the trouble starts. Racial slurs, insults, and even physical abuse hound him, and he longs to return to his farm. His religious beliefs...

Vietnam, 1968. The start of Tet, the lunar new year, is only weeks away. The new year will bring the Year of the Monkey, and soon the lives of four people will collide.

Marine Sergeant Michael Warner. After barely surviving his first tour of duty in Vietnam, the tough Marine has just returned. Warner has all the reasons in the world not to come back-but they only matter to him.

Frank Monin. As regional supervisor for the CIA, Monin has been in Vietnam for more than five years. Now Monin has a mission to implement the Agency's newest plan to eliminate the Viet Cong infrastructure-and he...

Sergeant Major Lucas Grant should have retired. Instead, he joined the National Guard. The Guard stands ready to provide humanitarian relief wherever they may be sent, but they never expected anything like Darfur. Grant finds himself in another shooting war, worse than anything he has known before. Islamic extremists want the country for Arab Muslims. The Sudanese Liberation Army wants it for African Muslims, and both sides want the Americans out.

Based on current events in Darfur, American soldiers face the perils of helping the people no one cares about, and keeping each other alive...

At the head of the Grande Armee march the Hussars of Conflans-and leading them is Brigadier Gerard
These are the adventures of Conan Doyle's incomparable French hero-the finest swordsman in the Light Cavalry-Etienne Gerard. Arranged for the first time in historical chronological order, his many enthusiasts can now properly appreciate his colourful career as he fights, loves and blunders his way through the Napoleonic epoch-from his earliest adventure as a young blade determined to reach his lady love despite the unwelcome attention of her fathers bull-through many campaigns and special...

Set during the turbulent era of the VietnamWar, "Counters" is a quirky, thrilling story ofair combat and of the young fighter pilotswho blend the harsh reality of war withyouth's untamed urges.

As the pilot of a sleek F-4C Phantom II, self-doubting Lieutenant Steve Mylder fightsfor his life in the skies above Vietnam in1967 but battles for his soul against theRed Baron of his imagination. His cockyfriend Avery-womanizer and master ofthe art of combat seduction-thunders fiftyfeet over a North Vietnamese beach, looksdown, locks eyes with an improbable woman, and falls into hopeless...

The heroic image of Churchill leading the Allies to victory in World War II is turned on its head when Hitler gains air supremacy, to inflict an ignominious defeat on his sworn enemy. Shocked and humiliated, Churchill is forced to seek American assistance to drive the Germans out. Can Churchill convince the Americans to intervene? Will Churchill overcome formidable opposition and be able to return home victorious? Indeed, will he return at all? In this gripping new thriller, fact and fiction are welded together, stretching the imagination into a surprising outcome. If you have ever asked...

Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC was one of the boldest mountain military operations of the Second Punic War, if not the entire ancient world. A master of warfare, he remains an enigmatic figure known mainly from descriptions written by his adversaries.

In this unique work of fiction, Hannibal, a Carthaginian, member of a North African banking family and the son of a famous general, is accurately depicted as a strong leader who spent his entire life fighting the Romans. His restless, investigative mind, along with a deep love and appreciation of Greek culture, was nurtured into the...

Hannibal's invasion of Italia in 218 BC was one of the boldest mountain military operations of the Second Punic War, if not the entire ancient world. A master of warfare, he remains an enigmatic figure known mainly from descriptions written by his adversaries.

In this unique work of fiction, Hannibal, a Carthaginian, member of a North African banking family and the son of a famous general, is accurately depicted as a strong leader who spent his entire life fighting the Romans. His restless, investigative mind, along with a deep love and appreciation of Greek culture, was nurtured into the...

After the British military lose an officer to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, a desperate race begins to find his killers. Little do the assailants know that the precious information they have stolen could bring down the entire network of Western intelligence in the Mid-East. But then one of them is captured by US troops and flown to the States for interrogation.
And so begins a nail-biting, claustrophobic and explosive thriller that will ultimately lead British operative John Stratton to the Styx penitentiary, America's undersea prison. How do you break in to a jail a hundred metres...

'I have written this book in the sincere hope that young African-Americans will read of Landsman Wilson Brown's heroics and one day be inspired to write about some other little known African-American United States Naval hero, so that our impressive history as a people of struggle can be eventually freed from the prison of international historical obscurity.' -Brandon Astor Jones

Brandon Astor Jones is a remarkable person. He had only a very spotty education, not finishing the eighth grade. As a young man he became involved in a burglary/robbery that ended in a fatal shooting. He was...

A dramatic account of one young man's coming of age in the time of the American Revolution. On the high seas, in England and in France, on the sugar islands of the Caribbean and in battle, Richard Cutler proves his mettle time after time. He even wins the love of a beautiful English rose - from the arms of Horatio Nelson himself.

Forty years after his own time serving in Vietnam, Gabriel Sauers grapples with an action on the verge of his grandson Seth's deployment to Iraq that will change both their lives forever.

Ms Rinehart is considered to be the American equivalent of Agatha Christie. She is the author of the phrase "the butler did it." Rinehart has written hundreds of short stories, plays, travelogues and special interest articles. The Case of Jenny Brice setting is a boarding house in a poor section of Pittsburgh. A flood hampers the detective case. Miss Pitman is a convincing amateur detective. She is convinced that a murder has taken place in her home. After all she had just found a broken knife, a blood stained rope and a bloody towel. The police are no help since there is no body. Miss...

First published in 1950, 'Operation Heartbreak' is a story of why men go to war, it is also a heart-wrenching love story. The afterword to this Persephone edition is by the military historian Max Arthur.