Things They Carried more books like this

by T O'Brien

A collection of short story-like episodes about the lives of a group of footsoldiers in Vietnam: their present existence in the alien jungle, their childhoods, and their futures in America after the war is long over.

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War more books like this

by Max Brooks

Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody "The Zombie Survival Guide," tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world.

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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae more books like this

by Steven Pressfield

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as ...

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Black Ops more books like this

by W E B Griffin

The Russian bear is stirring--and it's hungry--in the thrilling fifth novel of the Presidential Agent series. Could sabers be rattling for a new Cold War--or worse? Lieutenant Colonel Charley Castillo is about to find out. (Men's Adventure)

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The English Assassin more books like this

by Daniel Silva

Israeli art restorer and secret agent Gabriel Allon travels to Zurich to restore a priceless painting for wealthy banker and collector Augustus Rolfe. When he arrives, he finds Rolfe murdered, and as he begins to investigate the death the plot quickly thickens--it seems that Rolfe had his own ties to Israeli intelligence.

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Kite Runner more books like this

by Khaled Hosseini

This epic novel is set in Afghanistan, beginning in the days of the monarchy and reaching to the early 21st century. Amir is the son of a wealthy man; his best friend is Hassan, the son of his father's servant. Growing up in Kabul, the two share an idyllic childhood until a traumatic event--and Amir's act of cowardly betrayal--changes the nature ...

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Catch-22 more books like this

by Joseph L Heller (Preface by)

Joseph Heller's manic, bleak, blackly humorous, and brilliant novel has become a classic of American literature, and "Catch-22" has entered the language as a term describing a no-win situation. Set during the last months of World War II, the novel tells the story of an Air Force bombardier, the hapless Yossarian, who is convinced--quite rightly, ...

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The Shooters more books like this

by W E B Griffin

After a key DEA agent is kidnapped by drug runners, Presidential Agent Castillo thinks there's no way he can get permission to rescue the man. But Castillo's wrong--the President himself orders Castillo to do anything it takes to rescue the agent. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

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A Long Long Way more books like this

by Sebastian Barry

Readers meet Willie Dunne when he is still a gifted boy growing up in Dublin and follow him--through a diary and letters home--into battle during World War II where he must shoulder the unending internal damages of the war along with the hatred of his own countrymen for fighting for Britain.

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Farewell to Arms more books like this

by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's second full-length novel, published in 1929, calls on his own experiences during World War I, when he worked for the Red Cross in Italy, was wounded after only six weeks on duty, and recuperated in a hospital in Milan, where he had a romance with a nurse. The blend of fact and imagination in A FAREWELL TO ARMS, however, is artful; ...

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Tree of Smoke more books like this

by Denis Johnson

From the author of "Jesus' Son" comes this long-awaited follow-up--a National Book Award-winning tale of two American families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam war.

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Sharpe's Enemy more books like this

by Bernard Cornwell

A band of renegades led by Sharpe's vicious enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, holds a group of British and French women hostage on a strategic mountain pass. Outnumbered and attacked from two sides, Sharpe must hold his ground or die in the attempt.

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Last Full Measure more books like this

by Jeff Shaara

Beginning with the Union ambush at Bristoe Station in October of 1863, this novel depicts Robert E. Lee's attempts to defend northern Virginia from General Grant's more powerful forces. The conclusion to the trilogy begun by the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning father, Michael.

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Killer Angels more books like this

by Michael Shaara

Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prizewinning 1974 novel describes the battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. The trilogy begun with THE KILLER ANGELS has been continued by Shaara's son Jeff with the novels GODS AND GENERALS and THE LAST FULL MEASURE.

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Death and Honor more books like this

by W E B Griffin, William E Butterworth, IV

In 1943, Argentina Marine pilot-turned-agent Cletus Frade is setting up an OSS-operated airline. But before Frade can get airborne, two German operations must be grounded. And for Frade--whose father had been killed by the Nazis--the mission is about to get personal.

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Secret Honor more books like this

by W E B Griffin

This installment in W.E.B. Griffin's best-selling historical thriller series pits World War II fighter pilot Cletus Howell Frade against the OSS and their search for a father/son team of assassins.

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Under Fire more books like this

by W E B Griffin

When war breaks out in Korea, a diverse group of Marine Corps combat veterans are called up with only 72 hours notice, and before they know it they're on the other side of the world engaged in life-or-death adventures.

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Special Ops more books like this

by W E B Griffin

An elite U.S. special forces team goes to the Congo to prevent a Che Guevara-backed Communist revolution. Griffin's novel is based on Guevara's actual attempt to infiltrate Africa.

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Counterattack more books like this

by W E B Griffin

The Marine Corps fought during the turmoil of World War II. From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to America's first counterstrike against the Japanese on the beaches of Guadalcanal, "The Corps" series takes the reader through the experiences of the Corps during the war.

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Berets more books like this

by W E B Griffin

The fifth volume in the "Brotherhood of War" series, continuing the interwoven stories of four United States soldiers. This volume follows the fortunes of the Special Forces in Vietnam. Other books in this series include "The Colonels", "The Majors", "The Captains" and "The Colonels".

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Last Heroes more books like this

by W E B Griffin

The first volume in "Men at War", Griffin's saga of battle and espionage, was originally published under the pen name Alex Baldwin. It tells the tale of the young elite members of the Office of Strategic Services and their delicate activities during World War II.

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To the Last Man: A Novel of the First World War more books like this

by Jeff Shaara

In this spellbinding new novel, the acclaimed "New York Times" bestselling author of "Rise to Rebellion" turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls more books like this

by Ernest Hemingway

In FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, published in 1940, Hemingway explores his own conflicting emotions about heroism, the futility of war, and the value of human life--a theme that is exemplified by the book's title, which is taken from the 17th-century poet John Donne's famous sermon that begins "No man is an island" and goes on to say one should not ask ...

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The Runner more books like this

by Christopher Reich

At the end of WWII Erich Seyss, former SS officer and Olympic sprinter, known as the 'White Lion', uses his skills as a trained killer and escapes from the American POW camp holding him. He finds refuge with a shadowy organisation of former Nazis who plan to use his expertise in a breathtaking plot - a conspiracy that could change the destiny of ...

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Polish officer more books like this

by Alan Furst

Alan Furst, widely acknowledged to be one of the best practitioners of the WWII espionage thriller, writes about an intelligence officer in the Polish underground. During the hard winter of 1939-1940, Captain Alexander de Milja is assigned the delicate task of getting the nation's gold reserve out of Warsaw and safely into hiding. Upon the ...

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