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1) Under fire
Set in early 1916, Under Fire follows the point of view of an unnamed foot soldier in a squad of French volunteers on the western front. It combines soaring, poetic descriptions with the mundane, messy, human reality of soldiers living in their own filth. Gradually, names and features...
White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother—their father had died years before—and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates
...Mr. Britling considers himself an optimist. But as the Great War begins, he finds himself forced to reassess many of the things he thought he was sure of.
As refugees from Belgium arrive in the town of Matching’s Easy, telling frightening tales of what they have...
When England calls, Richard Hannay answers. Not yet forty and already a brigadier general, he has led the charge into some of the fiercest fighting of World War I: Loos, the Somme, Arras. There is no telling how far up the ranks he might climb if only the Foreign Office would stop taking him off the front lines for cloak and dagger work....
In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment.
Soon enough, he finds himself on the front lines in the Second World War, from France to the Western Desert, from the D-Day beaches to Nazi Germany.
The time of cavalrymen has long since passed, but Josh
...6) Wynne's war
8) One of ours
9) Operation XD
If an officer wants to talk, something's usually wrong. Plucked from his unit, Eddie Dawson knows trouble awaits.
The Netherlands is under Nazi invasion from land and sea. Amsterdam is besieged. But the Nazis aren't interested only in conquest; they want the enormous Dutch oil reserves for their war effort.
Soon Dawson understands what game is afoot: he's an explosives expert,
...Red Ice takes place in Japan’s Honshu...
This provocative alternative history looks at WWII from a new angle—what might have happened had the Germans taken Moscow in 1941.
Based on authentic history and real possibilities, this unique speculative narrative plays out the dramatic and grotesque consequences of a Third Reich triumphant. In this terrifyingly plausible scenario, the Germans fight their way into the ruins of Moscow on September 30th, 1941—and the Soviet
15) The Interceptors
1919. Martin Falconer, a veteran airman while still in his teens and now adjusting to peacetime, is asked to go to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks. His answer? 'Try and stop me.'
The Great War had taken away much of Martin's idealism, shown him the gruesome realities of battle. But the Russia of 1919, a chaotic, desperate country, shows him another
...16) The Victors
Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped prisoners of war weren't generally allowed to return to the front, but Martin pestered the authorities and, at last, found himself back in France.
But the character of the war was changing. Everyone had suddenly become efficiency-conscious, and the freedom of choice which he had valued
...It is the summer of 1904 and Tsar Nicholas II is sending his Baltic fleet – a ragtag bunch of old crooks, untrained, potentially mutinous crews and hopelessly inefficient officers – halfway around the world to reinforce his few remaining ships in the Far East. Here the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo has been scoring success after success
...19) Blue stars
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