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Katrina Nannestad
Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old…
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Claire Kilroy
An urgent, memorable, gut-wrenching novel aboutmotherhood, creativity and identity which is sure to get people talking.
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T. Kingfisher
A hair-raising standalone sequel to the bestselling and award-winning novella What Moves the Dead. Alex Easton returns to their home country of Gallacia, only to be confronted by a strange…
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Dr Stephen Bull
This illustrated study pits the Kaiser's troops against their British opponents during the climactic year of 1918 on the Western Front.
David Greentree
Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942.
What is the role of a soldier at the end of war, when either victory or defeat is inevitable? This book delves into that question, exploring how the military and…
John F Morris
An expansive study of the brutal rites of initiation at elite institutions that shaped young men into military leaders Informed by his own experience as a cadet at West Point…
Dave Cullen
Anjet Daanje
An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination.
Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost…
Tegen Evans
Discover the secrets of the Roman Army in this fascinating gift book for budding historians. What was a Roman legion? How exactly did soldiers train for battle? And why did…
Owain Mulligan
A searingly honest and darkly funny account of what it was really like being in the British Army in Iraq (including all the bits they probably hoped you'd never find…
Jennifer Ngaire Heuer
A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolution
The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century…
Diana Palmer, Delores Fossen
BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTION Reader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors. The Winter Soldier by New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer
Just about everyone in town steered clear…
Mackenzi Lee
In the third book from New York Times best-selling author Mackenzi Lee in Marvel's Rebel and Renegade series, she explores Bucky Barnes-also known as the Winter Soldier.
1954: The Winter…
Ash Alexander-Cooper, Dr Jessica K. Miller
A must-read for anyone seeking to adapt, learn and thrive in the face of adversity
Steve Lyons
Fantastic collection bringing together 3 great Astra Militarum novels.
William Henry Corbusier
Army surgeon, ethnographer, and writer William Henry Corbusier (1844-1930) witnessed the transformation of the United States from young republic to world power. In Soldier, Surgeon, Scholar, the retired army officer…
Robert Scott Davis
George Washington Lee's story, Guarding the Gate City, has been called the great untold epic of the Civil War. His campaigns stretched from Atlanta to Pensacola to Savannah and Richmond…
Robert Thobaben
Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on…
Jim Zub
The Winter Soldier leads a new team of Thunderbolts! Out of the ashes of Avengers: Standoff, Bucky Barnes recruits a squad of renegades - but are they heroes or villains…
Anna-Claire Stinebring, Salman Toor
New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by curator Anna-Claire Stinebring paired with a contribution by artist Salman Toor.
Thomas Fischer
Unparalleled research on the most elite military formation in the German war machine.
Charles Glass
A personal history of the friendship between the great war poets, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, 'Soldiers Don't Go Mad' tells the story of psychiatry, the traumatic effects of war…
Ed Brubaker, Rick Remender, Kyle Higgins
The now-legendary story of Bucky Barnes' return, and his career as the Winter Soldier!
For years, Captain America mourned the loss of his wartime partner, Bucky. But when a lethal…
Takahiro
The subjugation team may have successfully rescued the kidnapped women, but that means inciting the wrath of one of the Eight Thunder Gods! When a seething Kuusetsu appears on Yuuki's…
Michael P Jasinski
Serfs, Soldiers, Citizens argues that democracies do not have monopoly on qualities or policies necessary to ensure high effectiveness in a military conflict. Under certain conditions, autocracies can have pronounced…
Kevin Gelinas
Frontier Soldiers of New France Volume 2 explores the evolution of the French colonial troops' campaign attire and equipment adapted for North America's demanding climate and terrain, integrating European military…
Fabian Nicieza, Jim Krueger
The true history of Cable is revealed as the chronicling of the early days of X-Force continues!
The true history of Cable is revealed as the chronicling of the early…
Following the battle at Yokohama, Yuuki gets some well-deserved rest and of course, a reward in the bath from Kyouka and Tenka! Meanwhile, the Demon Defense Force must prepare to…
John U. Rees
Nationally renowned military artist Don Troiani teams with historian John Rees to highlight the role of under-recognized African American soldiers in America's early wars.
Max Hastings
'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily Mail 'An unmissable read' Sunday Times
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Jason De Leon
Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction
Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labour all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders…
Ben Wadham, James Connor
A forensic analysis of how institutionalised abuse in the Australian Defence Force has affected its personnel.
John le Carre
George Smiley faces his greatest challenge yet, unmasking a Soviet double agent at the heart of the British establishment
George Smiley, who is a troubled man of infinite compassion, is…
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Discover the secrets of the Roman Army in this fascinating gift book for budding historians.
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A beautifully designed new Clothbound Classic of le Carre's masterpiece, published to celebrate the novel's 50th anniversary
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Bryan W Lane
Federal Brigadier General William Haines Lytle was a poet, Civil War soldier, lawyer, orator, friend, beloved brother, jilted lover, flirt, drunk, unfocused talent and sometimes genius. He produced at least…
Ronald D Kirkwood
The George Spangler farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Now in paperback, this book profiles scores of additional soldiers and offers new information on events and experiences at…
Michael Korda
The First World War comes to harrowing life through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets in Michael Korda's epic Muse of Fire
James Moorer
An 1865 White sheriff seeks the help of a Black shaman to fight an evil destroying towns across the South.
James Lucas
Dawn on Sunday 22 June 1941 saw the opening onslaughts of Operation Barbarossa as German forces stormed forward into the Soviet Union. Few of them were to survive the five…
Howell Raines
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reveals the little-known story of the Union soldiers from Alabama who played a decisive role in the Civil War, and how they were scrubbed from the…
Theresa S. Betancourt
For over two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt researched former child soldiers from Sierra Leone's civil war to find out if they could reintegrate into communities where they had been forced…
Joshua Hammer
A rollicking adventure starring three free-spirited Victorians on a twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the world--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians…
Alexandre F Caillot
In Late to the Fight, Alexandre F. Caillot explores the combat performance of the Union soldiers who filled newly raised regiments that fought through the Civil War's final year. Historians…
Brook G Bangsboll
With the ending of the Second World War, Lief Bangsboll, after distinguished service with the O.S.S. behind enemy lines in Denmark, prepared himself for a life of peace and hopefully…
Peter FitzSimons
An unforgettable story of the bravery and sacrifice of one extraordinary soldier that takes us from the shores of Gallipoli to the battlefields of France, all brought to vivid life…
