A high school football star who chooses a tour of duty in Afghanistan over a potentially lucrative career in the pros. A woman whose career as a nine-ball champion was cut short at the Nationals. A motorcycle accident that leaves a boy...
Soldiers
-
Author:Jantunen, JohnSummary: -
Author:Qiu, Peipei, Zhiliang, Su, Lifei, ChenSummary:Chinese Comfort Women is the first English-language book featuring accounts of the “comfort station” experiences of women from Mainland China, forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during the Asia-Pacific War. Through...
-
Author:Sagara, MichelleSummary:Dead men tell no tales. When Corporal Kaylin Neya is assigned front desk duty--a task hated by every Hawk--the only thing she can look forward to besides an endless stream of complaints is visits from a dotty old woman. She always...
- Author:Lin, JeannieSummary:
During China's infamous Tang Dynasty, a time awash with luxury yet littered with deadly intrigues and fallen royalty, betrayed Princess Ai Li flees before her wedding. Miles from home, with only her delicate butterfly swords for defense...
-
Author:George, Isabel, Barrow, WillSummary:Buster, an English springer spaniel who has served his comrades and his country with unstinting devotion, has saved thousands of lives. This is the story of his partnership with RAF Police Sergeant Will Barrow, told by Will himself,...
- Author:Cole, MykeSummary:
In the wake of a bloody battle at Forward Operating Base Frontier and a scandalous presidential impeachment, Lieutenant Colonel Jan Thorsson, call sign " Harlequin," becomes a national hero and a pariah to the military that is the only...
- Author:Ohler, NormanSummary:
Examination of the use of drugs during the rule of the Nazi Party. Discusses Hitler's personal physician, Theodor Morell; the impact of drug use in the military on specific operations; and more. Translated from the original 2015 German...
- Author:Brown, SandraSummary:
The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the...
- Author:Alexander, LarrySummary:
This is the story of an ordinary man who became an extraordinary hero. After he enlisted in the army's arduous new Airborne division, Dick Winters's natural combat leadership helped him rise through the ranks, but he was never...
-
Author:Doucette, FredSummary:Fred Doucette always wanted to be a soldier. In the 1960s he joined the Canadian Armed Forces and served in Cyprus in the 1970s and ’80s and Bosnia in the 1990s. When he returned home to New Brunswick in 1999 after his last overseas...
- Author:Shors, JohnSummary:
During World War II, the hospital ship Benevolence is providing relief to victims in the South Pacific when she is torpedoed and sunk. Among the survivors are a troubled nurse named Annie and the wounded Japanese soldier named Akira who...
-
Author:Andrews, IlonaSummary:Bayou Moon introduces Cerise Mar, who lives in the Mire with her family. Cerise's family owns much of the Mire, the swamplands of the Edge. But another family is after their land. When Cerise's parents disappear, she fears the worst....
- Author:Flannery, Peter A.Summary:
The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond with dragonkind is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the...
-
Author:CORNWELL, BernardSummary:An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, on St Crispin's Day, is one of the best known battles, in part through the...
-
Author:Simmons, KristenSummary:Seventeen-year-old Ember Miller has perfected the art of keeping a low profile in a future society in which Moral Statutes have replaced the Bill of Rights and offenses carry stiff penalties, but when Chase, the only boy she has ever...
-
Author:Struthers, Joel AdamSummary:Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion is the first-hand account of the author's six years as a professional soldier during the 1990s, and his experience in the Legion's elite Group Commando Parachutistes (GCP). Joel Struthers...
-
Author:Gold Kroll, FionaSummary:Since childhood, author Fiona Gold Kroll has been drawn to a photograph of her great-uncle, Benjamin Albaum, a Jewish man who disappeared from Paris at the beginning of World War II. A Stone for Benjamin is the compelling story of Fiona...
-
Author:Tillman, James AdamsSummary:The Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina is forever linked to Palmetto State history, but not all of its members have yet had their stories told. James Adams Tillman (1842–1866) never had the chance to become a governor or U.S....
-
Author:Martin, Joseph PlumbSummary:Classic memoir provides a compelling history of the Revolutionary War as seen through the eyes of one courageous soldier.
-
Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:When Baron Herbert returns from crusade he grows increasingly morose and withdraws from his family. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, questions are asked whether Herbert harbors a dark sin for which God has cursed him....
Pages
