New War Novels Books

ABSOLUTE POWERTOTAL MADNESSONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP ITIn the Regiment, you might swear allegiance to Queen and country. But it's your mates you take the bullets for. And your mates you kill to protect.So when Chet uncovers corruption at the very highest levels of power, it's Luke he wants to tell.Only ...

Charles Dean is retired from the military, determined to be done with that part of his life. But when Julie Giraud, the daughter of his old commander, seeks him out, he can?t say no to a simple lunch. What she has in mind isn?t quite so simple. She wants Dean to help her kill the terrorists who murd...

This exciting fictionalised retelling of the invasion of Crete is written by an author with extensive experience in army intelligence. It's the follow up to Devils With Wings, and continues the wartime adventures of Fallschirmjager paratrooper Paul Brand and his Feldwebel Max Grun. On a high after t...

Richard Sharpe and the Defence of Portugal, Christmas 1812. Newly promoted, Major Richard Sharpe is given the task of rescuing a group of well-born women, held hostage high in the mountains by a rabble of deserters. And one of the renegades is Sergeant Hakeswill, Sharpe's bitter enemy. Sharpe has ...

1975: Belize, Central America, is threatened by the expansionist ambitions of Guatemala, so it is home to a garrison of British troops. The climate is hot and sticky, tempers get frayed, and passions are easily aroused. James Graveney, a young Major in a respectable regiment, is outwardly convention...

Young Cal Asher, Lieutenant (Junior Grade), USN, joined the U.S. Navy with the goal to become a jet pilot, only to get stuck in a prop squadron. In the late '60s, the air war in Viet Nam escalated enough that there was a shortage of pilots to man the attack squadrons. So a hand full of prop jockeys ...

The year is 1812. Nicademus Kane is on his way home to Upper Canada. He ran away a young teenager and ended up in Mexico, where he fell in with the rebel leaders fighting the Spanish. His little army had eventually been trapped and crushed. Nic had barely escaped with his life. Now he just wanted t...

One firefight too many in the Nam Delta. Sergeant Chuck Paxton can't keep it together, so they send him home. And that's when the real battle starts. Gritty, focused, and compelling, Smith brings the Vietnam War to life from the battlefield to the hospital to his hometown world. But neither that wor...

The year is 1939. As war breaks out all over Europe, one Jewish family in Poland faces a terrible ultimatum: they must leave their home or lose their lives. What follows is an extraordinary tale of survival as Isaac, Tanya and Miriam Cadwallader flee across a war-torn continent, trying to find safe...

The tropical paradise known as the Caribbean was anything but peaceful when settled by the nations of Europe. Perhaps the most destructive and brutal terror was inflicted not by navies or armies, but by the ships plying the waters manned by pirates. Rafe Alexander fled England at an early age to joi...

In 1942 Japanese-occupied Singapore, where violence and starvation stalk the streets, a bizarre tranquillity reigns between warring nations in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. This sensitive and humorous work of historical fiction explores a real, and complicated, chapter of Singapore's history in whi...

Snake Eyes and Roadblock. Perhaps the most dangerous of all the JOEs - their combination of stealth, cunning, power, and raw courage is nearly unmatched. But these two forces of might can't always see eye-to-eye. But when Storm Shadow and his ninja enter the picture, these two JOEs will have to put ...

A collection that bridges the gap between the Lightmass Bombing at the end of the first "Gears of War" game and the start of the second game. It features the brutal adventures of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad's battle against the Locust.Author BiographyJoshua Ortega's work includes the novel ((Freque...

Seventeen days...the average life expectancy of a British aviator during World War I. Last three weeks and you were practically a veteran. Paul Hyde dropped out of college to join the Royal Flying Corps, looking for a grand adventure. And grand it was, or so he assured himself when planes were crash...

When a young dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he's reassigned to a Black Cat squadron as the copilot of a giant Catalina seaplane, The Sea Witch. He's thrown into a whole new world, where a Catalina carries five tons of bombs, a half-dozen machine guns, and a crew that wal...

Stephen Coonts weaves three unforgettable tales of men and women at war with the sort of dramatic military action and undercover technology for which he is known. Included in this collection are: The Sea Witch... When a young dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he's reassign...

Stephen Coonts weaves three unforgettable tales of men and women at war with the sort of dramatic military action and undercover technology for which he is known. Included in this collection are: The Sea Witch... When a young dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he's reassign...

Stephen Coonts weaves three unforgettable tales of men and women at war with the sort of dramatic military action and undercover technology for which he is known. Included in this collection are: The Sea Witch... When a young dauntless dive-bomber pilot is sacked for reckless behavior, he's reassign...

A woman goes missing, sending a young nuclear engineer on a quest deep into the Judean desert to the legendary fortress of Masada, where secrets are concealed When a young Israeli woman suddenly goes missing, her boyfriend, an American nuclear engineer, suspects her disappearance is connected to her...

The American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century--a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it means to truly break free of the past. This is the stor...

In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, "New York Times" bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. "A Blaze of Glory" takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war's bloodiest and most iconic engagements--the Ba...

In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, "New York Times" bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. "A Blaze of Glory" takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war's bloodiest and most iconic engagements--the Ba...

In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, "New York Times" bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil War terrain he knows best. "A Blaze of Glory" takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war's bloodiest and most iconic engagements--the Ba...

Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, but bad fortune and pride have driven him and his long-suffering daughter Maureen into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. When an aging rancher commissions Gil to create a memorial statue of his son who was killed in action, G...

As the "Morning Rose" ploughs through wintry Arctic seas toward Bear Island, ship's doctor Christopher Marlowe is kept busy attending to the seasick passengers--a film unit being sent to make a film so secret that none of them knows much about it. As passengers and crew begin dying, he realizes that...

February, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenseless before the conquering Japanese Army. A boat slips out of the harbor into the South China Sea. On board is a desperate, disparate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe.By dawn they ...

Johnny Harlow seems to have it all: he's good looking, desired by women, and envied by men; he's also the reigning Formula One world champion and the poster boy for the world's most thrilling and richly financed sport. But after a wreck kills his best friend and maims his girlfriend, he takes a hard...

This classic World War II thriller epitomizes intrigue and white-knuckle suspense. Seven men and a woman, part of a team of British special forces, parachute onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their mission is to enter the seemingly impenetrable Castle of the Eagle, headquarters of the German S...

In this all-too-timely thriller, an apocalyptic bio-weapon capable of destroying life on Earth--the lethal Satan Bug--has been stolen from a fortress-like research center. Special agent Pierre Cavell is sent to investigate this baffling locked-door mystery, and he has just 24 hours to solve the case...

A thrilling tale of wartime espionage by the acclaimed Alistair MacLean. During World War II, Yugoslavian rebel forces struggle to resist the German occupation, even as a three-way civil war tears the nation apart. In the mist of this terrible confusion, three compatriots set out across their besieg...

From all over Europe, even from behind the Iron Curtain, gypsies make an annual pilgrimage to the shrine of their patron saint in Provence. But at this year's gathering, people are mysteriously dying. Intrepid sleuths Cecile Dubois and Neil Bowman join the caravan in order to uncover the truth behin...

This thrilling sequel to "The Guns of Navarone "reunites members of the Allied team that silenced the giant guns of Navarone and sends them on a desperate bid to assist a ragtag band of Partisan forces trapped by two armoured divisions of the German army in the rugged mountains of Yugoslavia.

A Novel of the Civil War at SeaThis final volume in the Raphael Semmes trilogy of Civil War naval thrillers, "Seahawk Burning," follows the real-life adventures of Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes and his ship, the C.S.S. Alabama, on the final legs of their reign of terror on the high seas. The no...

A Novel of the Civil War at SeaThis final volume in the Raphael Semmes trilogy of Civil War naval thrillers, "Seahawk Burning," follows the real-life adventures of Confederate Captain Raphael Semmes and his ship, the C.S.S. Alabama, on the final legs of their reign of terror on the high seas. The no...

June 1864: the Civil War is in its fourth year of bloody conflict with no end in sight. The armies of the North are stalled in ransid trenches, and the re-election of Abraham Lincoln to a second term seems doomed to defeat - a defeat that will set off the call for an end to the conflict, dismemberin...

Dublin, 1921. The Irish War of Independence comes to a head, in a conflict that will pit Irishman against Irishman, brother against brother ...Stephen Ryan, an Irishman who fought for the British in the trenches, is sent to London where negotiations are beginning. He leaves behind his brother, Joe, ...

Two mighty armies blunder toward each other, one led by confident, beloved Robert E. Lee and the other by dour George Meade. They'll meet in a Pennsylvania crossroads town where no one planned to fight.In this sweeping, savagely realistic novel, the greatest battle ever fought on American soil explo...

Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Barrosa, March 1811. In the winter of 1811, the war seems lost. Spain has fallen to the French, except for Cadiz, now the Spanish capital and itself under siege. Inside the city walls an intricate diplomatic dance is taking place and Richard Sharpe faces more than o...

Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de Onoro , May 1811. This time Richard Sharpe is fighting for his Irish battalion and his own honour through the blood-stained streets of the town. Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, le...

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812. It is a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it is the worst he can remember. He has lost command to a man who could buy the promotion Sharpe covets. His oldest enemy, the ruthless and indestructible Hakeswill, joins the regiment and he is ...