Franklin Allen Leib Douglas Moser is convinced that Lt. William Stuart is dead, but when he learns that his friend is in fact a POW in Laos, he recruits an...

George E Berkley Traces the history of the Jewish community in Vienna, assesses the extent of Austrian anti-Semitism, and explains why the Jews were so fond of pre-World War I...

War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples...

Daniel Alarcon“[Alarcón’s] tales, set largely in the hardscrabble world of Lima, build with all the power of a Flannery O’Connor story: a gentle enough start, an innocent setting, and before...

Guy LarsonWar Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History Soon to be a major motion picture from the director...

Bernard Cornwell England is under attack. Chaos reigns. Northumbria, the last kingdom, is threatened by armies from all sides, by land and sea – and only one man stands in...

Bernard Cornwell At the fortress of the eagles, three kings will fight …Uhtred of Bebbanburg has won back his ancestral home but, threatened from all sides by enemies both old...

Chris Ayres  Chris 'risk averse' Ayres saw journalism as his ticket to schmoozing with celebrities and penning pompous opinion pieces. Instead he landed a plane ticket to Iraq. An extraordinary...

Ian Morris A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society―for the better"War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says...

Michael Ondaatje   In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself – at once both shadowed and luminous – Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue...

Elizabeth M NormanWe Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the JapaneseHailed by "The New York Times Book Review" as a "grippingly told" story...

Alexander StarrittWhen a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side of the war, the question is initially met with irritation...