Ishmael BeahThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered...

Adriana TrigianiThe majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting of the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet...

Allegra JordanOn the eve of WWI, two students fall in love in Harvard's hallowed halls and must face a world at war from opposing sidesHelen Windship Brooks is struggling to...

Mark Allan CollinsIn the brutal fires of war, two men come together from different worlds. Joe Enders is a haunted warrior plagued by guilt, the only man to survive a...

Yasmina Khadra Set in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, this extraordinary novel "puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban" ( San Francisco Chronicle), taking readers into the...

James P Grant Drawings and writings by children in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia reflect their feelings about the war January 1, 1994 by HarperCollins

Eleanor WasserbergA rich, moving, sweeping novel about a family forced to escape Krakow during the HolocaustWhen Alicia and her family are forced to flee Krakow to escape the Nazis, they...

Tom Clancy Tom Clancy's latest love-letter to the military-industrial complex focuses on the Army--and Fred Franks, a general who helped smash Iraq in the Gulf War. In this first volume...

Erik Larson   The time is 1933, the place, Berlin, when William E. Dodd becomes America's first ambassador to Hitler's Germany in a year that proved to be a turning...

Lillian Cantor A historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families.Austria,...

Gerda Weissmann KleinAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko)...

Michael Walzer From the Athenian attack on Melos to the My Lai Massacre, from the wars in the Balkans through the first war in Iraq, Michael Walzer examines the moral...