Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing

Marcus Luttrell

2007

The story of Operation Red Wings — a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance mission in Afghanistan that went catastrophically wrong, told by the only survivor.

Surprise Attack!

Larry Hama

2006

Surviving Vietnam

Bruce Philip Dohrenwend; Nick Turse; Thomas J. Yager; Melanie M. Wall

2019

Uniquely using historical material and military records as well as personal interviews and clinical diagnoses, Surviving Vietnam focuses on veterans' war-zone experiences and the development in some o...

Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin

Mildred Schindler Janzen; Sherye S. Green

2023

A teenage girl's peaceful farm life is upended when Stalin's Red Army captures her and her family. This memoir is a poignant account of love and loss, a beautiful tapestry woven by God's hand in the l...

Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin

Mildred Schindler Janzen; Sherye S. Green

2023

A teenage girl's peaceful farm life is upended when Stalin's Red Army captures her and her family in Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin. Chronicling the harrowing events of a family torn apart by the in...

British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

Claire Brock

2017

A rich new examination of the cultural, social and self-representation of the woman surgeon in Britain from 1860 to 1918. This title is also available as Open Access.

War Surgery 1914-18

Thomas Scotland; Steven Heys

2012

"A fascinating study of war surgery in World War I, where huge medical developments were made and the foundations of modern war surgery were laid World War I resulted in an enormous number of casualti...

Surgeon with the Kaiser's Army

Stephan Kurt Westmann

2014

The Author gave up his medical studies at Freiburg University in 1914 to enlist in the German Army. He was soon involved in bloody hand-to-hand fighting against the French before moving to the Russian...

Soul Survivor

Bruce Leininger; Andrea Leininger; Ken Gross

2009

"The dramatic story of how one couple finds that their young son is the reincarnation of a World War II pilot"--Provided by the publisher

Survival In Auschwitz

Primo Levi

1996

A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentr...

Survival of the Spirit

H. Henrietta Stockel

1993

After the United States imprisoned the Chiricahua Apaches in damp, humid regions of the East, contagious diseases devastated this group of Native Americans. Numerous books have been written about Gero...

The Surgeon's Mate

Patrick O'Brian

2021

"First published as a Norton paperback 1992..., reissued 2021"--Title page verso.

Hue 1968

Mark Bowden

2017

Gripping account of the bloodiest battle of the Tet Offensive and the Vietnam War's turning point.

Soviet storm

Mike Lepine

2016

Soviet Storm tells the complete story of the War on the Eastern Front, profiling the epic campaigns and battles, revealing the tactics employed by both sides and exposing the true horrors of a conflic...

Korean War

Captivating History

2017

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Max Hastings—preeminent military historian—takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to...

Howards End

E. M. Forster

1910

Howards End is a novel by E. M. Forster about social conventions, codes of conduct and relationships in turn-of-the-century England. A strong-willed and intelligent woman refuses to allow the pretensi...

Het Achterhuis

Anne Frank

1944

Het Achterhuis is de titel van het dagboek van Anne Frank (1929-1945) voor het eerst uitgegeven op 25 juni 1947. Het is genoemd naar het onderduikpand Het Achterhuis op de Prinsengracht en is het verh...

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

1880

Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as see...

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

1800

A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel published in 1859 by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

1817

Mark Twain created the memorable characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn drawing from the experiences of boys he grew up with in Missouri. Set by the Mississippi River in the 1840's, it follows the...