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From War to Nationalism
2003
NON-FICTIONThis book investigates the 'warlord' period in China, focusing on the pivotal year 1924.
China and Japan
2019
NON-FICTIONA Financial Times “Summer Books” Selection “Will become required reading.” —Times Literary Supplement “Elegantly written...with a confidence that comes from decades of deep research on the topic, illu...
Heart of Buddha, Heart of China
2014
MEMOIRJames Carter, accessing previously untapped sources, tells the story of Tanxu's life and gives first-person immediacy to one of the most turbulent periods in Chinese history.
The Korean War
1987
FICTIONChronicles the Korean War with over 200 interviews of veterans, including the Chinese.
The British Are Coming (Young Readers Edition)
2022
FICTIONHow did the United States become the country it is today? What led to its creation? Adapted from Pulitzer Prize–winner Rick Atkinson’s deeply researched and stunningly vivid The British Are Coming, th...
Battle of the Bulge [The Young Readers Adaptation]
2015
FICTIONOn the 16th of December, 1944, in the frozen forests of the Ardennes, the German army attacked American Allied forces, launching a final bid to turn the tide of World War II. Thus began the long, hard...
The Winter King
1997
FICTIONWith The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. Now a major television show. The...
Fallujah'S Grit
2025
FICTION**Attention: ** Imagine the most brutal urban combat since Hue, a crucible where courage was forged in fire and grit was the only currency. "Fallujah's Grit: A Grunt's-Eye View of The Second Battle" p...
Operation Hebron
2000
FICTIONWritten by a "real spy", "Operation Hebron" is a novel of a covert operation launched by the Israeli government to have one of its top spies elected as President of the United States. Author Eric Jord...
Leaving Berlin
2016
FICTIONTargeted by McCarthyism for his prewar politics, a young Jewish writer who fled the Nazis to America makes a desperate bargain with a fledgling CIA to work as a spy in a decimated Berlin.
D-Day: The Normandy Invasion
2014
FICTIONThis title examines an important historic event--the June 6, 1944, Allied landing in Normandy, France, during World War II. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the planning and espionage prior to t...
Catch-22
1961
MILITARY HISTORY*Catch-22* is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is t...
The Fort LP
2010
FICTIONWhile the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogb...
War Lord
2020
FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” –George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of Thrones The final installment i...
Redcoat
2003
FICTIONIt is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young...
War of the Wolf
2018
FICTIONBernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)—the basis of the hit...
Sword Song
2008
FICTIONThe year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord—warrior by i...
The Fort
2011
FICTIONWhile the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogb...
The Pale Horseman
2005
FICTIONEnter the historical world of THE PALE HORSEMAN, a story of divided loyalties and desperate heroism, with a wonderful range of characters desperately striving to survive as the battle sweeps over them...
Enemy of God
2007
FICTIONFrom the No. 1 bestselling author of WAR LORD comes an epic retelling of the Arthurian legend, from the bestselling Last Kingdom series Uniting the restive British kingdoms behind him, Arthur believes...