War stories

  • The Pushcart War

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    “The best book about politics ever written for children.” —The Washington Post

    50th Anniversary Edition, now in paperback

    DO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE PUSHCART WAR? THE REAL HISTORY?

    It’s a story

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    • Author: Merrill, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 232
    • Publish Date: September 29 2015
    • ISBN10: 1590179366
    • Language: English
  • All Our Yesterdays

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    From “one of the most distinguished writers of modern Italy” (New York Review of Books), a classic novel of society in the midst of a war.

    This powerful novel is set against the background of Italy fr

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    • Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: July 07 2015
    • ISBN10: 1628725087
    • Language: English
  • Across the River and Into the Trees

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    Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber!

    A poignant tale of a revitalizing love that is found too late–the fleeting connection between an Italian countess and an injured American co

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    • Author: Hemingway, Ernest
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: December 12 1996
    • ISBN10: 0684825538
    • Language: English
  • Flight to Canada

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    Ishmael Reed has created a sharp, wildly funny slave’s-eye view of the Civil War.

    Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the nineteenth century for the disease that makes N

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    • Author: Reed, Ishmael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: June 02 1998
    • ISBN10: 0684847507
    • Language: English
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo

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    A spare and haunting, wise and beautiful novel about war and the endurance of the human spirit and the subtle ways individuals reclaim their humanity.

    In a city under siege, four people whose lives ha

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    • Author: Galloway, Steven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: March 31 2009
    • ISBN10: 1594483655
    • Language: English
  • The Painted Bird

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    Jerzy Kosinski’s mythic, master-work of a shattered post-War Europe.

    Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. Kosinski’s story follows a d

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    • Series: Kosinski, Jerzy
    • Author: Kosinski, Jerzy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 234
    • Publish Date: August 09 1995
    • ISBN10: 080213422X
    • Language: English
  • World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”–Entertainment Weekly

    We survived the zombie apocalypse,… [more below]

    • Author: Brooks, Max
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: September 12 2006
    • ISBN10: 0307346609
    • Language: English
  • The Thin Red Line

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    They are the men of C-for-Charlie company–“Mad” 1st Sgt. Eddie Welsh, Pvt. 1st Class Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them–infantrymen who are about … [more below]

    • Author: Jones, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: February 09 1998
    • ISBN10: 0385324081
    • Language: English
  • A Fable

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    This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment

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    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Faulkner, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: November 29 2011
    • ISBN10: 0307946770
    • Language: English
  • Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Vol. 1: Dawn

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    It’s the master tactician of the ruthless Galactic Empire versus the Free Planets Alliance in Japan’s greatest space opera epic!

    In the thirty-sixth century, humanity has conquered the galaxy and colo

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    • Series: Legend of the Galactic Heroes #1
    • Author: Tanaka, Yoshiki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: March 08 2016
    • ISBN10: 1421584948
    • Language: English
  • The Year of the French

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    In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, foll

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    • Series: Thomas Flanagan Trilogy
    • Author: Flanagan, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 544
    • Publish Date: October 31 2004
    • ISBN10: 159017108X
    • Language: English
  • Redcoat

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    It 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

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    • Series: Richard Sharpe
    • Author: Cornwell, Bernard
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: April 15 2003
    • ISBN10: 0060512776
    • Language: English
  • When the Devil Dances

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    After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats humans have dealt him, and ha… [more below]

    • Series: Posleen War
    • Author: Ringo, John
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: April 01 2003
    • ISBN10: 0743436024
    • Language: English
  • The Red: First Light

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    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015

    Reality TV and advanced technology make for high drama in this political thriller that combines the military action of Zero Dark Thirty with the classic science

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    • Series: Red Trilogy #1
    • Author: Nagata, Linda
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: June 30 2015
    • ISBN10: 1481440934
    • Language: English
  • American Operator: A Tier One Story

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    An explosive, high-stakes thriller of espionage and counterterrorism by the Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of Tier One.

    A shocking attack in Ankara leaves the US Ambassador to Turkey dead and

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    • Series: Tier One Thrillers #4
    • Author: Wilson, Jeffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 426
    • Publish Date: November 06 2018
    • ISBN10: 1503904423
    • Language: English
  • When We Had to Leave Home

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    Displaced by conflict in Ukraine, a young girl and her family must start again in a new country.

    When war comes to Sofiya’s country, she and her mother and grandmother are forced to set off on a long j

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    • Author: Lodding, Linda Ravin
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 32
    • Publish Date: October 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 0807574813
    • Language: English
  • In the Woods of Memory

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    “Generally regarded as Okinawa’s most adventurous and promising writer of fiction today.”–Michael S. Molasky, University of Minnesota

    In the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that

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    • Author: Medoruma, Shun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: June 06 2017
    • ISBN10: 1611720370
    • Language: English
  • Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

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    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990s

    In this “overpowering and beautiful nov

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    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Faulks, Sebastian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: June 02 1997
    • ISBN10: 0679776818
    • Language: English
  • Corelli’s Mandolin

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    The acclaimed story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history: “An exuberant mixture of history and romance, written with a wit that is incandescent” (Los Angeles[more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: de Bernieres, Louis
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: August 29 1995
    • ISBN10: 067976397X
    • Language: English
  • Night Soldiers

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    Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civi… [more below]

    • Author: Furst, Alan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 496
    • Publish Date: July 09 2002
    • ISBN10: 0375760008
    • Language: English
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