Decrypted

Decrypted

Professor Tikaya Komitopis knew that bringing Admiral Rias Starcrest home to meet her family wouldn’t be easy, not when he led the fleet that decimated her nation during the war. She isn’t surprised when people believe she’s been brainwashed, that Rias is still loyal to the empire, and that he has nefarious plans for her homeland. She is, however, surprised when Rias’s designs to build a submarine lead them to stumble across an ancient secret shrouded in mystery, time, and lies. If revealed, this secret could mean devastation for Tikaya’s entire nation. It could also mean choosing between her people… and the man she loves.

Decrypted

Saratoga

Saratoga

The battles fought around Saratoga, New York, in the fall of 1777 were the turning point of the American Revolution. Victories by the Continental army encouraged France to enter the war on the side of the Americans, lending support critical to the ultimate.

Saratoga

Forged in the Desert Heat

Forged in the Desert Heat

A woman that could start a war

Forged in the Desert Heat

1914

1914

Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multiawardwinning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiableand still unthinkablecarnage of trench warfare.

1914

A Duty to the Dead

A Duty to the Dead

The daughter of a distinguished soldier Bess Crawford follows in his footsteps and signs up to go overseas as a nurse during the Great War helping to deal with the many wounded. There serving on a hospital ship she makes a promise to a dying young lieutenant to take a message to his brother Jonathan Graham: ‘Tell Jonathan that I lied. I did it for Mothers sake. But it has to be set right.’ Later when her ship is sunk by a mine and shes sidelined by a broken arm Bess returns home to England determined to fulfill her promise.

A Duty to the Dead

US Patrol Torpedo Boats

US Patrol Torpedo Boats

Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s and the vessels were first put into active service during World War I. However, it was not until the late 1930s that the US Navy commenced the development of their Patrol Torpedo or PT boat program. The PT boat, or the ‘mosquito boat’ as they were sometimes known, was originally envisioned for attacking larger warships with torpedoes using its ‘stealth’ ability, high-speed, and small size to launch and survive these attacks. However, they were actually employed more frequently in a wide variety of other missions, many which were unforeseen by developers and planners, including rescuing General MacArthur and his entourage from the Philippines.

US Patrol Torpedo Boats

The Boer War 1899-1902

The Boer War 1899-1902

Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine rifles, gave them initial advantages. By contrast the British suffered from inadequate transport, insufficient mounted troops and poor intelligence. Despite marshalling the immense resources of their empire, the British were to be severely tested in a war which one general described as ‘the graveyard of many a soldier’s reputation’.

The Boer War 1899-1902

Women and War

Women and War

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Women and War

Something Reckless

Something Reckless

Prim, headstrong, and beautiful Penelope is determined to expose the licentious affairs of the ton’s randiest rakes. Now one of their powerful numberthe unrepentant libertine Jeremy Vaughn, Duke of Kilgrathhas been selected to put an end to the prudish lady’s interference. Jeremy’s plan is devilishly clever: He will join Penelope’s war against immorality, fighting passionately by her side, all the while showering her with anonymous erotic missives designed to titillate even the coldest, most unwilling maid. He will break down her defenses and inflame her repressed desires by escorting her (in the interests of their ‘noble campaign’) to London’s most notorious pleasure palaces. And he will visit her boudoirmaskedduring the night to school her in the deliciously sinful arts she wishes to abolish. Then he will expose her hypocrisy to the world.

Something Reckless

On Hallowed Ground

On Hallowed Ground

On Hallowed Ground opens with the long-delayed funeral of four servicemen, brought home for final honors at Arlington National Cemetery almost forty years after they disappeared in Vietnam. To understand how this tradition of extraordinary care for our war dead began, Robert Poole traces the founding of Arlington Cemetery on what had been the family plantation of Robert E. Lee. After resigning his commission in the U.S. Army, Lee left Arlington to command the Army of Northern Virginia. Arlington, strategic to the defense of Washington, D.C., became a U.S. Army headquarters and a cemetery for indigent Civil War soldiers before Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton made it the new national cemetery.

On Hallowed Ground

Wake

Wake

Anna Hopes brilliant debut unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives.

Wake

The Thirty Years War 1618-1648

The Thirty Years War 1618-1648

More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48); but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers: this book reveals why. It was one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of atrocities, the horrors of the fighting and also the sufferings of the civilian population. The Thirty Years’ War remains a conflict of key importance in the history of the development of warfare and the ‘military revolution’.

The Thirty Years War 1618-1648

Culture Jamming

Culture Jamming

In this pioneering work of social criticism, Kalle Lasn, the publisher of Adbusters magazine, lays the foundation for the most significant social movement of the next 20 years. Culture jammers are a global network of media activists waging a protracted war against the mass media and against the consumerism that is overtaking America and the world. In Culture Jam, Lasn assesses the current situation, discusses whether spontaneity and individuality can be restored, explores, possibilities for renewal, and offers a glimpse of what could happen if citizens band together to fight.

Culture Jamming

The Third Reich at War

The Third Reich at War

An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history

The Third Reich at War

Work Done for Hire

Work Done for Hire

Joe Haldeman’s ?adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy. Now, the multiple Hugo and Nebula award?winning author pits a lone war veteran against a mysterious enemy who is watching his every move?and threatens him with more than death unless he kills for them.

Work Done for Hire

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

James L. Machor offers a sweeping exploration of how American fiction was received in both public and private spheres in the United States before the Civil War.

Reading Fiction in Antebellum America

The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War

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The Vietnam War

Forest Ghost

Forest Ghost

Modern-day America. Fifteen Boy Scouts and their seven adult leaders are found to have committed suicide in the forest of a scout reservation. One of the dead boys is a friend of Sparky Wallace, whose father Jack runs a Polish restaurant in Chicago. Drawn into investigating the suicides, Jack discovers a connection with his own grandfather, who killed himself in the Kampinos Forest in Poland when he was fighting the Nazis in World War II.

Forest Ghost

Consumption

Consumption

This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contributions made by sociologists in discussing the subject. Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University.

Consumption

World War I

World War I

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World War I