In the tradition of Tom Clancy and Harold Coyle, Gerry Carroll has drawn on his own experience as a navy helicopter pilot for this tale of war and friendship. In the US Navy's air war against North Vietnam, Lieutenant Boyle's challenge is to fly fast and low to rescue downed pilots.
Poetry of the Second World War brings to light a neglected chapter in world literature. In its chorus of haunting poetic voices, over a hundred of the most articulate minds of their generation record the true experience of the 1939-45 conflict, and its unending consequences. In keeping with its subject, it has an international scope, with poems from over twenty countries, including Japan, Australia, Europe, America and Russia; poems in which human responses echo each other across boundaries of c...
It is 1939, and great changes come running to meet them all, snatching at their innocence and steadfast convictions and tossing them far away. Alice, Ben and Guy travel overseas, serving in the same war but on very different battlegrounds. For those who stay behind, Judith, Louise, Claire and Daphne, the struggle is to preserve the home, to keep things going, no matter what. But the sudden insecurity of the war confuses them. it gives them new strengths and fresh dreams, but leaves them still fu...
The second in the bestselling new Conqueror series on Genghis Khan, it is a wonderful, epic story which Conn Iggulden brings brilliantly to life. The gathering of the tribes of the Mongols has been a long time in coming but finally, triumphantly, Temujin of the Wolves, Genghis Khan, is given the full accolade of the overall leader and their oaths. Now he can begin to meld all the previously warring people into one army, one nation. But the task Genghis has set himself and them is formidable. He...
G.I. JOE: The IDW Collection Volume 5 (GI JOE IDW COLLECTION, #5)
by David Lapham, Mike Raicht, and Brian Reed
Presenting IDW's G.I. JOE stories in recommended reading order. Volume 5 details the rise of The Mad Monk, introduces a new JOE, follows a deadly epidemic on a Cobra submarine, and unveils the fatal conclusion to Chuckles' undercover operation! Includes G.I. JOE Origins #20–23, G.I. JOE Special: Helix, G.I. JOE: Infestation, G.I. JOE #23–27, and G.I. JOE: Cobra II #10–13.
MAGGIE JORDAN When most of Maggie Jordan's family are killed in a freak flood, she is forced to find work in one of Glasgow's carpet mills. She becomes engaged to Neil Sanderson, but struggles on alone when he decides to go to Spain to join the Republicans. Though she eventually joins Neil abroad, she finds him distant and ruthless, and fiercely jealous of her new friendship with American journalist Howard Taft. SCARLET RIBBONS Sadie Smith, born with a degenerative hip, is unable to walk. Sent t...
Heralded as one of the great historical novels of the twentieth century--and an inspiration to generations of people who have fought against oppression and exploitation--Spartacus is a masterpiece of vivid storytelling from one of Scotland's finest writers.