The
English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English
Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in
an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the
maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the
riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an
upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate
this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by
a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together,
pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.
A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered
the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written
In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works
of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's
a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family.
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Hardcover: 307 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.15 x
8.66 x 5.99
Publisher: Knopf; ; (October 1992)
ISBN: 0679416781
After
Dunkirk
by Milena McGraw
A highly acclaimed novel about two Battle of Britain pilots. Reviewers
compare this work favourably with The English Patient.
Paperback: 468 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.21 x
9.01 x 6.04
Publisher: Mariner Books; ; (May 1, 1999)
ISBN: 0395977800
Catch
22
by Joseph Heller
Paperback from Simon & Schuster
Book Published: 04 September, 1996 |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
Listed under Hemingway
In the Balance (Worldwar Series, Volume 1)
by Harry Turtledove
Listed under Science Fiction
King
Rat
by James Clavell
Paperback from Delta
Book Published: 08 June, 1999 |
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The
Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
Book Description: The fiftieth-anniversary edition of an American
classic, with a new introduction by the author. Hailed as one of the finest
novels to come out of the Second World War, The Naked and the Dead received
unprecedented critical acclaim upon its publication and has since enjoyed
a long and well-deserved tenure in the American canon. This fiftieth anniversary
edition features a new introduction created especially for the occasion
by Norman Mailer. Written in gritty, journalistic detail, the story...
The
Nostradamus Prophecy
by John S. Powell
(Hardcover - August 1998)
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The
Aviators
W. E. B. Griffin
Fiction
As the Vietnam War begins to escalate in 1964, the formation of the
new Air Assault Division is delayed by logistical problems and by conflicts
among the men and women who comprise the fighting force.
Paperback / Published 1989 |
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The
Snow Goose
by Paul Gallico
Gallico's masterpiece about a crippled artist's daring rescue of British
soldiers stranded at Dunkirk during World War II is an unforgettable story
certain to be enjoyed and cherished by readers for years to come.
Hardcover (June 1988)
Random House; ISBN: 0394445937
Away
All Boats (Classics of Naval Literature)
Fiction by Kenneth Dodson
Hardcover - 444 pages Reprint edition (March 1996)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557501734
Battlecruiser
Fiction by Douglas Reeman
Paperback from McBooks Press
Book Published: September, 2003 |
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The
Chess Garden
by Brooks Hansen
An exotic, spiritual tale combines elements of memoir and parable,
in a collection of twelve letters sent with chess pieces to his wife Sonja
by Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven while serving as a doctor in the Boer War concentration
camps in South Africa. Ingram.
Paperback - 464 pages (November 1996)
Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573225630
Fields
of Fire
by James H. Webb
Book Description:: They each had their reasons for being a soldier.
They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the
tattoo — Death Before Dishonor — before he got the uniform. And Hodges
was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes.
They were three young men from different worlds plunged into a white-hot,
murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon
in the An Hoa Basin, 1969. They had no way of knowing what awaited them.
Nothing could have prepared them for the madness to come. And in the heat
and horror of battle they took on new identities, took on each other, and
were each reborn in fields of fire....
Fields of Fire is James Webb's classic, searing novel of the Vietnam
War, a novel of poetic power, razor-sharp observation, and agonizing human
truths seen through the prism of nonstop combat. Weaving together a cast
of vivid characters, Fields of Fire captures the journey of unformed men
through a man-made hell — until each man finds his fate.
Mass Market Paperback from Bantam Books
Book Published: 28 August, 2001 |
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The
Hunters
by James Salter
With his stirring, rapturous first novel--originally published in 1956
--James Salter established himself as the most electrifying prose stylist
since Hemingway. Four decades later, it is clear that he also fashioned
the most enduring fiction ever about aerial warfare. Captain Cleve Connell
arrives in Korea with a single goal: to become an ace, one of that elite
fraternity of jet pilots who have downed five MIGs. But as his fellow airmen
rack up kill after kill--sometimes under dubious circumstances--Cleve's
luck runs bad. Other pilots question his guts. Cleve comes to question
himself. And then in one icy instant 40,000 feet above the Yalu River,
his luck changes forever. Filled with courage and despair, eerie beauty
and corrosive rivalry, The Hunters is a landmark in the literature of war.
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(Paperback - August 1999)
Kappillan
of Malta (Cassell Military Paperbacks)
by Nicholas Monsarrat
Set in wartorn Malta in 1940-1942, Monsarrat weaves an epic of Malta's
history from time immemorial for the refugees sheltering in the catacombs
of his ancient church.
Paperback - 464 pages (October 2001)
Cassell Academic; ISBN: 0304358444
The
Pepperdogs
by Bing West, Francis J. West
Military Fiction - US Marines
Hardcover: 384 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.16 x
9.56 x 6.36
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; ; (December 24, 2002)
Mash
by Richard D. Hooker
Before the movie, this is the novel that gave life to Hawkeye Pierce,
Trapper John, Hot Lips Houlihan, Frank Burns, Radar O'Reilly, and the rest
of the gang that made the 4077th MASH like no other place in Korea or on
earth. Amazon.com
(Paperback - April 1997)
Miracle
at St. Anna
by James McBride
In Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride, author of the bestselling memoir
The
Color of Water, tells a war story that, like all great tales of conflict,
connects the enormous tragedy of war with the intimate stories of individual
soldiers. Miracle at St. Anna vividly follows four of the U.S. Army's 92nd
Division of all-black buffalo soldiers as they become trapped between forces
beyond their control and between worlds. Three of the soldiers have bolted
behind enemy lines to rescue their comrade, the colossal, but simple, Private
Sam Train. They find themselves stranded between worlds in a remote central
Italian village, with the German Army hidden on one side and their racist
and largely mismanaged American commanding officers on the other. The strange
world of the village floats between myth and reality, where belief in magic
coexists with the most horrific acts of war. In the melee that opens the
book, the giant Sam Train suddenly comes to believe he can turn invisible,
the local miser believes he is cursed with a wealth of rabbits, and each
of the other soldiers also exists in a mythical world of his own. But they
are all about to be shattered by the Miracle. McBride illuminates an ironic
moment in American history, a time when black soldiers fought bravely for
the country whose "freedoms" included Jim Crow laws, segregation, and institutional
and widespread personal racism. Miracle at St. Anna puts these intimate
stories at the center of the much larger story of the struggle of people
of color in this country. Each character is trapped and forced to act as
nobly and as bravely as he can in the midst of forces beyond not only his
control, but beyond his world. --Paul Ford - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x
9.34 x 6.24
Riverhead Books; ISBN: 1573222127; (January 28, 2002)
Rommel
and the Rebel
Lawrence Wells
Fictional work based on the legend that Rommel visited Civil War battlegrounds
prior to WWII.
Paperback / Published 1992
Exploits
and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard
by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle
Having killed off Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began a new
series of tales on a very different theme. Brigadier Gerard is an officer
in Napoleon's army — recklessly brave, engagingly openhearted, and unshakable,
if not a little absurd, in his devotion to the enigmatic Emperor. The Brigadier's
wonderful comic adventures, long established in the affections of Conan
Doyle's admirers as second only to those of the incomparable Holmes, are
sure to find new devotees... Amazon.com
(Paperback)
The
White Company / Sir Nigel
by Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, George MacDonald Fraser (Introduction)
(Paperback - March 2000)
Rogue Warrior : Echo Platoon
Fiction by Richard Marcinko, John Weisman
Listed under Rogue Warrior Series
The
Rage of Angels
Alan Fisher
Fiction
A young aviator battles with fading innocence in a powerful story of
love and war that evokes the nature of comradeship in unsentimental images
of a generation of young men caught up in the First World War. By the author
of The Terioki Crossing. Ingram.
Hardcover / Carroll & Graf 1997
Sharpe's Fortress: Richard Sharpe and the Siege Of Gawilghur, December
1803
by Bernard Cornwell
Listed under Richard Sharpe Series
Medal
of Honor (Seals - The Warrior Breed , No 5)
H. Jay Riker
Paperback / Published 1997
A
Press Of Canvas (War of 1812 Trilogy, Volume 1)
by William H. White, et al
Historical Fiction - Panned by reviewers
(Paperback - June 2000)
A
Fine Tops'l Breeze (War of 1812 Trilogy, Volume 2)
by William H. White, et al
(Paperback - April 2001)
The
Evening Gun (War of 1812 Trilogy, Volume 3)
by William H. White
(Paperback)
Falcons
of France
Charles and Hall, James Norman Nordhoff
Story of an American pilot who is shot down over France, captured by
the Germans, and escapes. Historical novel.
Hardcover (June 1979)
Ayer Co Pub; ISBN: 0405121989
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Vicksburg
(The Civil War Battle Series, Book 5)
by James Reasoner
Fictional saga of the Brannon Family. Light reading.
(Hardcover - May 2001)
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