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A broken nation needs one decisive victory, but intelligence alone cannot win the battle waiting in the Pacific.
The Eagle’s Claw
Historical Fiction · War Fiction
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A broken nation needs one decisive victory, but intelligence alone cannot win the battle waiting in the Pacific. The Eagle’s Claw follows code breakers, commanders, pilots, Marines, and Japanese admirals through the Battle of Midway, shaping a military historical novel about strategy, courage, and the choices that changed the course of World War II.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In a “riveting” (Booklist) tale that picks up where To Wake the Giant left off, Jeff Shaara transports us to the Battle of Midway in another masterpiece of military historical fiction.
Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow the Japanese inflicted at Pearl Harbor. But the Americans are determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known “code breaker” who cracks the Japanese military encryption. With Rochefort’s astonishing discovery, Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning.
But the battle to counter those plans must still be fought.
From the American side, the shocking conflict is seen through the eyes of Rochefort and Admiral Nimitz, as well as fighter pilot Lieutenant Percy “Perk” Baker and Marine Gunnery Sergeant Doug Ackroyd.
On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is the mastermind. His key subordinates are Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, aging and infirm, and Admiral Tamon Yamaguchi, a firebrand who has no patience for Nagumo’s hesitation. Together, these two men must play out the chess game designed by Yamamoto, without any idea that the Americans are anticipating their every move on the sea and in the air.
Jeff Shaara recounts in electrifying detail what happens when these two sides finally meet, in what will be known ever after as one of the most definitive and heroic examples of combat ever seen. In The Eagle’s Claw, he recounts, with his trademark you-are-there immediacy and signature depth of research, one single battle that changed not only the outcome of a war but the course of our entire global history.
The story of Midway has been told many times, but never before like this.
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War tests one family across battlefields, homes, and the long silence of waiting.
The War Torn Series: Volume One
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War tests one family across battlefields, homes, and the long silence of waiting. In The War Torn Series: Volume One, Robert Vaughan follows the Holts, an Illinois family pulled into World War II through sons who serve as soldiers and a daughter married to one. This historical war fiction series centers the cost of duty at every distance, from the front lines to the homes where loved ones endure uncertainty, fear, and sacrifice.
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The epic struggle of the century—World War II.
It's America, and her allies are at war against tyrants who seek to subjugate everyone—and every American must risk it all to help themselves, their family, and their country to survive.
The Holts, an Illinois family, are caught up in the trials of World War II, their sons as soldiers and their daughter as the wife of a soldier. As each experiences the ebb of war—where people are struggling for their very existence—they come to realize that wartime looks different for everyone involved. Because not all conflicts are being fought by those in the air. They’re also being fought by those at home…waiting on loved ones to return.
Some will live, some will not, but all will serve.
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Betrayal turns a young survivor into a weapon when a king’s violence destroys everything he was meant to inherit.
God of Vengeance
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Betrayal turns a young survivor into a weapon when a king’s violence destroys everything he was meant to inherit. In God of Vengeance, Sigurd escapes slaughter and gathers a hard-edged band of warriors to hunt the ruler who murdered his family. Brutal, fast-moving, and steeped in Viking blood feud, this historical saga centers revenge, loyalty, and war-forged identity.
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A glorious, bloody, perfect Viking saga of honour, courage, blood feud and revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lancelot, Giles Kristian. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Games of Thrones.
"Unrelenting pace, brilliant action and characters. A masterwork." - CONN IGGULDEN
"Action-packed storytelling which stirs the blood and thrills the soul" - WILBUR SMITH
"Easily one of the best books I've had the pleasure to read" - ***** Reader review.
IT BEGAN WITH THE BETRAYAL OF A LORD BY A KING...
Norway 785 AD. When King Gorm puts Jarl Harald's family to the sword, he makes one fatal mistake - he fails to kill Harald's youngest son, Sigurd.
His kin slain, his village seized, his taken as slaves, Sigurd wonders if the gods have forsaken him. Hunted by powerful men, he is unsure who to trust and yet he has a small band of loyal followers at his side. With them - and with the help of the All-Father, Odin - he determines to make a king pay for his treachery.
Using cunning and war-craft, Sigurd gathers together a fellowship of warriors - including his father's right-hand man Olaf, Bram (who men call Bear), Black Floki who wields death with a blade, and the shield maiden Valgerd, who fears no man - and convinces them to follow him.
For, whether Ódin is with him or not, Sigurd WILL have vengeance. And neither men nor gods had best stand in his way . . .
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War offers one man the promise of moral purpose, then strips that certainty away piece by piece.
Sword of Honor
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War offers one man the promise of moral purpose, then strips that certainty away piece by piece. In Sword of Honor, Guy Crouchback enters World War II hoping to defend faith and civilization, only to confront the absurdity, cruelty, and disillusionment of military life. It fits readers looking for literary war fiction that balances satire, spiritual conflict, and a deeply human portrait of ideals under pressure.
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Evelyn Waugh's satiric World War II trilogy comprises the acclaimed novels Men at Arms, Officers and Gentlemen, and Unconditional Surrender.
This narrative spanning the war, based in part on Evelyn Waugh's own experiences as an army officer, is the author's surpassing achievement as a novelist. Its central character is Guy Crouchback, head of an ancient but decayed Catholic family, who at first discovers new purpose in the challenge to defend Christian values against Nazi barbarism, but then gradually finds the complexities and cruelties of war overwhelming. Though often somber, Sword of Honor is also a brilliant comedy, peopled by the fantastic figures so familiar from Waugh's early satires. The deepest pleasures these novels afford come from observing a great satirist employ his gifts with extraordinary subtlety, delicacy, and human feeling, for purposes that are ultimately anything but humorous.
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions.
We Must Not Think of Ourselves
Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Inside the Warsaw Ghetto, preserving the truth becomes its own act of resistance as one man records the lives unfolding around him under impossible conditions. In We Must Not Think of Ourselves, Adam Paskow joins a secret archive and finds himself pulled toward love, duty, and an unbearable moral choice. This historical novel is marked by intimate witness, quiet courage, and the human cost of survival under Nazi occupation.
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From a New York Times bestselling author Lauren Grodstein, a story inspired by a little-known piece of history in the lives of Jewish occupants of the Warsaw Ghetto in World War II. Called a "masterpiece", and as seen on The Today Show with Jenna pick (Madeline Miller).
On a November day in 1940, Adam Paskow becomes a prisoner in the Warsaw Ghetto, where the Jews of the city are cut off from their former lives and held captive by Nazi guards to await an uncertain fate. Weeks later, he is approached by a mysterious figure with a surprising request: Would he join a secret group of archivists working to preserve the truth of what is happening inside these walls?
Adam agrees and begins taking testimonies from his students, friends, and neighbors. One of the people Adam interviews is his flatmate Sala Wiskoff, who is stoic, determined, and funny—and married with two children. Over the months of their confinement, in the presence of her family, they fall in love. But when Adam discovers a possible escape from the Ghetto, he is faced with an unbearable choice: whom can he save, and at what cost ?
Inspired by the testimony-gathering project with the code name Oneg Shabbat, and told with immediacy and heart, We Must Not Think of Ourselves is a piercing story of love, determination, and sacrifice.
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Moral clarity comes at a brutal cost when one man sees the danger long before others are ready to believe it.
The Keeper of the Glass House
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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Moral clarity comes at a brutal cost when one man sees the danger long before others are ready to believe it. In The Keeper of the Glass House, Miklós Kraus fights to save Hungarian Jews after the Nazi invasion of Budapest, building a fragile refuge as persecution closes in from every side. Based on a true story, this WWII novel draws its power from courage under pressure, impossible choices, and the human will to protect others against overwhelming evil.
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How can one man save the lives of thousands from total destruction?
Budapest, 1944. When the Nazis invade Hungary, the leaders of the local Jewish community trust that the Hungarian government will protect them from deportation. But Miklós Kraus, a young Jewish activist living in Budapest, isn’t convinced. After reading a shocking report exposing the atrocities taking place at the Auschwitz concentration camp, Kraus is determined to do everything he can to save as many Jews as possible from certain death.
Using his cunning and connections with the Swiss consulate, Kraus concocts a plan that could save thousands of Jewish families. After the Nazis invade his homeland, he secures an old glass factory, dubbed “the Glass House,” which becomes a safe haven from the violence raging on the streets of Budapest.
As the Nazis become increasingly desperate to expedite their plans and the threat of mass annihilation looms over his daring operation, Kraus will have to risk more than he ever imagined to save his people.
The Keeper of the Glass House is the moving and captivating story of how one man saved the lives of many, based on the inspiring untold true story of Miklós (Moshe) Krausz.
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Good for readers who want classic war fiction, moral conflict, and sweeping character-driven stories.
The Young Lions
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A New York Times bestseller called a “masterpiece” by The Boston Globe, The Young Lions follows three soldiers on different sides of World War II, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 1,500 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want classic war fiction, moral conflict, and sweeping character-driven stories.
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One of the great World War II novels, this New York Times–bestselling "masterpiece" captures the experiences of three very different soldiers (The Boston Globe).
Standing alongside Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's From Here to Eternity, The Young Lions is one of the most powerful American novels to tackle the Second World War. Ambitious in its scope and robust in its prose, Irwin Shaw's work is also deeply humanistic, presenting the reality of war as seen through the eyes of ordinary soldiers on both sides. The story follows the individual dramas—and ultimately intertwined destinies—of Christian Diestl, a Nazi sergeant; Noah Ackerman, a Jewish American infantryman; and Michael Whitacre, an idealistic urbanite from the New York theatrical world.
Diestl first appears as a dashing ski instructor in Austria, mouthing his loyalty to Nazi ideals. As the war progresses, Diestl's character continues to erode as he descends into savagery. Ackerman must endure domestic anti-Semitism and beatings in boot camp before proving himself in the European theater. Eventually, as part of the liberating army, he comes face-to-face with the unimaginable horrors of the death camps. Whitacre, trading cocktail parties for Molotov cocktails, confronts the barbarism of war, and in fighting simply to survive, finds his own capacity for heroism.
Shaw's sweeping narrative is at once vivid, exciting, and brutally realistic as well as poignant in its portrayal of the moral devastation and institutional insanity of war. Penned by a master storyteller at the height of his craft, The Young Lions stands the test of time as a classic novel of war and the human experience.
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A stretch of ruined ground becomes the point where ambition, survival, and conscience collide.
Sinner’s Cross
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A stretch of ruined ground becomes the point where ambition, survival, and conscience collide. In Sinner's Cross, soldiers on both sides of the Second World War are driven toward a worthless patch of forest that powerful men have decided is worth dying for. A grim war novel that focuses on fractured loyalties, moral exhaustion, and the human cost of strategy.
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A boy who escapes Nazi Germany carries grief, rage, and the weight of those left behind into a war that will ask him to confront all of it.
That Such Men Lived
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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A boy who escapes Nazi Germany carries grief, rage, and the weight of those left behind into a war that will ask him to confront all of it. In That Such Men Lived, Johannes is transformed from a hunted teenager into a soldier trained to help dismantle the regime that shattered his life. This World War II novel centers sacrifice, identity, and hard-won hope under impossible pressure.
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"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived."
—General George S. Patton
Seventeen-year-old Johannes Schmitt can do nothing but watch as the Gestapo murders his father in his own home.
Forced to flee Germany, Johannes is torn from the girl he loves and the mother he swore to protect, boarding a ship to America with nothing but a suitcase, a broken Star of David, and the weight of survivor’s guilt. He arrives alone, enraged, and powerless to help those he loves.
That is, until he’s finally drafted into the US Army.
From there, Johannes is sent to the most unlikely of places: the top-secret Camp Ritchie, where he and fellow Jewish immigrants learn advanced interrogation techniques and German order of battle, strategies that promise to change the tides of the war. From the burning streets of Briedheim to the secretive Camp Ritchie to the very walls of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, Johannes must navigate a journey haunted by the past as he tries to keep his honor intact.
In this evocative retelling of the real-life German-born Jewish immigrants known as the Ritchie Boys, That Such Men Live is a gritty and emotional story of sacrifice, war, and maintaining hope when all seems lost.
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It fits readers who want emotionally grounded historical fiction shaped by sisterhood, sacrifice, and survival under impossible conditions.
Angels of the Pacific
Historical Fiction · War Fiction · World War 2
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War narrows the world until courage becomes a daily act of endurance. In Angels of the Pacific, an American Army nurse and a Filipina student face occupation, imprisonment, and resistance in the Philippines during World War II, each forced to discover how far she will go to protect others. It fits readers who want emotionally grounded historical fiction shaped by sisterhood, sacrifice, and survival under impossible conditions.
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"Absolutely riveting. A stay-up-all night read about two very different women who discover just how strong they can be—and just how much they'll dare—during the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. This story of endurance and sisterhood will have you turning pages late into the night." —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author
If you loved Beantown Girls by Jane Healey and Hazel Gaynor’s When We Were Young & Brave, then you won’t want to miss critically acclaimed author Elise Hooper’s powerful new novel of the Angels of Bataan, nurses held as prisoners during the occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
Their survival would depend on sisterhood and service.
Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II’s American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately—victory.
The Philippines, 1941: Tess Abbott, an American Army nurse, has fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the most desirable postings in the world. But everything changes when the Japanese Imperial Army invades with lightning speed and devastating results. Tess and her band of nurses serve on the front lines until they are captured as prisoners of war and held behind the high stone walls of Manila’s Santo Tomas Internment Camp.
When the Japanese occupation of her beloved homeland commences, Flor Dalisay, a Filipina university student, will be drawn into the underground network of resistance, discovering within herself reserves of courage, resilience, and leadership she never knew she possessed.
As the war continues, Tess and Flor face danger, deprivation, and terror, leading them into a web of danger as they unexpectedly work together to save lives and win their freedom.
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Freedom becomes more dangerous the closer it feels.
The Boy Who Said No
Historical Fiction · Suspense · War Fiction
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Freedom becomes more dangerous the closer it feels. In The Boy Who Said No, Frank Mederos comes of age under Castro’s regime and risks everything to escape the army, evade a relentless manhunt, and reach the life he wants beyond Cuba. This historical novel draws its momentum from true events, blending political danger, personal loss, and the stubborn courage it takes to refuse submission.
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As a boy Frank Mederos' grandfather teaches him to fish, to navigate the seas, and to think for himself, much needed skills under the new Castro regime. When Frank is drafted into the army, he is soon promoted to the Special Forces, where he is privy to top military secrets. But young Frank has no sympathy for Fidel. He thirsts for freedom and longs to join his girlfriend who has left Cuba for America.
Frank yearns to defect, but his timing couldn't be worse. After two unsuccessful escape attempts, Frank learns that the departure of the next available boat conflicts with upcoming military exercises. If he stays, he will miss the boat. If he doesn't, he will be the object of a massive manhunt.
Problems abound: How will Frank escape the army base without being seen? Where will he hide until the boat comes? How can he outwit his commanding officer? And how can he elude hundreds of soldiers ordered to bring him back "dead or alive"?
Frank's true story, a tale of love, loss and courage that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page is turned.
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This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction and mythology retellings centered on women usually pushed to the margins of epic stories.
The Silence of the Girls
Historical Fiction · Pre-History | Ancient History · War Fiction
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Briseis, once a queen, becomes Achilles' captive after the Greeks destroy her city and must survive life among the conquered women of the Greek camp as the Trojan War moves toward its end, with a 3.9-star average from more than 120,900 Goodreads ratings. This will appeal to readers who want historical fiction and mythology retellings centered on women usually pushed to the margins of epic stories.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a brave and masterful retelling of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of the Trojan War.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award • Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction
One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Washington Post, The Economist, Financial Times
Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again.
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