книги о войне
Circus
Алистер Маклин
Reissue of the classic tale of espionage set in Cold War Europe, where the world’s greatest circus acrobat must break into an impenetrable fortress, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense.Bruno Wildermann of the Wrinfield Circus is the...
A Girl Can Dream
Anne Bennett
A dramatic and emotional story of one woman’s story to keep her family together. For fans of Dilly Court and Kitty Neale.When Meg’s mother dies in childbirth, she is determined to keep the promise made on her mother’s deathbed – keep the family...
A Man of his Time
Alan Sillitoe
A wonderful historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writersAs a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master...
A Proper Marriage
Дорис Лессинг
The second book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.‘A Proper Marriage’ sees twenty-something Martha...
A Strong Hand to Hold
Anne Bennett
A heartbreaking tale of love and loss in a time of war, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.Jenny O’Leary is devastated one morning in 1940 when she receives a telegram giving her the dreadful news that one of her brothers has been...
An Unsuitable Mother
Sheelagh Kelly
A memorable saga from one of the best-loved writers of the genre. Sheelagh Kelly gives us the pain and determination of the people of York during the Second World War.Nell is just eighteen when war breaks out, and she’s keen to do her bit –...
As Meat Loves Salt
Maria McCann
A sensational tale of obsession and murder from a wonderful writer. ‘An outstanding novel, fresh and unusual [with] all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time.’ Daily Telegraph‘Early in the English Civil War, a body is dredged from the...
Birth of the Kingdom
Ян Гийу
The third volume of the crusades trilogy from bestselling Swedish author Jan Guillou.Arn de Gotha has become one of the most feared warriors of the Knights Templar fighting to liberate Palestine with the Crusaders.At the great battle for...
Daisy's Long Road Home
Merryn Allingham
All she’s ever wanted is a place to call home1948: Daisy Driscoll is working as a qualified Sister in Brighton. The war may be over, but Daisy’s heart is in turmoil. Abandoned in childhood and haunted by the experience of her first marriage,...
Darksoul
Anna Stephens
The thrilling sequel to GODBLIND, the biggest fantasy debut of 2017.The Wolves lie dead beside Rilpor’s soldiers, slaughtered at the hands of the Mireces and their fanatical army.The veil that once kept the Red Gods at bay has been left in...
Declarations of War
Len Deighton
A collection of thirteen stories that offer an inside view of fighting men poised at the edge of death.Len Deighton's only collection of shorter fiction, this dazzling array of stories spans twenty-three centuries of warfare.From Hannibal's...
Dust and Steel
Patrick Mercer
Thrilling military history from the author of To Do and Die. Perfect for fans of Andy McNabb and Richard Sharpe.As the ship docked in Bombay, the shocking news of the rising by the Indian mutineers and their massacre of women, children and...
Ellie Pride
Annie Groves
The stunning saga from the bestselling author of Child of the Mersey and Only a Mother Knows. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.A stirring, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the early years of the 1900s as the First...
Five Miles from Outer Hope
Nicola Barker
The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers.It's the summer of 1981. Medve, sixteen years old and six foot three inches tall (a positive girl giant) is stuck in a semi-derelict art-deco hotel...
Map of the Invisible World
Tash Aw
From the author of the internationally acclaimed, Whitbread Award-winning ‘The Harmony Silk Factory’ comes an enthralling new novel that evokes an exotic yet turbulent and often frightening world.Sixteen-year-old Adam is an orphan three times...
On a Wing and a Prayer
Ruby Jackson
The fourth in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.Rose Petrie is desperate to do something for the war effort. Despite the daily hardships and the nightly...
Last Man to Die
Michael Dobbs
An acclaimed historical thriller by the author of HOUSE OF CARDS – a highly original, fast-moving tale that gives an unexpected twist to the last days of the Second World War. Now reissued in a new cover style.Spring 1945. The final weeks of the...
Men from the Boys
Tony Parsons
The final episode in the trilogy that began with the million-copy bestseller MAN AND BOYTen years on from MAN AND BOY, it is crunch time for Harry…Life is good for Harry Silver. He has a beautiful wife, three wonderful children and a great job...
No Man’s Land
Simon Tolkien
From the slums of London to the riches of an Edwardian country house; from the hot, dark seams of a Yorkshire coalmine to the exposed terrors of the trenches, Adam Raine’s journey from boy to man is set against the backdrop of a society...
Flight of Eagles
Jack Higgins
Born in the United States but separated since they were boys, twin brothers Max and Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides when the Second World War broke out, Max as one of the Luftwaffe’s most feared pilots, Harry as a Yank...
Games Traitors Play
Jon Stock
Re-inventing the spy story for the 21st Century.John Le Carre meets Jason Bourne!Salim Dhar is the world's most wanted terrorist. The CIA is under pressure to hunt him down, after he narrowly failed to kill the US president. The borders of...
Ice Station Zebra
Алистер Маклин
A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense.The atomic submarine Dolphin has impossible orders: to sail beneath the ice-floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of weather-station Zebra, gutted by fire and...
Kingdom of Shadows
Barbara Erskine
Barbara Erskine's classic bestseller, the successor to Lady of Hay, at last available as a HarperCollins paperback.In a childless and unhappy marriage, Clare Royland is rich and beautiful – but lonely. And fueling her feelings of isolation is a...
Lessons in Heartbreak
Cathy Kelly
Upbeat and bursting with emotion – this is another gem from the No. 1 bestselling author, Cathy Kelly.Three Lives. Three Loves. Three Reasons to let go…Izzie Silver left the small Irish town of Tamarin behind for New York. Life is good – until...
Luciano’s Luck
Jack Higgins
The brilliant suspense thriller from the author of THE EAGLE HAS LANDED, set in the wartime battlegrounds of the Mediterranean.A brilliant suspense thriller from the wartime battlegrounds of the Mediterranean.In the historic summer offensive of...
Man of Honour
Iain Gale
The first in a stunning new historical adventure series, perfect for all fans of SharpeMeet Lieutenant Jack Steel – gentleman, soldier, hero.Upper Bavaria, 1704. The British army, triumphant, fresh from victory, stands proudly to attention,...
Force Protection
Gordon Kent
From the acclaimed author of Top Hook and Hostile Contact, the fifth exhilarating tale of modern espionage and military adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik – sure to appeal to the many fans of Tom Clancy and Dale...
Forgive Me
Amanda Eyre Ward
A stunning and compelling novel of love and ambition.Nadine is a 35-year-old journalist at a crossroads in her life. She longs for Pulitzer-prize winning success but her career seems to be going nowhere until the story of a lifetime comes up....
Heading Inland
Nicola Barker
Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore.Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother...
HMS Ulysses
Алистер Маклин
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style.The story of men who rose to...
Hostile Contact
Gordon Kent
From the acclaimed author of Night Trap, Peacemaker and Top Hook, an exhilarating tale of modern espionage and flying adventure featuring US Navy intelligence officer Alan Craik – sure to appeal to the many fans of Tom Clancy and Dale Brown.For...
Martha Quest
Дорис Лессинг
The opening book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.When we first meet Martha Quest, she is a girl of...
Never Surrender
Michael Dobbs
Winston Churchill embarks on a battle of wills with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to Dunkirk. The compelling new historical novel from the acclaimed author of Winston’s War.Winston Churchill at his lowest ebb – pitted in personal confrontation with...
Northern Lights
Tim O’Brien
The acclaimed novel from the award-winning author of ‘If I Die in a Combat Zone’, ‘Going After Cacciato’ and ‘In the Lake of the Woods’.The action in ‘Northern Lights’ takes place not in Vietnam but back in the USA, as Tim O’Brien explores the...
Juggernaut
Desmond Bagley
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Africa.It is no ordinary juggernaut. Longer than a football pitch, weighing 550 tons, and moving at just five miles per hour, its job – and that of troubleshooter Neil Mannix – is to move a...
Landlocked
Дорис Лессинг
The fourth book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s ‘Children of Violence’ series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain.In the aftermath of the Second World War, Martha...
March
Geraldine Brooks
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and Richard and Judy pick.From the author of the acclaimed ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’, a historical novel and love story set during a time of catastrophe on the front lines of the American...
Pantheon
Sam Bourne
The darkest secrets of World War II… finally revealed. The Number One bestseller returns with his most explosive book to date.Europe is ablaze. America is undecided about joining the fight against Nazism. And James Zennor, a brilliant, troubled,...
Force 10 from Navarone
Алистер Маклин
The thrilling sequel to Alistair MacLean’s masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone.The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the...
High Citadel
Desmond Bagley
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the South American Andes.When Tim O’Hara’s plane is hijacked and forced to crash land in the middle of the Andes, his troubles are only beginning. A heavily armed group of communist soldiers...
High Citadel / Landslide
Desmond Bagley
Double action thrillers by the classic adventure writer set in the South American Andes and British Columbia.HIGH CITADELWhen Tim O'Hara's plane is hijacked and forced to crash land in the middle of the Andes, his troubles are only beginning. A...
MAMista
Len Deighton
Deep in Marxist Guerilla territory a hopeless war is being fought.The Berlin Wall is demolished. Marx is dead. Try telling that to Ramon and his desperate men hiding in the jungle cradling their AK 47s, dusting off the slabs of Semtex and...
Operation Lavivrus
John Wiseman
The debut novel from legendary SAS Survival Guide author Lofty Wiseman.• Test your wits at key points in the story to see if you’d survive Operation Lavivrus, and make it home alive. Lofty has written optional questions throughout the story to...
Если бы не война
Александра Олеговна Корончик
Сборник включает в себя четыре рассказа о войне. Лишь последний – зарисовка о мирной жизни, которая герою дается так же непросто, как и военная. Простые, но проникновенные рассказы, добавляют штрихи к событиям военных лет – от Гражданской до...
Play With a Tiger and Other Plays
Дорис Лессинг
Three acclaimed works for the stage by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWritten from 1950s to the 1970s, the three plays collected here reflect the social and political concerns of the times, and are rich with Doris...
The Dog that Saved My Life: Incredible true stories of canine loyalty beyond all bounds
Isabel George
Five incredible true stories of canine bravery in wartime.For as long as dogs have lived alongside man, they have saved their lives in wartime with their bravery, loyalty and companionship. From the WWII dog that was adopted by the Royal Navy as...
The Emma of Normandy 2-book Collection: Shadow on the Crown and The Price of Blood
Patricia Bracewell
The first two novels in an epic series about Queen Emma of Normandy, set in 11th-century England when Vikings are on the brink of invasion. A standout series of seduction, war, betrayal and unrequited love from an outstanding new voice in...
The Emperor Series Books 1-4
Conn Iggulden
The first four books in Conn Iggulden’s acclaimed Emperor series brilliantly interweave history and adventure to recreate the astonishing life of Julius Caesar: the greatest Roman of them all. Now in one complete eBook for the first time.THE...
The Lost Love of a Soldier: A timeless Historical romance for fans of War and Peace
Jane Lark
‘Fans of War and Peace will relish this poignant novel of love and loss’ – Nicola CornickNa?ve and innocent, Lady Ellen Pembroke falls for a dashing young army officer. Captain Paul Harding has such an easy, enchanting smile and his blue eyes...
