книги о войне
Пуля для карателя
Александр Тамоников
Лето 1944 года. Варшавское восстание тонет в крови. Головорезы СС и их приспешники беспощадно расправляются с бойцами народной армии и мирным населением. Посланная спасти руководителей подполья группа советских разведчиков погибает при...
Суждено выжить
Илья Александрович Земцов
Более 20 лет ушло на написание этих мемуаров, еще больше – на их издание. В советские годы рассказать правдивую историю Великой Отечественной войны мешала цензура. Сейчас ее нет, как и самого автора. Илья Александрович Земцов (1918-2000)...
Северный крест
Валерий Поволяев
История Северной армии и ее роль в Гражданской войне практически не освещены в российской литературе. Катастрофически мало написано и о генерале Е. К. Миллере, а ведь он не только командовал этой армией, но и был Верховным правителем Северного...
Дважды доброволец
Дмитрий Анатольевич Прусаков
Автобиографичный рассказ об Афганской войне. Открывает серию рассказов, посвященных интересным событиям 80-90-х годов, участником и свидетелем которых автору посчастливилось быть. Служба рядовым в одном из самых "боевых" подразделений...
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
David Crane
Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home to be buried in local cemeteries.The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the...
Empires of the Dead: How One Man’s Vision Led to the Creation of WWI’s War Graves
David Crane
Before WWI, little provision was made for the burial of the war dead. Soldiers were often unceremoniously dumped in a mass grave; officers shipped home to be buried in local cemeteries.The great cemeteries of WWI came about as a result of the...
Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire
Fergal Keane
(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Maps are best viewed on a tablet.)The epic story of one of the most savage battles of the Second World War.Kohima. In this remote Indian village near the border with Burma, a tiny force of...
Chasing the Moon: The Story of the Space Race - from Arthur C. Clarke to the Apollo landings
Robert Stone
Chasing the Moon thoroughly reimagines the race to the moon, upending much of the conventional mythology. With newly revealed stories about the moon race, from its earliest days to the monumental achievement of the lunar landing in 1969, the...
For Five Shillings a Day: Personal Histories of World War II
Dr. Campbell-Begg Richard
An amazing collection of eyewitness accounts of the British experience in World War II. First-hand narratives are drawn from every rank of the army and every corner of the conflict to create a moving and illuminating story of the greatest war of...
The Great World War 1914–1945: 1. Lightning Strikes Twice
John Bourne
Comparing and contrasting the World Wars.This will be a landmark in military history: a collaborative venture between historians from 20 different countries addressing every aspect of the two world wars. The scope of the book is enormous. From...
I'll Be Seeing You
Loretta Nyhan
‘I hope this letter gets to you quickly. We are always waiting, aren’t we? Perhaps the greatest gift this war has given us is the anticipation…’ It's January 1943 when Rita Vincenzo receives her first letter from Glory Whitehall. Glory is an...
Letter To An Unknown Soldier: A New Kind of War Memorial
Kate Pullinger
On Platform One of Paddington Station in London, there is a statue of an unknown soldier; he’s reading a letter. On the hundredth anniversary of the declaration of war everyone in the country was invited to take a moment and write that letter. A...
The Complete Navarone 4-Book Collection: The Guns of Navarone, Force Ten From Navarone, Storm Force from Navarone, Thunderbolt from Navarone
Алистер Маклин
The Guns of Navarone and its three sequels, in which the same characters are sent on other wartime missions, together in one volume for the first time to mark the 50th anniversary of the original book .THE GUNS OF NAVARONEMallory, Miller and...
Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two – Spearhead of Victory
Patrick Bishop
In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop – author of bestselling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys – explores the lives and wartime experience of thousands of men and women who served in all units of the airforce. To mark the...
Alamein: The turning point of World War Two
Iain Gale
The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history foreverThere are some battles that change the course of history:...
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
Макс Хейстингс
Maps best viewed on a tablet.A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the...
Anne Bennett 3-Book Collection: A Sister’s Promise, A Daughter’s Secret, A Mother’s Spirit
Anne Bennett
A compelling and heartrending collection of novels. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Groves.A Sister’s PromiseWhen young Molly’s mother is killed in an accident, she and her beloved little brother are parted, with Molly sent to live...
Annie Groves 2-Book Valentine Collection: My Sweet Valentine, Where the Heart Is
Annie Groves
Two wonderfully heart-warming novels, available together for the first time, from the best-selling author of London Belles and As Time Goes By.My Sweet Valentine is an emotional portrayal of the lives of four women in wartime London.Tilly,...
Death or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire
Dan Snow
An epic history of the battle of Quebec, the death of Wolfe and the beginnings of Britain’s empire in North America. Military history at its best.Perched on top of a tall promontory, surrounded on three sides by the treacherous St Lawrence...
Deserter: The Last Untold Story of the Second World War
Charles Glass
The extraordinary story of the deserters of the Second World War. Who were they? What made them run? And what happened once they made the decision to flee?During the Second World War, the British lost 100,000 troops to desertion, and the...
Enchanter: Book Two of the Axis Trilogy
Sara Douglass
Epic fantasy in the tradition of Trudi Canavan, Fiona McIntosh and Robert Jordan. Sara Douglass returns us to a world in the grip of prophecy and war …‘Welcome Axis, into the House of SunSoar and into my heart… Sing well and fly high and may...
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Raghu Karnad
Described as ‘a masterpiece’ by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing.If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry’s Fine Balance or...
Flashman Papers 3-Book Collection 2: Flashman and the Mountain of Light, Flash For Freedom!, Flashman and the Redskins
George Fraser MacDonald
Books 4-6 in George MacDonald Fraser’s uproarious bestselling Flashman series, now available in one ebook for the first time.FLASHMAN AND THE MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT: 1845-1846Given the choice between defending Britannia’s frontier against the mighty...
Great Escapes: The story of MI9’s Second World War escape and evasion maps
Barbara Bond
The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945. Fascinating stories of secret maps used by prisoners of World War II.The creation of MI9 in December 1939, the...
Her Hidden Life: A captivating story of history, danger and risking it all for love
V.S. Alexander
It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be.But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all…Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the Reich by becoming the F?hrer’s ‘Taster’ – a woman who checks...
Jack Steel Adventure Series Books 1-3: Man of Honour, Rules of War, Brothers in Arms
Iain Gale
Charismatic hero Jack Steel’s perilous adventures are for the first time available in one place.Meet Lieutenant Jack Steel – gentleman, soldier, hero.Upper Bavaria, 1704. The British army, triumphant, fresh from victory, stands proudly to...
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
Richard Holmes
(This edition includes a limited number of illustrations.)‘Redcoat is a wonderful book. It is not just a work of history – but one of enthusiasm and unparalleled knowledge.' BERNARD CORNWELL‘Redcoat is a wonderful book. It is not just a work of...
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front
Richard Holmes
The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it.Of...
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975
Макс Хейстингс
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times‘Magnificent… One by one, the sacred canons of right and left are obliterated. The war is laid bare, with all its uncomfortable truths exposed’ The Times‘An altogether magnificent...
Empire of the Sun
John Lanchester
The heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War.Based on J. G. Ballard’s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy’s life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai – a...
In A Dark Wood
Shaun Whiteside
At the end of the Second World War, Jacob Noah emerges from the hole in the ground where he has been hiding for the past three years, and cycles madly back to his home town to find that his parents and brother have perished at the hands of the...
A Daughter’s Secret
Anne Bennett
A moving and gritty saga of loss, separation and finally hope, set in wartime BirminghamAgnes Sullivan is fifteen when her young brother Tom finds her drunk and crying in the lane near their farm. Her dancing teacher has raped her and abandoned...
A Christmas Promise
Annie Groves
An emotional and heart-warming portrayal of the lives of four women living in wartime London.For the girls living at No.13 Article Row, the war years have never been tougher…Tilly is heartbroken when Drew, the love of her life, returns to...
The General
C. Forester S.
The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One...
Innocence
Julian Barnes
Stunning modern new cover reissue of one of Penelope Fitzgerald’s best-loved novelsInnocence is set in the 1950s, when Italy was picking up the pieces after the war. Chiara Ridolfi is the guileless daughter of a decrepit Italian family. Barney...
Tommy’s War: A First World War Diary 1913–1918
Andrew Marr
The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.Thomas Cairns...
The Ideas That Shaped Post-War Britain
Anthony Seldon
The seventy years since the end of the Second World War have seen dramatic changes in Britain’s cultural, intellectual and political climate. Old class allegiances have been challenged by new loyalties to gender, ethnicity, religion or lifestyle...
World War 2 Thriller Collection: Winter, The Eagle Has Flown, South by Java Head
Алистер Маклин
Presented for the first time, three classic war novels from the generals of the genre, Len Deighton, Jack Higgins & Alistair MacLean.Prepare to be blown away by these explosive thrillers:WINTERThe epic prelude to Deighton’s acclaimed Bernard...
Battle for the Falklands: The Winter War
Patrick Bishop
‘Boldly planned, bravely executed and brilliantly accomplished’ was Margaret Thatcher’s assessment of the Falklands campaign. But what did the war mean to the men in the trenches and below decks?This gripping first-hand account of the Falklands...
The Redemption of Althalus
David Eddings
A fabulous Eddings standalone fantasy, set in an entirely new magical world.Burglar, armed robber and sometime murderer, our hero Althalus is commissioned to steal a book from the House at the End of the World by a mysterious cloaked stranger...
The General: The Classic WWI Tale of Leadership
C. Forester S.
The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One...
The Long Ships: A Saga of the Viking Age
Michael Meyer
This saga brings alive the world of the 10th century AD when the Vikings raided the coasts of England.Acclaimed as one of the best historical novels ever written, this engaging saga of Viking adventure in 10th century northern Europe has a very...
Every Home Needs A Balcony
Rina Frank
This international bestseller tells the bittersweet story of one family, one home, and the surprising arc of one woman's life, from the poverty of her youth, to the intense love and painful losses of her adult years.Braiding together the past...
Bomb Hunters: In Afghanistan with Britain’s Elite Bomb Disposal Unit
Sean Rayment
'Afghanistan is just like Iraq – hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search AdvisorBomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in...
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
Макс Хейстингс
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses...
Churchill Defiant: Fighting On 1945–1955
Barbara Leaming
Winston Churchill rages against time and his own mortality, in conflict with friend and foe alike, in this tumultuous political drama of his last ten years of public life. Here is Churchill at his most outrageous, maddening and devious – but...
Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection
Conn Iggulden
Conn Iggulden’s No.1 bestselling series, which tells the epic story of Genghis Khan, his warrior sons, and their fight to rule an empire, now in one complete eBook for the first time.WOLF OF THE PLAINS, LORDS OF THE BOW, BONES OF THE HILL,...
Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Joshua Levine
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE EPIC TRUE STORY OF DUNKIRK – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, AND STARRING KENNETH BRANAGH, TOM HARDY, AND MARK RYLANCE.In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more...
Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945
Patrick Bishop
Two of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling books, ‘Fighter Boys’ and ‘Bomber Boys’, are combined in one eBook edition.FIGHTER BOYS: In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of...
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45
Макс Хейстингс
Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before.Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But...
