книги о войне
Spy Story
Len Deighton
Computer games run in a classified war studies centre in London. Nuclear submarines prowl beneath Arctic ice. And war games go into real time. Patrick Armstrong – possibly the same reluctant hero of The Ipcress File – is sent to...
Sole Survivor
Derek Hansen
Passion, adventure, struggle for survival and love for life – on a remote island.You’re fed up with your office job, your flatmate, your bank manager and yourself. Fate throws you a lifeline. You’re now the sole inheritor of a cottage on a...
Sea Music
Sara MacDonald
A beautifully written novel with great emotional appeal, of family secrets and wartime heritage, set in Cornwall, London and Warsaw.The house and the cottage overlooking the sea, on the corner of the big estate, was home to three generations of...
The WWII Collection
Уильям Уортон
From one of America’s best loved authors comes this collection of WWII novels.Contains four of Wharton’s novels:• Birdy• A Midnight Clear• Franky Furbo• Shrapnel
The White Dove
Rosie Thomas
From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.Born into an aristocratic family, beautiful Amy Lovell leads a whirlwind life of extravagant parties and debutante balls.But Amy, curious about the world...
The Secret Orphan
Glynis Peters
Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved … but at what cost?This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and...
The Restless Sea
Vanessa Haan de
‘The sure-footedness of a pro, an amazing debut’ Jeffrey ArcherAbsorbing and richly observed, THE RESTLESS SEA is a masterful story of the turbulent years of the Second World War.Three lives collide in a way that only the war makes...
The Piano Teacher
Janice Y. K. Lee
Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'.Sometimes the end of a love affair is only the beginning…In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong...
The Memory Palace
Christie Dickason
An epic love story set in the period of Music and Silence, for readers of Rose Tremain and Philippa Gregory.1639. Zeal Beester, mistress of the rolling Hampshire estate of Hawkridge, is pregnant, unwed, and the King has banished her lover to the...
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
A sweeping story of Burma and Malaya over a span of one hundred years that has rightly become a modern classic no for the first time in ebook. From the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Sea of Poppies.Rajkumar is only another boy, helping...
The Final Reckoning
Sam Bourne
From the author of Number One bestseller The Righteous Men. How are hundreds of unexplained deaths, spanning the globe, connected to the last great secret of the Second World War?Tom Byrne has fallen from grace since his days as an idealistic...
The Dream Room
Marcel Moring
‘Into its 120 pages, M?ring folds a war memoir, a family psychodrama and a meditation on time and memory. It is a miracle of compression: everything is significant…one races through it, eager to discover the heart of the mystery.’ GuardianThe...
Tatiana and Alexander
Полина Саймонс
A powerful story of grief, hope and an epic love, from the Russian-born author of internationally bestselling novels, TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE.The world at war … two people in love.Tatiana is eighteen years old and pregnant when she...
Rules of War
Iain Gale
Jack Steel, first met in Man of Honour, is a splendid hero on a new and dangerous mission. Perfect for all fans of Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe.MEET JACK STEEL – GENTLEMAN, SOLDIER, HERO.In the early eighteenth century, the British army led by John...
Rosie’s War
Kay Brellend
A compelling wartime drama from the author of The Street, perfect for fans of Pam Weaver and Kitty Neale.Rosie Gardiner is having a tough war. She’s had to leave her job as a nude at the Windmill in Soho after a horrific assault which left her...
River of Stars
Guy Gavriel Kay
In his critically acclaimed novel Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay told a vivid and powerful story inspired by China’s Tang Dynasty. Now, the international bestselling and multiple award-winning author revisits that invented setting four centuries...
Red Rose, White Rose
Джоанна Хиксон
The powerful story of Cecily Neville, torn between both sides in the War of the Roses, from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride.In fifteenth century England the Neville family rules the north with an iron fist. Ralph Neville, Earl of...
We'll Meet Again
Patricia Burns
Annie Cross has few pleasures in her tough life. On the bleak family farm on the Essex marshlands, she slaves all day for her cruel father. The one thing that keeps her going is her secret meetings with Tom Featherstone.But War steals Tom from...
To Have and To Hold
Anne Bennett
A stirring saga of a nurse who only wants to do her duty in World War Two – and who ends up having to make an agonising choice. Set in Ireland and Birmingham, this is the latest from emerging star of the genre Anne Bennett.Carmel Duffy is the...
The Things They Carried
Tim O’Brien
The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.‘The Things They Carried’ is, on its surface, a sequence of award-winning stories about the madness of the...
The Heart of the Family
Annie Groves
The much-loved author of ACROSS THE MERSEY tells of Liverpool under bombardment as never before – but the Campion family refuses to give in.The Campions have always stuck together through danger and sorrow, but even they begin to wonder if it’s...
The Devil’s Acre
Matthew Plampin
A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher.What price to take hold of the devil’s right hand?Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American...
The Day of Creation
J. G. Ballard
‘Classic Ballard. Mesmerising. No one writes with such haunting impact’ William BoydIn parched, war-torn central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail and dreams of discovering a third Nile to make the Sahara bloom. During his search for...
Teatime for the Firefly
Shona Patel
TEATIME FOR THE FIREFLYLayla Roy has defied the fates. Despite being born under an inauspicious horoscope, she is raised to be educated and independently-minded by her eccentric Anglophile grandfather, Dadamoshai. And, by cleverly manipulating...
People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
A novel from the author of ‘March’ and ‘Year of Wonders’ takes place in the aftermath of the Bosnian War, as a young book conservator arrives in Sarajevo to restore a lost treasure.When Hannah Heath gets a call in the middle of the night in her...
World War One: History in an Hour
Rupert Colley
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The ‘Great War’, from July 1914 to November 1918, was without parallel. It brought to an end four dynasties, ignited revolution, and forged new nations. It introduced killing on an...
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union
Michael Chabon
Set in the Jewish homeland of … Alaska, this is a brilliantly original novel from Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay’.What if, as Franklin Roosevelt once proposed, Alaska – and not Israel...
The Sun Between Their Feet: Collected African Stories Volume Two
Дорис Лессинг
The second volume of Doris Lessing’s ‘Collected African Stories’, and a classic work from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.‘As for these stories – when I write one, it is as if I open a gate into a landscape which is always there....
The Silent Woman: The USA TODAY BESTSELLER - a gripping historical fiction
Terry Thomas Lynn
USA Today bestseller!Would you sell your secrets?Catherine Carlisle is trapped in a loveless marriage and the threat of World War Two is looming. She sees no way out… that is until a trusted friend asks her to switch her husband’s papers in a...
The Siege of Leningrad: History in an Hour
Rupert Colley
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Siege of Leningrad was one of the longest sieges in history and it inflicted some of the worst civilian casualties of World War Two. When Hitler declared his intention to obliterate the...
The Self-Seeding Sycamore: A Short Story from the collection, Reader, I Married Him
Lionel Shriver
A short story by Lionel Shriver from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre.In ‘The Self-Seeding Sycamore’, a widow wages war upon her neighbour’s garden, and makes a surprising discovery.Edited by Tracy Chevalier,...
The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
Макс Хейстингс
‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph‘A serious...
The Secret Legacy: The perfect summer read for fans of Santa Montefiore, Victoria Hislop and Dinah Jeffries
Sara Alexander
’A delightful read’ BooklistSome loves are worth sacrificing everything for . . . Santina is spending her final days at her home, Villa San Vito, in the beautiful Italian town of Positano. As she decides the fate of the magnificent eighteenth...
The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia: A Black-Hearted Soap Opera
Sarah May
Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia.Welcome to...
The Real Band of Brothers: First-hand accounts from the last British survivors of the Spanish Civil War
Max Arthur
Personal stories from the men and women who volunteered to fight for a cause they passionately believed in.The Spanish Civil War, which raged from 1936-9, was a brutal and intense war which claimed well over 500,000 lives. Rightly predicting...
The Oathsworn Series Books 1 to 5
Robert Low
The band of Viking brothers, The Oathsworn, are here. These are the first 5 epic novels in Robert Low’s brilliant Oathsworn series.The ultimate Viking series, all five books in one place.Launch fully into the world of the Oathsworn, led by Einar...
The Oathsworn Series Books 1 to 3
Robert Low
The band of Viking brothers, The Oathsworn, are here. These are the first 3 epic novels in Robert Low’s brilliant Oathsworn series.The ultimate Viking series.Launch into the world of the Oathsworn, led by Einar the Black, and new recruit Orm...
The Last Veteran: Harry Patch and the Legacy of War
Peter Parker
This moving and timely book explores the way the First World War has been thought about and commemorated, and how it has affected its own, and later, generations.On 11 November 1920, huge crowds lined the streets of London for the funeral of the...
The Korean War: History in an Hour
Andrew Mulholland
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Bringing together the military mights of the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United Nations States, the Korean War raged for three years from 1950 to...
The Kingdom Series Books 1 and 2: The Lion Wakes, The Lion At Bay
Robert Low
A NATION WILL FIGHT FOR ITS FREEDOM.The first two books in Robert Low’s trilogy on the making of Scotland.THE LION WAKESIt is 1296 and Scotland is in turmoil. The old king, Alexander III, has died and Edward I of England, desperate to keep...
The Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold: Stories from The Demon Cycle series
Peter V. Brett
Two exciting short stories set in the engrossing world of The Demon Cycle from bestselling fantasy author Peter V. Brett, available together in the UK in hardback and on e-book.Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction. Each night,...
The Girl with the Golden Spurs
Ann Major
From the cradle, Lizzy Kemble had the powerful sense that she didn’t belong in her family’s notorious Texas empire.Her desire for land-grabbing Cole Knight, embittered son of the neighbouring rancher, proved her right. Her daddy had done...
The Forgotten Soldier: He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy
Charlie Connelly
Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.But this is not just his story; it is the...
The Evacuee Summer: Heart-warming historical fiction, perfect for summer reading
Katie King
‘A heartwarming read’ My Weekly ‘A delightful, nostalgic read’ Woman MagazineFar from home, an adventure they’ll never forget…June 1940. Evacuee twins Connie and Jessie are reminded every day of the differences between a Yorkshire summer and...
The Demon Cycle Series Books 1 and 2: The Painted Man, The Desert Spear
Peter V. Brett
Books one and two of the impressive debut fantasy series The Demon Cycle by Sunday Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett. This bundle includes The Painted Man and The Desert Spear. Humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction....
The Demon Cycle Books 1-3 and Novellas: The Painted Man, The Desert Spear, The Daylight War plus The Great Bazaar and Brayan’s Gold and Messenger’s Legacy
Peter V. Brett
A collection of the first three books of the impressive debut fantasy series The Demon Cycle, and two novellas set in the same world, all from the imagination of Sunday Times bestselling author Peter V. Brett.Eleven-year-old Arlen lives with his...
The Bitter Sea: The Struggle for Mastery in the Mediterranean 1935–1949
Simon Ball
A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s.The Mediterranean Sea lies at the very heart of recent world history. To the British...
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
Glenn Taylor
There’s little room in this world for a moral manMeet Early “Trenchmouth“ Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches...
Spitfire Women of World War II
Giles Whittell
The story of the unsung heroines who flew the newest, fastest, aeroplanes in World War II – mostly in southern England where the RAF was desperately short of pilots.Why would the well-bred daughter of a New England factory-owner brave the U-boat...
