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Red Sky at Morning: A Novel (Perennial Classics)

Red Sky at Morning: A Novel (Perennial Classics)

by Richard Bradford

The classic coming-of-age story set during World War II about the enduring spirit of youth and the values in life that count.

The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition

The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition

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 follows a... (more)

From Here to Eternity

by James Jones

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a... (more)

Whistle (Delta World War II Library)

by James Jones

Partisans

by Alistair MacLean

In wartime, people are either friends or enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die.

The Soldier's Return

by Melvyn Bragg

When Sam Richardson returns in 1946 from the "Forgotten War" in Burma to his hometown in northern England, he finds little changed. The war has changed him, however, broadening his horizons but also leaving him deeply scarred with traumatic, often hellish, memories. In addition, his six-year-old son Joe barely remembers him, and his wife has gained a new sense of independence from her wartime job. As all three... (more)

The Thin Red Line

by James Jones

The World War II classic by the bestselling author of From Here to Eternity and Whistle, now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox. They are the men of C-for-Charlie Company--"Mad" 1st/Sgt. Eddie Welsh, S/Sgt. Don Doll, Pvt. John Bell, Capt. James Stein, Cpl. Fife, and dozens more just like them--infantrymen in "this man's army" who are about to land grim and white-faced on an atoll in the Pacific... (more)

Run Silent, Run Deep

by Edward Latimer Beach

After Pearl Harbor, Captain Richardson is given command of a submarine with instructions to destroy Japanese shipping in the Pacific. Richardson's missions go well at first, but when he takes on the infamous Japanese destroyer, nicknamed Bungo Pete, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues. From the training of the crew right through to the breath-taking climax, this is a novel that reeks authenticity. Based on... (more)

THE BOAT

by Lothar G-Unther Buchheim

Autumn 1941. A U-boat is on a hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic, but the tide is beginning to turn against the Germans. As the U-boat is forced to hide beneath the surface of the sea, the increasing claustrophobia of the submarine becomes an enemy as frightening as any depth charge.

Sink The Bismarck! John Gresham Military Library Selection

Sink The Bismarck! John Gresham Military Library Selection

by C. S. Forester

n 1941, Hitler's deadly Bismarck, the fastest battleship afloat, broke out into the Atlantic. Its mission: to cut the lifeline of British shipping and win the war with one mighty blow. How the Royal Navy tried to meet this threat and its desperate attempt to bring the giant Bismarck to bay is the story C. S. Forester tells with mounting excitement and suspense.

Some Came Running

by James Jones

Farewell to the King

by Pierre Schoendoerffer

Text: English, French (translation)

The Ninety and NineWilliam Brinkley

The Ninety and Nine

by William Brinkley

The Night of the Generals

by Hans Hellmut Kirst

The famous novel about three Nazi generals and a brutal wartime sex crime--and the inspiration for the 1967 film. When a Polish prostitute is murdered in 1942, the suspects come down to three German generals. But nothing happens. Then, in 1944, when the trio gathers again, another killing occurs. However, a coup against Hitler halts the investigations. Then, in 1956, a third slaying takes place-and it's clear that... (more)

Hero in the Tower

by Hans Hellmut Kirst

Attack in the Forest -

by harold calin

Kleber's Convoy

by Antony Trew

It was the custom of the German Naval Command in the Second World War to name Allied convoys after the U-Boat commander who made the first sighting report. Johan Kleber sighted convoy JW137 as it battered its way through the freezing storms and gloom of an Arctic winter; and so Kleber's Convoy it became. The U-Boat's signals were intercepted by the Admiralty in London and passed back to the commanders of the... (more)