Field Wars

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ● In this official Gears of War tie-in novel—leading directly into the events of Gears of War: E-Day—the last human survivors of a vicious alien attack fight a pivotal battle that sets the stage for humanity’s darkest day. As kids, the three of them were...

A reconnaissance man and sniper, John Lewis Barkley served in Company K of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, a unit that participated in almost every major American battle. The York-like episode that earned Barkley his Congressional Medal of Honor occurred on October 7, 1918, when he climbed into an abandoned French tank and singlehandedly held off an advancing German force, killing hundreds of enemy soldiers.

A brilliant young historian offers a vital, comprehensive international military history of the Cold War in which he views the decade-long superpower struggles as one of the three great conflicts of the twentieth century alongside the two World Wars, and reveals how bloody the ""Long Peace""...

Boxset Books 1 & 2 in 'The Resistance Girls Series' In 'In Picardy’s Fields', step into the turbulent battlegrounds of WWI and witness the extraordinary journey of Agnès de Saint-Aubin, a Parisian baroness turned trailblazing battlefield surgeon. Her story unfolds against the chaos of German control at Château de Dragoncourt war hospital in Picardy, where she harbors a secret that endangers her loved ones. Countess Madeleine de Dragoncourt ditches her aristocratic life to launch a perilous mission to rescue her family’s château from enemy captivity. Much to the dislike and admiration...

This program is read by the author. "One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of...

Gormon Hughes has elevated himself. Twenty-odd years ago, he was a desperate young man, broken-hearted and in danger of being literally eaten alive by debt collectors. Ten years ago, he helped untangle the mystery of the Spring-Heeled Jane murders. Now he is the President-Elect of his home country. He has a daughter. He has a multi-world-spanning conflict on his hands.

England, 1120. When Henry I dies with no legitimate male heir, the nation is thrown into chaos. The two rivals for the crown are Henry's daughter Matilda and his nephew Stephen of Blois, both of whom are determined to emerge victorious. A bitter struggle ensues which threatens to reduce England to a barren wasteland and many ordinary people find themselves torn apart from each other in the confusion of deciding which side to fight for. 

The Red Cotton Fields Last Sundown is the ending of an epic beginning ten years before the Civil War and ending at the end of World War II. The story revolves around three families, beginning with the overseer’s son and the plantation owner’s daughter including a slave boy on the Ballaster Plantation in 1850. The four-book series takes these three families through the Civil War, World War I and World War II. This book, Red Cotton Fields Last Sundown, picks up where Angry Sky ends in the middle of World War II. I can assure you this four book Epic is a page turner and never wanting the ...

A World War I historical fiction novel set in northern France, this story follows two courageous women whose friendship, romantic entanglements, and early acts of resistance shape the legacy carried into World War 2. Ideal for readers of Kristin Hannah, Kate Quinn, and Martha Hall Kelly who love emotional, character-driven wartime narratives. France, 1918. Across the shattered fields of Picardy, Agnès de Saint-Aubin tends to the wounded in a frontline hospital until German forces break through the château’s doors. A dangerous secret shadows her every step, and only her American ...

This epic story, set between the years 1918 and 1945, follows the life and times of a German officer and his family through both peace and war. Following the ascension of the Nazi Party to power in 1933 he gets caught up in the heady days of Germany's secret rearmament and the development of its panzer forces. When war breaks out he quickly achieves promotion and decoration for his exploits on the battlefield. But his rise in the ranks of the German Army exposes him to the crimes being committed by his country. As the war continues his devotion to duty and personal ambitions conflict more ...

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants: Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats. 

This program is read by the author. The ultimate guide on leadership from the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Extreme Ownership. In the military, a field manual provides instructions in simple, clear, step-by-step language to help soldiers complete their mission. In the civilian...

The Red Cotton Fields is a story written in the tradition of great historical epics. The story begins on a Georgia plantation in the year 1850, ending on the gold fields of Australia in the year 1884. This is a story surrounding three southern families (the plantation owners, the plantation overseer's family and a Negro slave family) leading up to and including the Civil War. Readers will experience the demise of a southern plantation and follow two of the plantation's previous occupants (Bart Royal, the white overseer's son, and Reiner Washington, an escaped slave as they rise to become ...

The Civil War is Julius Caesar’s personal account of his war with Pompey the Great - the war that destroyed the five-hundred-year-old Roman Republic. Caesar the victor became Caesar the dictator. In three short books, Caesar describes how, in order to defend his honor and the freedom of both himself and the Roman people, he marched on Rome and defeated the forces of Pompey and the Senate in Italy, Spain, and Greece.

A World War II historical fiction novel set between London and Nazi-occupied Belgium, this story follows a young female courier drawn into espionage, resistance work, and a clean, slow-building romantic arc. Perfect for readers of Kristin Hannah, Kate Quinn, and Martha Hall Kelly who seek emotional, character-driven wartime narratives with high tension and strong heroines. England, 1940. As war spreads through Europe, Lili Hamilton longs for a purpose that matches the fierce spirit she inherited from her WWI-heroine mother. London’s political underground draws her first, yet it is the ...

World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves. But Pamela has her own secret.

Waiting to be deployed on a critical mission, elite Marine Raider Matthew Redd stops to help a stranger and wakes up hours later to learn his team was wiped out in an ambush. Unable to remember anything, Redd can’t deny the possibility that he’s somehow responsible for the information leak that led to the massacre. He’s given a deal to avoid a charge of treason, but it means walking away from the Corps and the life he loved. As he faces his loss, Matty gets a cryptic message from his adoptive father, J. B.: “Trouble’s come knocking. . . . Might need your help.”

From the New York Times bestselling author of A. Lincoln and American Ulysses comes the dramatic and definitive biography of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the history-altering professor turned Civil War hero. “A vital and vivid portrait of an unlikely military hero who played a key role in the...

In the midst of war, love might be the deadliest weapon of all. For ten long years, Angels and Demons have waged a brutal war, with one man standing between the Demons and total annihilation: Rokath, the cruel and merciless general feared for his power to raise the dead. A prophecy whispers of a woman with eyes of devious burgundy who will shift the balance of power, but Rokath has plans of his own. After a deadly plague wipes out millions of Demons across the realm, Rokath issues an unforgiving command—every family must send one male to the front or face being put to the sword.

This new expanded edition contains a protocol to develop and hone critical decision-making instincts and make them habitual. This new chapter is read by the author. The instant #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, #1 USA Today bestseller answers the world’s most complex question: How do...