Arctic Worlds

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author comes the spellbinding, fiercely told story of the deadly Arctic campaign of World War II. Battle of the Arctic is a wonderfully evocative history and largely unknown saga of World War II. As the Soviet Union played its role in the conflict, Ally...

Dive into the urgent environmental science and high-stakes geopolitics transforming the frozen frontiers of the north. As rising temperatures shatter seasonal norms and melt ancient permafrost, this immersive exploration brings you to the front lines of climate change. Whether you need a...

The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims, effectively rewriting the history of polar exploration and putting Amundsen center stage as the rightful conqueror of both poles.

July 1942. Convoy PQ-17 is being hunted across the Arctic. German bombers, U-boats, and surface raiders are tearing apart the scattered merchant ships bound for the Soviet Union. Sailors are freezing in lifeboats. Cargo meant for the Eastern Front is burning in the Norwegian Sea. The Luftwaffe expects another massacre. Then the USS Gerald R. Ford appears where no ship like her should exist. A modern American carrier strike group has been thrown back into World War II with no warning, no explanation, and no way to replace the missiles, aircraft, fuel, and technology it spends. Rear Admiral ...

The future has entered World War II—and the enemy is learning how to fight it. After the USS Gerald R. Ford was thrown back into 1942, Rear Admiral Diane Kessler used the most powerful carrier strike group on Earth to change the course of the war. But every victory has revealed something. Germany is no longer reacting blindly. A secret intelligence staff is studying American radio traffic, recovered technology, captured equipment, and every weapon the Ford has fired. New traps are being designed for aircraft that should not exist. The enemy now understands that the carrier’s missiles ...

What if the next world war doesn't begin with a single invasion, but with six separate crises gradually converging into one? From the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, from Ukraine to Taiwan, from the Arctic to South Asia, today's conflicts are no longer isolated crises. They are increasingly interconnected through alliances, energy markets, supply chains, financial systems, military logistics, and strategic dependencies that span the globe. The question is no longer whether individual wars can be contained. The question is whether the system connecting them can. For decades, geopolitical ...

In a different 1990… The Soviet/Warsaw Pact offensive against NATO almost succeeded save for a last ditch defense by NATO forces in the epic Battle of the Weser River. But with the communist advance halted tough decisions lie ahead for NATO. Prime Minister Thatcher and Chancellor Kohl want to counterattack, while the Bush Administration worries about the effects of further war. As NATO deliberates, the United States and Royal Navies gather in the North Sea for a massive offensive against Soviet occupied Norway. In the Soviet Union the Politburo is split between the hawks and doves, and ...

Roald Amundsen was the most successful polar explorer of his era using sledges, dogs, skis, and ships. He is mainly remembered for being the first man to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. What is less often remembered is that he was also the first man to reach the North Pole on May 12, 1926, as the leader of the Amundsen-Ellsworth-Nobile expedition in the airship Norge.

In this "briskly entertaining" (New York Times Book Review), "transporting and wholly original" (People Magazine) novel, one man banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. In 1916, Sven Ormson...

THE AVA MARTINEZ THRILLERS: BOOKS 1–3 — A Near‑Future Technothriller Box Set Three explosive thrillers. One relentless investigator. A world on the brink. Dive into a gripping near‑future technothriller series where homicide detective Ava Martinez uncovers environmental sabotage, government secrets, engineered crises, and conspiracies operating far beyond the public eye. Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, James Rollins, Daniel Silva, and high‑intensity science‑driven suspense, this three‑book box set delivers a seamless binge‑read experience with a unified table of ...

The Last Viking unravels the life of the man who stands head and shoulders above all those who raced to map the last corners of the world. In 1900, the four great geographical mysteries - the Northwest Passage, the Northeast Passage, the South Pole, and the North Pole - remained blank spots on the globe. Within twenty years Roald Amundsen would claim all four prizes.

In this riveting follow-up to The Blood Gospel, the first book in the thrilling and atmospheric Order of the Sanguine series, New York Times bestselling authors James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell deliver a tale of international adventure, intrigue, suspense, and supernatural mystery involving a...

Vilhjálmur Stefánsson left New York in April 1908 to begin his journey northwards and into the Arctic Circle. For the next two years, he made his way northwards to Victoria Island to study an isolated group of Inuit who still used primitive tools and had strong Caucasian features, and whom some believed were descended from Vikings. The journey into these remote areas was incredibly tough and being delayed by blizzards Stefánsson, along with his companions, were forced to eat the tongue of a beached whale that had been dead for at least four years.

NOMINATED FOR THE 2026 MILITARY HISTORY BOOK AWARDS No campaign during World War Two contained more spinetingling drama, outstanding courage and heartbreaking tragedy than the Arctic convoys. Yet they – and the multifaceted Battle of the Arctic that had to be fought to get them through to...

In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions—the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for...

UPDATED TO REFLECT CURRENT EVENTS! In this fascinating New York Times bestseller—fully revised to reflect the events of our current world—award-winning journalist Tim Marshall uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain how physical landscapes influence geopolitical strategies of world...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVELLA Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost. 2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and...

Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and the soles of his feet; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived.

THEY SURVIVED THE CRASH. NOW SOMEONE HAD TO REACH THEM. Across Greenland’s immense ice cap, an aircraft could disappear within minutes. A whiteout erased the horizon. Hidden crevasses swallowed vehicles and men. Engines froze, radios weakened, and wreckage vanished beneath snow that hardened into moving glacial ice. For stranded airmen, surviving the crash was only the beginning. For the rescuers sent after them, the mission could become another disaster. Frozen Rescue tells the true story of the pilots, radiomen, medics, mechanics, sailors, sled drivers, and ground teams who risked their...

Barrow's Boys is a spellbinding account of perilous journeys to uncharted areas under the most challenging conditions. Fergus Fleming captures the passion for exploration that led a band of men into situations that would humble today's bravest adventurers.