British American War

**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019** "The winning combination of George Newbern's engaging narration and Rick Atkinson's vivid new work of history--the first in a planned trilogy about the American Revolution--brings to life what could have been a dry account of Revolutionary...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the British Empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Taylor’s vivid narrative of an often brutal—sometimes farcical—war reveals much about the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.

Portsmouth, England. A ten-year-old boy. A British warship. The boy already knows what hunger can make someone do. When he is caught stealing food for his family, prison should end his troubles. Instead, it is only the beginning. Taken from his cell and forced aboard the British warship HMS Progress, the boy becomes a cabin boy under a brutal captain. Trapped at sea and subjected to unimaginable cruelty, he learns one lesson above all others: survive. Three years later, Boston changes everything. Then the ship reaches Boston. When fire tears through the city, the boy sees his chance. He ...

South Carolina, 1780. Charleston has fallen. The British believe the American Revolution in the South is over. They are wrong. Retreating deep into the deadly Carolina swamps, Colonel Francis Marion refuses surrender and begins waging a brutal guerrilla war against the most powerful army on earth. Striking supply lines, ambushing patrols, and vanishing into the blackwater wilderness before the British can retaliate, Marion and his ragged militia soon become legends throughout the colonies. To the British, he becomes something else entirely: The Swamp Fox. But the war inside the swamps is ...

From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of Inferno and Catastrophe: 1914, The Secret War is a sweeping examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II—intelligence—showing how espionage successes and failures by the United...

Pellew: Boarders Away Gerald Pellew is fourteen years old, the son of a dead admiral, and newly turned over to the Ardent when she sails straight into a trap off Ushant. Out-gunned by the combined fleets of France and Spain, the ship strikes her colours, and Gerry is marched into a French prison to rot. What follows is hunger, fever, and the slow dying of the men around him, but a boy who has been well taught does not lie down. When a winter storm tears open the prison wall, Gerry and a small powder-boy slip into the flooded river with nothing but a hidden coat and a promise to keep. They ...

From the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling novel, THE ALICE NETWORK, comes another fascinating historical novel about a battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian female bomber pilot who join forces to track the Huntress, a Nazi war criminal gone to ground in America...

From New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Lawhead comes the first installment in the beloved Song of Albion Trilogy--an epic blend of myth, history, and adventure that transports readers beyond the boundaries of the modern world. Lewis Gillies is an American graduate student in Oxford...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 10 BEST BOOKS THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 2011 NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post The New Yorker Chicago Tribune The Economist Nancy Pearl, NPR Bloomberg.com Library Journal Publishers Weekly...

British and American commanders first used modern Special Forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves.

An “enthralling and authoritative” (The Wall Street Journal) political history of World War II that opens a window onto the difficulties of holding together the coalition that ultimately defeated Hitler—by the acclaimed author of Appeasement “A fine reassessment of Allied politics and...

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the second installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. ""The greatest writer of historical adventures today."" —Washington Post...

Before an empire could claim a continent, Indigenous nations stood together and challenged its power. The hidden truth behind Pontiac's War is that a rebellion does not need to overthrow an empire to change history forever. In 1763, after France lost its influence in North America, Britain believed it had inherited control over vast territories across the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. But the Indigenous nations who lived on these lands had their own governments, traditions, and visions for the future. They refused to accept a new authority that ignored their independence and threatened their...

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a...

Have you ever wondered why some stories of love and war remain etched in the human heart long after the final page is turned? A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway is a powerful and deeply personal novel set during World War I, exploring the fragile balance between love and survival in a world consumed by conflict. The story follows Frederic Henry, an American serving in the Italian army, whose emotional detachment is shattered when he is wounded and falls in love with Catherine Barkley. Together, they attempt to create a sense of peace and meaning amid the chaos surrounding them.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the multi-million copy bestselling historian, the remarkable, unknown Cold War story of how one spy saved the world from nuclear war The year is 1981. Tehran is in violent turmoil in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. The Soviets are planning to overthrow the...

ONE OF BOOKBUB'S BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF THE FALL From the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young...

Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this “lyrical and deeply researched” (Publishers Weekly) biography that goes beyond the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to reveal a more fascinating and complicated man than legend provides. For more than a century...

In the late 1890s, Edmund Dene Morel, a young British shipping company agent, noticed something strange about the cargoes of his company’s ships as they arrived from and departed for the Congo, Leopold II’s vast new African colony. Incoming ships were crammed with valuable ivory and rubber...