Field Wars

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""...

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...

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...

In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.

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...

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 ...

Vietnam, 1968. Daniel Cofield is nineteen years old, a helicopter crew chief with the 1st Cavalry Division. He will spend twelve months in the air above a war that will never leave him. Daniel arrives at Bien Hoa with sixty-two pounds of gear and no understanding of what waits for him. He is assigned to a Huey helicopter crew — Chalk One — under a pilot who communicates in three taps on the cyclic and says almost nothing else. His crew chief, Lou, teaches him the only rule that matters: The gun wants to fire. You just let it. Over twelve months, Daniel flies into landing zones where the...

The year is 1966. Welcome to the life of Dr. Andrew C. Carr who was a 31-year-old neurologist when the U.S. Army drafted him into the Vietnam conflict. This is not a medical book; you will find few clinical details. Instead, Dr. Carr pulls back the curtain on his journey to the 8th Field Hospital in Nha Trang, revealing rare insights into his day-to-day life. He also describes his poignant return to Vietnam in 2004. Andy retired from medicine in 1998. He lives with his wife, Roberta, in Northern California, and has traded patient care for gardening, reading, cooking, and finding the best ...

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.

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 ...

Hitler's Blitzkrieg erupts across Western Europe, thrusting British Private Bill Brooks into the hellish maw of modern war. Commanded by his elder brother, Lieutenant Jameson Brooks, Bill confronts staggering German assaults in the blood-soaked fields of Belgium and France. As the war darkens, Bill's hopes of making it to his French bride, Augusta, and keeping her safe from the Nazi wave, look more impossible. In London, Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister on the very day the German offensive begins. Haunted by the ghosts of his Gallipoli failure, he battles a fractious Parliament...

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 ...

Volume two of the Red Cotton Fields trilogy. The Red Cotton Fields series continues with Fields Of Gold And Sorrow as three of the wealthiest families in the world attempt to endure the trials and tribulations of WW1. It is a story of love, tragedy, and the will to survive during the terrible war years of The Great War. Book Three of the series (Angry Sky) due out late summer 2020. The epic story continues. Hope you enjoy.

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity- one of the worst in world history- continues to be denied by the Japanese government.

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. 

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.

Connecticut, 1867 — A YA rags-to-riches Christian romance, set to hoop gowns, ballrooms, and the Blue Danube From the post-Civil War countryside of Connecticut in 1867 to the glittering streets of Paris, Sadie Barren's life takes an unexpected turn when she's hired as a fashion model by wealthy Minnie Mae Moreland. But with her newfound success comes unwanted attention from Minnie Mae's roguish betrothed, Josh Maverick, the richest man in town, who can't stay away and threatens to ruin Sadie's chances of escaping poverty. Desperate to escape his advances, Sadie hires her handsome brother,...

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 ...

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.