Realistic Fiction War

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn’t talk about her escape from Nazi Germany at age 12. She doesn’t talk about the grim post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn’t talk about her father, who was the commandant of one of the Reich’s most notorious extermination camps. All The Broken Places moves between Gretel’s girlhood in Germany to present-day London as a woman haunted by the past.

Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything - and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But this time, it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over...buttons? A fad that might also get her in major trouble and could even be the end of Grace and Ellie's friendship. Because Ellie's not used to being one-upped by anybody.

Babe is a charismatic and widely loved man, a gambler with a gift for gab that often gets him out of tricky situations. He’s also a dreamer, something he shares with his patient and loving wife, Rosie. They both yearn for financial stability and see the land they own as insurance for future generations. But when Babe and a few comrades enlist in a scheme that improbably falls apart, he endangers the little security the family has. On the verge of losing everything, what’s a family man to do? If you’re a gambler like Babe, you double down and risk it all for one big score.

The Battle of Crete forged a link between the islanders of Crete and the people of Australia and New Zealand which has never been forgotten. HISTORY'S FIRST EVER airborne invasion pitched the cream of the Nazi military, the Fallschirmjaeger, headlong into battle with the island's British and Anzac defenders. Confident of a quick victory, the German paratroopers jumping over Crete in May 1941 were blissfully unaware they were leaping into a cauldron. The defenders, fresh from the debacle of the Battle of Greece, knew they were coming and prepared for them as best they could. Short of ...

The story of Jan's and Zofia's epic trek to reach besieged Toruń City completes with a battle to get through the berm gate. Meet General Amiya Constance, who forces Jan to face his inner Ulysses and marks him to lead the Exodus armies offworld, in exile. But he has to get there first, leave Genève on the Exodus fleet commanded by Magda Aklyan. The chances of making it to the farside jump zone, in the umbra of a blue-green gas giant called the Wasp, are slim to none. They must get past the enemy's orbital patrols, boost for the Wasp with larger numbers of enemy warships in hot pursuit, ...

By any means necessary... North Korea has for years supported its economy by sponsoring an illegal narcotics trade, but the billions of dollars generated weren’t enough. In Thailand an insurgency breaks out from inside its own security forces. The North Koreans see this as a way to interject themselves and expand their enterprise. Veteran CIA operative Alexander Rowans sees the chaos in the country and recognizes North Korea’s play. Knowing their intentions, he works to block it. But the CIA is reeling from a major internal scandal leaving the U.S. intelligence community virtually ...

A drug lord with a powerful secret… Alvaro Gutiérrez is the most dangerous drug trafficker in Mexico, the head of a vast criminal network that DEA special agent Rainn Darson has vowed to bring down. Yet, despite her best efforts, her superiors have refused to make him a priority. That is until the mutilated body of a British soldier washes up on the shore at Veracruz. Now, all fingers point to Gutiérrez, bringing the drug boss to the attention of both the White House and Downing Street. Darson is sent to Mexico to lead a joint agency task force to find Gutiérrez and get him ...

Would you fight back—even if it meant losing everything? For one man—a husband and father—submission is not an option. The enemy took his home, his freedom, his dignity. Now, he will make them pay. Untrained but unbroken, he wages a one-man war against the occupiers. Every ambush is a gamble. Every kill draws their wrath closer to his family. When a daring attack in the heart of the city leaves a high-ranking official dead, the occupiers learn a brutal lesson: no one is safe. But defiance has a cost. As Russia prepares to strike Poland—and Poland strikes first—the battle for ...

The military-industrial complex (MIC) consists of government defense agencies, government policy agencies, government oversight agencies, their counterparts in the armed services, a nationwide network of academic and military defense labs, the US Congress, and defense contractors large and small, domestic and international. Military-Industrial Complex is an in-depth narrative of the origins and history of the MIC, and a cogent analysis of its past, present and future. From the close of WW II, to the perilous zenith of Cold War superpower confrontation across nuclear battle lines, to the ...

Amidst the rubble of war, a boy searches for hope. When thirteen-year-old Zaid is forced to flee his home during the Siege of Aleppo in 2012, he’s thrust into a nightmare no child should ever face. Bombs rain from the sky. Streets once filled with laughter are now cloaked in fear. Families are torn apart. But in the midst of chaos, Zaid must find the courage to survive—and lead others to safety. The Heart of Aleppo is an emotionally powerful, fast-paced young adult novel based on real events from the Syrian Civil War. Through Zaid’s journey, readers are taken on a heart-wrenching ...

Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect - but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe, and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed, and money is tight. And Millie's sickly little sister gets all the attention. It's all Millie can do to stay calm and feel in control. Still - there's sand beneath her feet. A new neighbor from the city, who has a lot to teach Millie. And surfer boy Rocky to admire - even if she doesn't have the guts to talk to him.

In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet to learn the truth beyond the rumors of his family's fractured histories - an alliance, as his mother says, of two bankrupt families. In evocative chapters, the first two decades of Vishnu's life in Mauritius unfolds with heart wrenching closeness as he battles to experience the world beyond, and the cultural, political, and familial turmoil that hold on to him.

Corey Goltz grows up in the working-class outskirts of Boston as the only child of Gloria, whose ambitions were derailed early but who has always given her son everything she can. Corey, restless, dreams of leaving home for a great adventure. Instead, when he is fifteen, the world comes crashing down upon him, when Gloria is diagnosed with ALS and, too late, his estranged father, Leonard—a man of great charisma but dubious moral character—reenters the picture.

"Lovers of sci-fi techno thrillers blended with political intrigue will find Chaos from the Cosmos by Pål A. Hvistendahl an enthralling read." - Readers' Favorite 2040: The digital thread connecting civilization is about to snap. From space industry insider Pål A. Hvistendahl comes a gripping hard science fiction thriller that exposes humanity's fragile dependence on technology we barely understand. As secret missions and shadow wars simmer across the globe, the race in space accelerates from low Earth orbit to the Moon and beyond. In Washington, Vice President Jackie Jill—a sharp, ...

A critical sensation in France, The Ghetto Within is its author’s personal attempt to confront his grandfather’s silence. Passed down, from generation to generation, the silence of Amigorena’s grandfather became his own. A gripping study of inheritance, The Ghetto Within re-imagines the life of this Jewish grandfather, a Polish exile in Argentina, whose guilt provokes an enduring silence to span generations.