Unknown World War

"A revealing look into the intrigue and extraordinary courage of our intelligence gatherers of World War II. A rare combination of suspense thriller and true heroism by a great American writer." (Clive Cussler, New York Times best-selling author)

Before history remembered him as an Unknown Soldier, he was Leonard James Carter. In December 1941, Leonard is an eighteen-year-old rancher’s son from Klamath Falls, Oregon; a gifted football player in love with Lucille Harper and dreaming of a quiet future beside Upper Klamath Lake. Then Pearl Harbor changes everything. Determined to serve his country, Leonard enlists in the United States Marine Corps and leaves behind his family, his hometown, and the young woman he has promised to marry. Carried across the Pacific, he is transformed from an untested recruit into a battle-hardened ...

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered diary—found during a brutal World War II battle—changed our war-torn society’s...

Sixty-five million years ago, the world burned. Now, the countdown has started again. Thirty-six years ago, Pinnacle Station went dark. Today, the sealed concrete doors of the decommissioned bunker have opened to reveal an impossible nightmare. When a specialized team investigates a phantom distress signal in the remote Sangre de Cristo Mountains, they are violently pulled through a temporal rift. The freezing Colorado winter is instantly replaced by the sweltering, hostile jungles of the Cretaceous period. Cut off from the modern world and armed with limited supplies, they are trapped in a...

As the euphoria of Armistice Day in 1918 quickly subsided, there was no denying the carnage that the Great War had left in its wake. Grief and shock overwhelmed the psyche of the British people - but from their despair, new life would slowly emerge. 

He was a man of quiet faith and determined courage who lived by an unwavering code of honor. He was a firm believer that the good guys would win and the bad guys would lose, although it didn't mean there wouldn't be casualties or injuries in the process of winning. EMP survivor Chris Chandler wasn't one to back away from overwhelming odds, and as of now, the odds weren't stacked in his favor. One way or the other, people were going to get hurt here or killed.

In this astonishing, dramatic story—a mystery, a family memoir, and a cultural history all in one—Karen Liebreich investigates the life and death of artist Edith Borger, her aunt, who was murdered in Paris in 1970, along with her baby. In 2021, fifty years after her aunt Edith’s murder...

From New York Harbor to the battlefields of France, relive World War One through the eyes of an unknown soldier, as told through his diary. See how the 100-year-old diary brings a father and his estranged son back together by retracing his experiences fighting in the battlefields of France in 1917 -1918 to his final resting place—the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

In the tradition of The Lost and The Postcard, a powerful novel of loss and restitution in and after wartime, like a detective novel in reverse. When young French woman marries and moves to her German husband’s small hometown, Bad Arolsen, she finds a world where no one discusses what the...

As it prepared to ward off an invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies in 1948, newborn Israel lacked the weapons to defend itself. Enter Al Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran who feared a repeat of the Holocaust. He created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the US War Asset Administration, fixed them in California and New Jersey, and sent his pilots - Jewish and non-Jewish WWII aviators - to pick up rifles, bullets, and fighter planes from the only country willing to break the international arms embargo: communist Czechoslovakia.

This program features a bonus conversation between the author and narrators. From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II. Ana will never forget her mother’s...

A Novel of Brotherhood, Sacrifice, and the Alabama 167th Infantry in the Great War In the shattered fields of France, where mud swallows boots and bullets write the fate of nations, a group of young men from Alabama stand shoulder to shoulder as part of the legendary 167th U.S. Infantry Regiment — the backbone of the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. From the dusty heat of the Mexican border chasing Pancho Villa to the blood-soaked trenches of Europe, Unknown Soldier: World War I is a powerful and emotional journey into the heart of courage and the cost of war. Follow James, a young officer from ...

Crash - the Unknown Sustainability of a Chinese Dominated World Trading System is a piercing investigation of the disastrous effects Chinese Mercantilism is having on the world economy, and whether it will cause the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression? It argues that while China's rise has bought prosperity to hundreds of millions of people from China and from resource supplying nations across the world, including Australia, parts of Africa, Kazakhstan and Russia, its use of aggressive mercantilist has bankrupted the manufacturing industries of nations across the world whose ...

One bloody night. One lone survivor. One chance of redemption. France, 1919. One year after the guns fell silent across the Western Front, Lieutenant Wilfred Rhodes receives his final classified mission before he can return to Australia. He must end the command of Captain Charles Kingsley, the...

Bloomsbury presents This is esports (and How to Spell it) – LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020 by Paul 'Redeye' Chaloner, read by Paul Chaloner and Sarah Ovens. LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK AWARD 2020 'You need this. Trust me, buy it now.' – Weekly GG 'a...

This is the only surviving memoir by an Indian Prisoner of War of the Japanese of an important but mostly hidden story of World War II: how Indian soldiers in the British Indian Army became Prisoners of War and were shipped by their Japanese captors in "torture ships" to New Britain and New Guinea, and how a fraction of them, including the author, survived 3 1/2 years of horrific imprisonment, beatings, starvation, bombings--and in a few cases, being made a meal of--and more to return home to India. It also offers some clues as to why tens of thousands of Indian Army personnel preferred to ...

'Gripping, poetic' Gwen Strauss, author of The Nine 'An unforgettable read' Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarah's Key Sometimes when you are looking for the dead, you find the living. When Irène joins the International Tracing Service, she becomes consumed by a singular obsession: returning the...

When Imsun Carr became a sorceress, she unknowingly sacrificed an important piece of herself. Legend claims that the mythological waters of Aetudale can restore what has been lost, and despite the doubts and ridicule of others, Imsun embarks on a journey to find them. Along the way, she meets Sienna Tian, a victim of the savage and power-hungry country of Cegoven. They took her husband, ravaged her home, and forced her to flee for her life with her young son, Andor. All Sienna wants is to be reunited with her family and keep them safe, but she harbors a deadly secret. Imsun takes on the ...

Martha MacCallum’s Unknown Valor is both a personal exploration of war and heroism as well as a detailed recounting of several of the most strategic successes in the American campaign against Japanese imperialist expansion during the Second World War. MacCallum relays the grueling details of such critical battles as Tarawa and Saipan, and the narrative culminates in the harrowing story of the months spent fighting for Iwo Jima.

Beyond the Northwest Mist, a new world awaits. Thundergiver never imagined the legend would carry them beyond Torenta. But a gray owl’s summons draws Thundergiver and their friends through the Mist to Kloma, the Land of the Two Bird Tribes. Here, ShadowBirds and MeadowBirds rule the skies; a restless separatist faction strains a fragile peace; and wolves are little more than rumor. To earn passage and answers, they must submit to the owls’ laws, languages, and a ritual “power check.” What awakens there changes everything. As the first wolves to set paw in Kloma in centuries, the ...