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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Blockade Runners	Jules Verne	The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer called the Comet ran between Glasgow and Greenock, at the speed of six miles an hour.…	OL1099963W
LACHLAN'S WAR	Michael Cannon	On a wintry evening in 1941 Dr Lachlan McCready is on his rounds in the remote Scottish village of Rassaig when he comes across a silent, frightened evacuee boy who is trying to survive in one of Ras…	OL12727971W
How the soldier repairs the gramophone	Sasa Stanisic	Fleeing the violence and destruction of his native Bosnia with his family for safety in Germany, Aleksandar Krsmanoviæ remains haunted by the past and his memories of Asija, the mysterious girl he ha…	OL13476942W
Battle cry	Leon Uris	Battle Cry is the riveting Marine epic by the bestselling author of such classics as Trinity and Exodus.Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris's Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at wa…	OL14847874W
The White Knight (The House of Winslow #40)	Gilbert Morris	A fighter pilot in Spain, Luke Winslow loses the woman he loves and turns from his faith. When he accidentally kills an old friend while drunk, out of guilt, he tries to help his friend's sister, Joe…	OL14854920W
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians [19 stories]	Ambrose Bierce	There are multiple collections with this title. This collection contains: Soldiers [10 stories] A Horseman in the Sky -- [Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1486319…	OL14863262W
No less than victory	Jeff Shaara	No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara's soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war's unforgettable and harrowing final act.After the success…	OL14963382W
Double jeopardy	David Sherman	The thrilling pace of the Starfist space epic quickens as the explosive series rockets to dazzling new heights, packed with the hell-for-leather action only two battle-hardened and decorated combat v…	OL14963572W
The widow of the south	Hicks, Robert	A story based on the true experiences of a Civil War heroine finds Carrie McGavock witnessing the bloodshed of the Battle of Franklin, falling in love with a wounded man, and dedicating her home as a…	OL15156312W
The War Widows	Leah Fleming	When you lose everything you love, you need a friend...	OL15181869W
Dragon's Fury - High Tide (Vol. III)	Jeff Head	“Dragon’s Fury – High Tide” is the third in a series of five novels depicting how recent events leads the United States and the entire world into a Third World War. The third novel continues the thr…	OL15188142W
The Flight	Bryan Malessa	A powerful novel set at the end of World War II about one woman and her family's struggle for survival.The thrust of this epic novel occurs in the spring of 1945, during an event known in Germany as …	OL15188878W
The Flowing Tide	Alan Savage	With France having fallen, by 1941 the Germans control every French port, turning the English Channel into a battleground where vast numbers of German Schnell-boats frequently clash horns with the ha…	OL15291285W
The heroes	Joe Abercrombie	Tres hombres. Una batalla. Ningún héroe Cuentan que Dow el Negro ha llegado al trono del Norte sobre una montaña de calaveras. Mientras, el rey de la Unión ha decidido que hay que pararle los pies y …	OL15414617W
The Man from St. Petersburg	Ken Follett	Feliks came to London to commit a murder that would change history. He had many weapons at his command, but his most dangerous were the love of a innocent woman, and the passion of a lady demanding s…	OL15649851W
Red rover	Deirdre McNamer	A stirring novel about idealism laid waste and the haunting, redemptive bonds of friendshipDeirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and sweep of her fiction. Her first …	OL15839432W
Blood of victory	Alan Furst	In 1940, Russian émigré journalist I.A. Serebin is recruited by the British secret service to take part in a desperate operation to prevent Hitler's conquest of Europe by stopping the export of Roman…	OL15841800W
Potsdam station	David Downing,David Downing	The third in the 'John Russel' series of novels, set in WWII Berlin.	OL15998881W
Unsung Hero	David Collier,Harvey Pekar	Robert McNeill is an ordinary man who's lived an extraordinary life. McNeill recounts his time spent as a G.I. in Vietnam, on a tour through that surreal and horrific landscape that even now, thirty …	OL16027486W
The fist of God	Frederick Forsyth	This book is about the Gulf War. While it is fiction, it uses the actual names of people who were there at that time. My son was there and he said that the incidents he writes about actually happened…	OL16051134W