Crusades Fiction

Once the sheltered son of nobility, Will has become an exile. While his father, Lord Shackley, has been on the Crusades with King Richard, a treacherous plot to unseat Richard has swept across England, and Shackley House has fallen. Will flees the only home he's ever known into neighboring Sherwood Forest, where he joins the elusive gang of bandits known as the Merry Men.

Thousands of knights and foot soldiers are mustering in Venice for the launch of the fourth Crusade. Among them is young Arthur de Caldicot, soon to dubbed a knight. He is thrilled to be part of this huge gathering; but all too soon the crusade falls into disarray.

In each section of Michael Cunningham's new book, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story which takes place at the height of the Industrial Revolution, as human beings confront the alienated realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band which is detonating bombs seemingly at random around the city.

A daring plan is formulated involving a simultaneous attack from both air and land to stop a madman from carrying out his deadly scheme. If the plan fails, the Americans will use the only other alternative left to stop him: a B-2 bomber with a nuclear payload, which could lead to a nuclear showdown with other Islamic states. With the odds stacked highly against them, the allies must find a way to stop Kemal and avert a nuclear holocaust.

The war between those of the Sky Empire and those of the Sea Kingdom is as old as this world of endless water itself, and Stella is trapped inside its deadly confines. Stella finally agrees to her highly anticipated betrothal with the most promising leviathan mech fighter. This fighter, a military hero, has an alarming amount of blood on his hands. She isn't after his title, but something more dangerous. Stella's plan may give her the absolution she's been searching for, or she may end up losing her life for nothing.

Spartan is a living legend, a veteran of the Alliance Marine Corps, victor of a multitude of military campaigns including the horrific Biomech War. He is both loved and reviled by friend and foe alike, and now lives out on the fringes of the Alliance. He has fought for money, for his people and for the very survival of his species, and lost everything in the process. But when two of his closest friends are captured supplying weapons to the desperate Byotai settlers of Karnak, the fight becomes personal.

Valentine's last memories were of the brutal last stand on Deimos. It was a battle that costs the lives of thousands, and left the moons of Mars shattered, perhaps never to recover. Valentine lost so much more than just her life. She watched her friends and comrades fall one by one, with many sacrificing themselves in vain to stoop the onslaught until she too fell in battle. They might be gone, but a Nova never really dies. Broken and dying, she has been patched together like so many times before. Valentine has little idea of where she ends and the machine begins.

As an unfathomably powerful AI threatens the freedom of humanity, Martin Raines must return to medieval Europe to learn the truth about GRAIL and the Codex Babylon.

We survived the destruction of our brothers in Canis Mayor, where both the Alpha and X Legions were laid to waste by Ahmurai. After my rescue by the special forces agent Captain Setzune and her android Rin, we have found a way to return to the Milky Way.

In this latest book of the Star Crusades Uprising series, the Confederacy is on its knees. Months of war have lost them most of the populated colonies, and more will surely follow. Spartan, now a lieutenant in the Marine Corps, has been given his own special platoon, the Vanguards. Using the best weapons and armour in the Confederate arsenal, his unit is thrown back to the Bone Mill to locate information that could change the war.

My name is Argo Herrero. I'm ready to enlist, sign the contract to serve for 10 years under the ally ranks. Enlisting is the only way to free myself from the hands of the totalitarians, to fight for freedom itself. The allies assure me citizenship and a decent salary after 10 years of service. The Megachine are strong. Undefeated. Unrivaled. They have wiped out the ally drone force and are moving in for the final blow. First they took Europe, then Asia. With the help of the Chavistas, they conquered Latin America.

Legendary war hero Spartan is back in the sixth thrilling adventure in the Mercenaries series. Only Spartan and his elite legions of mercenaries and robot soldiers can stop the Interstellar Empire and its warrior cults. War has come, and the while the Alliance is not ready for it, Spartan will not back down from a fight, no matter the odds. Empires at War is a futuristic military sci-fi adventure that continues to expand the violent struggles of humanity during a time of Galactic upheaval.

The war rages on, with no sign of victory for either side. Spartan and his loyalist soldiers win battle after battle against the Star Empire, but they are losing the war against this new and invigorated foe. Every day, more heavily armed troops arrive to bolster the enemy. Many of Spartan's exhausted Byotai allies want to surrender, but he will never back down, no matter the odds. He promised to fight this war, and fight it he will. Spartan takes his mercenaries, and what remains of the militias, deep underground.

Karnak is a battleground, a planet torn apart by a dozen warring factions. Spartan and his small band of mercenaries and militia have won battle after battle. Now they must prepare for their final test, an assault on the heavily defended enemy capital, Montu. The plan is torn apart when a huge fleet of reinforcements appears. A fleet that threatens to overwhelm the valiant rebels.

A strike group of the dozen most advanced ships in the Alliance is assembled and sent to a summit of the remaining great powers of Orion. It is a measure of the reputation and military prowess of humanity that they are to be allowed to participate in joint exercises with the Naru Navy, a combined military force made up of ships from the five alien empires. At the same time a diplomatic mission lands on the surface of the planet to meet with the leaders in the Helion Council.

Are you ready to be transported to a world beyond your wildest imagination? The Lord of the Cosmos, written by the talented Felipe Chavarro Polanía, is an audiobook experience like no other. With independent actors and state-of-the-art SFX, this audiobook will take you on a journey through the cosmos that will leave you breathless.

The mind-blowing conclusion to The Cross-Time Crusade!

When Soviet nukes destroyed the United States, Hawk Hunter took refuge in the only place he has ever felt safe: the sky. One of the finest fighter pilots of all time, he used his talents to found the Pacific American Air Corps (PAAC), a democratic counterweight to the corruption that dominates the rest of the country. Their first action was the Circle War: a Russian invasion led by the sinister terrorist Viktor Robotov. The PAAC expelled the Russians, but Robotov managed to escape.

Army ranger Jack Grant and his unit mount an operation to rob a train inside Pakistan. They find senior Taliban commanders carrying cases stuffed with documents and money. They also contain a clue to a catastrophic new development: a new ally in their perpetual search for bigger, more powerful weapons. An ally prepared to supply them with nuclear devices and weapons with the power to devastate entire American cities. North Korea.

1192: Returning from the Holy Land at the end of the Third Crusade, Sir John de Wolfe, finds England simmering with rebellion and the body of the king’s courier washed up on the shores of the River Exe. Tasked by the Chief Justiciar to discover why the man died and who killed him, Sir John is drawn unwillingly into affairs of state. His new career as a king's coroner is about to begin.…