War Action Historical Fiction

April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Two trains. One treasure. And a question worth millions. As the US Civil War was drawing to a close, and Grant was about to take Richmond, two trains left the city in the dark of night. One carried Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his cabinet. The other carried the Confederate Treasury guarded by a young midshipman from the CSA Navy. A few weeks later, Davis was captured by Federal troops near Irwinville, Georgia, and the treasure...was gone. People have been speculating on what happened to the Confederate treasure for decades.

Ende April 1940 kehrt U-68 von seiner ersten Feindfahrt zurück. Die Besatzung ist urlaubsreif, das Boot muss in die Werft, und so rechnet keiner damit, dass ein neuer Einsatz bevorsteht. Als jedoch im weiteren Kriegsverlauf große Teile der alliierten Truppen bei Dünkirchen eingekesselt werden, erlangt der Ärmelkanal für England strategische Bedeutung. Die wenigen deutschen U-Boote werden unverzüglich in die Krisenregion entsandt, auch U-68 erhält den Auslaufbefehl. Kapitänleutnant von Hassel befürchtet das Schlimmste, denn das Einsatzgebiet ist nicht ideal für ein so großes Boot.

November 1942, Russia: The Red Army closes the net around Stalingrad near Kalach, surrounding one of the most formidable armies on the planet, the German Sixth Army. One of the Wehrmacht's finest and strongest fighting units.

Post-World War II America and teenage boys dreamed of adventure growing up in the 1950s, listened to Elvis Presley and read Jack Kerouac, yet it wasn't cruising Route 66 in a Corvette that united them, but Highway 1, known as the Street Without Joy, on the way to Hue city during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. It was the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, Civil Rights and the pill, young girls in long boots and short skirts, but not for those in the jungle and rice paddies of Southeast Asia.

An uneasy peace reigns in Wales. It's 1109 and the truce with England hangs by the thinnest of threads. While King Gruffydd ap Cynan's rule of law holds in the north, a spirit of rebellion is rising in the south, as tearaway princes and rebels grow to resent England's oppression of their homeland. And when Nesta, married off in a political move by England's King Henry, leaves the safety of her husband's castle to attend a celebration, the rebels seize their opportunity.

Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating - and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife.

November 1942 on the banks of the River Volga. The German Army advance into the Caucasus Mountains in search of the Russian oilfields has halted for the winter as the bitter fighting in Stalingrad takes center stage. The German Air Force, the Luftwaffe, has virtually driven the Red Air Force from the skies. The Germans, confident in taking the city that holds Stalin's namesake, strip their flanks of troops to bolster their forces fighting inside the city. For just one last push to decide the battle and the outcome of the war.

Welcome to James Keane – card sharp and ladies’ man – and one of the finest soldiers of Wellington’s army. Keane – hot-tempered, a maverick, never quite accepted by his fellow officers – is in trouble for killing his man in a duel: An activity forbidden by Wellington. To avoid court martial, he takes on an unwelcome assignment: to form an ill-assorted bunch of reprobates into an elite unit capable of operating behind the lines. A nineteenth-century Dirty Dozen.

Iran and North Korea sign a deal for the joint development of nuclear weapons. As the oil price tumbles, the Iranian nuclear submarine Genie is released. The call goes out to the commander of the one submarine who can slay the Genie. Bring forth the champion, the man, Commander Nathan Blake. His sword of vengeance is the USS Stonewall Jackson. Armageddon has come knocking. Can Nathan prevail? It’s your duty to take a stand alongside Nathan and his crew on the USS Stonewall Jackson. The free world is at stake.

Der Verräter muss sterben! Indien, 1803. Seit Jahren ist die britische Armee in den Mahratta-Kriegen gebunden. Auch Richard Sharpe, gerade zum Sergeant befördert, kämpft tapfer für den Sieg der Krone. Dennoch verachten ihn die anderen Offiziere wegen seiner niederen Herkunft, allen voran sein Erzfeind Obadiah Hakeswill. Die Lage spitzt sich zu, als Sharpe einen Verrat Hakeswills aufdeckt. Er gerät in einen Hinterhalt, den er nur knapp überlebt, und auch sein größter Schatz, die Juwelen des Tippu Sultan, sind auf einmal verschwunden.

Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband—a sensitive artist who fears for her safety—can dissuade her from doing her part as a proud daughter of Russia.

Eight months have passed since King Tyden’s coronation brought an end to the Pair War. Hadrack, now the Lord of Corwick, has spent those months searching unsuccessfully for the last two living members of the nine. But then a mysterious letter arrives in Corwick, with the author claiming to be one of the very men Hadrack seeks. Is it a trap, as Hadrack’s friends, Jebido and Baine insist, or does the writer of that letter truly seek penance for his many crimes?

In Nazi occupied France during the autumn of 1943, an alluring young woman, two French resistance fighters and an American agent are brought together by the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Their code names are the names of archangels, including Samael, the angel of death. They call themselves Death Angels as they leave a trail of dead German officers and French collaborators from southern France all the way to Paris, as the City of Light prepares for her liberation.

1939. Tres niños supervivientes de la turbulenta última década, se ven obligados a medrar en la Barcelona conquistada por las tropas nacionales y maltratada por el resultado de la Guerra Civil. Tres vidas muy distintas con una única cosa en común: la derrota.

Early in the French Revolutionary War, a young British naval officer, Lieutenant Joseph Duncan, finds himself unexpectedly in charge of a powerful frigate. Sailing alone in the Caribbean Sea with no one to ask for advice, he makes a fateful decision to engage a superior enemy force.

Lord Drysten, now widely considered to be the savior of Britannia despite his past transgressions, is being tested by a new enemy he never knew he would need to face. Kingship. The mantle of responsibility was never something he thought he would bear the weight of, and his enemies, past and present, see this as well.

Russia, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Misha’s life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin’s inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the glorious new Russia quickly surface. Misha realizes that the secret police can do whatever they like. His own mother is arrested and sent to prison, but Misha and his father daren’t complain. Then as German troops advance on Moscow, the atmosphere in the Kremlin ignites.

Reinfried dreams of glory as he travels south to the Republic of Antenor with his uncle, a legendary fencing master, in search of adventure. They reach the Golden City only to mistakenly foil the assassination of a princess from Visaria. She is a survivor from the unstoppable horde invading her homeland. Legions of soldiers march to war behind a banner not seen in a thousand years. The fearless Princess Ikarae rallies an unlikely band of heroes to help save Visaria. Franz von Müller and Reinfried are the first, soon joined by Henry Hawkins, Captain Harlac, and Adept Uriel.

The final thrilling tale of the House of Appius Julianus. A new and deadly threat has emerged at the outskirts of the Roman Empire on the Danube, one that threatens to throw the entire region into chaos. Correus, risen to prefect of a cavalry ala on the border, and Flavius, advisor to the emperor, have both attempted to warn the erratic Domitian of the seriousness of this foe, but to no avail.

1944: Mage Axum leaves behind a wife and daughter in Texas to join the fight against the Germans. Killed in action during the Ardennes Campaign before his time to die, Mage wakes in a French hospital. Confused and unsure of who he is, a sympathetic priest comes to his aid. Mage soon discovers he has reawakened in the body of James Karl, a fellow American soldier who was found unconscious on the battlefield.