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Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller. THE NEW YORK TIMES Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for FictionEnter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers, sailors, and nurses playing at war and waiting...

Presents an historical fiction of World War One in France and Belgium based upon actual records of real events and figures.

The inhabitants of Jerusalem brace for the violence that will follow the departure of the British in 1948.

Ford, an American veteran of the Bosnian war, retreats to a cabin in the woods to escape painful memories. Kovac, a Serbian veteran of the same war, has an old score to settle and hunts Ford down in the wilderness.

No one could stop them—not Stalin, not Togo, not Churchill, not Roosevelt...


The invaders had cut the United States virtually in half at the Mississippi, vaporized Washington, D.C., devastated much of Europe, and held large parts of the Soviet Union under their thumb.


But humanity would not give up so easily. The new world allies were ruthless at finding their foe's weaknesses and exploiting them. Whether delivering...

With rations running dangerously low, Captain Hornblower fears that the lure of the South Sea islands may entice the crew to mutiny.

Thirteen years before the Civil War, eight thousand marines land in Vera Cruz bound for a fateful war against the Mexican army, including Winfield Scott, a vain general who made history in the War of 1812, and Robert E. Lee, a forty-year-old engineer as yet untested in battle

Kylara Vatta draws on her killer instinct for business and battle after her parents are killed and the Vatta shipping empire is destroyed, pushing Kylara to find those responsible and get revenge.

On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.

The American Empire is growing too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone. The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side and militia foot soldiers on the other, devastating the cities and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the...