A young renegade who's grown to manhood riding freights, prizefighting, and working in mines sails the exotic South China Sea with a trio of dangerous men in search of treasure they figure to divide four ways. But when it's time to dive for the prize, can he trust any of them to guard his back?

This depicts the men of Alpha Company. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left back home. Yet they find sympathy and kindness for strangers (the old man who leads them unscathed through the mine field, the girl who grieves while she...

"From the haunting description of an abandoned battlefield to the pain of losing a loved one in the war to soldiers' struggles with what we now recognize as PTSD, the stories offer an unflinching glimpse into the physical, emotional, and even spiritual implications of World War I. In this collection, we follow the trials of naïve war widow Annette Stoll, reflect on the power of small acts of kindness toward a dying soldier, and join Johann Bartok,...

A veteran of some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, Ambrose Bierce went on to become one of the darkest and most death haunted of American writers, the blackest of black humorists. This volume gathers the most celebrated and significant of Bierce's writings. In the Midst of Life (Tales of Soldiers and Civilians), his collection of short fiction about the Civil War, which includes the masterpieces "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and "Chickamauga,"...

First published in 1895, America's greatest novel of the Civil War was written before the twenty-one-year-old Stephan Crane had "smelled even the powder of a sham battle." But this pwerful psychological study of a young soilder's struggle with the horror's, both within and without, that war unleashes strikes the reader with its undeniable realism and it's masterful description of the moment-by-moment riot of emotions felt by men under fire. Esteemed...

"Doscientos año después de la Conquista, la dinastía Targaryen vive su apogeo. Los Siete Reinos de Poniente atraviesan un momento de relativa paz en los últimos años del reinado del buen rey Daeron. Es con este escenario como telón de fondo que Dunk, un muchacho pobre del Lecho de Pulgas, tiene una oportunidad única: dejar su vida miserable y convertirse en el escudero de un auténtico caballero. Pronto, el caballero muere y Dunk decide tomar...

A major collection includes never-before-published fantastical tales of war and warriors from some of today's most popular writers, including stories by Lawrence Block, Carrie Vaughn, James Rollins, Diana Gabaldon, Joe R. Lansdale and more, as well as an introduction by George R. R. Martin himself.