War & Military

Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill....

It is 42 AD, and Quintus Licinius Cato has just arrived in Germany as a new recruit to the Second Legion, the toughest in the Roman army....

In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family....

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death....

The movie adaptation of The Kite Runner has been nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the audiobook begins and ends with some of Dicken's best-known words....

A Navy SEAL has nothing left to live for and everything to kill for after he discovers that the government is behind the deaths of his team in this ripped-from-the-headlines political thriller....

Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian....

Winner of the British Book Awards, Richard and Judy Best Read of the Year, 2008.
Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Author of the Year, 2008.
A Richard and Judy Book Club Selection.
Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss, and by fate....

War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big - and he's not being told the whole story....

As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life....

In an increasingly uncertain defence environment, a deadly new arms race has begun....

September, 1356. Poitiers. The greatest knights of the age were ready to give battle. On the English side, Edward, the Black Prince, who'd earned his spurs at Crecy. On the French side, the king and his son, the dauphin. With 12,000 knights....

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins....

When disgraced spy Solomon Vine's friend and rival Gabriel Wilde vanishes without trace, it's only Vine who might be able to discover what has happened to him. A missing file holds the key....

Having now paid his dues as midshipman, Horatio Hornblower returns as a newly promoted Lieutenant, in the second instalment of C.S. Forester's beloved naval series....

After a mission in Afghanistan goes wrong, highly decorated sniper Sam Pope finds himself trapped behind enemy lines. Injured and abandoned, Sam is taken in by a local doctor, in a town under the threat of a local terrorist cell....

John Dempsey's life - as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper - is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders....

A captivating historical thriller about a pivotal and dramatic event from the Second World War....

The third novel in Simon Scarrow's best-selling Roman series....