In The Most Important Thing, author David Gross parlays his own father’s life history into a moving fictional narrative about a young man’s journey from a Kentucky rural homestead to life as a soldier in the Korean War. After Bradley Gross decides to enlist in the U.S. Army at the tender age of eighteen, the benefits of his decision seem endless—seeing the world, having grand adventures, and receiving bigger paychecks. However, it’s only amidst the danger, adventure, and perils of battle that he...
The Texas Gun Club is author Mark Bowlin's award-winning debut novel, and the first book in The Texas Gun Club series. It is the story of cousins Perkin Berger and Sam Taft's journey from south Texas to the distant shores of wartime Italy. Sam Taft is a rancher, fiercely devoted to his wife Margaret, and intent on surviving the war and returning to Texas. Each skirmish, every battle, is one step closer to home. His cousin Perkin Berger is a student of history at the University of Texas...
В этой книге читатель узнает все о Великой Отечественной войне. Как она началась, как погибали люди в этой страшной войне. Сколько пришлось выстрадать народу, чтобы дожить до Дня Победы! Как ковалась эта Великая Победа!
Книга создана по воспоминаниям участника битв. Имена героев вымышлены. Совпадения могут быть случайны. Эпиграф написан фронтовым поэтом.
Picture the perfect family…Now forget it & read this.An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through the e-mail correspondence of two sisters.When your family snapshots resemble NSPCC ads and it takes a quick-witted au pair to prevent your guests from burning alive, you have well and truly arrived in motherhood…Charlotte and Nell are sisters who live thousands of miles apart, each coping, or rather not coping, with the incalculable demands of motherhood. The daily...
Two brothers, only one survives. As Europe is torn apart by war, two brothers fight very different battles, and both could lose everything… While George has always been the brother to rush towards the action, fast becoming a boy-soldier when war breaks out, Joe thinks differently. Refusing to fight, Joe stays behind as a conscientious objector battling against the propaganda.On the Western front, George soon discovers that war is not the great adventure he was led to believe. Surrounded by mud,...
London Belles is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain.United by chance, bound together in times of needWhen tragedy strikes, Olive is forced to seek lodgers. Three girls come knocking at her door, each in need of a roof over their heads.Sally has left Liverpool to work as a nurse in London and when...
Keep her secret Keep her safeOn the 14th November 1940, Hitler’s bombs rain down on Coventry. From the rubble of a bombed-out family home, a young girl is saved … but at what cost?This is a stunning and memorable page-turner of love, loss and resilience for fans of Orphan Train and The Secret WifeAs the Nazis’ relentless bombs fall during the Blitz of Coventry, six-year-old Rose Sherbourne finds herself orphaned and under the guardianship of a Cornish farmer's daughter, Elenor Cardew.Elenor...
Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival.Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan 's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend and translator, Jalil. In her search for justice in a land ravaged by death and destruction, she uncovers disturbing truths.Hasina, forced by tradition into the role of wife and mother, lives in a village which is taken by British Forces. Her only son, Aref, is part of a network of...
Harriet Carew is the endearing heroine of Cristina Odone's popular weekly 'Daily Telegraph' column, 'Posh But Poor'. Based on the character from the column, 'The Dilemmas of Harriet Carew' is the story of her struggle to juggle family life, work and money.Meet Harriet Carew, mother of three and juggler of work, home and family. Harriet only wants to do her best for her husband Guy, her children, and herself. But while their friends flourish, and other parents look on pityingly, the Carews are...
'Afghanistan is just like Iraq – hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search AdvisorBomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth – Helmand Province, Afghanistan.Bomb Hunters are up against the Improvised Explosive Device – the IED – the deadly homemade bombs planted by the Taliban. Hard to detect and easy to trigger, an...
Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat Ryfka ma jeden cel – przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego – na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego „królestwa” Szapiry, jej nozdrza...
Zaskakująca kontynuacja jednego z największych bestsellerów ostatnich lat Ryfka ma jeden cel – przetrwać. W swojej kryjówce pielęgnuje na wpół przytomnego Jakuba Szapirę, który niczym nie przypomina niegdysiejszego postrachu stolicy. Kobieta nocami wychodzi na gruzowisko, którym po polskim powstaniu stała się Warszawa. Zdobywa pożywienie, obmyśla plan dalszej ucieczki, pieniądze wymienia na coś znacznie cenniejszego – na broń. Jej oczy widzą upadek dawnego „królestwa” Szapiry, jej nozdrza...