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With tensions escalating along the U.S.-Mexican border, the U.S. launches Operation Rampart under the command of Major Jason Richter and his Task Force TALON, who find themselves targeted by drug kingpin Enrique Fuera.

"Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses must learn...

"She calls herself Ash, but that's not her real name. She is a farmer's faithful wife, but she has left her husband to don the uniform of a Union soldier in the Civil War. Neverhome tells the harrowing story of Ash Thompson during the battle for the South. Through bloodshed and hysteria and heartbreak, she becomes a hero, a folk legend, a madwoman and a traitor to the American cause. Laird Hunt's dazzling new novel throws a light on the adventurous...

A sweeping epic of Israel from its founding to the Six-Day War, from the #1 NewYork Times-bestselling author: “Full of excitement.”—Entertainment Weekly
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Winds of War and The Caine Mutiny, this saga spans from 1948 to 1967, the early decades of the state of Israel as it fights for its life, outmatched and surrounded by enemies—the first...

Follows Paxton Andrews, a journalist stationed in Vietnam during the war, and the men she encounters--Peter Wilson, erstwhile law-school student, AP correspondent Ralph Johnson, and Bill Quinn, on his fourth tour of duty

This realistic company-level depiction of World War III combat follows Captain Sean Bannon and the tank soldiers of Team Yankee as they fight against the Russians from Hill Z14 in West Germany to the cease-fire

The sole survivors of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion--Captain Maneka Trevor and a Bolo known as Lazarus--are all that stand between a desperate, secret colony of humanity and destruction of the human race.

To save the family home during the English Civil War, Sarah Woodley-Mercer marries a former Puritan worker when he acquires the estate, Pargeters, as a spoil of war.

A novel based on the "Terminator" films follows Sarah and John Connor to Alaska, where they make a last desperate attempt to save humanity from extinction.