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Narrative Theme: War and Conflict
Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America’s two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering...
The Barracks Thief 1990
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from...
Black Cross 1995
World War II, Book 1
It is January 1944—and as Allied troops prepare for D-Day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force.
To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the...
The Caine Mutiny 1992
Willie Keith, a carefree young man from a privileged background, joins the U.S. Navy during World War II expecting adventure but little responsibility. Assigned to the aging minesweeper USS Caine, he gradually matures under the pressures of military life. When the ship receives a new commanding...
Catch-22 1995
One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of magnificently strange characters seething with comic energy. The malingering hero, Yossarian, is endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his...
De Niro's Game 2008
Childhood best friends Bassam and George have grown to be men in war-ravaged Beirut. Now they must choose between the only two futures available to them: to stay in the devastated city and consolidate power through crime or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have ever...
A Fable 2011
Set during World War I on the Western Front, A Fable centers on a mysterious French corporal who leads a group of soldiers in a quiet but radical act of defiance: they refuse to continue fighting. Their unexpected mutiny briefly halts the war, disrupting the machinery of conflict and drawing the...
Guard Of Honor 1964
At a major Army Air Forces base in Florida during World War II, a single weekend becomes a crucible for leadership, responsibility, and the hidden strains of command. As officers prepare for a high-profile visit, a series of unexpected crises unfolds—ranging from racial tensions among troops to...
Hornet Flight 2007
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande...
The Hunters 1999
Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F–86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace.
But things do not turn...
The Killer Angels 1987
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love.
And far more...
August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him...
Slaughterhouse-Five 1991
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American...
Spandau Phoenix 1994
World War II, Book 2
The Spandau Diary—what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped and sexually tormented to get it?
Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors of the Nazi past to...
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into...
Spandau Phoenix 1994
World War II, Book 2
The Spandau Diary—what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped and sexually tormented to get it?
Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors of the Nazi past to...
Black Cross 1995
World War II, Book 1
It is January 1944—and as Allied troops prepare for D-Day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force.
To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North August 12, 2014
August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him...
A Fable November 29, 2011
Set during World War I on the Western Front, A Fable centers on a mysterious French corporal who leads a group of soldiers in a quiet but radical act of defiance: they refuse to continue fighting. Their unexpected mutiny briefly halts the war, disrupting the machinery of conflict and drawing the...
De Niro's Game August 5, 2008
Childhood best friends Bassam and George have grown to be men in war-ravaged Beirut. Now they must choose between the only two futures available to them: to stay in the devastated city and consolidate power through crime or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have ever...
Hornet Flight December 4, 2007
It is June 1941, and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande...
The Hunters July 27, 1999
Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational F–86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enough kills to become an ace.
But things do not turn...
Black Cross November 1, 1995
World War II, Book 1
It is January 1944—and as Allied troops prepare for D-Day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force.
To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltrate the secret concentration camp where the...
Catch-22 October 17, 1995
One of the funniest books ever written, Joseph Heller's masterpiece about a bomber squadron in the Second World War's Italian theater features a gallery of magnificently strange characters seething with comic energy. The malingering hero, Yossarian, is endlessly inventive in his schemes to save his...
The Armies of the Night January 1, 1995
Fifty years after the March on the Pentagon, Norman Mailer’s seminal tour de force remains as urgent and incisive as ever. Winner of America’s two highest literary awards, The Armies of the Night uniquely and unforgettably captures the Sixties’ tidal wave of love and rage at its crest and a towering...
Spandau Phoenix April 1, 1994
World War II, Book 2
The Spandau Diary—what was in it? Why did the secret intelligence agencies of every major power want it? Why was a brave and beautiful woman kidnapped and sexually tormented to get it?
Why did a chain of deception and violent death lash out across the globe, from survivors of the Nazi past to...
The Caine Mutiny April 15, 1992
Willie Keith, a carefree young man from a privileged background, joins the U.S. Navy during World War II expecting adventure but little responsibility. Assigned to the aging minesweeper USS Caine, he gradually matures under the pressures of military life. When the ship receives a new commanding...
Slaughterhouse-Five November 3, 1991
Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American...
The Barracks Thief January 1, 1990
The Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from...
The Killer Angels August 12, 1987
In the four most bloody and courageous days of our nation’s history, two armies fought for two conflicting dreams. One dreamed of freedom, the other of a way of life. Far more than rifles and bullets were carried into battle. There were memories. There were promises. There was love.
And far more...
Waiting for the Barbarians April 29, 1982
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into...
Guard Of Honor October 7, 1964
At a major Army Air Forces base in Florida during World War II, a single weekend becomes a crucible for leadership, responsibility, and the hidden strains of command. As officers prepare for a high-profile visit, a series of unexpected crises unfolds—ranging from racial tensions among troops to...