Offers poems capturing the life of a soldier, including waiting in the dusty Middle Eastern heat and writing a love letter back home.

"From the author of Norwegian by Night, a novel about two men on a misbegotten quest to save the girl they failed to save decades before 1991. Near Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, Thomas Benton meets Arwood Hobbes. Benton is a British journalist who reports from war zones in part to avoid his lackluster marriage and a daughter he loves but cannot connect with; Arwood is a midwestern American private who might be an insufferable...

After Thrawn is rescued from exile by Imperial soldiers, his ingenuity and tactical abilities capture the attention of Emperor Palpatine. Thrawn proves to be as indispensable as he is ambitious. On missions to rout smugglers, snare spies, and defeat pirates, he triumphs time and again even as his methods infuriate superiors while inspiring admiration from the Empire. As one promotion follows another in his ascension to power, he schools his aide,...

April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and her five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered and outgunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.

As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried...

"When members of a United Nations joint security force are taken hostage by radical terrorists in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a supersoldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better and run faster than the enemy, disappear when necessary and hunt along any terrain. There are those in the world willing to do anything for power like that... A formidable...

Winter Ihernglass poses as a man to enlist in the Vordanai Colonials and must form an allegiance with a new colonel, appointed by the king to restore order, after she's promoted to a command post.

"Blurring the lines between the YA and Adult markets, and between military thrillers and speculative fiction THE RIFT is a fast-paced action adventure centered not just on the monsters that we're fighting against, but the monsters we're fighting for"-- Seventeen-year-old Ryn is an elite, cybernetically-altered soldier in charge of guarding a Rift -- one of fourteen unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate...

"Wickedly satirical . . . nothing short of brilliant." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The 31st entry in Sir Terry Pratchett's internationally bestselling Discworld series about the art of war and the brave women who wage it.

War has come to Discworld. The homes and businesses throughout the duchy of Borogravia limp along, doing the best they can without their men, sent to fight their age-old

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Arkamondos, a young scribe, is hired to chronicle the mysterious mission of a group of Syldoon warriors, the most brutal and frightening warriors in the empire.