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General fiction, War stories, Animal stories
From the creative team behind the bestselling Finding Winnie, winner of the Caldecott Medal, comes an extraordinary wartime adventure seen… through the eyes of the world’s most beloved bearHere is a heartwarming reimagining of the real journey undertaken by the extraordinary bear who inspired Winnie-the-Pooh. Follow Winnie’s war adventure—from her early days with her mother in the Canadian forest, to her remarkable travels with the Veterinary Corps across the country and overseas, and all the way to the London Zoo, where she met Christopher Robin Milne and inspired the creation of the world’s most famous bear. This beautifully told story is a triumphant blending of deep research and magnificent imagination. Infused with Sophie Blackall’s irresistible renderings of an endearing bear, the book is also woven through with entries from Captain Harry Colebourn’s real wartime diaries and contains a selection of artifacts from the Colebourn family archives. The result is a one-of-a-kind exploration into the realities of war, the meaning of courage and the indelible power of friendship, all told through the historic adventures of one extraordinary bear.
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War stories
Jules et Jim sont inséparables. Depuis leur enfance, ils forment un duo complice. Quand la Grande Guerre éclate, Jules et… Jim s'engagent dans l'armée. Devenus frères d'armes, ils combattent avec courage et puisent leurs forces dans leur amitié.
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War stories, General fiction
Lorsqu'en 1914, Ashley Crowther revient en Australie, dans le Queensland, pour s'occuper de la propriété héritée de son père, il… découvre un paysage merveilleux peuplé de bécasses, d'ibis et de martins-chasseurs. Il y fait également la connaissance de Jim Saddler, la vingtaine comme lui, passionné par la faune sauvage de l'estuaire et des marais. Au-delà de leurs différences personnelles et sociales, les deux jeunes hommes ont en commun un véritable amour de la nature. Et ils partagent un rêve : créer un sanctuaire destiné aux oiseaux migrateurs. Loin de là, l'Europe plonge dans un conflit d'une violence inouïe. Celui-ci n'épargnera ni Jim, qui rejoint un camp d'entraînement à Salisbury, ni Ashley, envoyé à Armentières. Seul témoin de la parenthèse heureuse qui les a réunis, Imogen, une photographe anglaise amoureuse comme eux des oiseaux, saura-t-elle préserver le souvenir des moments exceptionnels qu'ils ont connus ?
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Mysteries and crime stories, War stories, General fiction, Historical fiction
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War stories, General fiction
Avril 2003. Les forces américaines viennent de prendre Bagdad. Parmi les soldats se trouve Cassandra Wigheard. À dix-neuf ans, elle… a quitté son Missouri natal pour risquer sa vie. Dans le monde masculin et machiste de l'armée, elle doit s'affirmer, prouver qu'elle mérite une place à l'égal des hommes, qu'elle est à la hauteur. Alors que son peloton supervise la surveillance d'un rond-point des environs de Bagdad, les choses tournent mal. Une explosion. L'attaque fait des ravages. Cassandra est capturée. Parviendra-t-elle à échapper à ses ravisseurs ? Il y a aussi Abou al-Houl, un moudjahid qui doit faire face à ses ennemis intérieurs et extérieurs, parmi lesquels une frange radicale de djihadistes ; et Sleed, qui se tire sans encombres d'un crime apparemment sans victime, mais aux répercussions bien plus tragiques que prévu. Ces trois personnes n'auraient pas dû se rencontrer, et pourtant : la guerre est là qui réunit les êtres dans la tragédie. Alternant flash-backs et scènes du présent, passant avec virtuosité d'un personnage à un autre, Le Fer et le Feu nous parle des tragédies de l'Histoire et de leurs répercussions insoupçonnées. L'auteur, vétéran de la guerre d'Irak, y exprime une vision de la guerre sans concession ni manichéisme
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Historical fiction, War stories, General fiction
Pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale, dans la région lyonnaise, Gaëlle de Barbet assiste à l'arrestation de son amie Rebecca Feldmann.… Le commandant des troupes allemandes locales s'installe dans la demeure des Barbet. Le père de Gaëlle est tué tandis que sa mère sombre dans la folie. Gaëlle s'engage dans la Résistance et sauve de nombreux enfants juifs. Accusée de collaboration, elle part à Paris
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War stories
The final 13 hours at the Alamo began around 5 o'clock on the afternoon of March 5, 1836. Colonel William… Barrett Travis drew a line in the dirt and asked all those who would stay and fight to cross it. Destinies played out that night for four people. Susannah Dickinson, a woman of surprising gumption. Young James Taylor who came to the Alamo to free Texas from the tyrannical rule of General Santa Anna. "Moses" Rose who refused to cross Travis's line because he "wasn't prepared to die." Colonel Juan Morales, ordered to assault Crockett and his men at the south palisade, believed attacking the fort was foolhardy. But his real disgust was for Santa Anna, a man who allowed whims to dictate his decisions. 2018.
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War stories
Young Maisie Halliday has escaped the grinding poverty of the northern town where she was born to live in the… glittering world of professional dancing. At the outbreak of the Second World War, she volunteers as an ambulance driver, finding joy both in helping the wounded during the Blitz and also in her friends among the other drivers in the Bloomsbury Auxiliary Ambulance Depot. Maisie is at the Cafe de Paris nightclub when it is bombed. In the chaos, she attempts to help an injured man, and by this charitable act she becomes mixed up in what may well be a murder. A series of incidents, all connected to a handsome, arrogant American, throw Maisie's life into a dangerous spin. Is anything what it seems in wartime? With one serious misjudgement, Maisie risks losing everything she holds dear. 2019.
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War stories
Novembre 1943. Accompagnée de sa tante, Abigaël Mousnier se réfugie chez son oncle paternel, un fermier aisé établi au pied… d'Angoulême. Son arrivée n'enchante guère la famille qui se méfie d'elle, car l'orpheline de bientôt 16 ans a hérité des dons de sa mère : le don de guérir, et plus inquiétant, le don de voir les âmes errantes, de leur parler et de les aider à s'élever vers la lumière. Bien malgré elle, la fougueuse jeune femme se retrouve au coeur des activités de la résistance dont elle perce les secrets. Confrontée aux violences de son cousin, elle rencontre par ailleurs Adrien, un réfractaire au service du travail obligatoire, dont elle tombe amoureuse. Sans doute, l'attention que lui portera ce brave homme, tout comme l'affection du professeur Hitier, créeront un baume sur les maux qui découlent de ce climat accablant. Mais un mystérieux appel l'obsède : des visions furtives d'une femme brune, ni vivante ni morte . Abigaël décide de la retrouver à tout prix, protégée par un chien aux allures de loup surgi de la nuit. Est-ce vraiment par hasard qu'elle ait emménagé en Charentes ? Jusqu'où cette quête la mènera-t-elle ? 2017.
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Historical fiction, War stories
Jo et Kay se sont rencontrées à New York au cours de leurs études d'infirmière à la fin des années… 1930. Désireuses de partir à l'aventure, les deux jeunes femmes s'engagent aux côtés des Alliés. C'est là que leurs chemins se séparent. Jo est envoyée sur le front de l'Ouest, en France, où elle doit superviser un hôpital de fortune comptant six blessés : des vies fragiles pour lesquelles elle représente le seul espoir et qu'elle entend protéger jusqu'au bout. Kay est envoyée à Hawaï. Après une parenthèse enchantée sur les plages de sable blanc, l'attaque de Pearl Harbor signe pour elle le début du cauchemar : prisonnière des Japonais, elle est déportée dans un camp à Manille. Dans l'horreur des corps mutilés, de la maladie et de la famine, chacune s'accroche à sa vocation, mais aussi à l'amour et à l'amitié, pour trouver le courage de supporter l'insupportable. L'espoir sera-t-il plus fort que la mort ? Que restera-t-il de leur précieux lien après ces années de séparation et de souffrance ?
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War stories, Adventure stories, Science fiction
In the summer of 1947, an unidentified object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There were no survivors. Now it's happened… again. But this time, two creatures have emerged from the wreckage alive.
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War stories, Fantasy, Folklore, fables and fairy tales
In the vein of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Number the Stars, this fusion of fairy tales, folklore,… and World War II history eloquently illustrates the power of love and the inherent will to survive even in the darkest of times. In the land of dolls, there is magic. In the land of humans, there is war. Everywhere there is pain. But together there is hope. Karolina is a living doll whose king and queen have been overthrown. But when a strange wind spirits her away from the Land of the Dolls, she finds herself in KrakOw, Poland, in the company of the Dollmaker, a man with an unusual power and a marked past. The Dollmaker has learned to keep to himself, but Karolina's courageous and compassionate manner lead him to smile and to even befriend a violin-playing father and his daughter-that is, once the Dollmaker gets over the shock of realizing a doll is speaking to him. But their newfound happiness is dashed when Nazi soldiers descend upon Poland. Karolina and the Dollmaker quickly realize that their Jewish friends are in grave danger, and they are determined to help save them, no matter what the risks.
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Historical fiction, War stories, Westerns
A Two-time Spur Award–Winning Author The great-grandson of the real Rooster Cogburn A Widowmaker Jones Western Newt Jones is none… too proud of his deadly nickname. But when you tangle with the likes of Judge Roy Bean and the notorious Mexican outlaw Juan Cortina, a man’s bound to earn a reputation. Or get stuck with a moniker like “Widowmaker.” Even so, Newt is ready to put his gunslinging days behind him, hang up his Winchester, and take it easy. There’s just one problem: Ain’t nothing easy about living in Apache country. When Newt gets word that a renegade tribe has kidnapped Matilda Redding’s grandson, he can’t just sit by . . .
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War stories, Historical fiction, Mysteries and crime stories
Rhys Gravenor, Great War veteran and Welsh sheep farmer, arrives in Paris in the midst of the city's liberation with… a worn letter in his pocket that may have arrived years too late. As he follows the footsteps of his missing son across an unfamiliar, war-torn country, he struggles to come to terms with the incident that drove a wedge between the two of them. Joined by Charlotte Dubois, an American ambulance driver with secrets of her own, Rhys discovers that even as liberation sweeps across France, the war is far from over. And his personal war has only begun as he is haunted by memories of previous battles and hampered at every turn by danger and betrayal. In a race against time and the war, Rhys follows his son's trail from Paris to the perilous streets of Vichy to the starving mobs in Lyon to the treacherous Alps. But he is not the only one searching for his son. In a race of his own, a relentless enemy stalks him across the country and will stop at nothing to find the young man first. The country is in tatters, no one is trustworthy, and Rhys must unravel the mystery of his son's wartime actions in the desperate hope of finding him before it's too late - too late to mend the frayed bond between them, too late to beg his forgiveness, too late to bring him home alive
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Family stories, War stories, Historical romance
Robinswood, Co Waterford, 1939. The once grand house is home to two very different families. Despite delusions of grandeur, Lord… and Lady Kenefick and their adult children live a life of decayed opulence as the money needed to keep such a large house and grounds ever dwindles. Meanwhile, the Murphy family, Dermot, Isabella and their three almost grown-up girls, live and work on the estate and do their best to keep everything running smoothly. Social structure is vital. Everyone knows their place, but as war looms, both families find themselves drawn into the conflict and begin questioning everything that once was true. From the leafy grounds of an Irish stately home to the bombed-out streets of London in the Blitz, Jean Grainger's latest bestselling historical saga will sweep you away
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Adventure stories, War stories, Historical fiction
Master and Commander Charles Hayden returns in the sequel to the international bestseller Under Enemy Colors. Winter 1793-the Reign of… Terror rips through revolutionary France. In Plymouth, England, Master and Commander Charles Hayden is given orders to return to the ill-fated HMS Themis as the British fight the French for control of the strategically located island of Corsica. But within hours out of port, Hayden's uncanny knack for attracting the attention of the French navy sees Themis thrown back into action. When she lands in Corsica and her men join forces with native insurgents, Hayden finds himself at the vanguard of a brutal clash of empires.
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War stories, Historical fiction, General fiction
America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-century tale of… redemption: a taut and tortured story about one man’s desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war.Frank Money is an angry, self-loathing veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. His home may seem alien to him, but he is shocked out of his crippling apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and take her back to the small Georgia town they come from and that he’s hated all his life. As Frank revisits his memories from childhood and the war that have left him questioning his sense of self, he discovers a profound courage he had thought he could never possess again. A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood—and his home.
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Adventure stories, War stories, Historical fiction
In the first novel of a spellbinding new trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to the Civil… War terrain he knows best. A Blaze of Glory takes us to the action-packed Western Theater for a vivid re-creation of one of the war’s bloodiest and most iconic engagements—the Battle of Shiloh. It’s the spring of 1862. The Confederate Army in the West teeters on the brink of collapse following the catastrophic loss of Fort Donelson. Commanding general Albert Sidney Johnston is forced to pull up stakes, abandon the critical city of Nashville, and rally his troops in defense of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Hot on Johnston’s trail are two of the Union’s best generals: the relentless Ulysses Grant, fresh off his career-making victory at Fort Donelson, and Don Carlos Buell. If their combined forces can crush Johnston’s army and capture the railroad, the war in the West likely will be over. There’s just one problem: Johnston knows of the Union plans, and is poised to launch an audacious surprise attack on Grant’s encampment—a small settlement in southwestern Tennessee anchored by a humble church named Shiloh. With stunning you-are-there immediacy, Shaara takes us inside the maelstrom of Shiloh as no novelist has before. Drawing on meticulous research, he dramatizes the key actions and decisions of the commanders on both sides: Johnston, Grant, Sherman, Beauregard, and the illustrious Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest. Here too are the thoughts and voices of the junior officers, conscripts, and enlisted men who gave their all for the cause, among them Confederate cavalry lieutenant James Seeley and Private Fritz “Dutchie” Bauer of the 16th Wisconsin Regiment—brave participants in a pitched back-and-forth battle whose casualty count would far surpass anything the American public had yet seen in this war. By the end of the first day of fighting, as Grant’s bedraggled forces regroup for could be their last stand, two major events—both totally unexpected—will turn the tide of the battle and perhaps the war itself.