war stories

It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this is the most important day of the twentieth century, and both children want to fight, and survive.

When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of "twice lost" girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.

"In 1940s Italy, teenager Pino Lella joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps and falls for a beautiful widow, he also becomes the personal driver of one of the Third Reich's most powerful commanders"--Provided by English version publisher.

Demetrio Macias, a peace-loving Indian, becomes caught up in the rebel cause, and climbs the ranks in Pancho Villa's army only to have the people turn against him in the wake of defeat.

Mo Fitzgerald has made her choices, and the more she struggles to keep her magic and mortal lives separate, the deadlier the consequences.

Charles Dickens's 1859 historical novel set in Paris and London in the years prior to the French Revolution, in which French nobleman Charles Darnay renounces his position in order to save the life of a servant.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

A small unit of soldiers becomes separated from their command and must find a way to survive in a hostile city filled with marauding gangs and tribesmen as the line between friend and enemy becomes blurred and the soldiers try to keep a hold on their own sanity.

Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the fictitious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first-hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.

Charles Dickens' 1859 historical novel set in Paris and London during the French Revolution, in which a French nobleman, Charles Darnay, renounces his position and leaves his country, then returns during the Terror to save the life of a servant, putting himself in grave danger.