Henry Carter Hull

A Frenchman flees his small mountain village to avoid service in World War I in a thoughtful, witty novel about the conflict of patriotism and conscience. Deep in the Cévennes Mountains of southern France, a man called Roux refuses to heed the call to duty at the outbreak of war in 1914. Instead, he flees and hides in the hills, returning only occasionally to the farm where he left his mother and sisters. The people of the valley condemn his desertion...

Bravery and close combat in the fight against Hitler Eddie Dawson and Major Sykes are sent to the impregnable Eben Emael in Belgium, the strongest fort in the world. That night activity in the village wakes them and they return to the fort and witness a group of German soldiers landing on the roof in gliders. This main attack lasts 20 minutes, leaving Eben Emael crippled. But Dawson is disturbed -- he has seen the Germans do the impossible: blasting...

Eddie Dawson returns in his most explosive outing yet. If an officer wants to talk, something's usually wrong. Plucked from his unit, Eddie Dawson knows trouble awaits. The Netherlands is under Nazi invasion from land and sea. Amsterdam is besieged. But the Nazis aren't interested only in conquest; they want the enormous Dutch oil reserves for their war effort. Soon Dawson understands what game is afoot: he's an explosives expert, and there's a load...

The inky, black room and the horrible smells left little doubt this was a dungeon; a wretched hell intended to defeat the spirit and humanity of those it confined. The occupants were children, thrust into the hell they now faced through no act of their own, but by the depraved and morally bankrupt men and women who sold their lives and young bodies to fulfill their own greed. The door cracked open ever so slightly. Into the blackness, a wretch of...

A thrilling historical adventure in the shadow of the Russian Revolution. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Lieutenant Bob Cowan of the British Royal Navy must rescue a party of five women, including two of the Tsar's daughters. With the women holed up in a refuge a hundred miles up the Astrakhan river, this will be easier said than done. Astrakhan, where the Volga empties into the Caspian, was a Bolshevik stronghold, sizeable naval base...

Martin Falconer had one big anxiety: would they let him fly again? Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped prisoners of war weren't generally allowed to return to the front, but Martin pestered the authorities and, at last, found himself back in France. But the character of the war was changing. Everyone had suddenly become efficiency-conscious, and the freedom of choice which he had valued so much in his life...

New York Times Bestseller: This "shocking" murder mystery addresses homophobia in the military during World War II (Richard Wright, author of Native Son). The men in the barracks, wrenched from the normal pursuits of life, are being molded into warriors in a battle against the "others." Isolated and fearful, they sometimes relieve their frustrations on the most disenfranchised civilians, namely homosexuals. But one weekend, one of them loses control...

"When peace plans are threatened, Common Smith swings into action Germany, 1929. England, France and the USA are preparing to de-militarise the West Bank of the Rhine. German nationalists, financed by the great industrialists, have other ideas. They plan a series of strikes against Allied troops marching westwards. The Hell's Angels - barnstorming German ex-pilots who fled to America after the war - are recalled to Germany for the final attack. Common...

"The final tale of a fighting family, in the greatest conflict of all time... In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment. Soon enough, he finds himself on the front lines in the Second World War, from France to the Western Desert, from the D-Day beaches to Nazi Germany. The time of cavalrymen has long since passed, but Josh finds himself thinking...

After killing a fellow officer, a British World War I fighter joins the ranks of deserters and outlaws in a suspenseful novel from the author of Bretherton . Behind the Lines follows army man Peter Rawley, who accidentally kills an overbearing, taunting fellow officer and, terrified that he will not receive a fair hearing amid the chaos of the trenches, flees the battlefield. Now a fugitive, Rawley must join forces with other deserters, criminals,...