This dramatic story gives an insight into the effects of war on individuals. We tend to see "war" as a whole and from a faraway distance. Here, you take a look at the raw and real situation of events. You get to know the characters and understand how the war affects their lives. Though it's fictional, it reflects on real events happening to people.

"Twenty-five years after the end of the war, Noah Ainsworth is still preoccupied with those perilous, exhilarating years as a British SOE operative in France. A head injury sustained on his final operation has caused frustrating gaps in his memory--in particular about the agent who saved his life during that mission gone wrong, whose real name he never knew, nor whether she even survived the war. Moved by her father's frustration, Noah's daughter...

Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with impunity. Jefferson ordered the U.S. Navy to Tripoli in 1801 to repel "force with force." The Barbary War was also a proving ground for such young officers as William Bainbridge, Stephen...

The incredible story of the Nations' first all-Black peacetime regiments who fought to expand America's presence in the West, protect the National Parks, and defend the U.S. on foreign soil.

During the Vietnam era, many of the U.S. Navy SEALs (SEa, Air, Land commandos) never filed for a Purple Heart unless they were severely wounded. Thomas H. Keith, Master Chief, SEAL Team 2, is living proof. He carries a piece of shrapnel behind one lung, a reminder of the day he called in 40 mm mortar fire on the enemy that was trying to catch up to his crew as the crew hauled ass out of the bush. Not only did he never report it, it was never removed---it...

Mercy Lawrence is terrified. Bermuda airport facial recognition software has identified her as missing runway star, Traci Wallace. Despite Mercy's protests, Traci's husband, ex-CIA agent Thomas Wallace, is convinced Mercy is the mother of his ill six-year-old son. With only his son's welfare in mind, he abducts Mercy and takes her to a private island to care for the boy. But Mercy soon discovers there are men much more dangerous than a father desperate...

All's fair in love and war, but only if you cheat. Captain Jamie Callahan and Staff Sergeant Kyle Brannigan know the Metahuman Defense Force frowns on fraternization, but being together is worth the risk. When an Alpha Team mission requires Jamie and Kyle to fake a very real relationship in order to infiltrate a criminal alliance, Jamie understands it won't be easy. To ensure the mission is a success, he'll have to put his family's name on the line...

When Sandy Shores joined the CIA right out of college, she had no way of knowing that in fifteen years she would be returning home for good, too badly injured by a foreign general to continue her career with the agency. Opening a private investigators office seemed the logical thing to do, but getting involved with murder, multiple personalities, and rape were not in her plans. When she is dragged off into the forest to die and it becomes necessary...

Erwin, Walter, John and Bruno Sax are four Jewish brothers, who fled Czechoslovakia ahead of the Nazi German takeover, before World War II. Escaping down the Danube River, during dangerous times, they reached Palestine, where they enlisted in the British Army. Captured on Crete, they spent four years interned in a Prisoner of War camp in Poland, always under threat and constantly fearful for family members who had stayed behind. Surviving the war,...

Emeka is an immigrant who has just arrived in America, landing at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. He quickly realizes that he is now in a new world, far from the life he lived in Africa, culture shock staring him from eyeballs to eyeballs. Finally, Emeka seeks love on foreign soil and might find it in Nicole, but a miscarriage of justice and his arrest for crimes he didn't commit throws his future into chaos. “Just Arrived” is a vivid portrait of an...