War
War shapes both battlefields and human hearts, leaving indelible marks on soldiers and civilians alike through combat, strategy, and profound moral choices. These powerful accounts and analyses explore humanity's greatest conflicts - from ancient warfare to modern cyberthreats, from frontline combat to home front struggles - revealing their lasting impact on individuals, nations, and the course of history.
War Book Summaries
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A cold case team identifies Anne Frank's betrayer. Her father knew and kept the secret.
History
True Crime
Holocaust
Wwii
Jewish
The Betrayal of Anne Frank
A cold case team identifies Anne Frank's betrayer. Her father knew and kept the secret.
History
True Crime
Holocaust
Wwii
Jewish
Dance of Kings and Thieves
To reclaim her throne, a memory thief unites three warring kingdoms. Victory demands her very soul.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Fae
Magic
Dance of Kings and Thieves
To reclaim her throne, a memory thief unites three warring kingdoms. Victory demands her very soul.
Fantasy
Romance
Fantasy Romance
Fae
Magic
Queens of Mist and Madness
Her fae prince can finally speak. The war will test whether love can survive a crown.
Fantasy Romance
Fantasy
Romance
Fae
Magic
Queens of Mist and Madness
Her fae prince can finally speak. The war will test whether love can survive a crown.
Fantasy Romance
Fantasy
Romance
Fae
Magic
Long Way Home
One woman fights to reach a veteran trapped in silence; another fights to survive Nazi Europe.
Historical Fiction
Christian Fiction
Wwii
Holocaust
Historical
Long Way Home
One woman fights to reach a veteran trapped in silence; another fights to survive Nazi Europe.
Historical Fiction
Christian Fiction
Wwii
Holocaust
Historical
Less Than Human
Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
History
Science
Less Than Human
Your brain can reclassify a human group as a nonhuman species. That shift makes genocide possible.
Psychology
Sociology
Philosophy
History
Science
The Malevolent Seven
A cynical war mage and his crew of misfits take a mercenary job with apocalyptic stakes.
Fantasy
Adult
Dark Fantasy
High Fantasy
Magic
The Malevolent Seven
A cynical war mage and his crew of misfits take a mercenary job with apocalyptic stakes.
Fantasy
Adult
Dark Fantasy
High Fantasy
Magic
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
A ten-year-old spy hunts a Nazi in a manor. Then a murder makes everyone suspect.
Mystery
Middle Grade
Historical Fiction
Crime
Historical
The Ministry of Unladylike Activity
A ten-year-old spy hunts a Nazi in a manor. Then a murder makes everyone suspect.
Mystery
Middle Grade
Historical Fiction
Crime
Historical
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
Before cinema cleaned them up, Wild West legends were killers, traitors, and pragmatists.
History
Biography
Historical
Adventure
True Crime
Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies
Before cinema cleaned them up, Wild West legends were killers, traitors, and pragmatists.
History
Biography
Historical
Adventure
True Crime
A History of the Philippines
How Spanish friars, American teachers, and Japanese occupiers accidentally created a nation.
History
Asia
Politics
War
Culture
A History of the Philippines
How Spanish friars, American teachers, and Japanese occupiers accidentally created a nation.
History
Asia
Politics
War
Culture
The Road to Jerusalem
A warrior-monk loves the wrong woman. The church exiles him to the Crusades for twenty years.
Historical Fiction
Historical
War
Sweden
Christian
The Road to Jerusalem
A warrior-monk loves the wrong woman. The church exiles him to the Crusades for twenty years.
Historical Fiction
Historical
War
Sweden
Christian
Stonehenge
Prehistoric Britain: strange gold divides three brothers as a prophet dreams of a stone temple.
Historical Fiction
Historical
Fantasy
Adult
Dark
Stonehenge
Prehistoric Britain: strange gold divides three brothers as a prophet dreams of a stone temple.
Historical Fiction
Historical
Fantasy
Adult
Dark
The Last Assignment
Rejected at home, a woman war correspondent finds family among soldiers on the front lines
Historical Fiction
War
Historical
Photography
Women
The Last Assignment
Rejected at home, a woman war correspondent finds family among soldiers on the front lines
Historical Fiction
War
Historical
Photography
Women
Last to Eat, Last to Learn
Afghanistan's first female tribal chief ran secret tablet schools until the Taliban came for her.
Memoir
Feminism
Politics
Education
Women
Last to Eat, Last to Learn
Afghanistan's first female tribal chief ran secret tablet schools until the Taliban came for her.
Memoir
Feminism
Politics
Education
Women
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
A forged document, a faked war, an imaginary country: the lies that changed history.
History
Politics
Historical
Religion
War
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
A forged document, a faked war, an imaginary country: the lies that changed history.
History
Politics
Historical
Religion
War
1001 Nights in Iraq
How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?
Memoir
War
Middle East
Military
Survival
1001 Nights in Iraq
How does a Chicago teen end up in Saddam's navy, dodging American bombs, praying for capture?
Memoir
War
Middle East
Military
Survival
Rise of the New World Order
From ancient Babylon to the Federal Reserve, one plan connects every war, crash, and stolen freedom.
Conspiracy
Politics
Religion
History
Economics
Rise of the New World Order
From ancient Babylon to the Federal Reserve, one plan connects every war, crash, and stolen freedom.
Conspiracy
Politics
Religion
History
Economics
Beyond Fundamentalism
When God is drafted into warfare, conflicts become eternal. A strategy for breaking the spell.
Religion
Islam
Politics
Middle East
History
Beyond Fundamentalism
When God is drafted into warfare, conflicts become eternal. A strategy for breaking the spell.
Religion
Islam
Politics
Middle East
History
The Lost and the Damned
Traitor legions and daemons siege Terra's palace, held by three primarchs and expendable conscripts.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Fantasy
War
Horror
The Lost and the Damned
Traitor legions and daemons siege Terra's palace, held by three primarchs and expendable conscripts.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Fantasy
War
Horror
Hattie Big Sky
An orphan inherits a Montana claim in 1918 and must survive brutal prairie and war prejudice.
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Historical
Middle Grade
Teen
Hattie Big Sky
An orphan inherits a Montana claim in 1918 and must survive brutal prairie and war prejudice.
Historical Fiction
Young Adult
Historical
Middle Grade
Teen
Furysong
When dragonlords retake her city, a peasant dragon rider returns from exile to free her people.
Fantasy
Dragons
Young Adult
High Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
Furysong
When dragonlords retake her city, a peasant dragon rider returns from exile to free her people.
Fantasy
Dragons
Young Adult
High Fantasy
Epic Fantasy
Portrait of a Turkish Family
Fire, famine, and madness: one Turkish family's slow destruction inside the collapse of an empire.
History
Memoir
Turkish
Middle East
War
Portrait of a Turkish Family
Fire, famine, and madness: one Turkish family's slow destruction inside the collapse of an empire.
History
Memoir
Turkish
Middle East
War
The Tigress of Forlì
Seven months pregnant, she seized a papal fortress and held the Vatican hostage for eleven days.
History
Biography
Italy
Women
Historical
The Tigress of Forlì
Seven months pregnant, she seized a papal fortress and held the Vatican hostage for eleven days.
History
Biography
Italy
Women
Historical
Shōgun, Volume 1
An English pilot shipwrecked in Japan becomes the ultimate pawn in a clash of ambitious warlords.
Historical Fiction
Japan
Adventure
Classics
Historical
Shōgun, Volume 1
An English pilot shipwrecked in Japan becomes the ultimate pawn in a clash of ambitious warlords.
Historical Fiction
Japan
Adventure
Classics
Historical
Mother Tongue
An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Literature
Feminism
Immigration
Mother Tongue
An activist shelters a Salvadoran poet from death squads. Their love is a sanctuary under siege.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Literature
Feminism
Immigration
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The frontier heroes you know hid darker truths. Nine lives that collapse the legend.
History
Biography
American
Western
Historical
Bill O'Reilly's Legends & Lies
The frontier heroes you know hid darker truths. Nine lives that collapse the legend.
History
Biography
American
Western
Historical
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
In postwar London, queer citizens carry forbidden loves and the weight of wartime secrets.
Historical Fiction
Lgbt
Queer
Historical
War
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
In postwar London, queer citizens carry forbidden loves and the weight of wartime secrets.
Historical Fiction
Lgbt
Queer
Historical
War
The Dark Valley
The 1930s: a single global story of economic collapse, appeasement, and terror feeding the next war.
History
20th Century
Politics
War
Military
The Dark Valley
The 1930s: a single global story of economic collapse, appeasement, and terror feeding the next war.
History
20th Century
Politics
War
Military
Gates of Fire
A dying Greek squire tells Xerxes why three hundred Spartans chose certain death at Thermopylae.
Historical Fiction
War
Military
Historical
Adventure
Gates of Fire
A dying Greek squire tells Xerxes why three hundred Spartans chose certain death at Thermopylae.
Historical Fiction
War
Military
Historical
Adventure
