"The Cossacks" is believed to be somewhat autobiographical, partially based on Tolstoy's experiences in the Caucasus during the last stages of the Caucasian War. Disenchanted with his privileged life in Russian society, nobleman Dmitri Olenin joins the army as a cadet, in the hopes of escaping the superficiality of his daily life. On a quest to find "completeness," he naively hopes to find serenity among the "simple" people of the Caucasus. In an...

The second installment in the electrifying adventures of Richard Hannay, Britain's greatest secret agent Major Richard Hannay, hero of The Thirty-Nine Steps, is recovering from wounds sustained in the bloody Battle of Loos when his old friend Sir Walter Bullivant summons him to the Foreign Office. Hoping for a promotion, Hannay is asked instead to investigate rumors that a "star rising in the West" is about to bring the entirety of the Muslim world...

Lord Dunsany was one of the most influential fantasy authors of the twentieth century. Like J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis he served during the great war. Collected here are thirteen stories of that terrible war. Dunsany saw the horrors of war and he was uniquely qualified to capture the experience in prose. "I have chosen a title that shall show that I make no claim for this book to be "up-to-date." As the first title indicates, I hoped to show,...

The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna 'Hannele' zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D. H. Lawrence's idiosyncratic 'wicked triangles'. The intimate relationship between Captain Alexander Hepburn and Hannele is intruded upon when the captain's wife Evangeline travels to Germany suspicious of foul play.

A romance of America's nascent imperial power recounting the adventures of Robert Clay, a mining engineer and sometime mercenary, and Hope Langham, the daughter of a wealthy American industrialist, as they become caught up in a coup in Olancho, a fictional Latin American republic. When the coup, organized by corrupt politicians and generals, threatens the American-owned Valencia Mining Company, Clay organizes his workers and the handful of Americans

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Fact is said to be stranger than fiction and well may be the case if the highly readable contents of this first effort techothriller by Australian Aviation's founder and (then) Managing Editor hold true. What is fact is that the present government of Argentina has in place a publicly stated edict to reclaim the long disputed Falkland Islands. Also fact is that it is now common knowledge that in the region there exists oil and gas reserves potentially...

Harley Bodine is a tired operative ready to leave behind a life of guns and terrorists. But when Amanda Sherman assigns him one last mission-surveilling a Mexican cartel in Portland-his dream of a quiet retirement is shattered. As he faces his toughest challenge yet, Harley must decide if he can finally find peace, or if his past will catch up with him in ways he never imagined. A gripping thriller of redemption and danger from Michael A. Durney

It's 1939 - war is imminent for the people of Britain. It is becoming increasingly clear that every able bodied man will be needed on the battlefront and that British women will have to take over the jobs the men left for military service. This is the narrative of Scottish women in particular - through their stories, experiences, and sacrifices - how they not only kept Scotland and Britain alive but helped change the course of history. "Some historians...

An American soldier in Iraq discovers there is more than one enemy in combat. Faced with battling boredom, loneliness and a set of rules that do not make sense anywhere else, one soldier struggles to serve their time and return home.

The story of Stanley Mitty and his adventures around the world. Follow him from Australia to Africa and in South America. Where he annoys the hierarchy and makes the World safer.