L. McCord

After her wagon train is attacked, 18-year-old Alice Rhodes flees for her life and manages to reach the town of Brownsville, Nebraska. But it doesn't take long for Alice to discover that Brownsville is no ordinary frontier settlement, and on the very next day, she is stripped bare, shamefully examined by the local doctor and placed in a special school where she will be trained to surrender her virgin body completely to the man who will eventually claim her.

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history.