Epic Military

Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defends England’s shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons’ ranks—forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected—and stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties.

Necrotis has raised an armada to make our sector tremble. Hundreds of warships have begun to overwhelm the Confederacy, and we don't have nearly enough magic or ships to defend every world. Our only real hope is resurrecting the Vagrant Fleet. We have the Spellship, and our demon allies control the Earthmother's Bulwark. I'm the captain of the Word of Xal, our most powerful offensive ship in the fleet. We're strong, but Necrotis is stronger, and the gap is growing.

Jim Craig was a platoon commander with the Marines on Iwo Jima. This is his story, as told to his nephew John C. Shively. In a particularly vivid and exciting account of some of the most intense fighting of the Pacific War, the immediacy of the story is heightened by the detail that Shively's research has added to Craig's recollections. The result will pull you onto the beach, into the foxhole, and over Mount Suribachi with those who lived, fought, and died on Iwo Jima.

Torian Ranth wants nothing more than to master his sahir magic. Having spent years training, he still can’t form even his primary patterns consistently, let alone attempt any higher tiered power. His continued failures mean that his time in school must come to an end.

Fifteen years have passed since the demons were destroyed. Heroes have become legend, and those that remain live in their shadows. Olive, Princess of Hollow, has her entire life planned out—a steady march toward succession. But the more her mother writes the script, the more Olive rails against playing the parts she is assigned. Darin is the son of the man people say saved the world. Everyone expects greatness from Darin, but the only thing he’s ever been great at is hiding. But now it’s time to fight the darkness.

Alternate history—1121 AD. The last free warbands of the Norse are scattered in the forests and hills of central Sweden. Denmark has fallen, consumed by the crusades, coerced into loyalty to foreign lords. Norway has bent the knee, making peace once their mighty king was slain. Only in Svealand, the old heart of the Swedish kingdom and the Norse people, does the fire of defiance yet burn, and even there just softly, flickering in the long dark winter.

Alternate history—1116 AD. Three hundred years of cruel Viking raids have finally united Christian Europe against the pagan Northlands. A great crusade has been called to pacify the wild Norse kingdoms. The banner of the cross has been raised against the North, and all the power and fury of the West rides under it. Ordulf, a talented young German swordsmith, is ripped from his comfortable life and cast into the bloody chaos of the crusade. As fate deals him a cruel blow in the lands of his enemies, he will have to forge a new path through the chaos or be consumed by it.

Finn Featherstone never thought that owning a Bizarre Blade would cause this much trouble. After barely controlling his stubborn weapon long enough to rescue his fellow Champions, he’s unsure if his dream of glory is worth the challenge. But when a tyrannical king vows to hunt the hero down, Finn never imagined the enemy would kidnap his father.

Sometimes a girl is touched by mother war. Thorn is such a girl. Desperate to avenge her dead father, she lives to fight. But she has been named murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. Sometimes a woman becomes a warrior Fate traps her in the schemes - and on the ship - of the deep-cunning minister Father Yarvi. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit.

The Circle—a thousand miles of perilous forests and warring clans. No one has ever tamed such treacherous territory before, but ex-soldier Teyr Amondsen, veteran of a hundred battles, is determined to try. With a merchant caravan protected by a crew of skilled mercenaries, Teyr embarks on a dangerous mission to forge a road across the untamed wilderness that was once her home. But a warlord has risen in the wilds of the Circle, uniting its clans and terrorizing its people. Teyr's battles are far from over . . .

Multiple Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear enthralls fans with this compelling first book in the Eternal Sky series. In a world where wizards are unable to procreate, Temur, heir to his empire’s throne, flees to avoid assassination. Once-Princess Samarkar, formerly heir to her own empire’s throne, gives up everything to seek the wizards’ magical power. Drawn together by fate, Temur and the Once-Princess must stand against a cult inciting strife and civil war in all the empires.

Strangled by shadow, the human world is gasping its last breath. General Warren Northwright vowed to save the realm from the Darkness or stand trial for his past—he didn’t expect to fail. Invading monsters from the Darkness realm have slaughtered his armies, and no matter how badly he wishes to exchange his life for the soldiers he’s lost he can’t. As he prepares for his final battle he learns this may not be the end. Upon a recently discovered parchment penned by the dead god of the Ajoiner Realm is a spark of hope. The beacon. A construct rumored to be capable of vanquishing the ...

Commander Kyle Griffin was a good soldier. Perhaps the perfect soldier. Owner of countless victories in an unyielding galactic civil war, he was bred to be the harbinger of death for the meager Splinter rebellion, and he did not disappoint. He and his team of elite Infinity Force operatives had the war all but won. Until he finally met an adversary he could not defeat: the truth.

A captivating story at the crossroads of genres, blending historical inspiration, epic battles, and mystical quests. Fans of David Gemmell, Bernard Cornwell, Simon Scarrow, and Conn Iggulden will delight in this thrilling journey. A novel you'll read in one sitting. To the east of the long White Mountains, Arcan has made the arduous crossing of the Yamena Desert to reach Sargania and reclaim the crown stolen from him. To the west, war rages between the Sarganids and the Irulian armies of the King-Priest, and nothing seems to be able to stop it, not even Jahyna's determination. Taking ...

Heroes Fall, Chaos Reigns. The war slips away from the allied cause. As the Horde invades farther into Erlon, General Duroc plans his next attack on the Vendome Road. Marshal Lauriston's last army awaits him. Elisa Lannes fights on for Erlon and finds strength in the knowledge that her father has finally joined the war effort. With victory in the east, the emperor can march to rejoin his Erlonians. But first, Elisa, Lauriston, and the army in the west must survive the coming Kurakin onslaught. The Horde marches. Chaos Reigns. Can the empire be saved? Empire of War is the third book in the ...

Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam and less familiar battles such as the bloodbath at Daido.

The Cerani Empire reaches a tipping point in the thrilling conclusion to the Tower and Knife trilogy. The world is at its breaking point. The nothing, a terrible darkness caused by the festering wounds of a god, bleeds out the very essence of all, of stone, silkand souls. Emperor Sarmin thought he had stopped it, but it is spreading toward his city, Cerana and he is powerless to halt the destruction. Even as Cerana fills with refugees, the Yrkmen armies arrive with conquest in mind, but they offer to spare Sarmin’s people if they will convert to the Mogyrk faith.

Once more. For glory and fury. The civil war for Belgada’s throne moves north at last. Martius, Talia, Gaius, and Basilas push to end Paulus’s tenuous hold on the capital, but the traitor has more than a few traps lying in wait. He still rides Oxus the night-gryphon and has ferocious legions at his back. On the back of Avorian, Martius the air captain strives for glory one final time against this foe. But with the fighting far from over and Talia continuously under threat from the rebels trying to knock her from the sky, is his journey fated to end in disaster? Or is he destined for ...

It is still the War of 1812 and Jack Aubrey - with his tetchy, sardonic friend Stephen Maturin - has set course across the South Atlantic to intercept a powerful American frigate outward bound to play havoc with the British whaling trade. If they do not come up with her before she rounds the Horn, they must follow her into the Great South Sea and as far across the Pacific as she may lead them.

The day had started out well for Sergeant First Class Jay Aki: a little sparring with a friend, a terrorist threat to thwart, and then it all fell apart. While conducting a parachute entry into a theme park to stop a nuclear threat, SFC Aki found himself floating UP instead of falling DOWN. Thrust into a strange world full of goblins, orcs, elves and dwarves, he arrives in a city on fire, and quickly discovers that his teammates Heishi and Tiane are responsible for the fires, and that they have already left the city! Still unaccounted for is Chief Warrant Officer Adam Zatus, the tech ...