Southern War

The United States Camel Corps was a military experiment in the 1850s that brought camels from Egypt and Turkey to Texas and California. The cast of characters in this story is larger than life and includes U.S. Army and Navy officers, explorers, writers, politicians, and diplomats...How long the name of “Camel Corps” has been in existence is unknown, but it has been used in literature for close to a century. What the troopers themselves called the unit remains unknown. The United States Camel Corps looks at the unique unit, from its origins to its record.

Uneasiness permeated Chattanooga where Mary Beth Roper grew up. Every conversation she overheard is heated, yet her banker-father was hesitant to reveal the facts. Will Tennessee secede and force them into a war? She was an adult and demanded he tell her the truth, yet she feared the heated politics she’d seen. Then she learned a rogue customer threatened their bank. Somehow, she must find a way to work with Peter Chandler, her father’s partner, even though she can’t bear to be near him. As she unraveled an impossible puzzle, she learned to value her faith.

As the old gods are eroded by the new church and and ambitious men vie for power, blood is shed throughout the land. In the south, ealdorman Aelfhere believes that for his only daughter, 16-year-old Cynethryth, marriage to a Saxon king is the way to security. And so, against her own wishes, Cynethryth is betrothed. Yet as battle rages around her, Cynethryth too becomes a victim of war. Taken prisoner by the warrior invaders, she is forced into the presence of another Saxon king, who would also have her for his wife. A man she actually loves.

North and South. Enemies and Lovers. In a world torn apart by beliefs and battles turning brother against brother, love draws hearts together. Caught up in the war weary home front of the Civil War, southerner Leah struggles to protect not only her home, but her aging grandmother. In the aftermath of a bloody Civil War battle, Jackson makes a promise to his dying friend. He must journey through dangerous territory to fulfill that promise to a stranger. While fulfilling that promise to his friend, Jackson's life changes forever. And Leah finds more inner strength than she ever expected. An ...

North and South. Enemies and Lovers. Following a steamboat explosion, Southerner Jeffrey Couvion must make a choice no man should have to make. A choice affecting not only himself, but all those in his world, including his twin sister. He knows what he must do. What any man of good conscience would do. But only he knows at what cost. When he meets southern belle Claire, he finds not only his life in danger, but his heart as well. And everything he thought he knew about himself turned upside down. An adventurous romantic novel set against the backdrop of the American Civil War.

En route to England and his next command, Captain Jack Aubrey, and his friend, ship’s surgeon and secret agent Stephen Maturin, find themselves swept up in the War of 1812. As Aubrey convalesces from his wounds in a Boston hospital, awaiting the next prisoner exchange, Maturin’s past activities as a spy return to haunt him and precipitate both men into new and unexpected dangers.

This is the second of three volumes in a huge collection of 100 of my short stories. Volume 1 has 35 sweet wholesome contemporary romance short stories. Volume two has 33 historical romances, and Volume three has 32 time travel stories. North and South. Brother against brother. When I began researching and studying early American history, I was intrigued by the emotional impact on those left behind. Family members raising arms against each other. Not politics or even the actual battles. In fact, many of the soldiers didn’t even know why they were called to war. It was simply what was ...

José Gabriel Condorcanqui Noguera, su verdadero nombre, fue un temerario y valiente caudillo líder de la mayor rebelión indígena anticolonial que se dio en América durante el siglo XVIII.

Through the years, since Apartheid ended officially in 1994, a lot was written about the South African Police Force (SAP). Not all of the books were true to facts and many with a clear left-wing liberal political motive behind them. Many “anti” books were published, especially by the mainstream publishing houses and although they have a function and fulfilled a fiscal need, the Mean Streets Series is not like that. This is a story of a man, a junior officer that grew up in Apartheid South Africa and joined the Police at age 18 with the specific purpose to serve, to hunt criminals and ...

Code Name Celery 50 - In this book, we deal with criminal drug laboratories being used to create weapons of mass destruction in the form of biological and bacterial weapons on behalf of terrorists. Have no doubt, such weapons will be used if terrorists gets hold of them. The Tokyo Sarin gas attack, in 1994, comes to mind. A week after this book was published, the mainstream reports came out of just such laboratories being found in Africa and were destroyed. I am not surprised, it happens often that what is revealed in GMJ Books are later confirmed by the media. The books are, after all, ...

When her life is shattered by the War Between the States, Olivia Harrington scrambles to rebuild a lost family fortune by running the Federal blockade out of Wilmington, North Carolina. Her daring and bravery has allowed her to keep Bliss, the home she hasn’t seen in months... the place where she is now headed. Yet waiting at home for Livie is a houseful of trouble… her dying brother, and the man who risked everything to honor a friend’s final wish… the very man who broke Livie’s heart long ago, and whom she thought never to see again…. The Long Road Home is a novella that is ...

In 2018, Captain Louis Rudd, MBE, walked into the history books when he finished a solo, unsupported crossing of Antarctica, pulling a 130kg-sledge laden with his supplies for more than 900 miles. Louis’ skills had been honed in the SAS, on operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, but now - in the most hostile environment on Earth - they would be tested like never before. Alone on the ice, Louis battled through whiteouts, 50-mph gales and temperatures of -30 degrees Celsius. It would take all his mental strength to survive.

It is highly regrettable that we live in perilous times where terrorist attacks are a fact of life. Particularly if you live in the USA or Western Europe, but they can happen anywhere. It really does not matter whether the attack is from radicals; Muslim, Christian or Atheist, or the criminally insane - it is happening. It is predicted in this book that a terrorist attack will take place every three months in the USA or Western Europe in the foreseeable future... since publication in 2016 nothing has changed to challenge this prediction. It can happen to you and it usually does when least ...

Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But can the SAS prevent British Task Force being destroyed by exocet missiles? It is 1982, and a brutal, bloody war is being waged as British forces try to battle the Argentinians into surrendering the Falkland Islands. As the fighting continues, it becomes clear to British Task Force commanders that they will need to call upon the help of the legendary Special Air Service - the SAS!

"This story had my emotions going up and down. I was mad one minute and happy the next. So many twist and turns. As the characters keep multiplying the story gets more and more interesting. Looking forward to the next one." A family secret. A broken clock. A storm. Arabella Becquerel inherited an antebellum plantation house from her great-grandmother. A house overrun with Civil War re-enactors adamant about staying in character and insisting that the year is 1863. Even worse, one of the strangers knows her name and looks at her like she is a ghost. Colonel Augustus Townsend of the ...

From the deserts of Egypt to the rolling hills of South Australia, The Limestone Road is the extraordinary story of one man's courageous journey home.

Fans of the New York Times bestselling Addison Holmes Mystery Series will love the final installment of The Scarlet Chronicles, featuring Scarlet Holmes and her days as a spy during World War II. Scarlet Holmes and the love of her life are secretly married at the height of the war. But wedded bliss is short-lived when her husband is captured as a French spy and imprisoned at Bergen-Belsen. It's up to Scarlet and an unlikely group of war heroes—women—who devise a plan to liberate the camp and save hundreds of lives.

Strong Southern women and the Northern men who fall in love with them. Gabriella Beauchamp. A young southern belle left alone with her stepmother during the American Civil War. Christopher Monroe. An officer in the Yankee army. When orders bring him to his best friend's home deep in southern territory, he must rescue his friend's little sister from her evil stepmother. Rescued by the enemy, will Gabriella have to give up her life as she knows it? Or will the dashing Yankee soldier offer her something she cannot resist? The winds of war send them in a direction neither of them ever expected....

In King of Spies, prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden, reveals one of the most astonishing – and previously untold – spy stories of the twentieth century. Donald Nichols was 'a one man war', according to his US Air Force commanding general. He won the Distinguished Service Cross, along with a chest full of medals for valor and initiative in the Korean War. His commanders described Nichols as the bravest, most resourceful and effective spymaster of that forgotten war. But there is far more to Donald Nichols' story than first meets the eye . . .

During his years of reporting from the world's most savage and turbulent regions, Fergal Keane has witnessed the violence of the South African townships and the terror in Rwanda, the most extreme kinds of human behaviour, the horror of genocide, and the bravery of peacekeepers faced with overwhelming odds. As one of the BBC's leading correspondents, he recounts extraordinary encounters on the front lines.