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Аз още броя дните by Георги Бърдаров
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsХитовият първи роман на Георги Бърдаров „Аз още броя дните” в ново и допълнено издание с твърди корици, 2021 г. Разтърсваща любовна история на босненските Ромео и Жулиета на фона на драматичните събития по време на Босненската война и блокадата на Сараево... -
![The Scalawags by C.J. Petit]()
The Scalawags by C.J. Petit
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsUnion Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe Farrell, to make sure that his family is safe... -
![See You at the Bar by David Black]()
See You at the Bar by David Black
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Mediterranean, early 1940s. Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, captain of the S-Class submarine HMS Scourge, has been tasked with patrolling the Mediterranean and supporting operations for the Allied forces. Someone, however, is on his tail: Captain Charles ‘the Bonny Boy’ Bonalleck VC, who cannot forget Lt Gilmour calling him out on his conduct during an operation early in the war... -
![The Promise by Ruth Saberton]()
The Promise by Ruth Saberton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsNo matter what promises you make, some dark secrets refuse to stay buried... When Nell Summers stumbles across a photograph in her late father’s belongings, the faded image of a young soldier leads her to question everything she knows...Categorized as:
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![The Commodore by P.T. Deutermann]()
The Commodore by P.T. Deutermann
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsP. T. Deutermann's previous novels of the US Navy in World War II - Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bungo Suido, and Sentinels of Fire - have been acclaimed by reviewers and readers for their powerful drama and authentic detail. In The Commodore, the Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands...Categorized as:
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![STRIKE: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Craig DiLouie]()
STRIKE: A Novel of the Battle of Midway by Craig DiLouie
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter a lifelong dream of flight takes him into military service, Ensign Harry Hartmann reports for duty at Pearl Harbor. He’s a “nugget,” a dive bomber pilot about to start his first deployment aboard the USS Enterprise.Hell rains from the skies as the Japanese launch a devastating surprise attack that forces America into a bloody, global war... -
![Reluctant Redemption by Reg Quist]()
Reluctant Redemption by Reg Quist
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF THE MAC’S WAY SERIES INTRODUCES A NEW TYPE OF HERO WHO WON’T GIVE UP. Following the Civil War in 1865, Zac Trimbell fights the internal demons brought on from his experiences in the violent and inhuman conditions of war. Zac knows he is not the same man that went to war but has never heard of PTSD... -
![Killer of Kings by Matthew Harffy]()
Killer of Kings by Matthew Harffy
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAD 636. Anglo-Saxon Britain. A gripping, action-packed historical thriller and the fourth instalment in The Bernicia Chronicles. Perfect for fans of Bernard Cornwell. Beobrand has land, men and riches. He should be content. And yet he cannot find peace until his enemies are food for the ravens...Categorized as:
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Blood Wings by Phil Ward
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrilogy set with Raiding Forces framework.n this sequel to Dead Eagles, U.S. Major John Randal, commander of Strategic Raiding Forces, returns in Blood Wings, the first book in a trilogy within the Raiding Forces Series about the Abyssinian Campaign. Major Randal parachutes into the middle of Italian East Africa with orders to raise a guerrilla army. Everything that can go wrong does...Categorized as:
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![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Two by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Two by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsFifteenth-century Europe. Tom Swan is not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns. But he also has a real talent for ending up in the midst of violence when he didn't mean to...Categorized as:
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![Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati]()
Fire Along the Sky by Sara Donati
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWith epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise...Categorized as:
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![Carrhae: 4 by Peter Darman]()
Carrhae: 4 by Peter Darman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Carrhae’ is the fourth and final instalment in the Parthian Chronicles, the adventures of King Pacorus of Dura, and follows on from ‘Parthian Vengeance’.The great Parthian Civil War is over, leaving behind an empire exhausted by years of bloodshed. But no sooner have hostilities ended than Armenia, the client state of Rome, declares war on the empire and unleashes its army against Parthia... -
![Civil War by R.W. Peake]()
Civil War by R.W. Peake
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the second book of the critically acclaimed Marching With Caesar series, Titus Pullus and his friends in the 10th Legion are called on to serve as the agents of change as their general, Gaius Julius Caesar singlehandedly changes the Roman Republic to Empire... -
![Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsCaptain Richard Sharpe prepares to lead his men against the army of Napoleon at Talavera in what will be the bloodiest battle of the war. After their cowardly loss of the regiment's colors, the men's resentment toward the upstart Sharpe turns to treachery, and Sharpe must fight to redeem the honor of his regiment. [Sharpe is] a hero in the mold of James Bond...Categorized as:
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![Rome's Lost Son by Robert Fabbri]()
Rome's Lost Son by Robert Fabbri
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe sixth installment in Robert Fabbri's epic Vespasian seriesRome, AD 51: Vespasian brings Rome's greatest enemy before the Emperor. After eight years of resistance, the British warrior Caratacus has been caught. But even Vespasian's victory cannot remove the newly-made consul from Roman politics: Agrippina, Emperor Claudius's wife, pardons Caratacus... -
![From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom]()
From Sea to Shining Sea by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn one generation, the Clark family of Virginia fought for our nation's independence, and explored, conquered, and settled the continent from sea to shining sea. This powerfully written book recreates the warm life of the family, the dangers of the battlefield, the grueling journeys across an untamed wilderness, and the soul-stirring Lewis and Clark Expedition...Categorized as:
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![Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh by James Alexander Thom]()
Panther in the Sky: A Novel Based on the Life of Tecumseh by James Alexander Thom
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsRich, colorful and bursting with excitement, this remarkable story turns James Alexander Thom's power and passion for American history to the epic story of Tecumseh's life and give us a heart-thumping novel of one man's magnificent destiny--to unite his people in the struggle to save their land and their way of life from the relentless press of the white settlers...Categorized as:
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![Flashman & the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman & the Redskins by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHarry Flashman is back in the saddle, so to speak, making history that you won't find in textbooks. Mingling among heroes in the American West, the ace of knaves flees a murder charge, travels with a mobile brothel to California's goldfields, betrays the scarlet woman who loves him and tricks the noble Indians while seducing their women...Categorized as:
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![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Four by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Four by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century... -
![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Five by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century.Available exclusively in eBook... -
![Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Three by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Last Spartans: Part Three by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsThe latest instalment of the Tom Swan adventures - the fast-paced serialised novel set in the turbulent Europe of the fifteenth century... -
![Walking on Water by Rymond Hunter Pyle]()
Walking on Water by Rymond Hunter Pyle
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the rivers, canals, and streams of the Mekong Delta the brown water Navy carried the men of the 2nd brigade, 9th Infantry Division to battle along narrow canals and rivers to landings deep in the delta. The sailors came from all over the Navy to do a dangerous job in horrible conditions. Their small boats were heavily armed and armored, but the Viet Cong leaned their weaknesses... -
![The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib]()
The Fire Dream by Franklin Allen Leib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn epic military novel of soldier's combat in Vietnam This is a sweeping, gut-wrenching portrait of soldiers at war from a man who fought, and saw friends die, in Vietnam. It is a saga of men from all walks of life, thrown together by the arbitrary nature of unrelenting combat of Vietnam, each man in the team is put to the ultimate test-combat... -
![Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters]()
Judgment at Appomattox by Ralph Peters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"History comes alive" (Richard J...Categorized as:
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![The Great Cause by Griff Hosker]()
The Great Cause by Griff Hosker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn thirteenth-century Britain, Gerald Warbow, legendary archer to the king, prepares to pass on the torch … once he’s dealt with William Wallace …Having fought valiantly for Lord – now King – Edward, Gerald Warbow has settled into the life of a country gentleman. He has a comfortable life with a wife he loves and three growing – if occasionally irritating – children... -
![Montana Woman by Rosanne Bittner]()
Montana Woman by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA NATION DIVIDED ONE WOMAN’S UNBRIDLED SPIRIT A Civil War widow, young Joline Masters leaves “bleeding” Kansas for Montana to settle under the Homestead Act. Mountain man Clint Reeves knows Montana well, having lost a wife and child there to an Indian attack. He has come home to Kansas, but his father-in-law and others blame him for his wife’s and he child’s deaths...Categorized as:
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![Embers of the Heart by Rosanne Bittner]()
Embers of the Heart by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the aftermath of America’s bloody Civil War, young Anna Kelley waits for her husband, Darryl, to come home. When he finally returns, he is a changed man who no longer loves her and has become cruel and unforgiving because of his war experiences. Anna decides that, for her own safety, she needs to get away from Darryl... -
![Hot Colorado Nights by Paige Yancey]()
Hot Colorado Nights by Paige Yancey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsColorado Detective teams with the Brotherhood Protectors to help find his high school sweetheart’s missing sister Maddie Finley and her sister live a quiet life in a Colorado town where they own a gift shop and go to school. Dating is the last thing on Maddie’s mind since she walked away from her first and only love. Her life is just the way she thinks she likes it until her sister is kidnapped... -
![Tyrant: Destroyer Of Cities by Christian Cameron]()
Tyrant: Destroyer Of Cities by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis novel in the scintillating Tyrant series brings the epic siege of Rhodes in 306 BC to spectacular life.The death of Alexander the Great was the signal to begin the greatest war in human history - a war that swept like a firestorm from one end of the known world to the other, as his former generals fought like jackals to make his vast empire their own... -
![Fire the Sky by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear]()
Fire the Sky by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNew York Times bestselling novelists W. Michael and Kathleen O’Neal Gear have long been considered the foremost chroniclers of early Native American life. Now, in a critically acclaimed, sweeping new series, they recreate the conflict-filled years following one of the first European invasions...Categorized as:
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![The Red Feather by April W. Gardner]()
The Red Feather by April W. Gardner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWar, captivity, hunger that will not be denied. And a blackberry moon with enough pull to endure the test of time. Frontierswoman Adela McGirth has never feared her neighbors, the Creek Indians, but a suspicious encounter with a steely-eyed warrior shakes her confidence. As dreaded, a skirmish with the natives sends her family fleeing into a hastily constructed fort... -
![The King's Marauder by Dewey Lambdin]()
The King's Marauder by Dewey Lambdin
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. His frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he’s living at his father’s estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he’s recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last, there’s a bright spot... -
![Sharpe's Ransom by Bernard Cornwell]()
Sharpe's Ransom by Bernard Cornwell
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShort Story Originally written for the The Daily Mail newspaper in 1995 and also published as one of two short stories in Sharpe's Christmas.'Sharpe's Ransom', is set in France, after the wars, when old enemies take Sharpe's woman and child hostage... -
![Kemp: The Road to Crécy by Jonathan Lunn]()
Kemp: The Road to Crécy by Jonathan Lunn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn epic Medieval adventure of the Hundred Years WarWhen Martin Kemp joins the English army in order to avoid the hangman, he may just be delaying the inevitable. While he remains hopeful that at least there's the chance for some heroics, the reality is very different... -
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![A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara]()
A Chain of Thunder by Jeff Shaara
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERContinuing the series that began with A Blaze of Glory, Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in America's long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi...Categorized as:
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![Battle in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone]()
Battle in the Ashes by William W. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLed by descendants of Hitler's Third Reich, 200,000 heavily armed and highly trained fascist soldiers are determined to spread their doctrine of evil across the free world. As the doomsday forces turn Texas into a battleground, legendary soldier and survivalist Ben Raines and his Rebel Army must prevent America from erupting in a bloodbath of atrocity... -
![The Green Hell by J. Scott Payne]()
The Green Hell by J. Scott Payne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gritty story of Midwestern unfortunates drawing the shortest stick of World War II. Spearheading General MacArthur’s inept first offensive in New Guinea, Michigan and Wisconsin guardsmen plunged into jungle and malarial swamps, to attack supposedly starved, diseased push-overs. Instead, veteran Japanese outnumbered and outgunned the green GIs... -
![Savage Conquest by Janelle Taylor]()
Savage Conquest by Janelle Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere was no Virginia belle more irresistible than ebon-haired Miranda Lawrence. Though the willful beauty had her pick of handsome beaux, she felt a wild need deep within her for the kind of man she'd never meet in polite society. Heeding the call of her destiny, Miranda stole away from her plantation home, back to the land of her mother's people... -
![Trail of Longing by Merry Farmer]()
Trail of Longing by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmma Sutton fell in love with Dr. Dean Meyers on the very first day of their journey west on the Oregon Trail. Dean is handsome, caring, and noble. If only she could tell him! But between her crippling shyness and the marital machinations of her mother, she despairs of ever being able to say what’s in her heart... -
![Massacre Canyon by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone]()
Massacre Canyon by William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century Two outlaw brothers have been leaving a blood-trail on their way to infamy on the western frontier. Until bounty hunter Luke Jensen catches one of the black-hearted Kroll brothers away from his gang. But while Luke is trying to get Mordecai Kroll from jail to justice, he's ambushed by the Kroll gang and taken prisoner...Categorized as:
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![Plains Of Promise by Colleen Coble]()
Plains Of Promise by Colleen Coble
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Emma Croftner’s “husband” is killed, she realizes he was already married to someone else. The house and life she thought she had belongs to someone else. She joins the Campbell at Fort Laramie and must learn to trust God with her security. And only kind Lt. Isaac Liddle can break through the wall she’s erected against ever loving again... -
![The Wick and The Flame by Hilari T. Cohen]()
The Wick and The Flame by Hilari T. Cohen
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt takes a special kind of hero to stand up against the odds...Evie and Albert. Naomi and Judah. Four very different people who join a movement to birth a nation with one thing in common. None of them ever expected to fall in love...After the atrocities of the holocaust, it becomes all too clear that the Jewish people need safe homeland... -
![The Three Generals by Martin Tessmer]()
The Three Generals by Martin Tessmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings210 BCE. The Roman Republic battles the empire of Carthage for control of the Mediterranean. Mago, Gisgo, and Hasdrubal hold Iberia and its riches firmly within their grip, preparing to send Hannibal the Great enough resources to destroy Rome forever...Categorized as:
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![Valley of the Shadow by Stephanie Grace Whitson]()
Valley of the Shadow by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMama had been gone for several years, now, but Gen could still hear her voice. Someday someone is going to call you a stupid squaw. When they do, you must remember who you are. You are the daughter of a French nobleman. Your father speaks four languages. He has studied at schools most whites could never hope to enter... -
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![Second to None by Alexander Kent]()
Second to None by Alexander Kent
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJune 1815: On the eve of Waterloo, a sense of finality and cautious hope pervade a nation wearied by decades of war. But peace will present its own challenge to Adam Bolitho, captain of His Majesty's Ship Unrivalled, as many of his contemporaries face the prospect of discharge... -
![King, Ship, and Sword by Dewey Lambdin]()
King, Ship, and Sword by Dewey Lambdin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsTHE SIXTEENTH TALE IN DEWEY LAMBDIN'S CLASSIC NAVAL ADVENTURE SERIESDecember 1801. The Peace of Amiens end the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte's France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences... -
![The Baltic Gambit by Dewey Lambdin]()
The Baltic Gambit by Dewey Lambdin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJanuary 1801, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, known as “St. Alan the Liberator” for freeing (stealing!) a dozen black slaves on Jamaica to man his frigate years before, is at last being brought to trial for it, with his life on the line... -
![Hostile Shores by Dewey Lambdin]()
Hostile Shores by Dewey Lambdin
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Lambdin is closing on Patrick O'Brian as the most prolific historical novelist to celebrate a Royal Navy mariner." —Washington Times In 1805, with news of Admiral Nelson's death fresh on his mind, Captain Lewrie's HMS Reliant joins up in the voyage that will culminate in the Battle of Cape Town, in which the British wrested control of South Africa from the Dutch... -
![The Bright Blue Sky by Max Hennessy]()
The Bright Blue Sky by Max Hennessy
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOne day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born... Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with aviation... -
![The Inshore Squadron by Alexander Kent]()
The Inshore Squadron by Alexander Kent
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCopenhagen, 1800. After seven years of cruel war against France, Britain's long-standing ally, Denmark, suddenly poses a threat. The scene of battle shifts to the Baltic where the British navy encounters the bitter hardship of blockade duty...
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