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1	Kite Runner more books like this by Khaled Hosseini Twelve year old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father Baba, one of the richest and most respected merchants in Kabul. He has failed to do so through academia or brawn, but the one area where they connect is the annual kite fighting tournament. Amir is determined not just to win the competition but to run the last kite and bring it ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Catch-22 more books like this by Joseph L Heller "Catch-22" is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. It is totally original. It is set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death more books like this by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, a best-seller when it was first published in 1969, brought Kurt Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction. Vonnegut was a POW held in Dresden in 1945 when the city was attacked by American bombers and virtually obliterated, leaving more than 130,000 people dead. He uses that event as the climax of this ... see all copies from £3.20! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Farewell to Arms more books like this by Ernest Hemingway The best American novel to emerge from World War I, "A Farewell to Arms" is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Hemingway's frank portrayal of the love between Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, caught in the inexorable sweep of war, glows with an ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	All Quiet on the Western Front more books like this by Erich Maria Remarque The Greatest Novel about the First World War and an International Bestseller All Quiet on the Western Front is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Killer Angels more books like this by Michael Shaara This title is a novelized account of the Battle of Gettysburg. Despite carrying a letter from Lincoln offering peace on the South's terms, General Robert E. Lee resolved on one mighty blow to finally destroy the Federal Army of the Potomac. see all copies from £3.13! new only from £3.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	For Whom the Bell Tolls more books like this by Ernest Hemingway High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War more books like this by Max Brooks Brooks, author of the straight-faced parody "The Zombie Survival Guide," tells the story of the world's desperate battle against the zombie threat with a series of first-person accounts by various characters around the world. see all copies from £7.47! new only from £7.47! \| first editions
9	The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction more books like this by Tim O'Brien Since its first publication in 1979, "The Things They Carried" has become an unparalleled testament to the men who served in Vietnam--a classic work that illuminates the capacity, and the limits, of the human heart and soul. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £9.33! \| first editions
10	The English Assassin more books like this by Daniel Silva Israeli art restorer and secret agent Gabriel Allon travels to Zurich to restore a priceless painting for wealthy banker and collector Augustus Rolfe. When he arrives, he finds Rolfe murdered, and as he begins to investigate the death the plot quickly thickens--it seems that Rolfe had his own ties to Israeli intelligence. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The Rising Tide: A Novel of World War II more books like this by Jeff Shaara A master of the historical novel, Shaara begins an ambitious trilogy about the conflict that defined the 20th century. With painstaking historical detail and all-inclusive points of view, Shaara portrays the momentous and increasingly dramatic events of World War II in brilliant detail. see all copies from £5.65! new only from £6.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Shooters more books like this by W E B Griffin After a key DEA agent is kidnapped by drug runners, Presidential Agent Castillo thinks there's no way he can get permission to rescue the man. But Castillo's wrong--the President himself orders Castillo to do anything it takes to rescue the agent. Available in a tall Premium Edition. see all copies from £6.26! new only from £10.96! \| first editions
13 view cover	Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae more books like this by Steven Pressfield Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie. Nearly 2,500 years ago, in 480BC, at a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £6.49! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Cold Mountain more books like this by Charles Frazier Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of a wounded soldier Inman, who walks away from the ravages of the war and back home to his prewar sweetheart, Ada. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £1.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Forever War more books like this by J Haldeman Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself--a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	Tree of Smoke more books like this by Denis Johnson From the author of "Jesus Son" comes this long-awaited follow-up--a tale of two American families swept up in the secrets and lies of the Vietnam war. see all copies from £2.52! new only from £7.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Fields of Fire more books like this by James Webb Originally published in 1978, Webb's classic novel of the Vietnam War follows three soldiers from different worlds who are plunged into a white-hot murderous realm of jungle warfare as it was fought by one Marine platoon in the An Hoa Basin in 1969. In the heat and horror of battle, they took on new identities, took on each other, and were each ... see all copies from £2.09! new only from £6.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Death and Honor more books like this by W E B Griffin, William E Butterworth, IV Cletus Frade, a Marine pilot recruited by the OSS, investigates two interwoven German operations--the first to buy passage for Jews to Argentina and Uruguay from concentration camps, and the second to find out where the money is going. see all copies from £6.27! new only from £12.54! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Bronze Horseman more books like this by Paullina Simons A magnificent epic of love, war and Russia from the international bestselling author of TULLY and ROAD TO PARADISE Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose palaces and avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, ... see all copies from £2.07! new only from £7.33! \| first editions
20 view cover	Quiet American more books like this by Graham Greene Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £6.31! \| first editions
21 view cover	Charlotte Gray more books like this by Sebastian Faulks From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-out, wartime London, Charlotte Gray develops a dangerous passion for a battle-weary RAF pilot, and when ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £2.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Sharpe's Company more books like this by Bernard Cornwell Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Badajoz, January to April 1812The Complete Sharpe Collection with a new introduction by the authorIt was a hard winter. For Richard Sharpe it was the worst he could remember. He had lost his command to a wealthy man -- a man with money to buy the promotion Sharpe coveted. And from England came his oldest enemy -- ... see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	War and Remembrance more books like this by Herman Wouk This novel continues the story begun in "The Winds of War", following the dispersed lives of the Henry clan from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II more books like this by Jeff Shaara The second volume in "New York Times"-bestselling author Shaara's acclaimed World War II trilogy takes readers to the most famous chapter in the war--D-Day and the battle for Normandy. see all copies from £14.82! new only from £16.04! \| first editions
25 view cover	Rebel more books like this by Bernard Cornwell Set during the American Civil War, this book follows the confrontation of North against South. Nathaniel Starbuck is a Northerner, but fleeing his family after the disgrace of his involvement with a French actress, he turns to his best friend, Adam Faulconer. see all copies from £1.41! new only from £5.70! \| signed copies \| first editions

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