A Call To Arms, the fourth novel in the award-winning Cutler Family Chronicles by William C. Hammond, features the epic saga of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts and an ever expanding cast of characters, including real historical figures Captain Edward Preble....
In war, you can pretend to be someone you're not. Yet, in war, people find out who you really are. Hong Kong, 1941.
Anglo-Australian civil servant Dominic Sotherly's colonial sojourn in Hong Kong becomes complicated by his double life in both war and love. Enigmatic Englishwoman Gwen ......
The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures
Island Ablaze and Other Stories is an anthology of thirteen stories-eleven from South Korea and two from North Korea-about these countries' complicated relationships with their most important ally and enemy: the United States. Set in times ranging from colonial Korea to the new millennium, these stories offer a look into the many ways that the US ......
The US Empire in North and South Korean Literatures
Island Ablaze and Other Stories is an anthology of thirteen stories-eleven from South Korea and two from North Korea-about these countries' complicated relationships with their most important ally and enemy: the United States. Set in times ranging from colonial Korea to the new millennium, these stories offer a look into the many ways that the US ......
Short stories by a celebrated playwright bare the horrors of the Syrian civil war. A selection of stories by Syrian author and playwright Mustafa Taj Aldeen Almosa about characters enduring the horrors of the Syrian civil war. With exquisite wit and lightness of touch, Almosa portrays the internal world of characters facing great physical ......
Stories of war and conflict form the backbone of much of the Western literary canon, portraying a certain image of heroism, stoicism, and survival in the face of violence. War and Imagination challenges the canon with essays, short stories, and a wide variety of perspectives. Paying particular attention to the twentieth century and prioritizing ......
The story of what would become the tipping point of the Malayan Emergency in favour of the security forces is retold against a background of events in Moscow, Darjeeling, Delhi and Calcutta, where senior communist party members plot to infiltrate Gurkha units and destabilise Malaya.
In 1944, ace commander Rudolf Steiger takes a U-boat flotilla out into the bitter winter seas, where he faces a new and deadly enemy--his own nagging doubts about the outcome of the war.
In the tradition of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, Brian O'Hare's Surrender is a rich collection of coming-of-age stories, a journey into the heart of the American hero myth, from the Friday night football fields of Western Pennsylvania to a battalion of Marines in the Persian Gulf and beyond. But what happens when the crowds stop cheering ......
