by James Holland (2009)
April 1940. Nazi Germany has invaded neutral Norway. Fleeing north are three officers of the King's Guard - men who have been entrusted by the Norwegian King to get leading scientist Hening Sandvold out of Oslo to safety. As Sergeant Jack Tanner and his comrades are pushed back from Lillehammer, they are stranded in the mountains, where they stumble across Sandvold and his protectors, and then a French patrol of alpine troops. Sandvold holds the key to a secret that could change the outcome of the entire war - but the odds are stacked against this ragtag group of soldiers and civilians making it to safety.
Vladimir Chernozemsky
There's trouble in the Balkans, the "Powder Keg" of Europe. Prolific Bulgarian-American author Vladimir Chernozemsky takes us back to the bloody Balkan War in his most personal novel yet. The Ottoman Turks occupied and oppressed the Balkans for five centuries until Bulgaria and its neighbors drove them out, only then to fight over the liberated territories. It was a devastating war that still reverberates today.
Lion Feuchtwanger
**Die Geschwister Oppermann** ist ein Zeitroman von Lion Feuchtwanger aus dem Jahr 1933, der zusammen mit den Romanen Erfolg und Exil zu Feuchtwangers „Wartesaal-Trilogie“ gehört. Die ersten beiden Auflagen des Romans erschienen 1933 und 1935 unter dem Titel Die Geschwister Oppenheim. Ein deutscher Nationalsozialist mit dem Namen Oppermann hatte noch während der Drucklegung durch Drohungen gegen den noch in Deutschland lebenden Bruder Feuchtwangers eine Namensänderung erzwungen. Spätere Auflagen trugen dann den ursprünglich vorgesehenen Titel. Der Roman erzählt die Geschichte der jüdischen Geschwister Oppermann, Gustav, Martin, Edgar und Klara, und ihrer Familien in den Jahren 1932 und 1933 vor dem Hintergrund der Machtergreifung der Nazis in Deutschland. Dabei spiegelt sich in der Haltung der Romanfiguren auch die Täuschung Feuchtwangers über die Chancen der Nazis auf eine Machtübernahme in Deutschland wider; Feuchtwanger war selbst lange von einem Scheitern der nationalsozialistischen Bewegung ausgegangen und hatte noch im Dezember 1932 bei einem Interview das politische Ende Hitlers angekündigt (Hitler is over). (Wikipedia)
Stephen Coonts
During the Vietnam War, attack pilot Jake Grafton, struggling with his conscience and trying to find meaning to all the senseless death and destruction, decides to plan an illegal bombing raid into the very heart of Hanoi.
Eugenia Price
Eugenia Price has long shared with her millions of devoted readers her fascination with St. Simons Island and the families who built their lives in that beautiful corner of Georgia. Bright Captivity opens in the last days of the War of 1812, when the British invade the southern United States, and a young officer of the British Royal Marines takes one very special prisoner... Anne Couper knew that one day love would come for her-love for one man, endless and abiding. But she never expected that the very first time she looked into the eyes of Lieutenant John Fraser on her eighteenth birthday she would see there the certainty that this man, her enemy, loved her as deeply as she loved him. The lush plantation of Dungeness would become her prison, the man she loved would be her jailer, and together they would learn that while love offers joy, it also brings harsh choices.