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Return Engagement

Harry Turtledove · 639 pages

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Days of Infamy

Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen · 400 pages

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Front Lines

Michael Grant · 548 pages

**1942, WORLD WAR II.** The most terrible war in human history. Millions are dead; millions more are still to die. The Nazis rampage across Europe and eye far-off America. The green, untested American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled--the armed forces of Nazi Germany. But something has changed. A court decision makes females subject to the draft and elig

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River of Bones

Taylor Anderson · 479 pages

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Crusade

Taylor Anderson · 388 pages

The "gripping and riveting" (S. M. Stirling, author of The Scourge of God) Destroyermen saga continues. Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy, along with the men and women of the USS Walker, have chosen sides in a war not of their making. Swept from the World War II Pacific into an alternate world, they have allied with the Lemurians—a mammalian race threatened by the warlike reptilian Grik. The Lemu

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Designated Targets

John Birmingham · 448 pages

It's World War II and the A-bomb is here to stay.The only question: Who's going to drop it first?The Battle of Midway takes on a whole new dimension with the sudden appearance of a U.S.-led naval task force from the twenty-first century, the result of a botched military experiment. State-of-the-art warships are scattered across the Pacific, armed to the teeth with the latest instruments of mass de

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Bitter Seeds

Ian Tregillis · 392 pages

It is world war two, the British are using demons and the Germans are using soldiers with super powers. It is warlocks versus super humans in this story.

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The Violent Century

Lavie Tidhar · 341 pages

"They never meant to be heroes. For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart. But there must always be an account...and the past has a habit of catching up to the present. Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from wh

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Resistance

Owen Sheers · 304 pages

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DC Comics: Bombshells, Vol. 2: Allies

Marguerite Bennett

"Based on the hit DC Collectibles product line! As World War II rages across Europe, the Allied forces issue a call to arms for the greatest heroines the world has ever known! With an old villain arising from beyond the grave, Wonder Woman, Batwoman, Kara Starikov, Kortni Duginova and Mera must aid the Allied forces while at home, a brave group of Batgirls must defend the homeland! The incredibly

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Wolf by Wolf

Ryan Graudin · 389 pages

The year is 1956, and the Axis powers of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan rule the world. To commemorate their Great Victory over Britain and Russia, Hitler and Emperor Hirohito host the Axis Tour: an annual motorcycle race across their conjoined continents. The victor is awarded an audience with the highly reclusive Adolf Hitler at the Victor's ball.

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The Last Days of New Paris

China Mieville · 205 pages

"A thriller of war that never was--of survival in an impossible city--of surreal cataclysm. In The Last Days of New Paris, China Mieville entwines true historical events and people with his daring, uniquely imaginative brand of fiction, reconfiguring history and art into something new. "Beauty will be convulsive." 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille, American engineer--and occult disciple--Jac

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The Battle of the Crater

Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, Albert S. Hanser

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Throne of Jade

Naomi Novik · 399 pages

When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo--an unhatched dragon's egg--Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain's Aerial Corps, man and dragon soon proved their mettle in daring combat against Bonaparte's invading forces. Now China has discovered that its rare gift, intended for

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1812: The Rivers of War

Eric Flint · 534 pages

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Dracula vs. Hitler

Patrick Sheane Duncan · 500 pages

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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Susanna Clarke · 935 pages

Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its premise is that magic once existed in England and has returned with two men: Gilbert Norrell and Jonathan Strange. Centred on the relationship between these two men, the novel investigates the nature of "Englishness" and the boundaries between reason and unreason, Anglo-Saxon and

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The Lions of Al-Rassan

Guy Gavriel Kay · 586 pages

The ruling Asharites of Al-Rassan have come from the desert sands, but over centuries, seduced by the sensuous pleasures of their new land, their stern piety has eroded. The Asharite empire has splintered into decadent city-states led by warring petty kings. King Almalik of Cartada is on the ascendancy, aided always by his friend and advisor, the notorious Ammar ibn Khairan — poet, diplomat, soldi

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Soldier Boys

Dean Hughes, Kim McGillivray · 196 pages

Two boys, one German and one American, are eager to join their respective armies during World War II, and their paths cross at the Battle of the Bulge.

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Exodus

Leon Uris · 626 pages

The lives of many people were involved in the long-dreamed-of birth of the new Israeli nation. A novel of Israel.

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Hard Magic

Larry Correia · 422 pages

Jake Sullivan is a licensed Private Eye—with a seriously hardboiled attitude. He also possesses raw magical talent and the ability to make objects in his vicinity light as a feather or as heavy as depleted uranium, all with a magical thought. It's no wonder the G-men turn to Jake when they need someone to go after a suspected killer who's been knocking off banks in a magic...more

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Ghosts of Bungo Suido (World War 2 Navy)

P.T. Deutermann · 343 pages

Hearing rumors of the construction of a formidable Japanese battleship capable of adversely shifting power in World War II, Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond is charged with leading a first American submarine into the Inland Sea in the hopes of finding and stopping the seemingly invincible ship.

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King and Emperor

Harry Harrison, John Holm · 466 pages

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