Posts Categorized: Military Fiction

Sketch Book of a Cadet from Gascony By

Sketch Book of a Cadet from Gascony James Warner Bellah wrote this memorable collection of stories, winner of the prestigious Alfred A. Knopf Literary prize, in just nineteen hours while still a student at Columbia University. Its success launched Bellah's long, remarkable career as a novelist and screenwriter (Rio Grande, Man Who Shot Liberty Valance). Now, over a hundred since it's release, it is finally back in print.

Wine of Violence By

Wine of Violence "This novel has an immediacy that will shock some readers...the poignancy of the love story calls to mind Ernest Hemingway." New York Herald-Tribune

Reardon took women as they were -- and in wartime Europe, they were like snowflakes in a blizzard.

Bloody Beaches By

Bloody Beaches "Come on you sinners, hell is only half full!"

That was the battle cry of Marine Captain Cal Hobbes as he led his countless, seemingly suicidal charges in World War II. On island after island -- Guam, Okinawa, Tarawa, Iwo Jima -- his platoon always won their battles, no matter what the cost. Because for Hobbes, no sacrifice was too great, as long as someone else made it. 

The Stockade By

The Stockade A tough, revealing novel of men and women in the wake of war...in the tradition of The Naked & The Dead and From Here to Eternity.

Lt. Rossi is a tough Marine commander of a small, battle-weary platoon that's guarding 5000 prisoners-of-war in a Pacific island stockade. But his harsh efforts to maintain order, combined with a cascade of cultural misunderstandings and the platroon's consistentally brutal treatment of their prisoners, is raising the already simmering tension to the boiling point...and a possible massacre.