War is on the doorstep. Heroes are made. Legends are born. Shattered innocence joins suffering on the long march to victory.
Michael Strogoff (Jules Verne)
As courier to the Russian czar, Strogoff is tasked with carrying an important message across the vast and wild Russian frontier, and must evade enemies of the czar as he does so.
Wulf the Saxon (G. A. Henty)
A young Saxon thane serves Harold Godwinson before and during his rein as king of England, culminating at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 AD.
Non-Fiction
Surgeon on Iwo (James S. Vedder)
Vedder recounts the harrowing weeks spent in a mobile army surgical hospital during the Battle of Iwo Jima.