For the past decade Robert Ardrey has been exploding a series of philosophical landmines. African Genesis (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. Then came The Territorial Imperative (1966) whose title is now a common phrase in our language. The Social...  more

For the past decade Robert Ardrey has been exploding a series of philosophical landmines. African Genesis (1961) introduced his new evolutionary approach to an understanding of men. Then came The Territorial Imperative (1966) whose title is now a common phrase in our language. The Social Contract is third in the series and it denies all men are created equal.BOOK CLUB EDITION.

Snow-White.....Blood-Red Seconds ago the passengers were sitting in the cozy security of their pressurized cabin with a controlled temperature of 70 degrees. the the crash, the tearing, jagged screeching as the plane ripped along the ice and snow. The tidal wave of the dreadful cold, 40...  more

Snow-White.....Blood-Red Seconds ago the passengers were sitting in the cozy security of their pressurized cabin with a controlled temperature of 70 degrees. the the crash, the tearing, jagged screeching as the plane ripped along the ice and snow. The tidal wave of the dreadful cold, 40 degrees below zero, swept in the ingulfed the survivors---the dazed, the injured, the unconscious and the dying -- as they sat in the crumpled wreckage of their seeats, wearing on the thin suits and dresses. And so began the terrible arctic night, a night without end, where the darkness would bring with it murder and betrayal and cowardice. And the chilling knowledge that among them was a ruthless agent determined to carry out his desperate mission.

The "Dolphin", pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the daring rescue of a british meteorological team trapped on a polar ice cap. The officers aboard the "Dolphin" know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue...  more

The "Dolphin", pride of America's nuclear fleet, is the only submarine capable of attempting the daring rescue of a british meteorological team trapped on a polar ice cap. The officers aboard the "Dolphin" know well the hazards of such an assignment. What they do not know is that the rescue attempt is really a cover-up for one of the most desperate espionage missions of the Cold War--and that the "Dolphin" is heading straight for sub-zero disaster--facing hidden sabotage, murder...and a deadly, invisible enemy...

"The best adventure MacLean has Written" - Los Angeles Times October is no time to be aboard ship in the Barents Sea, three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. But that's where the cast and crew of Olympus Productions find themselves. And even before they reach their destination, the...  more

"The best adventure MacLean has Written" - Los Angeles Times October is no time to be aboard ship in the Barents Sea, three hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. But that's where the cast and crew of Olympus Productions find themselves. And even before they reach their destination, the ship's doctor has his hands full. Three men are violently murdered, and the company's unspoken fears are confirmed: a pathological killer awaits them on the lonliest, most desolate island in the world. Does Bear Island guard a secret more valuable than five lives? Why is there no shooting script for the movie--and why has no one except the director been allowed to see the screenplay? Is the entire company marked for death? Does a mass murderer lurk in its midst, a pathological killer?

From the moment agent Philip Calvert begins his pursuit of a superbly organized gang of seagoing hijackers, this pulse-pounding yarn slips into high and races with a breathtaking speed that will keep every hair raised and every spine chilled to perfection.

Eight Allied agents -- seven men and a woman -- parachute onto a mountainside behind enemy lines in wartime Germany. Their mission: to rescue an American general before the Nazis can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans.

An entire navy had tried to silence the guns of Navarone and failed. Full-scale attacks had been driven back. Now they were sending in just five men, each one a specialist in dealing death.

One of the great stories of World War II -- This is the first complete account of the Coastwatchers of the Solomons, that remarkable band of individuals who operated deep behind Japanese lines in the dark days of 1942-43. Living by their wits, with the help of friendly natives, they gave us our...  more

One of the great stories of World War II -- This is the first complete account of the Coastwatchers of the Solomons, that remarkable band of individuals who operated deep behind Japanese lines in the dark days of 1942-43. Living by their wits, with the help of friendly natives, they gave us our best intelligence, rescued our downed pilots, saved our men from their sinking ships. In Admiral Halsey's words," The Coastwatchers saved Guadalcanal, and Guadalcanal saved the Pacific." Yet the full saga of the Coastwatchers is more than the story of a few brave men. It is also the story of the native who helped them, the missionaries they worked with, the downed fliers and submariners they rescued, the Marine patrols they guided, the pilots and submariners who serviced them, and even the Japanese who chased them. This varied cast of intriguing characters gives the epoch of the Coastwatchers its special appeal and makes it almost an anachronism by the standards of modern war, for it was a period when individual human beings were still important. To pierce the story together, Walter Lord traveled 40,000 miles, checking archives, examining private letters and diaries, interviewing and corresponding with participants in Australia, the South Seas, Europe, and Americas. In the Solomons he flew the slot, island-hopped on coastal schooners, and even made a three-day hike through the Guadalcanal jungle to inspect the Coastwatcher hideout on Gold Ridge. Walter Lord understood these men as he served in the OSS during World War II. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, he authored such best sellers as A Night to Remember (the Titanic), Day of Infamy (the attack on Pearl Harbor), and Incredible Victory (the Battle of Midway).  Lonely Vigil is a major contribution to the history of World War II told by a master storyteller.

The moment the Interpol agent and his lovely assistants landed in Holland they were in Dutch. He was after a drug ring. Who was after him? First someone killed his contact. Then he ran up against a lethal room clerk. Then a bunch of Olde Worlde hay dancers went for him with pitchforks. Then...  more

The moment the Interpol agent and his lovely assistants landed in Holland they were in Dutch. He was after a drug ring. Who was after him? First someone killed his contact. Then he ran up against a lethal room clerk. Then a bunch of Olde Worlde hay dancers went for him with pitchforks. Then he got mixed up with some macabre puppet makers. It was a Netherlands nightmare - and no waking up.

A mysterious photograph unlocks a Pandora's Box of Jim Ryan's memories and lures him on a terrifying journey toward the shocking truth about the mother of his daughter, about himself, and about a past experiment in terror. As a legacy of betrayal and murder spirals out of control,...  more

A mysterious photograph unlocks a Pandora's Box of Jim Ryan's memories and lures him on a terrifying journey toward the shocking truth about the mother of his daughter, about himself, and about a past experiment in terror. As a legacy of betrayal and murder spirals out of control, Jim Ryan edges closer and closer to the hypnotic and destructive powers of "The Holland Suggestions".

The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been...  more

The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language and all ethnic groups have been eugenically merged into one race called “The Family.“ The world is ruled by a central computer called UniComp that has been programmed to keep every single human on the surface of the earth in check. People are continually drugged by means of regular injections so that they can never realize their potential as human beings, but will remain satisfied and cooperative. They are told where to live, when to eat, whom to marry, when to reproduce. even the basic facts of nature are subject to the UniComp's will—men do not grow facial hair, women do not develop breasts, and it only rains at night. With a vision as frightening as any in the history of the science fiction genre, This Perfect Day is one of Ira Levin`s most haunting novels.

The guns have been silenced. But the heroic survivors of the Navarone are far from still. They are ready for action again - and headed for even more excitement in this faced-paced novel of adventure by a master storyteller. Their mission: to free an entire Partisan army trapped in the rugged...  more

The guns have been silenced. But the heroic survivors of the Navarone are far from still. They are ready for action again - and headed for even more excitement in this faced-paced novel of adventure by a master storyteller. Their mission: to free an entire Partisan army trapped in the rugged mountains of Yugoslavia. It begins with a parachute drop behind enemy lines and a deliberate walk into a German camp. Six men against the might of two armored divisions. They couldn't fight them. So they had to join them. And then somehow destroy them! It was an assignment that made Navarone look like a local scout jamboree.

For raw adventure... starkly brutal as war itself, SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD won't be topped for a long, long time. A superlative spy story... ...as narrative of espionage, counter-espionage, love and war, it is as exciting tale-telling as you'll want to read. ...the afficionados of action...  more

For raw adventure... starkly brutal as war itself, SOUTH BY JAVA HEAD won't be topped for a long, long time. A superlative spy story... ...as narrative of espionage, counter-espionage, love and war, it is as exciting tale-telling as you'll want to read. ...the afficionados of action will be fully satisfied.

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded...  more

A classic novel of ruthless revenge set in the steel jungle of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico – and on the sea bed below it. A sunken DC-3 lying on the Caribbean floor. Its cargo: ten million, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in gold ingots, emeralds and uncut diamonds guarded by the remains of two men, one woman and a very small boy.  The fortune was there for the taking, and ready to grab it were a blue-blooded oilman with his own offshore rig, a gangster so cold and independent that even the Mafia couldn’t do business with him and a psychopathic hired assassin. Against them stood one man, and those were his people, those skeletons in their watery coffin. His name was Talbot, and he would bury his dead -- but only after he had avenged their murders.

It seemed an idyllic tourist setting in the small town in the Southeast corner of France where Neil Bowman had come to await the arrival of the gypsies. Each year for centuries the gathering of those mysterious people from as far away as Transylvanis and the shores of the Black sea had added an...  more

It seemed an idyllic tourist setting in the small town in the Southeast corner of France where Neil Bowman had come to await the arrival of the gypsies. Each year for centuries the gathering of those mysterious people from as far away as Transylvanis and the shores of the Black sea had added an extra splash of color and excitement to the local countryside, as they came to venerate the relics of their ancient saint. This time however the annual pilgrimage concealed something far more sinister, bristling with violence and danger, as Bowman soon discovered when his curiosity led to a nearly fatal encounter in the grim limestone caves ouside of town. Almost before he knew it he was on the run; the only question was who was pursuing whom: the gypsies, or Bowman and the attractive young English girl he had taken with him?

En route from San Francisco to inspect the site of a new American-Arab oil refinery, the President of the United States and two visiting Middle Eastern heads are brought to an abrupt and historic halt. In the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidential motorcade is waylaid by a most...  more

En route from San Francisco to inspect the site of a new American-Arab oil refinery, the President of the United States and two visiting Middle Eastern heads are brought to an abrupt and historic halt. In the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidential motorcade is waylaid by a most uncommon criminal who begins a civilized reign of terror aimed at bringing him a king's ransom . . . and heaping public humiliation upon this country's Chief Executive.? And with the world watching via a commandeered TV network, the kidnappers wire the towers of the bridge with explosives as an earnest of their second threat: to plunge the Golden Gate Bridge into the waters of San Francisco Bay . . .

Tells the story of the operations of theCoast WatchingOrganization in the islands north and northeast of Australia during the crucial period when the Japanese were advancing southwards and threatening Australia and, therefore, the Allied control of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

There were ten of them. Oil magnates. All in a secret meeting to plot the destruction of Lord Worth, England's famous oil billionaire. They hired the notorious trouble shooter, Cronkite—-violent, ruthless, deadly. Cronkite was not above using nuclear weapons. The target:...  more

There were ten of them. Oil magnates. All in a secret meeting to plot the destruction of Lord Worth, England's famous oil billionaire. They hired the notorious trouble shooter, Cronkite—-violent, ruthless, deadly. Cronkite was not above using nuclear weapons. The target: Seawitch, Lord Worth's massive ocean oil rig. But Lord Worth had a few tricks of his own. The most deadly being two crackerjack private investigators who just happened to be in love with Lord Worth's daughters. So when Cronkite decided his first move was to kidnap the girls he...made a very dangerous mistake...

This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An...  more

This celebrated classic gives a soldier's-eye-view of the Guadalcanal battles--crucial to World War II, the war that continues to fascinate us all, and to military history in general. Unlike some of those on Guadalcanal in the fall of 1942, Richard Tregaskis volunteered to be there. An on-location news correspondent (at the time, one of only two on Guadalcanal), he lived alongside the soldiers: sleeping on the ground--only to be awoken by air raids--eating the sometimes meager rations, and braving some of the most dangerous battlefields of World War II. He more than once narrowly escaped the enemy's fire, and so we have this incisive and exciting inside account of the groundbreaking initial landing of U.S. troops on Guadalcanal. With a new Introduction by Mark Bowden--renowned journalist and author of Black Hawk Down--this edition of Guadalcanal Diary makes available once more one of the most important American works of the war.

Chauncey Gardiner is the great enigma: a hero of the American media. TV loves him; print pursues him. He is a household face; the one everybody is talking about. Nobody knows what he is talking about or where he has come from, but everybody knows he has come to money, power and sex. Was he...  more

Chauncey Gardiner is the great enigma: a hero of the American media. TV loves him; print pursues him. He is a household face; the one everybody is talking about. Nobody knows what he is talking about or where he has come from, but everybody knows he has come to money, power and sex. Was he led to all this by the lovely, well-connected wife of a dying Wall Street tycoon? Or is Chauncey Gardiner riding the waves all by himself because, like a TV image, he floated into the world buoyed up by a force he did not see and could not name? Does he know something we don't? Will he fail? Will he ever be unhappy? The reader must decide.

This spectacular fifteen-volume series that charts the U.S. Naval operations during World War II with an insider's perspective. Morison, a Harvard professor, was given a special rank and writing post by FDR. He had active duty aboard eleven different ships, allowing him to witness many crucial...  more

This spectacular fifteen-volume series that charts the U.S. Naval operations during World War II with an insider's perspective. Morison, a Harvard professor, was given a special rank and writing post by FDR. He had active duty aboard eleven different ships, allowing him to witness many crucial battles in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Volume Five-the third on the war in the Pacific-is devoted entirely to the Guadalcanal campaign, in which the United States Navy experienced more fighting than in any three previous wars. Filled with many maps and file photographs.

The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly...  more

The novel, Mister Roberts, was an instant hit after being published in 1946 and was quickly adapted for the stage and screen. The title character, a Lieutenant Junior Grade naval officer, defends his crew against the petty tyranny of the ship's commanding officer during World War II. Nearly all action takes place on a backwater cargo ship, the USS Reluctant, that sails, as written in the play, "from apathy to tedium with occasional side trips to monotony and ennui." This irreverent, often hilarious story about the crew of the Reluctant has enjoyed wide and enduring popularity. Heggen based his novel on his experiences aboard the USS Virgo in the South Pacific during World War II, and began as a collection of short stories. It was subsequently adapted as a play, a feature film, a television series, and a television movie. The film version with Henry Fonda, James Cagney and Jack Lemmon is one of the most well-known movies of WWII.

The fight for Guadalcanal as told from the air. It recounts the deeds of Joe Foss, Marion Carl, et al, and their desperate bid to hold onto America's first gains in the Pacific.

Luke Skywalker challenged the stormtroopers of a distant galaxy on a daring mission - where a force of life became the power of death! Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine ... and he was bored beyond belief. He...  more

Luke Skywalker challenged the stormtroopers of a distant galaxy on a daring mission - where a force of life became the power of death! Luke Skywalker was a twenty-year-old who lived and worked on his uncle's farm on the remote planet of Tatooine ... and he was bored beyond belief. He yearned for adventures out among the stars—adventures that would take him beyond the farthest galaxies to distant and alien worlds. But Luke got more than he bargained for when he intercepted a cryptic message from a beautiful princess held captive by a dark and powerful warlord. Luke didn't know who she was, but he knew he had to save her—and soon, because time was running out. Armed only with courage and with the light saber that had been his father's, Luke was catapulted into the middle of the most savage space war ever ... and he was headed straight for a desperate encounter on the enemy battle station known as the Death Star!

Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers was commonly perceived as another B-thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated at the time. But in the 50 years since, its reputation has grown from cult status to become an acknowledged...  more

Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers was commonly perceived as another B-thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated at the time. But in the 50 years since, its reputation has grown from cult status to become an acknowledged classic of American cinema. In the first comprehensive critical study of the film, Barry Keith Grant traces the film's historical context, it appeared in an America gripped by Cold War paranoia and atomic anxieties, and its production history, and goes on to explore the importance of genre, Communism, conformity, modernity, post-War society, and gender for an understanding of the film's cultural contexts and metaphorical weight.

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, with a loss of as many as 7,000 lives, is marked by ironies. Although the ship carried civilians and wounded soldiers, it was recognizably a legitimate military target owing to its contingent of German naval personnel as well as its armament (anti-aircraft...  more

The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, with a loss of as many as 7,000 lives, is marked by ironies. Although the ship carried civilians and wounded soldiers, it was recognizably a legitimate military target owing to its contingent of German naval personnel as well as its armament (anti-aircraft guns). The Soviet submarine which sunk the Gustloff had been built before the war as part of the clandestine Soviet-Nazi military cooperation. The Gustloff sailed from Gothenhafen, the renamed Polish port of Gdynia which the Germans had seized as part of their conquest of Poland in 1939. The refugees crammed into the doomed ship, having escaped the attentions of the avenging Soviet land forces, fell instead to the Soviet Navy. The Soviet commander, ostensibly a hero for killing fascists, ended up in Siberia, and it took nearly twenty years for him to be totally vindicated. The whole range of human behaviors was exhibited by the humans once the three torpedoes hit. Some civilians cried helplessly and were paralyzed by fear into inaction. Others were methodical in their attempts to save themselves. Some men gave up their life jackets. Other men fought off women and children in order to get the lifeboats and rafts for themselves. The ship's crew was also preferentially saved. The last survivor was an infant who was discovered at first dawn, hours after the sinking, surrounded by the huddled-together frozen bodies of his relatives on a floating lifeboat or raft.

American Marines, supported by the navy, on August 7, 1942, made a determined onslaught on the island of Guadalcanal and captured it from the Japanese. It was the first American offensive of World War II and critical in securing control o the Pacific from Japanese forces. For six months the...  more

American Marines, supported by the navy, on August 7, 1942, made a determined onslaught on the island of Guadalcanal and captured it from the Japanese. It was the first American offensive of World War II and critical in securing control o the Pacific from Japanese forces. For six months the fighting raged, not only against the enemy who considered themselves invincible, but also against hunger. fatigue and disease. It is of little wonder that men who fought there, both Americans and Japanese, gather yearly on the island to relive those vital days and pay tribute to those who died there. This new edition of the definitive work on Guadalcanal once again reminds us of the savagery, bitterness, prudence, and audacity that helped the Allies open the long road to Tokyo. General Griffith, a distinguished Marine veteran, blends his fist hand experience of fighting with Edson's Raiders on Guadalcanal with his scholarship. He helps the reader to relive this battle while providing accurate detail in a clear and impartial manner. The result is that the Battle of Guadalcanal remains the authoritative account of this epic battle in the jungle between two great sea powers fighting for control of the Pacific Ocean.

A razor edged spy thriller that puts a senator's daughter in the arms of a traitor.....an eccentric coutess in control of an extraordinary escape....a left wing ballerina on stage for the secret police and a top U.S. physicist in a violent cross fire of deadly equations.

Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers. She is determined to keep her word. No matter what. At first she is sure she can manage. Romey, Ima Dean, and Devola help gather herbs to sell in...  more

Mary Call has promised her dying father to keep her brother and sisters together forever on the mountain, and never to take any help from strangers. She is determined to keep her word. No matter what. At first she is sure she can manage. Romey, Ima Dean, and Devola help gather herbs to sell in town; the riches of the mountains will surely keep the family clothed and fed. But then winter comes, fast and furious, and Mary Call has to learn that the land where the lilies bloom is also a cruel and unforgiving place, and it may take more than a promise to keep her family together. Nominee, 1970 National Book Award for Children's LIterature Notable Children's Books of 1969 (ALA) Best Books of 1969 (SLJ) Outstanding Children's Books of 1969 (NYT)

Irina Kusak flees Czechoslovakia to seek her Nobel-laureate father in Austria. She finds herself drawn into a political intrigue with terrifying consequences. Is she the bait in a trap to snare her father, or is she playing a part in an even more insidious scheme with incredibly high stakes? ...  more

Irina Kusak flees Czechoslovakia to seek her Nobel-laureate father in Austria. She finds herself drawn into a political intrigue with terrifying consequences. Is she the bait in a trap to snare her father, or is she playing a part in an even more insidious scheme with incredibly high stakes? Set against the backdrop of peaceful Austrian countryside, Irina's nightmare journey becomes a flight to evade THE SNARE OF THE HUNTER.

Flying to Vienna to purchase at auction a painting whose present owner is a Hungarian planning defection, art consultant Colin Grant finds himself the key piece in a conspiracy of fraud, kidnapping, murder, and wholesale international terror.

A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students...  more

A man is missing. Harting, refugee background, a Junior Something in the British Embassy in Bonn. Gone with him are forty-three files, all of them Confidential or above. It is vital that the Germans do not learn that Harting is missing, nor that there's been a leak. With radical students and neo-Nazis rioting and critical negotiations under way in Brussels, the timing could not be worse -- and that's probably not an accident. Alan Turner, London's security officer, is sent to Bonn to find the missing man and files as Germany's past, present, and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence.  

The campaign for Guadalcanal is an in-depth account of the crucial struggle that marked the turning point of World War II in the Pacific. Fought over a six-month period on and around an island few had ever heard of, and certainly one which neither the Japanese nor American high commands would...  more

The campaign for Guadalcanal is an in-depth account of the crucial struggle that marked the turning point of World War II in the Pacific. Fought over a six-month period on and around an island few had ever heard of, and certainly one which neither the Japanese nor American high commands would have chosen for a battle ground, it included see-sawing encounters on land, vicious flighting in the air, and a series of the most deadly naval actions of modern times. Before it was over upwards of 26,000 men died there, and the many rusting hulls of sunken ships gave the once peaceful waters off the landing beaches a new name -- Ironbottom Sound.

The chest had been hidden in a lake high in the Austrian mountains. The secrets buried there were as deadly as an unexploded bomb. Men had been killed because of it, and sudden death stalked all who searched for it. Bill Mathieson, a hardheaded young American, did not know that his routine...  more

The chest had been hidden in a lake high in the Austrian mountains. The secrets buried there were as deadly as an unexploded bomb. Men had been killed because of it, and sudden death stalked all who searched for it. Bill Mathieson, a hardheaded young American, did not know that his routine business trip to Salzburg was to become a macabre journey through the dark and violent underworld of spies and murderers. Death waited for him in the shadows. So did love. Two beautiful women...and one of them would betray him.

The classic American novel depicting the 1870s settler-Indian conflict in the Texas Panhandle. "This is how it must have been...this is the book about Indians and whites to read."-Jessamyn West

These paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morison s multivolume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by the Naval Institute Press with new introductions by noted military historians. The fourteen volumes in the series will be published over a three-year...  more

These paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morison s multivolume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by the Naval Institute Press with new introductions by noted military historians. The fourteen volumes in the series will be published over a three-year period. Critically hailed for their accuracy, narrative pace, and detail, Morison s classic works present a complete naval record of the war. Volume 6 traces the gradual turning of the Pacific War from the overconfident Japanese to the determined, undersupplied Allies. It examines the pivotal Papuan campaign, the Huan Gulf and Bougainville campaigns, and the conflicts that led to the taking of Rabaul.

Arthur Hailey, Who took millions of readers behind the scenes in Hotel, now takes you inside the hidden nerve centers that control a great modern AIRPORT "Fascinating...Read AIRPORT...you'll find your pulse racing and the book hard to put down...A whale of a good story."- John...  more

Arthur Hailey, Who took millions of readers behind the scenes in Hotel, now takes you inside the hidden nerve centers that control a great modern AIRPORT "Fascinating...Read AIRPORT...you'll find your pulse racing and the book hard to put down...A whale of a good story."- John Barkham, SATURDAY REVIEW SYNDICATE. (and other reviews) followed by ****************************

THE BORDER TRUMPET is the powerful story of the soldiers who were sent to win the West and were caught in bitter battles with huge forces of Apache Indians, among the most deadly fighters in the world. It is the story of the two tough captains who led their outfit into warfare, though their...  more

THE BORDER TRUMPET is the powerful story of the soldiers who were sent to win the West and were caught in bitter battles with huge forces of Apache Indians, among the most deadly fighters in the world. It is the story of the two tough captains who led their outfit into warfare, though their hatred for each other threatened to destroy their mission. It is the story also of Eleanor Warren, to whom the frontier post had always been home, and the conflicts she faced when torn between these two men, caught up in the rigors of battle.

Two men. One woman. A land that demanded courage--or death...He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane...  more

Two men. One woman. A land that demanded courage--or death...He was a man etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and ways of staying alive. She was a woman raising a young son on her own on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.  

In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek...  more

In his National Book Award winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient Rome. With Butcher's Crossing, his fiercely intelligent, beautifully written western, Williams dismantles the myths of modern America.It is the 1870s, and Will Andrews, fired up by Emerson to seek ''an original relation to nature,'' drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing, a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them, a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo, ready for the taking, hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling, but at the end is a place of paradisiacal richness. Once there, however, the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter, so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring, half-insane with cabin fever, cold, and hunger, they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been.

THE CAVE GIRLNashed ashore on an uncharted South Pacific island, Boston-bred Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones thought his life was over. After three weeks spent staring desperately out to sea, fearing the horrors that prowled the inner jungle, he set off into the dark and mysterious interior. There his...  more

THE CAVE GIRLNashed ashore on an uncharted South Pacific island, Boston-bred Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones thought his life was over. After three weeks spent staring desperately out to sea, fearing the horrors that prowled the inner jungle, he set off into the dark and mysterious interior. There his worst nightmares were realized - he was attacked by a tribe of savage cliff dwellers whose only thought was to kill.Just when it seemed Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones had breathed his last, a tiny spark of bravery and desperation ignited inside him?and he fought off his assailants with the help of?the beautiful cave princess, Nadara. Slowly the veneer of civilization was stripped away, and a desperate and very dangerous man prepared to battle an island of savages and deadly beasts - risking his very life to protect his beloved cave girl...

In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time machine. When Wells showed it off to his famous...  more

In 1979 Karl Alexander burst upon the literary world with a brash, exciting novel with a unique concept: H. G. Wells, the famous, bestselling author of such sensations as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds had actually invented a time machine. When Wells showed it off to his famous friends?such as Henry James, Ford Madox Ford and other literary lights of 1893 London, he never suspected that another guest, his college friend, surgeon Leslie John Stephenson, was in truth the infamous Jack the Ripper. When Scotland Yard detectives showed up at Wells?s house to inquire about Stevenson, Jack took the machine and fled to the future?1979 San Francisco. When the time machine, as designed, returned to its point of origin, Wells followed the Ripper to the future. Wells felt obligated to bring him back to justice. Once in San Francisco, Wells realized that he also must save that city . . . and a particular lovely young woman . . . from a new reign of terror at the hands of the depraved, grisly Jack. The rest of the story is well known, because Time After Time became the very successful Malcolm McDowell / Mary Steenburgen film of 1980. A bestseller in the U.S., England and elsewhere when it was first published, this irresistible thriller about famous real-life people has been unavailable for nearly thirty years. A battle of wits between the Victorian adversaries as exciting and suspenseful as it was when first published, this classic time-travel thriller will be a grand treat for a new generation of readers.

The inspiration for three films and several operas, this classic of French literature is set in Regency Paris and Louisiana around 1720. A tragic love story, it's also an epic adventure story with three infidelities, three escapes, three abductions and two murders. The action spans two...  more

The inspiration for three films and several operas, this classic of French literature is set in Regency Paris and Louisiana around 1720. A tragic love story, it's also an epic adventure story with three infidelities, three escapes, three abductions and two murders. The action spans two continents and a social range extending from the aristocracy to the social outcast, from pillars of the establishment to pimps and prostitutes. Manon Lescaut's ambiguous love story has a transcendent significance: Is it a cautionary tale, warning of the dangers to which passion, blindly followed, can lead? Or does it illustrate the redemptive power of love? After all, Des Grieux's perseverance in his devotion to Manon eventually brings about a profound change of heart in her and seems to make possible a lasting happiness based on deep mutual affection. The ambiguity persists to the end, when death snatches that happiness away.

Packed with unforgettable characters, here is the exciting story of the Cravats--Yancey, flamboyant and footloose, dreamer of great dreams, Sabra, his brave and lovely bride; their son, Cimarron--wild as his father, handsome as his mother--and Cim's beloved,the magnificent Osge Indian princess,...  more

Packed with unforgettable characters, here is the exciting story of the Cravats--Yancey, flamboyant and footloose, dreamer of great dreams, Sabra, his brave and lovely bride; their son, Cimarron--wild as his father, handsome as his mother--and Cim's beloved,the magnificent Osge Indian princess, Ruby. The mighty novel of the opening of the West by one of America's most powerful writers.

Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson remains one of the...  more

Seventeen-year-old David Balfour's villainous uncle has him kidnapped in order to steal his inheritance. David escapes only to fall into the dangerous company of rebels who are resisting British redcoats in the Scottish highlands. Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson remains one of the classic coming-of-age stories for children and young adults today. After the death of his father, David Balfour sets out to meet his uncle and claim his inheritance. This adventure takes him through the highlands of Scotland where he embarks upon a long journey back from treachery and deceit. Whether read for enjoyment or to enrich the learning experience, this is a must for every serious library collection of the classics.

An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and complex characters who experience the full range of human emotions. All this makes...  more

An all-absorbing journey into man's possible past. Jean M. Auel, a storytelling genius, weaves a compellingly readable saga of human survival; an epic that transcends time and place. It is peopled with rich and complex characters who experience the full range of human emotions. All this makes for total involvement and believability in the light of today. A novel for all time.

Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars—and in that instant, Mars conquered him. ...  more

Leaving behind a world on the brink of destruction, man came to the Red planet and found the Martians waiting, dreamlike. Seeking the promise of a new beginning, man brought with him his oldest fears and his deepest desires. Man conquered Mars—and in that instant, Mars conquered him. The strange new world with its ancient, dying race and vast, red-gold deserts cast a spell on him, settled into his dreams, and changed him forever. Here are the captivating chronicles of man and Mars—the modern classic by the peerless Ray Bradbury.