War & Military Fiction
- War in the Stars
- Espionage in War Fiction
- Epic Tales of War and Honor
- Espionage in Wartime
- Adventures in War and Valor
'Twixt Land and Sea
While the central figures in each of the three stories in this collection are sailing captains, the main action in two of them takes place o…
King of the Khyber Rifles
Athelstan King is a British Secret Agent stationed in India at the beginning of WWI. He is attached to the Khyber Rifles regiment as a cover…
Tales of War
Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at …
The Four Stragglers
This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind G…
Greenmantle
Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…
The Green Flag
The Green Flag is a compelling collection of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, inspired by the tumultuous wars of his era. Through vi…
The Belgian Twins
This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie…
At Aboukir and Acre
This is a tale of the French expedition into Egypt led by Napoleon Bonaparte, aimed to establish a French colony in Egypt and to threaten En…
No More Parades
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in tr…
The Lonely Warrior
An idealistic American enlists and fights in The Great War. This novel focuses on his life after returning to the US “hard-boiled” and cynic…
Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal
In the midst of World War II, young American flying ace Dave Dawson finds himself on the front lines of the Pacific theater, specifically on…
Farewell
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, c…
The Begum's Fortune
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendan…
The Invasion
This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval ch…
Running the Blockade
The first-person experiences and adventures of blockade runner during the American civil war. - Summary by Delmar H. Dolbier
The Radio Gunner
Originally published anonymously in 1924, this intriguing work of science fiction, categorized by Bleiler under 'imaginary wars and inventio…
Ticonderoga
In the backwoods, lives a man and his two teenage children. He has sought the quiet life on the frontier, although he is a friend to all and…
I Spy
Here is a novel whose pregnant caption suits these parlous times. . . . It's all about a German spy plot to steal two American inventions de…
Men, Women and Guns
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…
Whispering Tunnels
A novelette of Verdun, the World War and Devil-Worship! - Summary by Weird Tales Magazine