Two weeks before D-Day, the French Resistance attacks a chateau vital to German communications - but the attack fails disastrously. Flick Clairet, a young British secret agent, proposes a daring new plan: she will parachute into France with an all-woman team known as the 'Jackdaws' and they will penetrate the chateau in disguise.

In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

Presents an exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men.

CENTURION was on the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list for several weeks, reaching the No. 2 position; it was also a paperback bestseller

A collection of commando tales where the courage and skill of the RAF pilots and ground crews during Second World War forms the backdrop.

On his third birthday Oskar Matzerath resolves to stunt his own growth at three feet, and on the same day he receives his first tin drum. Wielding his drum and piercing scream as anarchic weapons, he draws forth memories from the past as well as judgements about the horrors, injustices he observes through the long nightmare of the Nazi era.

Four Biggles stories in one volume.

Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Willie Dunne finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.

A young American volunteers for the Italian ambulance service in World War I. Working near the front, he meets and falls in love with a British nurse. Disillusioned by the war, he makes the decision to desert, taking his new love to Switzerland.

From the publishers who launched Robyn Young, Anthony Riches is the biggest historical fiction launch for 2009

High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. Robert Jordan, a young American volunteer, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. There, in the mountains, he finds the dangers and the intense comradeship of war. And there he discovers Maria, a young woman who has escaped from Franco's rebels.

Loved by fans of Sharpe and Hornblower, this popular wartime adventure series goes from strength to strength

London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his encounters with women and men - pacifists, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. This book studies the contradictions of war and of those forced to live through it.

John Hilliard, a young subaltern returning to the Western Front after a brief period of sick leave back in England blind to the horrors of the trenches, finds his battalion tragically altered. His commanding officer finds escape in alcohol, there is a new adjutant and even Hilliard's batman has been killed.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. This novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

A war is fought on many fronts...

Set during the American Civil War, this book follows the confrontation of North against South. Nathaniel Starbuck is a Northerner, but fleeing his family after the disgrace of his involvement with a French actress, he turns to his best friend, Adam Faulconer.

Sharpe on ships: Julian Stockwin is the Bernard Cornwell of the seas.

The classic novel of the Second World War that relates in devastating detail the 24-hour story of an allied bombing raid.