Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.
Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what s...
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
The lives of Erik Lanshof and five of his closest friends take different paths when the German army ...
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
Telling the stories of the last soldiers to die in the Great War.
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...
Objectively, Odette Toulemonde has nothing to be happy about, but is. Balthazar Balsan has everythin...
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African dese...
Mere seconds before the Earth is to be demolished by an alien construction crew, Arthur Dent is swep...
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an al...
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn...
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to ...
When a close encounter with an eighty-foot spruce steals Merry Manning's dreams of Olympic gold, the...
A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in orde...
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...