"The 17 stories collected here follow the title character, a swaggering soldier in Napoleon's army, famous for his bravery on the field of battle and his romantic forays with women."--Amazon.com.

October, 1812. Britain and France are still at war when Bow Street Runner and former private investigator Matthew Hawkwood now of the British Secret Service joins a colleague in Paris on a special mission to successfully negotiate a peace treaty between France and the allies. Failure would mean prison, torture and a meeting with the guillotine.

"A little boy in a war-ravaged country is separated by a wire fence from the streams and hills he used to visit with his father, but he finds hope when he begins to nurture a green shoot found growing in the rubble."--

Loyalties, Beliefs, Love, Family Ties: all are tested to the limit in one of the most devastating moments of human history: the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Boris Aleksandrovich, a well-meaning bureaucrat, thinks he can negotiate between idealism and politics. His daughter, Natasha, learns otherwise when, as a young woman in love, she is almost crushed by her father's compromises. Watching all this unfold is Irina. Wise, ironic, marvelous...

"The first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world's great anti-war books. An American classic and one of the world's seminal antiwar books, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is faithfully presented in graphic novel form for the first time from Eisner Award-winning writer Ryan North (How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler) and Eisner Award-nominated...

British and German vampires battle each other as fighter pilots in World War I. Subsequently, a way is found to shape-shift the pilots so they become human planes. The hero is a British pilot who becomes a vampire. By the author of Anno-Dracula.

"El italiano relata una asombrosa historia de amor, mar y guerra. En los años 1942 y 1943, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, buzos de combate italianos hundieron o dañaron catorce barcos aliados en Gibraltar y la bahía de Algeciras. En esta novela, inspirada en hechos reales, sólo algunos personajes y situaciones son imaginarios. Elena Arbués, una librera de veintisiete años, encuentra una madrugada mientras pasea por la playa a uno de esos...

The Yooks spread their bread with the butter side up. The Zooksspread their bread, butter side down. And each is convinced that their way of buttering is the best way around. And they're willing to prove it in battle.

"American flyers in World War I." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation