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Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional amateur detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977). Also known as "the Old Man," by his initials "H. M." (a pun on "His Majesty"), or "the Maestro", Merrivale appears in 22 of Carr's locked-room mysteries and "impossible crime" novels of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, [1] as well as in two short stories.
"Rome, Sweet Rome" is an alternative history and military science fiction short story by American freelance writer and military historian James Erwin. Posted online on Reddit under his handle Prufrock451 on August 21, 2011, [ 1 ] it describes what might happen if a United States Marine Corps expeditionary unit were somehow transported back to ...
Articles relating to military fiction, a genre of fiction, focusing on military activities, such as war, battles, combat, fighting; or military life. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
Raoul Whitfield (November 22, 1896 – January 24, 1945) was an American writer of adventure, aviation, and hardboiled crime fiction. During his writing career, from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s, Whitfield published over 300 short stories and serials in pulp magazines, as well as nine books, including Green Ice (1930) and Death in a Bowl (1931).
Enemy Ace first appeared in Our Army at War #151 (February 1965), [3] in a backup story that quickly gained popularity. As a World War I pilot flying for the Germans, his stories told the German side of the war, in which Hans von Hammer was a man of honor and chivalry, a flying knight in his Fokker Dr.I, but he was haunted by his duties and the constant death surrounding them.
Types of military fiction include: War novels, including written military fiction [6] [7] War films, military fiction in cinema [8] [4] Military and war video games [5] [9] Subgenres of military fiction include: Military science fiction [1] [3] [7] [4] Naval fiction [10] Indian military fiction (of India)
An ambitious 18-year project has virtually reassembled the complete library of naturalist Charles Darwin for the first time since he died in 1882.
The Pointblank Directive: Three Generals and the Untold Story of the Daring Plan that Saved D-Day. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84908-933-3. Middlebrook, Martin (1981). The Battle of Hamburg: Allied Bomber Forces Against a German city in 1943. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0684167271. Overy, R. J. (1997). Bomber Command, 1939-1945. London: HarperCollins.