To the Last Man
by Jeff Shaara | 
Winged Victory
by V. M. Yeates | 
Piece of Cake
by Derek Robinson | 
Toby's Room
by Pat Barker | 
The First Casualty
by Ben Elton | 
The Middle Parts of Fortune
by Frederic Manning | 
Wake
by Anna Hope | 
The General
by C. S. Forester | 
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You
by Louisa Young | 
The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally | 
The Winter Soldier
by Daniel Mason | 
We Shall Not Sleep
by Anne Perry | 
The Absolutist
by John Boyne |
Company K
by William March |
The Summer Before the War
by Helen Simonson |
Gifts of War
by Mackenzie Ford | 
March
by Geraldine Brooks | 
Mudbound
by Hillary Jordan | 
The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth | 
The Sandcastle Girls
by Chris Bohjalian |
Known for his black humor and expertise in military aviation, Derek Robinson is best renowned for his novels on the Royal Flying Corps. The Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the decent, gentlemanly outlook of his young, public school-educated pilots--for their own good. But as the war goes on he is forced to thrown greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humor and black camaraderie no defense against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.