Ballantine Books imprint: 2188 books
Matters of Honor
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
“Terrifically intelligent, moving, and entertaining.”
–The New York Sun
“With snappy dialogue [and] intelligent prose . . . Begley paints a memorable portrait of lasting friendship and of the strength required to step outside of the expectations that surround each of us.”
–Rocky...
The Marriage Game
A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
In this compelling novel of Tudor drama and suspense, acclaimed author Alison Weir brings to life one of England’s most scandalous royal love affairs: the romance between the “Virgin Queen” Elizabeth I and her courtier Lord Robert Dudley.
Only twenty-five and newly crowned, Elizabeth...
But Not in Shame
The Six Months After Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
December 7, 1941 - at exactly 7:55AM on a seemingly peaceful Sunday morning, the United States was plunged into the greatest war in history!
What were the events which determined the Pearl Harbor catastrophe? What were the last few days on Wake Island like? What really occurred on the infamous...
Master Chief
Diary of a Navy Seal
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
The memoir of a man who spent most of his career facing death.
For UDT/SEAL team member Gary R. Smith, just being part of an elite military organization wasn’t enough—he had to be in the thick of the action. Because in bloody, violent Vietnam he learned there’s no stronger bond than the...
Spearhead
An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
**NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER • “A band of brothers in an American tank . . . Makos drops the reader back into the Pershing’s turret and dials up a battle scene to rival the peak moments of Fury.”
—The Wall Street Journal
From the...
The Price of Vigilance
Attacks on American Surveillance Flights
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2001
The recent forced landing of a U.S. Navy EP-3 surveillance aircraft on Hainan Island after aerial harassment by Chinese fighters underscores that the dangers of the Cold War are not behind us. Reconnaissance-intelligence gathering-has always been one of the most highly secretive operations in the...
Never Without Heroes
Marine Third Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1965-70
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2011
FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR,
THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES,
SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . .
In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the...
LRRP Team Leader
A Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
For the LRRPs, courage was a way of life
Vietnam, 1968. All of Sergeant John Burford's missions with F Company, 58th Infantry were deep in hostile territory. As leader of a six-man LRRP team, he found the enemy, staged ambushes, called in precision strikes, and rescued downed pilots. The lives...
West Dickens Avenue
A Marine at Khe Sanh
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In January 1968, John Corbett and his fellow leathernecks of the 26th Marine Regiment fortified a remote outpost at a place in South Vietnam called Khe Sanh. Within days of their arrival, twenty thousand North Vietnamese soldiers surrounded the base. What followed over the next seventy-seven days...
Pathfinder
First In, Last Out: A Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2008
December 1967: Richard Burns had just arrived in Vietnam as part of the fourteen-man 101st Pathfinder Detachment. Within just one month, during a holiday called Tet, the Communists would launch the largest single attack of the war--and he would be right in the thick of it. . . .
In Vietnam,...
by Jeff Shaara
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2010
In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom...
Some Kind of Hero
A Troubleshooters Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The Troubleshooters return in the latest thriller from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann! Some Kind of Hero showcases Brockmann’s signature white-knuckle suspense, romantic twists, and sexy Navy SEALs.
Navy men don’t come tougher than Lieutenant Peter Greene. Every day...
The Boleyn Deceit
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, and Showtime’s The Tudors, The Boleyn Deceit is the captivating new novel set in the imagined Tudor court of King Henry IX, son of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, who must navigate a terrain rife with palace intrigue, impending war, and unbridled passions.
The...
Jane Boleyn
The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2007
In a life of extraordinary drama, Jane Boleyn was catapulted from relative obscurity to the inner circle of King Henry VIII. As powerful men and women around her became victims of Henry’s ruthless and absolute power, including her own husband and sister-in-law, Queen Anne Boleyn, Jane’s allegiance...