Historical Fiction

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682558232Author Mark WaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Archie ComicsPublisher Archie Comics

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

With a camera in hand, Mr. Smith and his entourage finally arrive at a fishing village bythe Aral Sea. Upon arrival, they find the dark-skinned twins, Laila and Leily-to theirgreat surprise! To celebrate their nostalgic reunion, the twins and their...

Fighting Mann is set during the Vietnam War, and follows the exploits of retired US Marine Colonel Walter Mann on his rogue mission in search of his Navy pilot son, whose plane disappeared during a bombing raid over the Vietnamese jungle. War Dog is set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683967613Author Jon StrongbowFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721545Author Sunshine BarbitoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Nazi Germany is collapsing, and the noose is tightening around Furtenstein Castle, rear base of the Amerika Bomber project. Even as the last SS special forces set up the guidance elements for the intercontinental bomber, more and more ground and bases...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506728087Author Stephanie PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

The Luminary. The Prodigy. The Brute. The Trickster. The Innovator. Five gods from a realm beyond our own, leaders in the "War of Immortals." At least, they were before they were trapped, sent to a planet made into a prison, and forced into an endless...

True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain's connections and Tesla's inventions, they went into business selling world peace. So, what happened? Only now can the tale be told - in which Twain and Tesla...

Francisco de Goya is considered one of the most important Spanish painters of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, last of the Greats and first of the modernists. But his sumptuous images stemmed from a mind in torment, especially later in...

In 1932, as famine rages across Ukraine, the Soviet government calls for the harshest punishment for those who keep for themselves even five stalks of grain. When their mother is accused of hoarding and summarily killed, Nadia and Taras must leave their...

The fifth volume in this popular library of works by celebrated master storyteller Sergio Toppi contains six tales of folklore set in Eastern Europe and Siberia during various periods in history. Presented in English for the first time since their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995457Author Harvey KurtzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 875g

An artist, forced to paint swastikas on train cars for the Nazis during the Holocaust, has become an unlikely vigilante in pre-Cold War Europe. Alongside his army companion, Bruno, he hunts down the criminals responsible for murdering his wife, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935654438Author Osamu TezukaFormat HardbackPage Count 648Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.Weight(grams) 871g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997840Author Harvey KurtzmanFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 765g

For fans of historical horror and real world ghost stories, comes this collection of chilling tales surrounding some of the most haunted sites in the Japanese city of Kyoto! Kiyomizu-dera, Kifune Shrine, and Adashino Nenbutsu-ji to most these places...

Texas Jack is a legendary hero, a crack shot and a champion of the helpless who gunned down dozens of enemies... in his travelling show and the novels that bear his name! In reality, though, he's never been west, and has never shot at anyone. So when a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506719429Author Mike MignolaFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506705644Author Mat JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi.Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's most iconic film stars, tells of a young Hungarian activist forced to flee his homeland after the failed...

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and...

A man forced into slavery seeks cold-blooded revenge on those who took his freedom. From Fabien Nury, the award winning writer of the best-selling The Death of Stalin and Tyler Cross. Atar Gull is a Prince among his tribe, until he finds himself in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Regional Book) 2012. Commended for Oregon Book Awards (Graphic Novel) 2014.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912740017Author NavieFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Korero PressPublisher Korero Press

In this anthology edition from the retro-sci-fi world of Dr Grordbort, master illustrator and yarn-spinner Greg Broadmore digs deeper into the interplanetary voyages of Lord Cockswain and his heroic pursuit of exhilaration, exploration and excessively...

Having escaped from the clutches of the 13th Prophet, Takeo, the young Samurai, is free to continue with his quest to find out who he is. His journey leads him to an unnamed island, where he hopes to find his missing brother. Instead, he finds a place...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594485473Author Khaled HosseiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638490968Author Si SpurrierFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Vault ComicsPublisher Vault ComicsDimensions(mm) 259mm * 168mm * 12mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506731544Author Will FranzFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Collecting the first arc of the brand new explosive Templars series, from the world of Assassin's Creed, Fred Van Lente and Dennis Calero offer a new perspective on the century-spanning feud between the Assassin Brotherhood and the Templar Order.About...

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"This is Battle at its best" - Garth EnnisAll-out, all-action, no mercy - this new Death Squad collection brings together the brutal classic story from the groundbreaking and hugely influential Battle comic!Featuring gritty art from Eric Bradbury and...

It is 1925, a great evil has invaded the world, and the monster-hunting Sangerye family is about to discover that they do not have what it takes to protect themselves, let alone humanity. The only way the Sangeryes can ever hope to defeat the sinister...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506728308Author Scott SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

In the aftermath of the assault on The Sticks, the team is fractured and Lily's father is dead. Parsons returns to Lily to learn her side of the story for the first time - a story of one woman giving up everything to avenge her family. Tiger Lily will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608878789Author Olivier LegrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Insight ComicsPublisher Insight EditionsWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 260mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905692262Author Stephen SternFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Markosia Enterprises LtdPublisher Markosia Enterprises Ltd

The year is 26 C.E. A young Nazarean carpenter is having some trouble adjusting to the violent world around him -- and finding his place within it. He knows he's different... he just doesn't know why. Not yet, anyway. A bloody, two-fisted tale of...