Bloomsbury Publishing / Juvenile & Young Adult / Historical / Military & Wars

The Grasshopper's Run

by Siddhartha Sarma – Bloomsbury Publishing (May 03, 2011)

Just as the invasion begins, an ambitious and vicious Japanese officer orders the massacre of a village of the Ao Naga tribe. Among those killed is Uti, grandson of the eldest Ao chief.

Gojen is his best friend,...

Poppy

by Mary Hooper – Bloomsbury Publishing (May 08, 2014)

Poppy is young, beautiful and clever Â? and working as a parlourmaid in the de Vere family's country house. Society, it seems, has already carved out her destiny.

But Poppy's life is about to be thrown dramatically...

Red Shadow

by Paul Dowswell – Bloomsbury Publishing (May 08, 2014)

Russia, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Misha's life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin's inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the glorious...

The Ghost of the Trenches and other stories

by Helen Watts & Taffy Thomas – Bloomsbury Publishing (April 24, 2014)

As the Great War raged, and in its aftermath, people created hundreds of legends and stories round it, to speak of the sadness, the heroism, the deaths. Author Helen Watts and storyteller Taffy Thomas bring...

War Games

by James Riordan – Bloomsbury Publishing (September 12, 2013)

It's Christmas Eve, 1914, and there's a war on. British and German

soldiers sit in the muddy trenches either side of No Man's Land, as

deadly enemies. Suddenly, a strange sound fills the air. A German voice

is...

The War Game

by Terry Deary – Bloomsbury Publishing (August 01, 2013)

Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. Flanders, 1914. The German and British soldiers in the trenches make an unofficial Christmas...

The Pigeon Spy

by Terry Deary – Bloomsbury Publishing (September 12, 2013)

Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. Flanders 1918. The extraordinary true story of a pigeon who saved nearly 200 lives. A troop...

My Brother's Keeper

by Tony Bradman & Tom Bradman – Bloomsbury Publishing (April 24, 2014)

A novel of the First World War. Alfie signs up for the army aged just 15, carried away by patriotic fervour at the start of the Great War. But life in the trenches is very far from his dreams of glory. It's...

World War 1 Tales: The Bomber Balloon

by Terry Deary – Bloomsbury Publishing (September 12, 2013)

Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. November 1916 - the war on the Home Front.

Millie is being told off for breaching the blackout...

The Last Flight

by Terry Deary – Bloomsbury Publishing (August 01, 2013)

Stories of the First World War from the bestselling Terry Deary, author of the hugely successful Horrible Histories. France 1917 - the war in the air. An air observer is shot down behind enemy lines and meets...