A powerful military novel, Once an Eagle spins a classic tale of leadership, honour, and courage spanning over half a century of US military conflicts.

This intense 1960s historical novel chronicles the strange and violent journey of five brave men, a coward, and a woman suspected of treason across the Mexican desert.

A masterpiece of 20th Century American science fiction, Dune is a novel of epic proportions replete with Machiavellian intrigue, mythology, religion, politics, imperialism, and an incisive examination of the nature of power.

In this classic novel first published in the 1950s, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys' crashes on an uncharted island, stranding them.

This fictional film released in 1949 explores the moral and emotional challenges faced by the Eighth Air Force during the early days of daylight bombing raids on Germany.

Based on a book of the same name, this award winning film was released in 1954. It tells a fictional story of a minesweeper crew operating in the Pacific Theatre during World War Two.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Paths of Glory gives an insight into the heavy moral cost of war.

This is a movie adaption of beloved author Patrick O’Brian’s books on the Royal Navy in the age of sail, centred on the characters of Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship’s physician Stephen Maturin.

Set in the first few days after the successful D-Day landings in Normandy, Spielberg’s award-winning film offers some intensely realistic depictions of late-Second World War combat, especially in the opening half hour sequence devoted to the Rangers’ landing at Omaha Beach.