Query: 1963 Historical fiction books about the military.
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Clocks
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
An Incident at Krechetovka Station
The Adventures of Werner Holt
Glide Path
Cat's Cradle
The Seed and the Sower
Ice Station Zebra (novel)
Evidence from documents: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: '''''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold''''' is a 1963 Cold War spy novel by the British author John le Carré. It depicts Alec Leamas, a British agent, being sent to East Germany as a faux defector to sow disinformation about a powerful East German intelligence officer.
The Clocks: about the military.: Special Branch or MI5 agent Colin "Lamb", takes Sheila into his care. He is investigating a clue from a note found in a dead agent's pocket; letter M, number 61, and a sketch of a crescent moon written on a bit of hotel stationery (sketched in the book). At 19 Wilbraham Crescent, home of the blind Miss Pebmarsh, a police investigation begins into the murder.
1963 Historical fiction books: a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 November 1963 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. It features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin: 1963 novel by Leon Uris about post-World War II Berlin and Germany. The novel starts in London during World War II, and goes through to the Four Power occupation of Berlin and the Soviet blockade by land of the city's western boroughs. The description of the Berlin Airlift is quite vivid as is the inter-action between people of the five nations involved as the three major Western Allies rub along with the Soviet occupiers of East Berlin and East Germany. The book finishes with the end of the airlift but sets the scene for the following 40 years of Cold War.
An Incident at Krechetovka Station: 1963 Historical fiction books about the military.: s a novella by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, published in the Soviet literary magazine ''Novyi Mir'' (New World) in 1963. It is one of the few works of prose written by the author that are set during World War II and is said to have been based upon real life events witnessed by the author.
about the military.: The brief incident described involves a soldier and actor, Tveritinov, who has lost contact with his military unit and has spent several days trying to catch up, riding on board freight cars without a ticket or identification papers.
fiction: The action of the novella takes place only over three or four hours, a night in late October 1941, and is written mostly from the viewpoint (though not from inside the mind) of a somewhat short-sighted character called Lieutenant Vasili Zotov, who is the second in command of the station
The Adventures of Werner Holt: Dieter Noll receives the National Prize from Walter Ulbricht.
'''''Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt''''' (''The Adventures of Werner Holt'') is a novel in two parts by East German author Dieter Noll. The first volume was released at 1960 and the second in 1963.
Glide Path: '''''Glide Path''''' is a novel by the English writer Arthur C. Clarke, published in 1963.
Cat's Cradle: first published in 1963
The Seed and the Sower: 1963: '''''The Seed and the Sower''''' is a book by South African writer Laurens van der Post, consisting of three interrelated stories blended into a novel, first published in 1963.
Historical fiction books about the military.: The second, lengthier story is also set in the P.O.W. camp but is narrated in the third person from the diary of Major Celliers, a South African officer serving in the British Army, who perished in the camp and his relationships with his disabled brother and with the camp commandant, Captain Yonoi.
Ice Station Zebra (novel): '''''Ice Station Zebra''''' is a 1963 thriller novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean. It marked a return to MacLean's classic Arctic setting. After completing this novel, whose plot line parallels real-life events during the Cold War, MacLean retired from writing for three years. In 1968 it was loosely adapted into a film of the same name.