Books like The sword by S. M. Stirling

The Way of Kings opens Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, a sweeping high‑fantasy saga set on the storm‑torn world of Roshar where mystical Shardblade warriors, broken kingdoms, and mysterious ancient orders collide.

In a brutal, snow‑bent fantasy world, a notorious barbarian, a vain noble, and a ruthless inquisitor find their paths tangled when an enigmatic wizard's schemes ignite bloody intrigue across the frozen North.

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Red Mars chronicles the early days of humanity’s colonization and political upheaval on Mars, blending environmental engineering, terraforming and nation‑building in a hard‑science vision.

Gavin Guile, the powerful Prism who governs as high priest and emperor, must complete five impossible goals in five years while concealing a son’s existence that threatens the fragile peace of his world.

Kenhodan, a swordsman who cannot remember his past, finds himself as a pawn in a thousand‑year conflict, yet must face the dark wizard Wencit of Rum, who will stop at nothing to defend his realm and protect a frightened eleven‑year‑old girl.

R. Scott Bakker’s debut, *The Darkness That Comes Before*, launches the Prince of Nothing series with a vast, textured world, a post‑apocalyptic past, and a grand holy war centered on the enigmatic Anasurimbor Kellhus.

During World War II, there were few fates that could befall a soldier so hellish as internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To this day, many survivors -- most of whom are now in their 80s -- still cannot talk about their experiences without unearthing terrible memories. Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of Allied POWs and offers us a powerful reminder of the terror and deprivations of war and the resilience of the human spirit. In this important book, Brian MacArthur draws on the diaries of American, British, Dutch, and Australian Fepows (Far Eastern prisoners of war), some of whose recollections are published here for the first time. These soldiers wrote and kept their diaries, in secret, because they were determined to record for posterity how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death, or transported on "hellships"; how their fellows were summarily executed by guards or felled by the thousands by tropical diseases; and how they were used as slave labor -- most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway (later depicted in The Bridge on the River Kwai). The diaries excerpted here make plain why the Fepows have always believed that their brutal treatment by Japanese and Korean guards was literally incomprehensible to those who did not live it. - Jacket flap.

In an epic fantasy clash, the Red Knight faces a final, high‑stakes battle across land and sea after his army triumphs in a memorable victory, each ally matched by an equally formidable enemy.