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An ambitious plan, a looming fortress, and one ferocious battle that could turn the tides of World War II, from the author of Army of Shadows.
Famous for its ancient hilltop monastery, Monte Cassino achieved a new and grimmer renown in the Second World War when it became a German bastion against the Allied advance through Italy.
Even in February 1944, when the abbey buildings had been reduced to rubble by aerial bombardment, the mountain...
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Two Allied officers hunt down a German agent who's stolen top-secret plans that could change the course of World War II in this spy thriller.
Throughout the summer of 1944, southern England was transformed into one huge armed camp as the Allied forces made their final preparations for D-Day. It was at this crucial moment in history that the Fox emerged from his lair.
The Fox had many names and many disguises, but behind them all lay the resource...
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The first volume in an epic trilogy spanning four generations of a great soldiering family from the author of Blunted Lance and The Iron Stallions.
Colby Goff had been born to the cavalry-it was in his blood and in his bones. He would live, fight, love, and die as a soldier whose first allegiance was to his regiment.
He was eighteen the first time he faced death. That was in 1854-at Balaclava-at what would be called the Charge of the Light...
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A World War I flying ace races for glory-and for his life-against Charles Lindbergh in this unputdownable thriller from the author of The Mercenaries.
A huge cash prize awaits anyone who can make the perilous transatlantic flight between Paris and New York, as well as global notoriety.
Though many have died attempting it, among those who are still ready to face the hazards of the long-distance flight is Ira Penaluna, a hard-bitten war...
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The birth of a new kind of combat rocks a family who have made duty and honor their creed in this rousing saga from the author of Soldier of the Queen.
The Regiment-the 19th Lancers-mattered to the Goffs, generation after generation, more than anything else.
From the Sudan to South Africa, from Flanders to Palestine-from the charge and skirmish on the open plain in the last outposts of the Empire, to the mud and stench of the trenches...
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The final tale of a fighting family, in the greatest conflict of all time-World War II-from the author of Soldier of the Queen and Blunted Lance.
In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment.
Soon enough, he finds himself on the front lines in the Second World War, from France to the Western Desert, from the D-Day beaches to Nazi...
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The "supremely well told" classic war novel of espionage in the most extreme of situations-from the acclaimed author of Ride Out the Storm (Evening Standard).
An essential flight from France crash lands in the North Sea, leaving the four remaining crew members of the RAF Hudson stranded on a dinghy.
One man is critically injured, and another, a rocket expert, is carrying a briefcase stuffed with vital war secrets, that could prove devastating...
8) North Strike
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A searing tale of combat and espionage at the edge of the world from the author who "writes about war as few men can" (Daily Mail).
Magnusson had expected to go to war-though not as a spy, and certainly not in a windjammer. But it is 1939 and the Navy desperately needs information about German raiders and blockade runners operating in northern waters.
One of the key places to uncover that information is the port of Narvik in Norway-and...
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He must save the past, for the peoples' future...It is 1943, and Naples has been looted by the Allies and Axis powers alike, its priceless art treasures coveted by some of the most corrupt criminal minds in Europe. The country swarmed with bands of partisans, who included communists, genuine patriots, escaped POWs and ex-soldiers of the Italian army. Alongside them, but operating solely for gain, were gangs of bandits. Sergeant Tom Pugh was in Field...
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The fighting has long since ended. But the conflict is far from over…
Twenty years after the Second World War, five tough veterans return to the Sahara in a desperate search for bomb-buried bullion. But twenty years can change a man.
Young ideals have been replaced by greed. Comradeship has vanished along with innocence. And treachery and murder are rife among them.
This exciting adventure is set against the backdrop of the Western Desert and...
11) Army of Shadows
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They fought without glory – and without mercy.
France, Winter 1944: The long-awaited liberation is at hand
The bombing missions had gone well, and the crew of the Lancaster bomber had begun to relax. Then the Messerschmitt came out of the darkness, its guns blazing.
Of the nine-man crew only Neville and Urqhart survive, parachuting into the heart of occupied France. Joining forces with the men of the French Resistance, they must enter a deadly...
12) Up For Grabs
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A fighting team with a very special difference...
In times gone by, the looting didn't start until the foe was vanquished! But in North Africa nobody bothered to hang around for the enemy to retreat.
With half of Egypt waiting open-armed for anything going, people stole whatever wasn't screwed down — and flogged it on the Cairo black market. The British... The Italians... and Rommel's Afrika Corps: they all used each other's captured weapons, stores,...
13) Take or Destroy
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The fate of a continent rests on one devastating battle...The Eighth Army, gathering its strength in the Nile delta, was preparing for a major assault against the combined forces of Rommel's Afrika Korps.
One of the places the Korps occupied was the little port of Qaba, two hundred miles to the west of Cairo. British Lieutenant-Colonel George Hockold saw great potential in Qaba, planning an offensive there to both distract the enemy and rob them...
14) Swordpoint
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An ambitious plan, a looming fortress, a devastating battle...Famous for its ancient hilltop monastery, Monte Cassino achieved a new and grimmer renown in the Second World War when it became a German bastion against the Allied advance through Italy.
Even in February 1944, when the abbey buildings had been reduced to rubble by aerial bombardment, the mountain itself continued to command the adjoining river valleys and to block the road to Rome.
Cassino...
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One brave task force will take on an army.
It is the summer of 1940 — and Italian forces have entered British Somaliland. While this invasion is in progress, a small party of British soldiers is on its way to destroy a supply dump in the desert hills.
Strafed by Italian planes, the young lieutenant in command is killed — leaving behind four non-commissioned soldiers and the civilian driver. Cut off behind enemy lines — their radio dead, their...
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A hunt that will decide the victor of the Second World War...
Throughout the summer of 1944, southern England was transformed into one huge armed camp as the allied forces made their final preparations for D-Day. It was at this crucial moment in history that the Fox emerged from his lair.
The Fox had many names and many disguises, but behind them all lay the resource and ingenuity of a dedicated German agent. His very existence was not suspected...
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One last mission; a disastrous result; an impossible escape...Last in the RAF Trilogy, this story charts the final days of service of world-class British fighter pilot Dicken Quinney, in his most dangerous adventure yet.
It is the summer of 1939, and the greatest war in history is on the horizon. Dicken is stationed in France when the fighting starts, but disaster strikes and his plane is shot out of the sky above enemy territory.
Beset on all sides...
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A new enemy; a savage battlefield; a devastating loss... Dicken Quinney proved himself as a brilliant and heroic pilot in World War One, saving the lives of his fellow RAF servicemen, and winning a slew of medals.
It is now the near aftermath of the Great War, and Dicken is engaged in an ongoing dogfight over the Baltic states with Bolshevik fighters, during the Russian Revolution.
He must use everything he has learned in his formative years in...
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One day in 1914, a young man took to the air, and a legend was born...
Dicken Quinney never forgot that first flight in a fragile contraption of sealing-wax and string, the start of a lifelong obsession with aviation.
He was to spend the next four years in the deadly cut-and-thrust of aerial dogfights over France and Italy, collecting a chestful of medals, and a reputation as one of the Great War's leading aces.
He would hone his skills in an array...
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In the skies over France, only the hawks survived. First in the World War I historical thriller series from the author of The Mercenaries.
1917. The average life-expectancy of an RAF pilot on the Western Front is three weeks. Inexperienced young men are hurled into vicious dogfights over the trenches, often without adequate training, and are slaughtered by the German aces.
Into this hell arrives Ira Penaluna, only nineteen years old and...
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