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Joy Chambers' None but the Brave sweeps three courageous people into the battlefield as it travels from France to Great Britain to the Australian bush and back again in a gripping insight into a fascinating period of our past. The perfect read for fans of Sebastian...
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Headline
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2012-01-31
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part four of the second Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Night Strike.
Jinchun, China. A city teeming with industry and paranoia. A deadly weapon fallen into the wrong hands. And a...
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Coronet
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2012-01-30
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The first of two epic novels which tell the story of one of the most charismatic heroes history has ever known - Spartacus, the gladiator slave who took on and nearly defeated the might of Rome, during the years 73-71 BC.Historically very little is known about ...
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Preface Digital
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2012-01-19
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part three of the second Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Night Strike.
In the Regiment, operators never lose...they just run out of time. Ex-Blade John Bald is dispatched to...
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Coronet
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2012-01-16
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The fourth book in the brilliant Death Force series plunges the elite squad of hardened mercenaries into a deadly battle for survival in the frozen wastelands of the Arctic. A plane carrying a Russian oil billionaire has crashed mysteriously in the Arctic in the...
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Headline
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2012-01-05
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part two of the second Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Night Strike.
Disgraced former SAS legend John Bald turfs up in the Florida everglades, an illegal grey man in the most...
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Coronet
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2011-12-19
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part one of the second Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Night Strike.
Former Warrant Officer Joe Gardner used to be the pride of the Regiment. Now he's a hard luck story heading for...
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Coronet
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2011-12-19
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Adam Tomaszewski is a Polish airman, flying Hurricanes alongside British pilots as the Battle of Britain rages in the summer skies over Kent and Sussex. Facing death daily and far from his friends and family,Adam finds himself drawn to a maverick Irish soldier called...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-12-08
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A stunning new translation of the classic tale of the fall of Troy from one of the world's finest translators. If you enjoyed THE SONG OF ACHILLES, discover the original and the best...Man seduces another's wife then kidnaps her. The husband and his brother get a gang...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-10-13
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A novel of adventure and intrigue in wartime EuropeParis, 1938. Nicholas Morath, former Hungarian cavalry officer, returns home to his young mistress in the 7th arrondissement. He's been in Vienna where, amid the mobs screaming for Hitler, he's done a quiet favour for...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-10-13
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It is the last, bitter days of World War II and the British Raj in India is crumbling. Ensconced in the Indian Hill Station of Pankot are the English wives, mothers, daughters and widows of the officers embroiled in the ongoing conflict. With their old beliefs and...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-09-30
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Chocolate Cake with Hitler tells the remarkable story of Helga Goebbels, twelve-year-old daughter of the Nazi Party's head of propaganda, who spent the last ten days of her life cooped up in a bunker in Berlin with Adolf Hitler.
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Short Books
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2011-09-01
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Back is, according to Jeremy Treglown in his introduction, "Henry Green's most extended attempt to plumb the world of the hunted - and haunted". First published in 1946, it has indeed remained one of Green's most haunting, elegiac novels and one of the most enduring to...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-08-31
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BOOK TWO OF THE RAJ QUARTET India, August 9th 1942. The morning brings raids and the arrest by British police of Congress Party members. Amongst the prisoners is the distinguished ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim. Loyal to the party's central vision of a unified...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-08-31
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Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the German resistance in World War II in All That I Am.When Hitler comes to power in 1933, a...
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E-Penguin
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2011-08-29
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The second novel in a brilliant new Napoleonic series from acclaimed historian Adrian Goldsworthy.Second in the series begun by TRUE SOLDIER GENTLEMEN, the story takes our heroes through the winter snows as Sir John Moore is forced to retreat to Corunna. Faced with...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-08-11
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The Napoleonic Wars
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January 1069. Less than three years have passed since Hastings and the death of the usurper, Harold Godwineson. In the depths of winter, two thousand Normans march to subdue the troublesome province of Northumbria. Tancred a Dinant, an ambitious and oath-sworn knight...
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Preface Digital
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2011-08-04
Collection :
The Conquest
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Nick Kane is a man with nothing to lose, and everything to prove.A model soldier fighting for queen and country, it seemed nothing could stop him becoming one of the very top officers. But that was then.And this is now. Injured in a bomb blast on reconnaissance in Iraq...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-06-09
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Historians of the Second World War have hitherto omitted to mention that the first British raid on German-occupied France took place within four months of Dunkirk. It happened at midnight on September 21st, 1940, the landing being made at the small fishing town of...
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Vintage Digital
Parution :
2011-05-31
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Poetry of the Second World War brings to light a neglected chapter in world literature. In its chorus of haunting poetic voices, over a hundred of the most articulate minds of their generation record the true experience of the 1939-45 conflict, and its unending...
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Vintage Digital
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2011-05-31
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