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Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home.Joss increasingly comes to depend upon...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-28
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What if Dunkirk had been the end of Britain's war against the Nazis?'Fatherland for an action movie age.' Daily Telegraph1952. It is more than a decade since humiliation at Dunkirk brought an end to Britain's war and the beginning of an uneasy peace with Hitler.In...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2011-02-17
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At the start of the war in 1939 James Bevan is a junior officer approaching middle-age, attached to a small anti-aircraft unit on the south coast.Abandoned by his wife, the soldiers he command are his family: Bairnsfather, whose sexual encounters with his girl friend...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-02-15
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part four of the first Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Hard Target
In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack, Joe Gardner discovers a terrifying secret. In order to protect...
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Coronet
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2011-02-03
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'[A] Jane Austen-meets-Bernard Cornwell novel' Daily MailRaw recruits march under the summer sun. But on distant shores a terrible event is about to sing its siren's song to the true soldier gentlemen of Britain. For it is 1808, and the Peninsular War is about to erupt...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2011-01-27
Collection :
The Napoleonic Wars
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Mid-winter, 1943. Britain is gripped by intense cold and in the darkest days of the war. It is six months before D-Day and the battle to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe. RAF officer Martin Paget is returning home for Christmas He has been on covert operations in France...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2011-01-25
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part three of the first Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Hard Target
Dispatched to a postwar Belgrade crawling with criminals and bad memories, Joe Gardner is on a collision course...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2011-01-20
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Amid the bloody battlefields of Britain, Merlin is marked for greatness. M.K. Hume tells the story of Myrddion Merlinus from birth to boyhood, as he attempts to surpass evil and corruption to fulfil his destiny. The Prophecy Trilogy is the perfect read for fans of...
Editeur :
Review
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2011-01-20
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part two of the first Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Hard Target
A chance encounter with an agent from MI6 leads Joe Gardner into a perilous mission in Gibraltar. His objective:...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2011-01-06
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"Richly peopled, highly literate, and brilliantly drawn ... one of the finest science fiction writers of all time" - Science Fiction Chronicle"Seminal. Like a book on Vietnam, but science fiction. Amazing!" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars"The prose astounds. Lucius Shepard...
Editeur :
Gateway
Parution :
2010-12-30
Collection :
S.F. MASTERWORKS
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There were not so much people as animals. Sometimes small and frightened, huddling together in cattle cars, wounds gaping, tongues swelling even as they licked the moist frost from the walls...Grievously wounded - having survived the operating table and the perilous...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-23
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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Sven Hassel's iconic novel about the Battle for Monte Cassino.The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away...Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment are posted to Italy. Hitler has ordered that every position must be...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2010-12-23
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames...Hitler's penal regiments advance on Poland. Himmler has given the order: Warsaw must be razed to the ground. But the Polish Home Army are not willing to...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-23
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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SS GENERAL is the definitive Stalingrad novel, a gripping portrait of war's brutal realities.It was said that Stalingrad had been burning since August, ever since the first German bombs were dropped...Sven Hassel and his comrades are plunged into the maelstrom of...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-23
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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LIQUIDATE PARIS shows the eruption of the Second World War in its most brutal and cruel phase, as allied troops advance upon Paris and the penal regiment retreat.I had a grenade in my hand. So, no doubt, did the English private. I tore out the pin with my teeth. Lay...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-23
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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A shocking insight into the realities of war, the conditions endured by ordinary soldiers and their unwavering solidarity.It was supposed to be Hitler's glorious conquest of Russia...The 27th Penal Regiment has been ordered to invade the Soviet Union. They are...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-12-23
Collection :
Sven Hassel War Classics
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It is April 1945, and the historic town of Lohenfelde is about to be overrun by the Allied Third Army. Huddled in the vaults of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum are Heinrich Hoffer and his three colleagues. Their petty rivalries and resentments surface quickly in this...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2010-12-23
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Faster, Grittier, Darker, Deadlier...
Part one of the first Chris Ryan Extreme series. Bundled together as the full book, Chris Ryan Extreme: Hard Target
When an old friend makes a desperate call for help, former SAS Warrant Officer Joe Gardner is thrust back into...
Editeur :
Coronet
Parution :
2010-12-20
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Egypt, October 1942The battle for North Africa rages fiercely along the length of the Egyptian coast . . . Punching their way deep behind enemy lines, the newly formed SAS - under the enigmatic Lt Col David Stirling - carries out daring raids against the Germans. Lt Tom...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-12-09
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From the master of the historical spy thriller, a story set in the heart of the Polish resistanceSeptember, 1939. The invading Germans blaze a trail of destruction across Poland. France and Britain declare war, but do nothing to help. And a Polish resistance movement...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-11-25
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