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Max Hennessy was the pen-name of John Harris. He had a wide variety of jobs from sailor to cartoonist and became a highly inventive, versatile writer. In addition to crime fiction, Hennessy was a master of the war novel and drew heavily on his experiences in both the navy and air force, serving in the Second World War. His novels reflect the reality of war mixed with a heavy dose of conflict and adventure.
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Flawed Banner

Max Hennessy


Canelo

2022-05-23

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A desperate hunt for a man who could turn the tide of the Second World War.As the Nazi hordes of Germany overrun France, devouring the free world with fascist fervour, the fate of the Allied resistance looks grim. But things might be about to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Old Trade of Killing
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The fighting has long since ended. But the conflict is far from overTwenty 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 But twenty years can change a man.Young ideals have been replaced by...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2022-05-23

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Télécharger le livre :  A Funny Place to Hold a War
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A contest with the Nazis deep in the far corner of Africa.Fresh from the horrors of the Second World War, Ginger Donnelly is on the trail of Nazi saboteurs in Sierra Leone.Whilst taking a midnight paddle in a canoe cajoled from a local fisherman, Donnelly witnesses an...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2022-05-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Sunset at Sheba
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A brutal rebellion. Two clashing armies.A battle to decide their fate.South Africa, 1914. Diehard Boer generals led a new rebellion against the British-friendly governments of both Jan Smuts and Louis Botha.General Christiaan De Wets attempt to join up with the Germans...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2022-01-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fleeing Tiger
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A huge prize awaits them, but only if they can escape.The Second Boer War is finally ending, and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat cools off.While they...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2022-01-24

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Télécharger le livre :  The Thirty Days' War
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A swarm of enemy aircraft.A hopeless task.A brilliant commander.Kubaiyah, an RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of her allies, things look...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2021-07-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Light Cavalry Action
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A military hero? Or a traitor to his comrades and his country?A gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue, from master author Max Hennessy.When, in 1939, a letter cast doubts on the military reputation of a man likely to become Commander-in-Chief of the British...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2021-07-19

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Télécharger le livre :  The Lonely Voyage
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The gripping tale of one boys journey into manhood and towards war.Jess Ferigo, a young man with few prospects other than growing old in the same town he has always known, dreams of a life at sea, much to the ire of his family.Making the tough decision to leave his old...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2021-07-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Picture of Defeat
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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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-08-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Harkaway's Sixth Column
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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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-08-17

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Télécharger le livre :  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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-08-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fledglings
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Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another.It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Martin Falconer and his friend, Frank, were anxious to 'get into the scrap' as soon as possible, their youth blinding them to the real danger of it...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Victors
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Martin Falconer had one big anxiety: would they let him fly again?Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped prisoners of war weren't generally allowed to return to the front, butMartin pestered the authorities and, at last, found...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Professionals
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To swing the tide of the war, he must take to the air once again.It was 1916. The First World War had still two years to run. Martin Falconer, at eighteen an experienced pilot with service in France to his credit, was kicking his heels in England, awaiting another...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Interceptors
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The First World War is over. But Martin Falconer's story is only just beginning.1919. Martin Falconer, a veteran airman while still in his teens and now adjusting to peacetime, is asked to go to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks. His answer? 'Try and stop me.'The Great War...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Revolutionaries
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One last mission, but this time it's personal...In the Spring of 1920 the Mexican revolution was almost over. Just across the border in Texas was Martin Falconer, barely out of his teens yet already a veteran airman.He had only just escaped from the Russian Civil War...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-07-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fox From His Lair
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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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Army of Shadows
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They fought without glory and without mercy.France, Winter 1944: The long-awaited liberation is at handThe 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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  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,...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2020-02-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Soldier of the Queen
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The first volume in an epic trilogy spanning four generations of a great soldering family.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...

Editeur : Canelo
Parution : 2019-11-11

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