Max Hennessy
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A gripping historical thriller set during the nine days which decided World War II-the Battle of Dunkirk-from the author of The Sea Shall Not Have Them.
26 May, 1940: The allies, faced with a shameful defeat, are trapped between the onslaught of the mighty German army and the tumult of the ocean's waves. Those that do not die face capture and surrender to the Nazis.
Nine days later more than a quarter of a million men have been rescued,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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English
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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 change.
A young intelligence officer, James Woodyatt, is shipped across the Channel to find a First World War hero, an old man who may have been a spy... and who may be in possession of Nazi secrets that could...
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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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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...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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English
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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...
6) The Victors
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2020]
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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, but Martin pestered the authorities and, at last, found himself back in France.
But the character of the war was changing. Everyone had suddenly become efficiency-conscious, and the freedom of choice which he had valued so much in his life...
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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 Expeditionary Force if war with Germany should be declared, he had no alternative but to bring the matter to court.
The case took the judge, the jury and a fascinated public back to...
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In the skies over France, only the hawks survived. 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 totally in love with aviation.
As those who have become his friends die one-by-one, Ira realises...
9) 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...
10) 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...
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The gripping tale of one boy's 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 life behind, he takes up a position in charge of poaching on a battered trawler, accompanied by Pat Fee and Old Boxer, a wreck of an educated man who redeems Jess.
As he leaves...
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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...
13) Blunted Lance
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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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...
14) The Interceptors
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2020]
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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 had taken away much of Martin's idealism, shown him the gruesome realities of battle. But the Russia of 1919, a chaotic, desperate country, shows him another sort of conflict, a...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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2022.
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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 unbelievable sight. An enormous seaplane thundering across the sky, crashing to the ground in a ball of brilliant flame.
It seems like an accident… at least until a second plane...
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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...
17) The Mercenaries
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2019]
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English
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A new conflict looms at the very edge of the world for a WWI flying ace in this high-octane thriller from the author of The Mustering of the Hawks.
For Ira Penaluna, peace brings frustration and disillusionment. Desperate to continue flying, he accepts an offer to go to China as a commander of the ramshackle air-force of General Tsu, a local warlord.
With him he takes a bizarre trio of misfits: Pat, the boozy, bragging Irishman, more interested...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The fate of a continent rests on one devastating battle-and the daring of the special forces soldiers on its front lines.
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...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2019]
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English
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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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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2020]
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English
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Getting shot down is just the beginning in this epic story of survival and resistance in a country crawling with Nazi soldiers during the Second World War.
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...