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The Munich Pursuit
Fiction based on fact, this a story of the search by the Germans and British to establish how far the other has reached in the development of a jet-engined fighter plane prior to WW2. In UK, the Germans use a dissident South-African-born engineer who lost both parents in the Boer War and harbours a resentment against the British government. Dogged police work eventually exposes him. In Germany, the British lose their experienced agent and are forced to use two reserve officers to fill the gap. The two are discovered by the German Security Forces in the act of taking photographs. They are forced to flee across Germany and France with their information, the Germans in hot pursuit. The German Security operatives have orders to kill them and retrieve the photographs. The Munich Crisis of 1938 with the threat of war causes travel chaos and in part, hinders both sides in the pursuit.
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Transcendence
Captured at Gallipoli on 25 April, 1915, Sergeant Berenger, an uncompromising professional soldier, escapes Turkish imprisonment. He enlists the assistance of three unlikely co-conspirators: Ali, a simple Arab boy forcibly drafted into the Ottoman army with his brother, Mohammad; and Avraham, a Jewish merchant, who determines his future is no longer with the Ottoman Empire. Pursued by the sadistic Tolga from the Turkish prison at Fort Kilitbahir, Berenger discovers the date of the Turkish counter-attack on ANZAC positions. Berenger must return to the ANZAC lines to deliver the intelligence that a massive Turkish counter-attack will commence on 19 May 1915; and he must slip through Mustafa Kemal's 57th Turkish Regiment in order to do so.
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Treasures of War
Leningrad, 1941.
Germany’s Operation Barbarossa is tightening its noose around the city. The Neva River and Lake Ladoga freeze. Few supplies reach the city. Thousands suffer from cold and starvation.
Katuska and Nina Koslov, young daughters of a dedicated museum employee, shelter in the basement of the great Hermitage Museum—once the palace of Tsars. As insulation to meagre coats, their mother sews ‘found’ canvases into the linings.
Upon the death of their parents, the girls begin a new chapter in their lives with the hidden paintings cherished as mementos of parental love.
We accompany Katuska and Nina on an obstacle-filled journey through war and its challenging aftermath. We accompany the ‘found’ paintings, also known to some as ‘stolen art’, on journeys through Europe, England, the US and the Soviet Union.
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The Journey
On Christmas night 1879 my 19-year-old Great Uncle, John Diver left his thatched home, Whinpark Inishowen. He walked the eighteen miles to Derry Quay. He boarded the SS Devonian. The Statute of Liberty Ellis Island Foundation confirms its arrival on 1st January 1880. Why did someone so young embark, alone, on such a hazardous journey?By chance John, a skilled facilitator, met other young people who were forced into that miserable, morose migration of the largely unreported ‘an Gorta Beag’ (small Famine).These included the enthralling James Feely, who found unlikely inspiration from the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. This led to the discovery of his psychic powers. He meets the recently deceased Paul Cullen, Ireland’s first Cardinal, hears divinations from Thomas FitzGerald the 10th Earl of Kildare about a meeting with the most beautiful Empress in Europe and the Three Magi who predicted the miraculous Apparitions at Knock. Who, if anyone, does he dare tell? We meet the troubled Matthew and his resolute sister Mary. After Maggie, their teenage unmarried sister, gave birth they resolved to travel to America to find her displaced infant. What caused one of the siblings to have a change of heart?Church Martin, a gifted musician and mystic, follows that ancient Celtic tradition of using music to enchant and distract an enemy rather than entertain. He demonstrates this by stopping the movement of the ship mid Atlantic to becalm the vessel. Will Church and Mary discover the angst of an unrequited love? Jack Turner is a young man with a hidden past. Will he too find unexpected friendship? The story, a unique blend of fiction and non-fiction, culminates in the friction of a frantic, frenzied pursuit for survival to avoid an enforced asylum admission and deportation.The unfolding personal revelations become a fascinating intrigue - a compelling timeless Irish Tale that is more than a match for The Canterbury Tales.Atlantic Anecdotes and Dark Disclosures en route from the Inishowen Peninsula to the Port of New York.
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A Soldier's Tale
The lives of three generations of a Wiltshire landed family are bound up with the British Army: firstly during the Indian Mutiny of the 1850s, then in the First World War. At a time when social status was everything in England, and considered even more important in India, the story follows the events that affect the family's fate.Mary, widow of a younger son who married beneath him, decides to sail for a better life in India and becomes mixed up in the war between the Indian and British regiments and is forced to flee for her life. The repercussions of her flight are felt more than 60 years later when the family is again tragically disrupted, this time by the Great War.Fascinating detail of ‘upstairs and downstairs' during both wars provides the colourful background to this action-packed story, and sheds light on the complicated title succession quandaries of the times.
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Ahab's Legacy
In the early 1930s, World War II is on the verge of taking over Europe; and Rudi Levin, aware of his Jewish heritage and the sinister motives of the Nazi threat, comes up with an underground plot to save Jewish artefacts and artworks from thieving hands to preserve his culture and hopes to provide a safety net for his children in the future. He's almost certain that the war will blow over quickly, and his nest egg will be safe from Nazi intrusion.Flora MacLeod, recently made a widow, takes up residence in Wellington, New Zealand and tries to make an honest business running Maximes Hotel during war-time. She finds herself at loss on how to make a substantial profit when tourism is at an all-time low and the general population are strapped for cash. That is, until she realises that a host of female clientele can bring in a whole new swarm of customers for her 'honest business'...Katrin is on her way to New Zealand as a young refugee, sent away from England's cities as the blitz is deemed too dangerous for children. On her journey, she meets military men and kindly strangers who may prove to be life-long friends, but how long can friendships last in a world that's in such peril?An intricate tapestry of lives entwine together in Ahab's Legacy, which features a broad host of characters dealing with the hardships of the world throughout the twentieth century. Some prosper, some meet unfortunate fates and World War II and its consequences severely affect the fates of everyone in the ensemble.
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Spitfire Spies
Summer 1940 - Great Britain is in grave peril. With the ‘phoney' war turning into a very real war on the ground and in the air, Hitler's troops storm across an unprepared Europe towards the English Channel. Invasion looms. But the British have a weapon in their arsenal that may be a game changer and bring victory against all odds: the mighty Spitfire.So severe is the threat posed by this remarkable fighter plane that Germany sends two operatives - one a reluctant Englishman, the other a loyal Nazi - on an audacious mission to infiltrate and destroy. Will they achieve their goal or can MI5, with the aid of double agents and a brilliant female pilot, turn the tide of espionage to their advantage? With a literary adroitness reminiscent of an aviator in battle, author John Hughes weaves a tale of intrigue, love and betrayal in a fast-paced thriller of a debut novel which wends its way from the Fatherland via the beaches of Dunkirk to the skies over Southern England.
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Wilberfoss House
Desmond Voldson, retired professor and WW2 army officer is faced with the burden of care for his invalid wife Jennie, his love for her, and at the same time a desire to be free of the torment caused by her illness for them. He finds support from a group of friends. The wife's death is investigated by the CID. Finding his life empty after her death he courts a work colleague and ex-student, Monica. Although she has reservations they eventually decide to share their lives, but Desmond is killed in a road accident without discovering he is the father of her son. The story is set in a Yorkshire village during the 1960's against a background of the effect of WW2 on his friends.
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Danube Legion
The Roman war machine is on the move
But behind the Centurions and Legionaries, a vast support network grinds into motion mobilising a new legion towards a hostile river border, its human cogs turning across Roman society: from downtrodden bath slaves, to legionary blacksmiths trying to get through the day, from unscrupulous traders who supply food and materials to corrupt politicians with their own cynical motives.
Danube Legion is the darkly amusing story of what happens behind the scenes – the chaotic, the venal, the incompetent and the corrupt. In amongst it all, and driving most of it, is Lady Lassalia, a ruthless merchant out to ensure her place in Roman society.£21.99
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