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It's World War II, and Second Lieutenant John Stanley McCalla is
leading a Filipino gun crew out of Bataan. The Japanese are coming
close, and American-Filipino surrender is imminent. McCalla moves
his troops to Corregidor, which soon becomes the next target on the
Japanese rampage. Forced to flee, McCalla's crew heads into the
forest and prepares to use guerilla warfare against their enemies.
It's possible they could all die out there in the dangerous
Philippine forest. In order to mount a particularly rugged hill,
the team grasps hands and heads out in the dark of night. McCalla
finds himself holding tightly to a small, soft hand-a hand that
belongs to Third Lieutenant Isabel Ramos of the Philippine Nurse
Corps. She fled with the soldiers, and now she's part of McCalla's
command. The lieutenant can't believe it, but despite the horrors
surrounding them and the threat of death by Japanese knife, McCalla
finds himself falling for the beautiful Isabel. Perhaps it is the
danger that holds them so tightly together. McCalla must keep his
head clear; the war is certainly not over, and they are fighting a
losing battle. Will reinforcements show up in time to save their
lives, or will love die tragically on a conquered island?
Reitan, a rifleman with the Third Infantry Division in World War
II, has written a vivid story of four teenagers (one of them an
American) who join the Resistance in France during World War II.
The American becomes an underage rifleman with the Third Infantry
Division and participates in the battles experienced by the author.
Set in the grim reality of wartime France, this dark-edged novel
presents interesting characters, fast-moving action, true-to-life
instances of ground combat, and a touch of bittersweet romance.
When their country is invaded and their families are taken, eight high school teenagers band together to fight.
Seventeen-year-old Ellie Linton wants one final adventure with her friends before the school holidays are over. Packed in Ellie's parents' land rover they drive to the famously isolated rock pool Eden dubbed 'Hell' by the locals. Returning to their home town of Wirrawee, the seven teenagers realize that something is seriously wrong. Power to the houses has been cut, pets and livestock have been left dead or dying, and most alarmingly of all, everyone's family has vanished.
When the hostile armed forces discover that the teenagers are lying low in the vicinity, Ellie and her friends must band together to escape, outwit and strike back against the mysterious enemy that has seized control of their town and imprisoned their friends and loved ones...
"Jannaway's Mutiny" is a novel of love and tragedy that reveals the
secret causes of the British Navy's most catastrophic mutiny.
In September 1931, the sailors of the Royal Navy's Atlantic
Fleet staged a mass mutiny at Invergordon, Scotland. In this
historical fiction account, Charles Gidley Wheeler tells the life
story of Frank Jannaway, a British sailor who finds himself at the
focus of the mutiny.
Sent into the Navy against his will, Frank experiences the
hardship and injustice of life on the lower deck aboard a
coal-burning cruiser on the China Station. After serving with
distinction at the Battle of Jutland, Frank reunites with Anita
Yarrow, whom he has known since his youth, and who has been sent to
Malta in disgrace. Anita helps Frank, her childhood hero, to gain
promotion to officer rank. Years later, when Anita's brother, Roddy
Yarrow, is bullying his officers aboard a cruiser of the Atlantic
Fleet, Frank Jannaway is appointed to his ship. The result is
tragedy.
Encompassing an era from the Edwardian Golden Age to wartime
Britain in the blitz, "Jannaway's Mutiny" paints a vivid picture of
love, ambition, self-sacrifice and heroism--and of the part that
captains and admirals of the Royal Navy played in ringing down the
final curtain on the British Empire.
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Cross Of Fire
(Paperback)
David Gilman; Narrated by Colin Mace
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R268
R246
Discovery Miles 2 460
Save R22 (8%)
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WINTER, 1362
After decades of successful campaigning in France, Thomas Blackstone, once a common archer, has risen to become Edward III's Master of War.
But the title is as much a curse as a blessing. Success has brought few rewards: his family - bar his son Henry - is dead, slaughtered; his enemies only multiply. Death, in so many guises, beckons.
As he battles to enforce his King's claim to French territory, Blackstone will assault an impregnable fortress, he'll become embroiled in a feud between French aristocrats, he'll be forced into pitched battle in the dead of winter... and he'll be asked to pay an impossible price to protect something much more precious to the King than mere land.
All the while, out of the east, a group of trained killers, burning with vengeance, draw ever closer.
High Ground is a fictional account of the legal, political, and
moral conflict that would eventually turn American against
American. Garrett Fitzwilliam sacrificed the woman he loved to
preserve the Union, but how does he defend the United States of
America when America's survival depends upon an army sabotaged by
its own incompetence? Or was America lost when the president, who
swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution,
imprisoned his political foes?
It is November of 1864, Major General William T. Sherman is
about to lead his army of sixty thousand veterans into the heart of
the Confederacy. It is the final, excruciating year of a war turned
increasingly brutal and desperate.
The men of the maligned and ill-fated Confederate regiment known
as the Fiftieth North Carolina look alike. Their faces are dark
with smoke, their ribs protrude like barn rafters, and their
uniforms are an assortment of filthy rags indiscriminately
liberated from Union and Confederate dead.
Among these soldiers are George Hawkins and his brother, Walsh,
unwillingly caught in the midst of a brutal war. As the regiment
begins a four-hundred-mile death march from Savannah, Georgia, to
Bentonville, North Carolina, George finds himself caught between
his sense of honor and duty and his knowledge that they are
fighting for a cause that is all but lost. Still, he takes
consolation in doing in his duty and in his love of a woman--a
refugee he encounters during the chaos of the Confederate
retreat.
Souls of Lions is a tale of uncommon courage, heroic sacrifice,
and flawed humanity amid great suffering in the swamps of North
Carolina as two indifferent Confederate soldiers are transformed
into the last violent months of the Civil War.
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Saraph
(Hardcover)
Todd S. Bindig
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R742
Discovery Miles 7 420
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The Great Depression tore countless American lives, families, and
dreams apart. As the country struggled to survive against
unimaginable domestic challenges, tensions across the sea would
soon draw the world into a war beyond imagination. The stories of
bravery and sacrifice made by those who fought in that world war
are familiar to us, but it is often in the smaller stories that
aren't told that a new perspective can be found. The Quinn family
of Illinois has suffered alongside their neighbors during the Great
Depression, but unlike many, they have never lost sight of the
promise of better times ahead. The Depression is showing signs of
lifting, and the family risks it all for their own dream. Together
for whatever the future might bring, the family moves into a
primitive farmhouse on their newly acquired land, hoping for
salvation and independence. Life is bleak in those first years, as
no amount of hard work can create a profit from the unyielding
land. Over his wife's objections, Milburn Quinn makes a bold
decision to present his children with a gift. Although it is
intended to keep them grounded and entertained, this gift comes
with dire consequences for all. Set in a time when the world's
norms are being turned upside down like the sod behind a plow, Fate
Rode the Wind tells a story of one family's undying patriotism,
unending trials, and unconditional love.
In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling
author Kate Quinn, two women-a female spy recruited to the
real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an
unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in
1947-are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and
redemption. 1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II,
American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and
on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's
also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who
disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be
alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her
"little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to
London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she
loves like a sister. 1915. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner
burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets
her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into
enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, the
"Queen of Spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right
under the enemy's nose. Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal
that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days
drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young
American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and
launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where
it leads. "Both funny and heartbreaking, this epic journey of two
courageous women is an unforgettable tale of little-known wartime
glory and sacrifice. Quinn knocks it out of the park with this
spectacular book!"-Stephanie Dray, New York Times bestselling
author of America's First Daughter
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