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As part of the award-winning Honor Series of historical naval
novels, Word of Honor is the personal memoir of protagonist Peter
Wake, a veteran of espionage operations for the Office of Naval
Intelligence who also has considerable sea and combat experience.
At the beginning of this third book of the Spanish-American War
Trilogy, it is three years after the war and Wake is called in to
explain his decisions and actions in the Caribbean during the
wartime summer of 1898. As he briefs his interrogators, Wake
recalls surviving two major land battles and a climatic sea battle
near Cuba, then taking command of auxiliary cruiser Dixon, which is
manned with regular and reservist officers and men. Wake soon
tackles enemy blockade-runners, participates in the invasion of
Puerto Rico, encounters future president and war hero Theodore
Roosevelt, and pursues an elusive Spanish ocean raider on the loose
somewhere in the Caribbean.
New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini returns with
a delightful Christmas-themed installment in her beloved Elm Creek
Quilts series-a captivating, heartwarming tale sure to become a
holiday favorite. Just weeks before Christmas, severe wintry
weather damages the church hall hosting the Christmas Boutique-an
annual sale of handcrafted gifts and baked goods that supports the
county food pantry. Determined to save the fundraiser, Sylvia
Bergstrom Compson offers to hold the event at Elm Creek Manor, her
ancestral family estate and summertime home to Elm Creek Quilt
Camp. In the spirit of the season, Sylvia and the Elm Creek
Quilters begin setting up market booths in the ballroom and decking
the halls with beautiful hand-made holiday quilts. Each of the
quilters chooses a favorite quilt to display, a special creation
evoking memories of holidays past and dreams of Christmases yet to
come. Sarah, a first-time mother expecting twins, worries if she
can handle raising two babies, especially with her husband so often
away on business. Cheerful, white-haired Agnes reflects upon a
beautiful applique quilt she made as a young bride and the
mysterious, long-lost antique quilt that inspired it. Empty nesters
and occasional rivals Gwen and Diane contemplate family heirlooms
and unfinished projects as they look forward to having their
children home again for the holidays. But while the Elm Creek
Quilters work tirelessly to make sure the Christmas Boutique
happens, it may take a holiday miracle or two to make it the
smashing success they want it to be. Praised for her ability to
craft "a wonderful holiday mix of family legacy, reconciliation and
shared experiences" (Tucson Citizen), Jennifer Chiaverini once
again rings in the festive season with this eagerly awaited
addition in her beloved series.
A heart-warming story of friendship and family during the first
Christmas of World War Two. Autumn 1939 and London prepares to
evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey,
ten-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that she's a
brave girl and can look after her twin brother, Jessie. She won't
cry, not while anyone's watching. In the crisp Yorkshire Dales,
Connie and Jessie are billeted to a rambling vicarage. Kindly but
chaotic, Reverend Braithwaite is determined to keep his London
charges on the straight and narrow, but the twins soon find
adventures of their own. As autumn turns to winter, Connie's
dearest wish is that war will end and they will be home for
Christmas. But this Christmas Eve there will be an unexpected
arrival...
After the loves and betrayals of The Revolution of Marina M., young
poet Marina Makarova finds herself alone amid the devastation of
the Russian Civil War--pregnant and adrift, forced to rely on her
own resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her
child and eventually make her way back to her native city,
Petrograd. After two years of revolution, the city that was once
St. Petersburg is almost unrecognizable, the haunted, half-emptied,
starving Capital of Once Had Been, its streets teeming with
homeless children. Moved by their plight, though hardly better off
herself, she takes on the challenge of caring for these orphans,
until they become the tool of tragedy from an unexpected direction.
Shaped by her country's ordeals and her own trials--betrayal and
privation and inconceivable loss--Marina evolves as a poet and a
woman of sensibility and substance hardly imaginable at the
beginning of her transformative odyssey. Chimes of a Lost Cathedral
is the culmination of one woman's s journey through some of the
most dramatic events of the last century--the epic story of an
artist who discovers her full power, passion, and creativity just
as her revolution reveals its true direction for the future.
A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian
prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse - or was
this murder? Captain Henry `Cuckoo' Goyles, master tunneller and
amateur detective, takes up the case. This classic locked-room
mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a
thrilling story of escape from the camp, as the Second World War
nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into
the Italian countryside.
An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of
fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American storytelling.
The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a
whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in
Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie
puts in motion a chain of events that sees him go to work for
people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian
jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico,
Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of
America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning.
Scibona's story of a restless soldier pressed into service for a
clandestine branch of the US government unfolds against the
backdrop of the seismic shifts in global politics of the second
half of the twentieth century. Epic in scope but intimate in
feeling, this is a deeply immersive read from a rising star of
American fiction.
...No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon
English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour. Eight years
before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria
over the supposed presence of German spies in England gripped the
country, the journalist and novelist William Le Queux imagined a
catastrophic scenario in which the German army invaded Britain in a
shock attack on the east coast. His novel, first published as The
Invasion of 1910 and serialised in the Daily Mail, was intended as
a warning to military strategists and the government of the time
that England was unprepared against the real threat of military
assault. It sold over one million copies and was translated into
twenty-seven languages. This chilling story chronicles a fictional
war fought on British homeland, with detailed accounts of battles
and defence lines in real locations envisaged in conjunction with
the defence experts of the time. It also brings to life the
realities of food shortages, propaganda, espionage, media coverage
and the vulnerability of financial institutions during an attack.
The story begins with an innocuous conversation between two
journalists who have lost telegraphic connection with Great
Yarmouth but quickly unfolds as news emerges of a full-blown
invasion. One by one strategic cities - Birmingham, Manchester and
Sheffield - are abandoned to the German army until events culminate
in the battle for London. More than an entertaining read, this
novel, complete with fictional proclamations from Kaiser Wilhelm
II, shines a spotlight on the fears and hopes of Britain at the
beginning of the twentieth century and heralds a very different
idea of warfare from the time before the Great War.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Telegraph Book of the Year * A New
York Times Notable Book of the Year * A Washington Post Book of the
Year * A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year * A Slate Book of the
Year `Probably Chabon's greatest, a piece of sustained writing that
will be hard to see outdone in 2017' The Times `Entirely sure
footed, propulsive, the work of a master at his very best. The
brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form
itself, a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability and
versatility of the novel' Observer `The world, like the Tower of
Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards, was made out of stories,
and it was always on the verge of collapse.' Moonglow unfolds as a
deathbed confession. An old man, his tongue loosened by powerful
painkillers, his memory stirred by the imminence of death, tells
stories to his grandson, uncovering bits and pieces of a history
long buried. Why did he try to strangle a former business partner
with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he and a buddy set
explosives on a bridge in Washington, D.C.? What did he feel while
he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? And what did he see in
the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the
war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion
of Germany, from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia
of a New York prison, from the heyday of the space programme to the
twilight of `the American Century', Moonglow collapses an era into
a single life and a lifetime into a single week.
Drawing upon a long-suppressed episode in American history, when
thousands of German immigrants were rounded up and interned
following the attack on Pearl Harbor, In Our Midst tells the story
of one family's fight to cling to the ideals of freedom and
opportunity that brought them to America. Nina and Otto Aust, along
with their teenage sons, feel the foundation of their American
lives crumbling when, in the middle of the annual St. Nikolas Day
celebration in the Aust Family Restaurant, their most loyal
customers, one after another, turn their faces away and leave
without a word. The next morning, two FBI agents seize Nina by
order of the president, and the restaurant is ransacked in a search
for evidence of German collusion. Ripped from their sons and from
each other, Nina and Otto are forced to weigh increasingly bitter
choices to stay together and stay alive. Recalling a forgotten
chapter in history, In Our Midst illuminates a nation gripped by
suspicion, fear, and hatred strong enough to threaten all bonds of
love-for friends, family, community, and country.
After sixty-eight-year-old David Granger crashes his BMW, medical
tests reveal a brain tumor that he readily attributes to his
wartime Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating a
name no one in his civilian life has ever heard - that of a Native
American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline. David
decides to return something precious he long ago stole from the man
he now calls Clayton Fire Bear. It might be the only way to find
closure in a world increasingly at odds with the one he served to
protect. It might also help him finally recover from his wife's
untimely demise. As David confronts his past to salvage his
present, a poignant portrait emerges: that of an opinionated and
goodhearted American patriot fighting like hell to stay true to his
red, white, and blue heart, even as the country he loves rapidly
changes in ways he doesn't always like or understand. Hanging in
the balance are Granger's distant art-dealing son, Hank; his
adoring seven-year-old granddaughter, Ella; and his best friend,
Sue, a Vietnamese-American who respects David's fearless sincerity.
Through the controversial, wrenching, and wildly honest David
Granger, Matthew Quick offers a no-nonsense but ultimately hopeful
view of America's polarized psyche. By turns irascible and
hilarious, insightful and inconvenient, David is a complex,
wounded, honorable, and ultimately loving man. The Reason You're
Alive examines how the secrets and debts we carry from our past
define us; it also challenges us to look beyond our own prejudices
and search for the good in our supposed enemies.
Die verklaring van oorlog teen Nazi-Duitsland deur die
Smuts-regering ruk ? Afrikanerfamilie uiteen: Die wedywering tussen
twee Vrystaatse broers neem dodelike afmetings aan wanneer
sjarmante Pierre die romantiese keuse maak en by die lugmag in
Noord-Afrika aansluit, en Jan, sy ewe aantreklike jonger broer, die
eed van die militante vleuel van die Ossewa-Brandwag aflê: ? eed
wat net deur die dood verbreek kan word.
Die broers se avonture tydens hierdie konfliktydperk bereik ?
bloedstollende hoogtepunt wanneer Pierre uit Italië terugkeer en
broer teen broer een donker nag op ? Pondolandse strand teen mekaar
te staan kom. Hierdie verhaal weerspieël die diepe verdeeldheid wat
die Tweede Wêreldoorlog tussen Suid-Afrikaners veroorsaak het:
tussen families, vriende en kennisse; en waarvan die impak lewens
verander het.
Die storie van die broers se ysingwekkende – en soms romantiese –
eskapades beloof om die leser vasgenael te hou. Ek het dit geniet
om weer aan die komplekse aard van oorlog herinner te word – en aan
die rampspoedige gevolge wat beperkte toegang tot inligting eens
vir die wêreld ingehou het. In ? era van twiets en blitsboodskappe
is dit moeilik om mens in te dink in ? tyd toe mense werklik nie
van die waarheid bewus was nie voor dit te laat was.
London. 1945. The capital is shrouded in the darkness of the
blackout, and mystery abounds in the parks after dusk. During a
stroll through Regent's Park, Bruce Mallaig witnesses two men
acting suspiciously around a footbridge. In a matter of moments,
one of them has been murdered; Mallaig's view of the assailant but
a brief glimpse of a ghastly face in the glow of a struck match.
The murderer's noiseless approach and escape seems to defy all
logic, and even the victim's identity is quickly thrown into
uncertainty. Lorac's shrewd yet personable C.I.D. man MacDonald
must set to work once again to unravel this near-impossible
mystery.
An extraordinary novel based on an incredible true story of love,
resilience, survival and hope. Perfect for fans of THE TATTOOIST OF
AUSCHWITZ, THE VOLUNTEER and THE LIBRARIAN OF AUSCHWITZ.
_______________________________ Against all odds, love will lead
them home. Shurka, her husband and their two small children never
thought the war would reach their remote Polish village. They were
wrong. Forced to flee their family home, they find shelter with
their fellow Jews in the ghetto - but every night more and more
people disappear, taken away on trucks to never be seen again. As
terrible rumours of extermination camps swirl, Shurka realises that
the longer they stay in the ghetto, the lower their chances of
survival. Their best hope is to flee into the Polish forest, where
Jewish resistance fighters hold out against Nazi search parties.
Their new life is precarious in the extreme - and will test them
more than they ever thought possible... Even in the dark, hope can
be found. _______________________________ Surviving The War is the
international Amazon bestselling survival and holocaust story,
based on an incredible true story and previously published as
Surviving The Forest. It has been translated into English from the
original Hebrew.
From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker – Waterstones
Scottish Book of the Year 2017 – comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second
stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing.
Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a
dead man tucked into his top pocket – the only clue to the truth . . .
An old soldier dies alone in his Edinburgh nursing home. No known
relatives, and no Will to enact. Just a pawn ticket found amongst his
belongings, and fifty thousand pounds in used notes sewn into the
lining of his burial suit . . .
Heir Hunter, Solomon Farthing – down on his luck, until, perhaps, now –
is tipped off on this unexplained fortune. Armed with only the
deceased’s name and the crumpled pawn ticket, he must find the dead
man’s closest living relative if he is to get a cut of this much-needed
cash.
But in trawling through the deceased’s family tree, Solomon uncovers a
mystery that goes back to 1918 and a group of eleven soldiers abandoned
in a farmhouse billet in France in the weeks leading up to the
armistice.
Set between contemporary Edinburgh and the final brutal days of the
First World War as the soldiers await their orders, The Inheritance of
Solomon Farthing shows us how the debts of the present can never be
settled unless those of the past have been paid first . . .
September 1810. Raids across the Straits of Messina to disrupt
preparations for the French invasion of the island have been
repulsed with heavy casualties. George Warne, a bright young
British officer, suspects treachery back in Messina, and is ordered
to investigate. Warne uncovers a shadowy underworld of spies,
traitors and informers where nothing is quite as it seems and where
danger lurks around every corner. If the long-threatened French
invasion erupts will Sicily's defenders be prepared?
Spring 1919: WWI is over and a fragile peace has descended over the
country. Now living in Cambridge with husband Edmond, Amy Derwent
is settling into her new life as wife and mother to little Beth.
But try as she might, the shadow of the Great War looms large,
particularly as the injuries Edmond sustained at Ypres still take
their toll on him today. Edmond's cousin, Vicky, has now grown into
a fine young woman, eager to do her bit and help her country.
Throwing off her privileged background to train as a nurse, she
spends her days tending to the many soldiers still suffering the
after-effects of their time on the battlefield. Meeting Maxim
Duclos, a young Frenchman who has arrived in Larchbury, fills her
heart with joy - but when it is discovered that Maxim may be hiding
the truth about his past, Vicky is faced with an impossible choice.
Follow her heart's desire and risk her family's disapproval or deny
herself the chance of love, but remain a dutiful daughter? The war
may be over, but Edmond, Amy and Vicky must all face a new battle,
finding their own peace in a country wounded by loss. An
unputdownable WWI family saga - fans of Rosie Goodwin, Katie Flynn
and Val Wood will love this sweeping, emotional read.
A renegade commander must take matters into his own hands in this
epic First World War thriller.Summer, 1917: Britain is losing the
war against the deadly German U-boats. After close fought action,
Commander David Cochrane Smith uncovers what he believes is a
deadly plot against Britain from a dying German sailor. Code-named
Swordbearer, it could turn the tide of the war in Germany's favour.
But, already under suspicion, his warnings fall on deaf ears. With
just one one ancient destroyer, a turtle-back 'thirty-knotter'
known as Bloody Mary, under his command and a hostile commanding
office, he must wage this battle on his own. Smith must solve the
riddle and stake his own life to save his country... This vivid and
high-octane thriller is perfect for fans of Douglas Reeman,
Alexander Kent and Patrick O'Brien. Praise for Alan Evans'Terrific
action at sea on land and in the air...breathless pace. Evans ranks
as a top adventure writer' Publishers Weekly
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