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Lights of God (Hardcover): Murat Ukray Lights of God (Hardcover)
Murat Ukray
R1,064 Discovery Miles 10 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Deep Cover - Duty & Honor Book Three (Paperback): Social Market Foundation Deep Cover - Duty & Honor Book Three (Paperback)
Social Market Foundation
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The War Nurse - A Novel (Hardcover): Tracey Enerson Wood The War Nurse - A Novel (Hardcover)
Tracey Enerson Wood
R696 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R54 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Any readers who enjoyed the mix of romance, intrigue, and medical accuracy of Call the Midwife will love The War Nurse."-New York Journal of Books "[An] impeccably researched, well-drawn, based-on-a-true-story tale, written by a former RN...The War Nurse shines an important light on a woman whose story was, until now, lost to time."-Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names Based on a true story, The War Nurse is a sweeping historical novel by USA Today bestselling author Tracey Enerson Wood that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through WWI France. She asked dozens of young women to lay their lives on the line during the Great War. Can she protect them? Superintendent of Nurses Julia Stimson must recruit sixty-four nurses to relieve the battle-worn British, months before American troops are ready to be deployed. She knows that the young nurses serving near the front lines will face a challenging situation, but nothing could have prepared her for the chaos that awaits when they arrive at British Base Hospital 12 in Rouen, France. The primitive conditions, a convoluted, ineffective system, and horrific battle wounds are enough to discourage the most hardened nurses, and Julia can do nothing but lead by example-even as the military doctors undermine her authority and make her question her very place in the hospital tent. When trainloads of soldiers stricken by a mysterious respiratory illness arrive one after the other, overwhelming the hospital's limited resources, and threatening the health of her staff, Julia faces an unthinkable choice-to step outside the bounds of her profession and risk the career she has fought so hard for, or to watch the people she cares for most die in her arms. Fans of Martha Hall Kelly's Lost Roses and Marie Benedict's Lady Clementine will devour this mesmerizing celebration of some of the most overlooked heroes in history: the fierce, determined, and brave nurses who treated soldiers in World War I. Praise for The War Nurse: "Through careful research, this book shows the incredible bravery and compassion of women who find themselves in extraordinary situations." -Julia Kelly, international bestselling author of The Last Garden in England and The Light Over London "A rich, gripping history of one woman's lifelong battle against systemic prejudice." -Stewart O'Nan, award-winning author of The Good Wife "Once again, Tracey Enerson Wood, with her impeccable research and evocative prose, kept me glued to the page. Wood has a talent for bringing strong, yet lesser-known women from history, to life." -Linda Rosen, author of The Disharmony of Silence "A riveting and surprisingly timely story of courage, sacrifice, and friendship forged at the front lines." -Kelly Mustian, author of The Girls in the Stilt House "If you, like me, are a voyeur of historical drama that unfolds as if the kitchen window flew open and the characters were caught in action, then The War Nurse is for you." -Diane Dewey, author of Fixing the Fates "Fans of Patricia Harman will love Wood's treatment of medical expertise in a historical setting." -Booklist

Appointment With Venus (Hardcover, New edition): Jerrard Tickell Appointment With Venus (Hardcover, New edition)
Jerrard Tickell; Introduction by Rosa Rankin-Gee; Illustrated by Edward Bawden; Cover design or artwork by Edward Bawden
R577 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R61 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Solitary warrior (Paperback): Paul E. Mason Solitary warrior (Paperback)
Paul E. Mason
R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part IV - Kat Severn turned her back on her privileged and moneyed upbringing, instead pursuing a career in the Military of the early 22nd Century Federation of America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. She has been given her first independent command a " In the remote waters of the Southern Atlantic. For a Fleet Officer with a reputation for not following the rules, ita s a posting that rapidly becomes more of an exile than a stepping-stone towards her next promotion. But where Kat goes, trouble seems to follow a " and she isna t there long before discovering mercenaries are sabotaging the navigation beacons that mark the safe-transit-routes for shipping. Whilst establishing the extend of the damage she unintentionally finds a previously unknown, but Long-abandoned Chinese military base on a remote and desolate island. A base that contains devastating technology. Technology that Kat must ensure never falls into the wrong hands.

Children Of The Stars (Paperback, ITPE Edition): Mario Escobar Children Of The Stars (Paperback, ITPE Edition)
Mario Escobar
R149 R137 Discovery Miles 1 370 Save R12 (8%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the second World War.

August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys’ parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt’s care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d’Hiver—a massive, bleak structure in Paris where thousands of France’s Jews are being forcibly detained.

Jacob and Moses know they must flee in order to survive, but they only have a set of letters sent from the south of France to guide them to their parents. Danger lurks around every corner as the boys, with nothing but each other, trek across the occupied country. Along their remarkable journey, they meet strangers and brave souls who put themselves at risk to protect the children—some of whom pay the ultimate price for helping these young refugees of war.

This inspiring novel, now available for the first time in English, demonstrates the power of family and the endurance of the human spirit—even through the darkest moments of human history.

The Mitford Affair (Hardcover): Marie Benedict The Mitford Affair (Hardcover)
Marie Benedict
R738 R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Save R73 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Letters Across the Sea (Paperback, Export ed.): Genevieve Graham Letters Across the Sea (Paperback, Export ed.)
Genevieve Graham
R576 R531 Discovery Miles 5 310 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Book Thief (Paperback, 10th Anniversary Edition With New Chapter): Markus Zusak The Book Thief (Paperback, 10th Anniversary Edition With New Chapter)
Markus Zusak 2
R275 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R21 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Here is a small fact - you are going to die.

1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

The 10th-anniversary edition features pages of bonus content, including annotated manuscript pages, original sketches, and pages from the author's writing notebook.

All The Broken Places (Paperback): John Boyne All The Broken Places (Paperback)
John Boyne
R275 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R29 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, and The Heart's Invisible Furies.

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Germany over seventy years before. She doesn't talk about the post-war years in France with her mother. Most of all, she doesn't talk about her father, the commandant of one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.

Then, a young family moves into the apartment below her. In spite of herself, Gretel can't help but begin a friendship with the little boy, Henry, though his presence brings back memories she would rather forget. One night, she witnesses a violent argument between Henry's mother and his domineering father, one that threatens Gretel's hard-won, self-contained existence.

Gretel is faced with a chance to expiate her guilt, grief and remorse and act to save a young boy - for the second time in her life. But to do so, she will be forced to reveal her true identity to the world. Will she make a different choice this time, whatever the cost to herself?

December '41 - A World War II Thriller (Paperback): William Martin December '41 - A World War II Thriller (Paperback)
William Martin
R527 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fortress of Magi (Paperback): Mirah Bolender Fortress of Magi (Paperback)
Mirah Bolender
R459 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R26 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Winter Soldier (Paperback): Daniel Mason The Winter Soldier (Paperback)
Daniel Mason 1
R493 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R89 (18%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A sweeping, unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.

But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.

From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is a story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone.

The Sea Gate (Paperback, Export ed.): Jane Johnson The Sea Gate (Paperback, Export ed.)
Jane Johnson
R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Remembered Soldier (Hardcover): Anjet Daanje The Remembered Soldier (Hardcover)
Anjet Daanje; Translated by David McKay
R575 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R126 (22%) Pre-order

An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination.

Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women, responding to a newspaper ad, visit him there in the hope of finding their spouse who vanished in battle. One day a woman, Julienne, appears and recognises Noon as her husband, the photographer Amand Coppens, and takes him home against medical advice. But their miraculous reunion doesn’t turn out the way that Julienne wants her envious friends to believe. Only gradually do the two grow close, and Amand’s biography is pieced together on the basis of Julienne’s stories about him. But how can he be certain that she’s telling the truth?

In The Remembered Soldier, Anjet Daanje immerses us in the psyche of a war-traumatised man who has lost his identity. When Amand comes to doubt Julienne’s word, the reader is caught up in a riveting spiral of confusion that only the greatest works of literature can achieve.

Salvation Warrior (Paperback): Paul E. Mason Salvation Warrior (Paperback)
Paul E. Mason
R475 Discovery Miles 4 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Kat Severn left university she had a choice, but instead of following her father and brother into politics, she chose the other family tradition and joined the military. Only a few months into her first command appointment she is relieved from duty. Unwittingly she has become a pawn in a fast-evolving political game, with unknown adversaries seeking to undermine her father, the prime minister of the early 22nd century Federation of America, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Whilst waiting to be summoned for court martial, Kat's grandpa Jim gets her away from unwanted media attention by sending her on a diplomatic mission to New Zealand. With the principal warships of the Pacific Fleet despatched on a senseless propaganda tour by new political masters, the Federation cities of Nu Hawaii and San Angeles are suddenly highly vulnerable when a mystery fleet arrives demanding their immediate surrender. This time there is no choice for Kat. Assembling a flotilla of small ships and reservist personnel, she leads them in the most important mission of her career, and perhaps her last!

Alpha One Zero (Paperback): Peter J. Foot Alpha One Zero (Paperback)
Peter J. Foot
R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Alpha One Zero we follow the adventures of an MI6 field agent embedded with the fierce Kurdish fighters at first in northern Iraq and then in Syria. His task is to collect intelligence from all quarters and forward it to London via Baghdad. This often involves searching the bodies of dead Isis fighters whose bodies are wired up to improvised explosive devices. He is partnered in this mission by an agent from American SIS and later with a female agent from the CIA. Each day of this long drawn out mission is filled with danger some of it from unexpected sources. In war there is success and tragedy sadly as almost equal partners, read on.

Underdogs - Tooth and Nail (Paperback): Chris Bonnello Underdogs - Tooth and Nail (Paperback)
Chris Bonnello
R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Three weeks have passed since the events of Underdogs. The British population continues its imprisonment in Nicholas Grant's giant walled Citadels, under the watchful eye of innumerable cloned soldiers. The heroes of Oakenfold Special School remain their last chance of freedom. As a result of their last mission, Grant has been forced to speed up his plans for Great Britain and beyond. Ewan, Kate, McCormick and the rest of the Underdogs must face the horrors of his new research, knowing that it raises the stakes as high as they will go. Failing this battle will not merely result in losing soldiers and friends, but in losing the war entirely. According to the odds, the Underdogs are near-certain to fail. But they have spent their whole lives being underestimated and did not survive this long by respecting the odds.

Rogue (Paperback): Robert Cameron Rogue (Paperback)
Robert Cameron
R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There are people who don't exist, people who live outside the realms of normal society. They keep us safe. We should never hear about their activities. If we do, something has gone terribly wrong. The Assets are one such covert organisation, a highly trained counter terrorist unit. An international force, tasked with hunting down and exterminating the enemies of the free world. However, they are still only human. No man is exempt from the pressures of combat. Anyone can break. Anyone can go Rogue.Now they must hunt one of their own.

Summer of No Surrender (Paperback): Richard Townshend Bickers Summer of No Surrender (Paperback)
Richard Townshend Bickers
R461 Discovery Miles 4 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Action packed thriller for fans of Jack Higgins and Alistair MacLean.

The Passenger (Paperback): Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz The Passenger (Paperback)
Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; Translated by Philip Boehm; Introduction by Andre Aciman
R419 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Code of Conduct - A Thrillervolume 14 (Paperback): Brad Thor Code of Conduct - A Thrillervolume 14 (Paperback)
Brad Thor
R482 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bold, Brash and Brave (Paperback): Alan Tansley Bold, Brash and Brave (Paperback)
Alan Tansley
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Oosterbeek Affair (Paperback): Geof Willis The Oosterbeek Affair (Paperback)
Geof Willis
R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Daniel Godwin is determined to join the British Army to fight against the Nazi scourge. His impetuousness leads him to having a brief affair with the wife of a good friend and mentor who ran the local cadet force. She bears a child. Initially guilt ridden he marries her after hearing of his friend's death in northern France. Another child is born. Having served in Palestine, luckily surviving at Dunkerque and returning safely from North Africa he joins the 1st Airborne battalion whose mission was to take the bridge at Arnhem. Shortly before leaving England he receives a letter which shocks him to the core. He became adamant he would not return home and was taken prisoner in Oosterbeek. In the meantime, back in the city of Bath, Robbie Goode, along with some old acquaintances, unravels the mystery of a series of murders. Stella, Daniel Godwin's wife is implicated, but why?

Fall Of Giants - The Century Trilogy: Book 1 (Paperback): Ken Follett Fall Of Giants - The Century Trilogy: Book 1 (Paperback)
Ken Follett
R330 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The first in Ken Follett's breathtaking Century Trilogy, Fall of Giants is a captivating novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.

A World in Chaos
1911, a thirteen-year-old boy, Billy Williams, begins working down the mines as George V is crowned king. The escalating arms race between the empire nations will put not only the king but this young boy in grave danger.

A Terrible War
Billy’s family is inextricably linked with the Fitzherberts, the aristocratic owners of the coal mine where he works. And when Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German embassy in London, their destiny also becomes entangled with that of Gus Dewar, an ambitious young aide to Woodrow Wilson, and two orphaned Russian brothers whose plan to emigrate to America falls foul of conscription, revolution and imminent war.

A Revolution That Will Change Everything
When Russia convulses in bloody revolution and the Great War unfolds, the five families’ futures are entwined forever, love bringing them closer even as conflict takes them further apart. What seeds will be sown for further tragedy in the twentieth century and what role will each play in what is to come?

Continue the captivating Century Trilogy with Winter of the World and Edge of Eternity.

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