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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction
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?
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Robert Cameron
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Two years after the Torness job Cam is sent on his next deadly
assignment. A rogue Iranian General has disappeared with an arsenal
of deadly chemical weapons and is threatening to unleash them on
his country's enemies. Joined by old friends and new, Cam must hunt
down and find this dangerous man before he holds to ransom the
counties of the Gulf of Oman and the surrounding states.
Meet Robert Cameron. 'Cam' trained as a covert military operator
for the British Army. A hardened ex-Special Forces veteran of
Sierra Leone and other major actions including UK counter-terrorism
operations. Now, with the military behind him, it seems Cam is
living a quiet life in the English Lake District but between
suffering flash-backs to his secret past that he would rather
forget, he is planning. But planning for what? He may no longer be
part of the covert world, but Cam still has his specialist skills
and training - he is also armed with an archive of undealt with
terrorist activists in the UK and their personal details and
whereabouts - He is ready to start his crusade. However, as he
discovers - a plan never survives first contact. Sterling is a real
page-turner of Cam's personal vendetta against terror and terrorist
recruitment - loosely based on real events, Sterling is a detailed
and fascinating insight into covert operations, and how the elite
forces train and work.
This short, diary-style novel, by a British army veteran chronicles
the difficulties faced by Tommy, a 23-year-old squaddie, as he
desperately tries to conquer post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- shell shock. His over-emotional responses to the stresses of
everyday life - post-office queues, a trip to Ikea, and his
relationship with his family and girlfriend - eventually lead to
alienation and suicidal urges. Told in the vernacular, with humour
and personal understanding, the story highlights the work of the
charity Combat Stress in rehabilitating returning troops. GBP1 from
the sale of every copy will be donated to the charity. Neil Blower
served for five years with the Royal Tank Regiment, taking part on
operations in Kosovo and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He is studying
for a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at the
University of Salford. This is his first novel.
Edge of Eternity is the epic, final novel in Ken Follett's captivating
and hugely ambitious Century trilogy. On its own or read in sequence
with Fall of Giants and Winter of the World, this is an irresistible
and spellbinding epic about the fight for personal freedom set during
the Cold War.
A Fight Against Injustice
1961, and in the United States George Jakes, a bright young lawyer in
the Kennedy administration and fierce supporter of the civil rights
movement, boards a Greyhound bus in Washington with Verena, an employee
of Martin Luther King whom he is in love with, to protest against
segregation.
A Rising Tide of Danger
In East Germany, teacher Rebecca Hoffmann finds her entire life has
been a lie as she is targeted by the secret police, even as her younger
brother, Walli, dreams of escape across the Berlin Wall to Britain. In
Russia, activist Tania Dvorkin narrowly evades capture for producing an
illegal news-sheet, her actions all the more perilous because her
brother, Dimka, is an emerging star of the Communist Party.
A Cold War That Could Eliminate the World Forever
In a sweeping tale that began in 1911, the descendants of five families
will now find their true destiny as they fight for their individual
freedom in a world facing the mightiest clash of superpowers it has
ever seen.
Throughout the 1940s, forgers helped thousands of children escape Nazi France. In this instant New York Times bestseller, Kristin Harmel reimagines their story...
Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Book Thief.
In 1942, Eva is forced to flee Paris after the arrest of her father, a Polish Jew. Finding refuge in a small mountain town, she begins forging identity documents for Jewish children escaping to neutral Switzerland. But erasing people comes with a price, and along with a mysterious, handsome forger named Rémy, Eva realises she must find a way to preserve the real names of the children who are too young to remember their own identities.
When Rémy disappears and the resistance cell they work for is betrayed, the records they keep in The Book of Lost Names become even more crucial to remembering the truth...
A present day discovery of the book leaves researchers fascinated by its origins and desperate to decipher its codes. Only Eva holds the answer but will she have the strength to face old memories and help reunite those lost during the war?
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Birthrights
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David Trotter; Contributions by Aaron Moschner
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Politica
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Yumna Kassab
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A captivating literary journey that delves into the intertwined lives
of a town, its people, and a region shaped by revolution and war.
The war broke out and she decided to call her dad.
Weeks and weeks they do not speak, and the weeks become months and then
they are so many years.
She imagines herself starting this story.
She imagines how she will tell this story later to someone else.
We hadn't spoken for years but then the war broke out...
As conflict plays out across an unnamed region, its inhabitants deal
with the fallout. Families are torn apart and brought together. A
divide grows between those on either side of the war, compromises are
struck as the toll of violence impacts near and far. We learn about
those who are left behind and those who choose to leave in a great
scattering. As the stories of those affected play out, they weave
together to show the whole of a society in the most extreme of
circumstances. Even after the last shot is fired, their world will
never recover.
From the acclaimed author of The House of Youssef, Australiana and The
Lovers comes a powerful new novel that asks again if it’s possible to
ever measure the personal cost of war.
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