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McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the German campaign against Scandinavia (The Observer).
Everard is returns in a new global conflict.
British Captain Nick Everard's destroyer is crippled by Nazi gunfire in the German invasion of Norway. Nothing seems able to stop the advance across Europe and the Royal Navy is in a tight situation.
Desperately attempting to repair his ship hidden...
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English
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From a British author known for “superb” action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the Battle of the Java Sea between Allied and Japanese navies (The Observer).
1942. As Japanese invasion fleets sweep across the Pacific, a handful of Allied ships prepare for a last-ditch battle at Surabaya in the Java Sea. Not only are the Allied forces doomed to defeat: any surviving ships will be trapped, since...
1942. As Japanese invasion fleets sweep across the Pacific, a handful of Allied ships prepare for a last-ditch battle at Surabaya in the Java Sea. Not only are the Allied forces doomed to defeat: any surviving ships will be trapped, since...
Author
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a navel thriller set during a WWII German aerial attack on British forces (The Observer).
Crete, May 1941. Against all odds, Commander Nick Everard and his son, Jack, must survive a relentless Luftwaffe assault.
The situation is dire for British forces in the Mediterranean. Their ships, with no air cover, have to run the gauntlet of 2,000 German bombers; and can only lick their...
Author
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Danger lurks beneath the Mediterranean waves…
Sub-lieutenant Paul Everard serves in the Mediterranean aboard the submarine Ultra, helping the Allies attack Axis supply ships in a life or death struggle beneath the waves.
But Paul has other worries: his father, Nick, is somewhere in the Far East, at risk from the rapidly advancing Japanese. His brother, Jack, has become embroiled in the murky world of clandestine operations, and been sent on...
Author
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The trap is laid. Now, Nick Everard must wait for the U-boats to arrive…
Autumn 1942: Sir Nicholas Everard, Captain of HMS Harbinger, has a convoy to escort: big and slow, with just one destroyer, two corvettes and a few trawlers to protect it. This will not be an easy mission.
Meanwhile, U-boat pack commander Max Looff can hardly believe his luck. His nerve is going and he knows it: but now he has a one-in-a-million chance to annihilate an entire...
8) Broken jewel
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
New York Times best-selling author David L. Robbins has entrenched himself as the master of the World War II novel. Telling the gripping story of the 1945 rescue of allied prisoners from the Los BaNos camp near Manila, Broken Jewel received tremendous critical acclaim, including starred reviews from Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews.
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"In 1932, the RMS Aquitania embodies all that is gracious and refined, in a world gripped by crisis and doubt. Returning home on the luxury liner after months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his companions dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet. The Church encounters less orthodox religion in the Aquitania's chandeliered ballroom, where men of God rub shoulders with mystics in dinner suits. The elegant atmosphere on board is charged...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Shortlisted for Best First Book for the Commonwealth Writers' Price for 2011 Meet Rowland Sinclair, gentleman and artist living in 1931 Sydney. Friend of the Left, son of the Right, he paints in a superbly tailored, three-piece suit and houses friends who include a poet, a painter, and a feminist sculptress whom he has painted nude and hung it in the drawing room. Is he perhaps in love with Edna? If so, she isn't having any. Sinclair's fortune and...
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English
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"When Rowland Sinclair, an artist with leftist friends and a free-wheeling lifestyle, is invited to take his yellow Mercedes onto the Maroubra Speedway, renamed the Killer Track for the lives it has claimed, he agrees without caution or reserve. But then people start to die... The body of a journalist covering the race is found in a House of Horrors. An English blueblood with Blackshirt affiliations is killed on the racetrack. And Rowland Sinclair...
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English
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"1930s Australia A disgraced Minister, an unidentified corpse, and an scorned ex-flame all bring their own special type of bedlam in this newest addition to this politically thrilling historical mystery series by Sulari Gentill. When Rowland Sinclair volunteers his services as a pilot to fly the renowned international peace advocate, Egon Kisch, between Fremantle and Melbourne, he is unaware of how dangerous the mission will be. Sinclair not only...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"Norman Lindsay is a complete and utter bastard!" With this curse heaped upon the renowned real-life Australian artist and cartoonist, Miles Off Course gets underway. It is early in 1933, and wealthy bohemian Rowland Sinclair and his companions, a poet, a painter, and a sculptress who also models nude, are ensconced in the superlative luxury of The Hydro Majestic-Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant, despite Australia's being roiled by the same...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The black sheep of a wealthy 1930s grazier dynasty, gentleman artist Rowland Sinclair often takes matters into his own hands. When the matter is murder, there are consequences. For nearly 14 years, Rowland has tried to forget, but now the past has returned. A newly-discovered gun casts light on a family secret long kept - a murder the Sinclairs would prefer stayed unsolved. As old wounds tear open, the dogged loyalty of Rowland's inappropriate companions...
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Publisher
Thompson Belle Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When the handsome Armand invites Mathilde Carré to become his second-in-command of Interallié, one of the founding circuits of the Resistance, she jumps at the chance. But as Armand falls for another woman, how far is Mathilde willing to go to exact her revenge? Living a life in shadows with a false identity, Odette Sansom experiences more freedom in Occupied France than she has ever known, and her circuit leader, Peter Churchill, is everything...
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English
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"Summer 1942. The world has been at war for three long and desperate years. In the remote English village of Little Buffenden, the Redfern family's house and farmland has been requisitioned by the War Office as a new airfield for the American Air Force. The village's Air Raid Warden, twentysomething Poppy Redfern, spends her nights patrolling the village and her days writing a novel of passion. It is a far cry from the experience of the other young...
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English
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"Poppy Redfern is back on the case when two female fighter pilots take a fatal dive in an all-new Woman of World War II Mystery by Tessa Arlen. It is the late autumn of 1942. Our indomitable heroine Poppy Redfern is thoroughly immersed in her new job as a scriptwriter at the London Crown Film Unit, which produces short films featuring British civilians who perform acts of valor and heroism in wartime. After weeks of typing copy and sharpening pencils,...
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Language
English
Description
"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Fuhrer. A country girl from rural Oregon-a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption-now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling...
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Series
Publisher
Thompson Belle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As the free world crumbles beneath Hitler?s jackboot, the French Resistance is depending on these women to change the course of history... When Francine Agazarian's husband Jack asks her to join him in becoming a spy with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), she reluctantly accepts. But Francine soon discovers that being an enemy agent in Occupied France is even more dangerous than she expected. Can she convince Jack to return with her to the...
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English
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Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos...
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