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A swarm of enemy aircraft. A hopeless task. A brilliant commander.
Kubaiyah, a RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of her allies, things look bleak.
Only the eccentric and gifted flying officer, Anthony Boumphrey, can save them. Armed with forty planes, all of which are training machines and biplanes, Boumphrey leads...
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A desperate hunt for a man who could turn the tide of the Second World War.
As the Nazi hordes of Germany overrun France, devouring the free world with fascist fervour, the fate of the Allied resistance looks grim. But things might be about to change.
A young intelligence officer, James Woodyatt, is shipped across the Channel to find a First World War hero, an old man who may have been a spy... and who may be in possession of Nazi secrets that could...
23) The Interceptors
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The First World War is over. But Martin Falconer's story is only just beginning.
1919. Martin Falconer, a veteran airman while still in his teens and now adjusting to peacetime, is asked to go to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks. His answer? 'Try and stop me.'
The Great War had taken away much of Martin's idealism, shown him the gruesome realities of battle. But the Russia of 1919, a chaotic, desperate country, shows him another sort of conflict, a...
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In the skies over France, only the hawks survived. 1917. The average life-expectancy of an RAF pilot on the Western Front is three weeks. Inexperienced young men are hurled into vicious dogfights over the trenches, often without adequate training, and are slaughtered by the German aces.
Into this hell arrives Ira Penaluna, only nineteen years old and totally in love with aviation.
As those who have become his friends die one-by-one, Ira realises...
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One last mission, but this time it's personal...
In the Spring of 1920 the Mexican revolution was almost over. Just across the border in Texas was Martin Falconer, barely out of his teens yet already a veteran airman.
He had only just escaped from the Russian Civil War with his three friends, Slingsby, 'Puddy' Pudhovkin and 'Tommy' Tucker, and they were all looking forward to a little peace. Martin had cabled his girlfriend Charley, who was in Mexico...
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To swing the tide of the war, he must take to the air once again.
It was 1916. The First World War had still two years to run. Martin Falconer, at eighteen an experienced pilot with service in France to his credit, was kicking his heels in England, awaiting another posting to the Front.
Throughout the spring he watched the progress of the war, especially the war in the air, acknowledging to himself the German's superiority. Their machines were better,...
27) The Victors
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Martin Falconer had one big anxiety: would they let him fly again?
Grounded in England at the beginning of 1918, it was a struggle, for escaped prisoners of war weren't generally allowed to return to the front, but Martin pestered the authorities and, at last, found himself back in France.
But the character of the war was changing. Everyone had suddenly become efficiency-conscious, and the freedom of choice which he had valued so much in his life...
28) The Fledglings
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Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another.
It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Martin Falconer and his friend, Frank, were anxious to 'get into the scrap' as soon as possible, their youth blinding them to the real danger of it all.
Geoffrey, Martin's elder brother, knew that it wasn't a game. He had fought in the trenches, been wounded and had seen friends die.
For Geoffrey the R.F.C. offered an opportunity...
29) The Lion at Sea
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A young recruit; a legendary battle; a cataclysmic war; a baptism by fire... Confident and strong willed, Kelly Maguire knew from a young age that he could accomplish great things. A constant and abiding love of the ocean would prove to be the making of him.
When the call of war is heard in the early 1910s, Kelly knows that he must answer it. Enlisting in the Royal Navy, he hopes to win both the war and personal glory.
But from the barbarous battles...
30) Back to Battle
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The crescendo of war; a crushing blow; a path to redemption...
Peacetime political maneuverings are threatening Kelly Maguire's ambitions for captain's rank. But the outbreak of war, and the need for those who are willing to risk everything, changes all that.
As World War 2 explodes around him, and after a devastating loss in the Battle of Narvik, Maguire finds himself washed up at Dunkirk during the perilous evacuation of 1940; once more he must...
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A military hero? Or a traitor to his comrades and his country? A gripping thriller full of suspense and intrigue, from master author Max Hennessy.
When, in 1939, a letter cast doubts on the military reputation of a man likely to become Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force if war with Germany should be declared, he had no alternative but to bring the matter to court.
The case took the judge, the jury and a fascinated public back to...
32) Cotton's War
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One man stands in the way of an army. Storming their way through Europe, the Nazis forces have made their way east to the Mediterranean, and are almost sure to conquer Greece.
But they didn't bargain on coming up against Michael Anthony Cotton, a heroic marine who smuggles weapons and money to the Greek Resistance.
As the conflict reaches a fever pitch, Cotton must venture on one last lethal mission, involving guns and high-speed pursuits, if he is...
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A huge prize awaits them, but only if they can escape.
The Second Boer War is finally ending, and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat cools off.
While they wait for an opportunity to return to their stolen bounty, the entire might of the army gives chase, giving rise to a riotous set of events.
Based on a true story, John Harris' adventure...
34) Sunset at Sheba
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A brutal rebellion. Two clashing armies. A battle to decide their fate.
South Africa, 1914. Diehard Boer generals led a new rebellion against the British-friendly governments of both Jan Smuts and Louis Botha.
General Christiaan De Wet's attempt to join up with the Germans in South-West Africa failed, but the threat of the rebel forces was real to all of the men, who lived through it.
This is a story which began with fervent patriotism and ended...
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The gripping tale of one boy's journey into manhood... and towards war.
Jess Ferigo, a young man with few prospects other than growing old in the same town he has always known, dreams of a life at sea, much to the ire of his family.
Making the tough decision to leave his old life behind, he takes up a position in charge of poaching on a battered trawler, accompanied by Pat Fee and Old Boxer, a wreck of an educated man who redeems Jess.
As he leaves...
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