This is the book, which marked Frederick Forsyth’s transition from journalist to author. A record of one of the most brutal conflicts the Third World has ever suffered, it has become a classic of modern war reporting. But it is more than that: it voices one man’s outrage, not only at the extremes of human(…)
A mission ends in terror for agent Osbourne, as he floats in the sea off the coast of Brittany. A German warship hauls Osbourne to safety. The Allies are ready to play their dirtiest trick – a trained operative in a disguised E-boat with the name Lili Marlene emblazoned on its brow…
Brothers Max and Harry Kelso found themselves fighting on opposite sides in World War II – Max as one of the Luftwaffe’s most feared pilots, Harry as a Yankee ace in the RAF. They had been separated as boys, but neither could have predicted the circumstances under which they would next meet.
The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense — an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style. The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes(…)
From the bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed comes a heart-stopping, gripping tale set in the dark, violent storm of World War II. In 1943, a British intelligence operative, two American Rangers, an extraordinary woman, and an American Mafia overlord parachute into Nazi-occupied Sicily to convince the Sicilian Mafian king to back invading American(…)
The plan for the invasion of Hitler’s channel stronghold is the Allies’ greatest secret. So when Colonel Hugh Kelso is pulled from the sea off German-occupied Jersey a crisis erupts as he knows the exact details of the invasion. The Allies launch a mission – to rescue or silence the Colonel.
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he’d been told how David Dubin (as his father had Americanized the name that Stewart later reclaimed) had rescued Stewart’s mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father’s death, a packet of wartime letters to(…)
The sequel to “The Eagle has Landed”. By the end of 1943, all the evidence of the abortive German attempt to assassinate Winston Chuchill has been buried in a grave in Norfolk. But two of the most wanted ringleaders are still alive, and the Reichsfuhrer is demanding the eagle’s return.
It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: “Operation Eagle”, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler’s audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil in November 1943. But, despite spectacular secrecy, there was to be no surrender without a fight.
There is a strong rumour in the Lake District that, contrary to popular belief, Fletcher Christian was not murdered on Pitcairn Island in 1793. Instead, he secretly returned to his native Cumbria. But the desire to tell his story burned bright inside him. And who better to entrust it to than his old schoolmate, the(…)
When the Russians demand a blueprint of the latest NATO missile system, only one man is left alive who can deliver the goods. But there’s an old saying, first touch the devil and you can’t let go.