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A Sparrow Falls

From the trenches of
France, General Sean
Courtney comes back to
fame, fortune and a seat
in government. Mark
Anders, the courageous
young South African whom
he has come to regard as
his own son, returns to
nothing, his grandfather
murdered, and his
property seized by an
unknown company. At the
bottom of the mystery is
Sean's son Dirk, the
jealous, violent and
power-crazed genius whose
all-consuming hatred can
only end in blood...

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Way To Valhalla

Violent abuse and poverty
in Southern Ireland - the
perfect ingredients
required to mould young
jimmy Curtis into the
only thing he was
destined to become: a
soldier. Haunted by his
brutal upbringing and
hardened by working-class
deprivation, he joins
the Paras and is exposed
to battle worldwide.

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Wild Justice

The hijacking of a jumbo
jet off the Seychelles
galvanises anti-terrorist
chief Peter Stride into
the action for which he
has spent a lifetime
training. But even in the
hail of bullets which
follows, he knows that
this is only the
beginning of a nightmare.
Stride is the one man who
might find the twisted
genius who holds the
world hostage - if only
his every move were not
anticipated by the
enemy...

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Flight Of Eagles

Born in the United States
but separated since they
were boys, twin brothers
Max and Harry Kelso found
themselves fighting on
opposite sides when the
Second World War broke
out, Max as one of the
Luftwaffe's most feared
pilots, Harry as a Yank
ace in the RAF!

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Burning Sky

1935: Cal Jardine is a
soldier of fortune.
Recruited by a secretive
British committee to
smuggle guns to
Abyssinia, a country
threatened by Italian
invasion, he must
contend with a slave
trader's route full of
danger. Trained for war,
can Jardine simply w

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Freedom's Flight

World War II was an event
that changed the
landscape of the world
and the heart of America.
As the war rages across
Europe and Africa, a
battle is also being
fought on American soil.
Eager to join the fight,
black soldiers are denied
the right to defend their
country. One man is
charged with a duty that
could change the course
of war in Africa.

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Winged Victory

There is no bitter snarl
nor self-pity in this
novel about the air war
of 1914-1918, based
largely on the author's
experiences. Combat,
loneliness, fatigue,
fear, comradeship,
women, excitement - all
are built into a vigorous
and authentic structure
by one of the pilots of
the then Royal Flying
Corps.

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Channel Of Invasion

British Intelligence has
cracked the Enigma Code
and Allied forces have
inflicted heavy losses on
the U-boat Wolf-packs
preying on shipping in
the English Channel -
until now. Richard
Tremayne the Flotilla
Commander of a
clandestine Special Force
Naval unit operating from
the rugged coastline of
the Scilly Isles is once
more in the thick of it.

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Forest Of Eagles

It is 1942, and senior
German officer, U-boat
ace Otto Kruger finds the
PoW officers under his
command are impatient
with his autocratic
regime, which forbids
escape unless it has been
properly planned. A
battle of wits between
Kruger and his captors fo

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The Infidel By Bob Shepherd

When Islamic militants
infiltrate a British
counter-narcotics
programme in Afghanistan,
disaster is averted
thanks to ex-SAS soldiers
John Patterson and Dusty
Miller. But when the
aftermath of the affair
threatens to topple the
West's fragile Alliance
with Afghanistan and
expose failings within
the UK's new
crime-fighting agency,
John and Dusty suddenly
find themselves on the
run. The key to clearing
their name lies in
Nuristan, a remote
Afghan province and
notorious terrorist
haven. But their journey
into freedom will sink
them deeper into the
Afghan conflict than they
ever imagined.

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Vintage Book Of War Stories

Faulks has collected the
best fiction about war in
the 20th century. This
anthology includes
stories by Erich Maria
Remarque, Pat Barker,
Isaac Babel, Ernest
Hemingway, Heinrich
Boll, Norman Mailer,
J.G. Ballard, Tim
O'Brien, Julian Barnes
and Louis de Bernieres.

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The Girl On The Beach

Julie Monday, abandoned
by her mother and raised
in a children's home,
enjoys a rare moment of
happiness when at the age
of eight she visits the
Essex seaside and meets
eleven-year-old Harry
Walker. They spend a
happy few hours together,
but at the end of the
afternoon, she must
return to the Foundling's
Hospital, and Harry goes
home to his family. Ten
years later, they meet
again. Fated to be
together, they marry
just before the outbreak
of the Second World War.
But it's now 1939, Harry
has enlisted in the Royal
Air Force, and Julie
must face the blitz in
wartime London alone with
their son. Travelling
back from work one day,
Julie is caught in the
chaos of a direct hit.
Rescued from the
destroyed air-raid
shelter, but injured and
with severe memory loss,
Julie is given a new
identity as Eve Seaton.
But it is not easy to
become a different
person; plagued with
disturbing flashes of
memory that she doesn't
understand, forgetting
her former life as Julie
Monday proves impossible.
She must make a decision:
should she make a new
life for herself as Eve,
or struggle to recover
the pieces of a shattered
identity? 19.4 x 12.8 x
2.6 cm, pages 351

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Bombers And Mash: The Domestic
Front 1939-45 By Raynes Minns,
War Fiction Book

'Women of Britain, your
country needs you!'
Bombers and Mash tells
the story of the Second
World War on the domestic
front. It takes us from
the kitchen to the
nursery showing how women
managed without almost
everything from potato
peelers, cosmetics and
prams to food, fuel,
transport - and men.
These women coped with
rationing, evacuation,
separation from families,
long hours of work in
factories, hospitals and
on the land. Through it
all they kept the nation
fed on ingeniously
nutritious and economical
meals - hundreds of the
best, and some of the
worst, are included
here. In print for over
thirty years, Bombers
and Mash is moving,
fascinating and full of
posters and images from
the Second World War. It
is both an illustrated
social history and a
cookery book offering a
remarkable picture of the
deprivation and drama of
the women's war. The size
of this book is 24.4cm in
height and 18.2cm wide
with 206 pages

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Black Hearts By Jim Frederick

Iraq's 'Triangle of
Death', 2005. A platoon
of young soldiers from a
U.S. Regiment known as
'the Black Heart Brigade'
is deployed to a lawless
and hyperviolent area
just south of Baghdad.
Almost immediately, the
attacks begin: every day
another roadside bomb,
another comrade blown to
pieces by insurgents. As
the daily violence chips
away, and chips away at
their sanity, the
thirty-five young men of
1st Platoon, Bravo
Company descend into a
tailspin of poor
discipline, substance
abuse, and brutality -
with tragic results.
Black Hearts is a
timeless true story of
how modern warfare can
make or break a man's
character. Told with
severe compassion,
balanced judgement and
the magnetic pace of a
thriller, it looks set
to become one of the
defining books about the
Iraq War.

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Chris Ryan Extreme: Hard
Target: Faster, Grittier,
Darker, Deadlier By Chris
Ryan, War Fiction Book

The first book in the
Chris Ryan Extreme
series. Former SAS
Warrant Officer Joe
Gardner has fought the
Regiment's deadliest
enemies, in some of the
most desolate places on
earth. And he's always
won. Now he's about to
face his toughest
challenge yet. After
losing his hand whilst on
a covert operation in
Afghanistan, Gardner is
forced to stand down from
active duty. Now he lives
off the grid. But trouble
finds him in the shape of
a phone call from an old
friend. Ex-Regiment
legend John Bald is
trapped in a
bullet-ridden favela in
Rio de Janeiro and a
violent gang is out to
kill him. Unless Gardner
helps, Bald is a dead
man. What begins as a
simple rescue mission
soon descends into a
desperate struggle for
survival as Gardner finds
himself caught up in a
conceit that stretches
from the slums of Brazil
to the frozen steppes of
Siberia. Stalked by
elusive MI6 agents and
ruthless ex-Blades,
Gardner must draw on all
his training and
instincts to hunt down
the hardest target of all
- before disaster
strikes... The Chris Ryan
Extreme books take you
even further into the
heart of the mission with
more extreme action,
more extreme language and
more extreme pace. Like
Call of Duty or Medal of
Honor, you'll feel part
of the team. The size of
this book is 24.7cm in
height and 16cm wide with
438 pages

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Green Zone: Imperial Life In
The Emerald City, By Rajiv
Chandrasekaran, Military
Fiction Book

From inside a surreal
bubble of pure Americana
known as the Green Zone,
the US-led Coalition
Provisional Authority
attempted to rule Iraq
following the fall of
Saddam Hussein's regime.
Drawing on interviews and
internal documents,
Rajiv Chandrasekaran
tells the memorable story
of this ill-prepared
attempt to build American
democracy in a war-torn
Middle Eastern country,
detailing not only the
risky disbanding of the
Iraqi army and the
ludicrous attempt to
train the new police
force, but absurdities
such as the aide who
based Baghdad's new
traffic laws on those of
the state of Maryland,
downloaded from the net,
and the
twenty-four-year-old who
had never worked in
finance put in charge of
revitalising Baghdad's
stock exchange. Imperial
Life in the Emerald City
is American reportage at
its best. The size of
this book is 19.4cm in
height and 12cm wide with
368 pages

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Annie Groves: My Sweet
Valentine, Can Their Love
Survive The Blitz? By Annie
Groves, War Fiction Book

London 1941 is a
dangerous place and not
for the tender-hearted.
Tilly is in love with
drew and really wants to
be his wife, but a
harbouring secret
threatens to overshadow
their love. Tilly's
mother is terrified her
young daughter will marry
to young and be left
broken hearted, as
valentine's day loom the
perils of the war
threaten all matters of
the heart, and life as a
woman in 1941 London will
never be the same again.
19.5cm x 12.8cm x 2.5cm,
pages 373

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Killing For The Company By
Chris Ryan, War Fiction Book

Former SAS legend Chris
Ryan brings you his
sixteenth novel and it is
full of all his trademark
action, thrills and
inside knowledge. 2003.
Invalided out of the SAS
Chet Freeman makes his
living in high-end
security, on a temporary
contract for an American
corporation called the
Grosvenor Group. He
catches a young woman, a
peace campaigner,
eavesdropping on a
meeting the Group is
holding with the British
Prime Minister. The
Group's interests include
arms manufacture, and
what Chet and the young
woman overhear seems to
imply that it is bribing
the Prime Minister to
take his country into an
illegal war. Could this
possibly be true?
Somebody believes that
this is a secret that
needs covering up,
because Chet and the girl
are attacked. Hunted
down, they go into
hiding, and a deadly
game of cat and mouse
begins. Nearly ten years
later tension is reaching
breaking point in
Jerusalem. The now
ex-Prime Minister is
working as a Middle East
peace envoy. As the city
descends into anarchy and
rival armies are poised
to turn it into a
battlefield, Chet's best
buddy, Luke, is part of
a team tasked by the
Regiment with extracting
the ex-Prime Minister. At
the height of the battle
Luke discovers a
conspiracy far more
devastating than any arms
deal. This book has 404
pages and is 17.4 x 11.4
x 1.6 cms

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Warlord By James Steel Book

An utterly gripping
thriller that sees former
cavalry Major turned
hardened mercenary Alex
Devereux plunged into
conflict in the dark
heart of Africa, as he
battles the dominant
militia in the Congo.
China intends to take
over the Kivu region in
The Democratic Republic
of Congo, a tribal
slaughterhouse of rival
militias who are
butchering the local
population and fighting
over mineral resources.
Alex

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Secret Channel

During the Second World
War a great secret was
kept from the Nation -
and the enemy.Unknown to
a war-torn Britain,
another war of intrigue,
covert operations,
spies,
intelligence-gathering
and daring was being
fought. This book offers
a fictional account of
one of Second World War's
best kept secrets.

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Drink With The Devil, By Jack
Higgins, War Fiction Book

In 1995 the new peace in
Northern Ireland could be
under threat, due to the
escape of a dangerous
Irish prisoner thought to
be en route to Ireland.
There is only one man
with the ruthlessness and
expertise to avert
disaster - the IRA
enforcer turned British
agent, Sean Dillon. 23.6
x 15.2 x 3 cm, pages 356

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Brothers In War (Retallick
Series) By E. V. Thompson, War
Fiction Book.

1915: Ben Retallick is
asked by a War Office
friend to provide two
traction engines for a
secret expedition
attempting to take two
gunboats overland from
Cape Town to Lake
Tanganyika - more than 3,
000 miles - to wrest
control of the lake from
the Germans. He sends
engines with young
Ruddlemoor as the driver,
who meets a Portuguese
East African nurse and
takes her side against a
group of white racist
south Africans. Meanwhile
Antonia St Anna is
influential in having Ben
released, when he is
arrested on
circumstantial evidence
provided by a business
rival and accused of
being pro-German. In
Brothers in War, E. V.
Thompson returns to his
acclaimed Retallick saga,
immersing the family in
the upheaval of the First
World War and, through
them, creating a
captivating tale of love
and war, loyalty and
betrayal, loss and
adventure that weaves its
way from Cornwall to the
uncharted territory of
the depths of Africa -
and an eventful
conclusion in Cornwall
once more. The size of
this book is 17.7cm in
height and 10.9cm wide
with 406 pages.

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The Stranger's Child By Alan
Hollinghurst, War Fiction Book

In the late summer of
1913 the aristocratic
young poet Cecil Valance
comes to stay at 'Two
Acres', the home of his
close Cambridge friend
George Sawle. The weekend
will be one of
excitements and
confusions for all the
Sawles, but it is on
George's sixteen-year-old
sister Daphne that it
will have the most
lasting impact, when
Cecil writes her a poem
which will become a
touchstone for a
generation, an evocation
of an England about to
change for ever. Linking
the Sawle and Valance
families irrevocably,
the shared intimacies of
this weekend become
legendary events in a
larger story, told and
interpreted in different
ways over the coming
century, and subjected
to the scrutiny of
critics and biographers
with their own agendas
and anxieties. In a
sequence of widely
separated episodes we
follow the two families
through startling changes
in fortune and
circumstance. At the
centre of this often
richly comic history of
sexual mores and literary
reputation runs the story
of Daphne, from innocent
girlhood to wary old age.
Around her Hollinghurst
draws an absorbing
picture of an England
constantly in flux.

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The Russian Battlefield 3 By
Andy McNab

Spetnaz has been a name
to strike fear into the
hearts of Mother Russia's
enemies. But what was
there left to fight for
now the country had gone
to the dogs? Dima
Mayakovsky - once a
revered figure inside the
elite Special Forces unit
-wanted no part of it
anymore. But when a
dangerous fugitive
surfaces in Tehran, Dima
is the man the Kremlin
wants to bring it in. The
target has something
Dima's political masters
want back. And they have
made sure that they do no
have to take no for an
answer.

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Fever Crumb, By Philip Reeve,
War Fiction

The author of the
best-selling and
critically beloved Mortal
Engines quartet has
written a stunning,
stand-alone prequel.
FEVER CRUMB is set many
generations before the
events of Mortal Engines,
in whose
brilliantly-imagined
world massive, predatory
Traction Cities chase and
devour each other. Now
London is a static,
overcrowded, riot-torn
powerhouse that hides an
explosive secret. Is
Fever, adopted daughter
of Dr Crumb, the strange
key that will unlock its
dangerous mysteries? The
size of this book is
20.2cm in height and 16cm
wide with 321 pages.

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Unbroken By Laura Hillenbrand,
War Fiction Book

The new book from the
author of the bestselling
and much-loved
Seabiscuit. On a May
afternoon in 1943, a
bomber crashed into the
Pacific Ocean and
disappeared, leaving
only a spray of debris
and a slick of oil,
gasoline and blood. Then,
on the ocean surface, a
face appeared. It was
that of a young
lieutenant, who
struggled to a life raft
and pulled himself
aboard. So began one of
the most extraordinary
odysseys of the Second
World War. The lieutenant

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