The Allied Navy and Airforce have failed to silence the German's big guns on the island of Navarone. A small team of saboteurs is sent for one last desperate effort.
War Stories
- Author:MACLEAN, AlistairSummary:
- Author:FORSYTH, FrederickSummary:
Major Martin, an SAS man, is sent into Kuwait to report on Iraqi strength and help the resistance. What he brings back delays the Allies invasion and he parachutes back into the Iraqi mountains on a dangerous mission : find and destroy...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
The story of a daring attempt to kidnap Winston Churchill from a Norfolk country house in 1943.
- Author:ALLBEURY, TedSummary:
When Germany surrenders in 1945, Erich Keller becomes a prisoner of war. He is recruited by British Intelligence for a line-crossing operation into the Soviet-occupied zone. Fifty years later, a young British officer is ordered to find...
- Author:Waller, JaeSummary:
A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller’s stunning debut fantasy
Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore — not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her...
- Author:FULLERTON, AlexanderSummary:
WWII adventure suspense tale set against the backdrop of Norway, April 1940.
- Author:CLANCY, TomSummary:
With the Chinese invasion of the oil-rich Spratly Islands, World War III begins, and Capt. Bart Mackey is dispatched with his nuclear submarine to protect a carrier group. Fifteen fact-based mission profiles present real to life...
- Author:ALEXANDER, KateSummary:
Stephanie, a Hollywood star, and Luke, a war correspondent, fall in love on their way to Europe during World War Two. Later Stephanie is drawn to a half German member of the group and Luke suspects treachery.
- Author:ANTHONY, EvelynSummary:
In occupied France, it's not always easy to tell the difference between collaboration and resistance. In an atmosphere of betrayal and brutality, the village of St Blaize is forced to cooperate with the troops but German scientists...
- Author:NICHOLSON, VirginiaSummary:
Vivid with historical detail, and heart-breakingly honest about a generation of women's real human fortitude.
- Author:SMITH, WilburSummary:
Sebastian becomes involved in ivory poaching and the events leading to the invasion, by the Germans, of East Africa, at the time of the second World War.
- Author:CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
It is 1811 and the intrepid Richard Sharpe and his riflemen find themselves in one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular War.
- Author:FOLLETT, JamesSummary:
It is 1945 and the end of war spells new problems for Otto Kruger and his fellow officers, now being held as 'special category' prisoners of war at Grizedale Hall in the Lake District. What the British have in store for them...
- Author:CLANCY, TomSummary:
If Russia lost her oil supplies would she be able to secure the Middle East? And how would this affect NATO? The author explores these possibilities in this suspenseful novel of international intrigue.
- Author:POPE, DudleySummary:
In this exciting adventure Capt. Ramage RN must rescue a mixed group of people being held hostage by Napoleon amongst whom he hopes to find his wife.
- Author:SHUTE, NevilSummary:
A love story of a bomber pilot and a WAAF officer at an RAF station in England during the second World War.
- Author:HARRIS, A.M.Summary:
This is a dramatic suspenseful and splendidly written story of Australians at war. The author tells the story of his early years on the Buronga Ridge near Mildura, of his army service with the occupation force in Japan and explores the...
- Author:SHUTE, NevilSummary:
The world has suffered a nuclear holocaust. This novel is chilling in its realism yet interwoven in the events of the day is a touching love story.
- Author:Hébert, Marie-FrancineSummary:
Comment fait-on quand la guerre entre dans la maison et que, sous les masques des soldats, on reconnaît un regard ? Qu'emporte-t-on lorsque l'on doit s'enfuir ? Laisse-t-on derrière soi le poisson à qui l'on a promis le plus bel univers...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
After an Allied General, with secret knowledge of the D-Day invasion plans, is captured and imprisoned by the Germans on the island of Jersey, a small group of commandos is sent to rescue, or silence, him...