Written by a retired British soldier, Trouble at Zero Hour is a breathless and vivid story, dramatizing three of the key Allied operations that turned the tide of the Second World War.
'Wonderfully imaginative' Bernard Cornwell, author of The Last KingdomBritish Intelligence maverick James Keane goes undercover in Napoleon's Paris for his most daring espionage mission yet.
Original and bewitching rewrites of children's stories and fairytales set around World War Two, by the Women's Prize-shortlisted authorA cherub breaks all the rules when he spends one night with a girl on earth.
Double Trouble is the sensational, breathless sequel to Deep Trouble and tells the story of one of the most famous operations of the Second World War: 50,000 airborne troops, nine days of fierce fighting, one bridge too far.
Written by a retired British soldier, Deep Trouble is the first in a trilogy of novels telling the breathless, vivid story of one young recruit's experience of one of the greatest military invasions ever launched.
On 1 July 1916, after a five-day bombardment, 11 British and 5 French divisions launched their long-awaited 'Big Push' on German positions on high ground above the Rivers Ancre and Somme on the Western Front.
Every man who served in the Great War is now deceased, but they have left behind them an enormous collection of oral history, which captures the authentic voices of the front line soldiers.
Airplanes, adventures, life and death in the skies: The Sea Witch brings together three dramatic tales - from three periods of history - of men and women at war: The Sea Witch: A rookie WW2 seaplane pilot is thrown in at the deep end on a mission to locate a missing colleague during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
On the eve of the war in August 1914, Great Britain and Germany possessed the two greatest navies the world had ever seen: two fleets of dreadnoughts gigantic 'castles of steel' able to hurl massive shells at an enemy miles away were ready to test their terrible power against each other.
From colonial disputes, secret treaties with former foes, high-wire diplomacy, and tit-for-tat building of the terrifyingly powerful dreadnought battleships.
1914 dawned with Britain at peace, albeit troubled by faultlines within and threats without: Ireland trembled on the brink of civil war; suffragette agitation was assuming an ever more violent hue; and suspicions of Germany's ambitions bred a paranoia that was expressed in a rash of 'invasion scare' literature.
In a secluded headquarters on the other side of the globe, a terrorist mission is underway - a plan to set of an underwater explosion so great, with such a hellish force, that it could shift the very foundation of the earth's surface, causing untold calamity and world-wide disaster.
WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD YOUNG NOVELIST'S AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE, THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE AND NEW SOUTH WALES' PREMIER LITERARY AWARDS On the day that Obinna's village is savagely attacked by the rebel army and his father murdered, he witnesses violence beyond his imagination.
A heart-warming and passionate tale from the author of Tommy Glover's Sketch of HeavenAt the age of five I ran into a wood, and nearly two years later I walked out of it and into the nearest house.
Third and final instalment of this critically acclaimed young adult alternative historical series that began with Front Lines and Silver StarsIt's 1944, and it feels to everyone like the war will never end.
A classic novel about the Peninsular War from the celebrated author of the HORNBLOWER seriesAbandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun is an eighteen pounder bronze cannon, thirteen feet long, weighing three tons.
A stand-alone novel that inspired Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe seriesIt is 1810, and the last French invasion of Portugal has penned Wellington's army behind the river Tagus with their backs to the sea.
From the fight for survival against the ferocious Red Army and the icy, shell-ravaged wastes of the vicious Russian winter, to the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front, Sven Hassel's gripping novels are based on his own experiences in the German army.
'Fantastically tart and readable' Sarah Waters'An important 20th-century writer who paints a complex relationship between gender and power with wit and sensitivity' Lauren Elkin'These books are clearly among the very best fiction about the Second World War' The Sunday Times'One of the most gifted English writers of her generation' New York TimesAs Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt, the lives of the civilian population come under threat.
