Stephen Dando Collins: 26 books
Crack Hardy
From Gallipoli to Flanders to the Somme, The True Story of Three Australian Brothers at War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Dando-Collins adroitly interweaves a compelling family history with the broader canvas of the Anzacs. Crack Hardy is a fine and important book.
This is the true story of three Australian soldiers, the Searle brothers. One brother was killed at Gallipoli, another on the Western Front. One came...
Taking Hawaii
How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of rebel Honolulu businessmen—American,...
The Big Break
The Greatest American WWII POW Escape Story Never Told
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
The story opens in the stinking latrines of the Schubin camp as an American and a Canadian lead the digging of a tunnel which enabled a break involving 36 prisoners of war (POWs). The Germans then converted the camp to Oflag 64, to exclusively hold US Army officers, with more than 1500 Americans ultimately...
Legions of Rome
The definitive history of every Roman legion
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion and what it achieved as a fighting force. The author has spent the last thirty years collecting every scrap of available evidence from numerous...
Operation Chowhound
The Most Risky, Most Glorious US Bomber Mission of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The true story of a little-known, yet remarkable World War II operation, which had all the hallmarks of a suicide mission.
Beginning with a crazy plan hatched by a suspect prince, and an even crazier reliance on the word of the Nazis, Operation Chowhound was devised. Between May 1 and May 8,...
Nero's Killing Machine
The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put...
Caesar's Legion
The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2008
"A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar's tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada....
The Ides
Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius Caesar
The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar...
Cleopatra's Kidnappers
How Caesars Sixth Legion Gave Egypt to Rome and Rome to Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
A powerful tale of war, romance, and one of history's most desperate gambles
Julius Caesar was nothing if not bold. When, in the wake of his defeat of Pompey at Pharsalus his victorious legions refused to march another step under his command, he pursued his fleeing rival into Egypt with an...
by Stephen Dando-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Another extraordinary true Australian tale discovered by the bestselling author of Crack Hardy, Stephen Dando-Collins.
Mistaken identity haunted Joseph Windred. It saw him wrongly convicted on two continents and almost cost him his life. But every time fate knocked him down, Joe got up, and...
Mark Antony's Heroes
How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
This fourth book in Dando-Collins’s definitive history of Rome’s legions tells the story of Rome’s 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for their leader, Mark Antony, these common Roman soldiers, through their gallantry...
The Great Fire of Rome
The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
On the night of July 19, AD 64, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium, the Circus Maximus. For more than a week the fire spread, engulfing most of the city and nearly burning it to the ground. With its capital in ruins, Rome's powerful empire teetered on the edge of collapse as Nero...
Standing Bear Is a Person
The True Story of a Native American's Quest for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
In a federal courtroom in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1879, Standing Bear, clan chief of the small and peaceful Ponca tribe, was in court demanding the same basic right that white Americans enjoyed-the right to be recognized legally as a human being. The compelling, behind-the-scenes story of that landmark...
by Stephen Dando-Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Explosive detection dog Caesar is in Texas with his handler, Ben, to train the local police. When a bomb detonates nearby and Caesar sniffs out a second bomb at the scene, he attracts the wrong kind of attention.
Mexican crime lord Carlos Marron, known as the Green Parrot, decides that the...
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