Robert Hale imprint: 476 books

Island of Barbed Wire

The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man

by Connery Chappell
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017

At the start of the Second World War there were estimated to be 75,000 'enemy aliens' living in Britain, each a potential security risk. To screen these, Enemy Alien Tribunals were set up, with the first tribunal judging only 569 cases serious enough to warrant internment. The Isle of man was chosen...
by Harriet Cade
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

When fifteen-year-old Maybelle Cade and her family joined one of the last wagon trains heading West in 1875, their only aim was to establish a little homestead in Nebraska. They could not have known that they were heading into the middle of a vicious range war which would see them fighting against...
by Jack Sheriff
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Billy Sundown, a Cheyenne Indian, was determined to return the young English woman to her home, so he took her from the blood bath that was the battle of Washita. But Billy, white educated, albeit with an Indian's temperament, was up against more than a tough trek to North Texas.
by Harry Jay Thorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

Texas, 1878. Somewhere dark in the Texas Hill Country, lies a 50-year-old cache of gold and silver buried there by knife fighter Jim Bowie before he went to die at the Alamo. The hoard is protected by the spirits of the dead Comanche and a living Apache chief, Choya, who is riding north with a massed...
by Ben Ray
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018

Reuben and Grace Chisholm led a happy, almost idyllic life on a small homestead. Until one day that was to change their lives. While Reuben was in town collecting provisions, he had time for one beer. While in the saloon, he'd heard that their closest neighbours, the Carver family, had been murdered...
by Chris Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016

Old time lawman Charlie Crow finds peace and tranquility in Wyoming, but before he can settle down with the woman he loves, he must face a distant and dangerous past. The long forgotten trail leads back to the lawless Texas borderlands and a date with destiny. Old ghosts, graves and range wars; greed...
by Carl Walker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

"One of the things that has been missing during the debate over the NHS is something that speaks to the experiences of normal folk and reminds people just what an amazing thing a public national health service really is. Like so many British people, I have used the NHS for a number of reasons...
by Brad Fedden
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017

At the age of twenty-two Hal Chesterton's world is turned on its head. He could never have guessed a blocked watercourse heralded such a disastrous change to his life. His pa's lucky coin, a gold half eagle, responsible for a stroke of good luck, now bears a bitter fruit. For the first time, Hal has...
by Rob Hill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Credence, Texas, is a one-horse town. Dying on its feet since the closure of the Shawnee Trail, the place is divided by bitterness, resentment and feuds that have smouldered on for years. This is what Johnny Hartford finds when he returns home for his brother's wedding. Ten years before, he left the...
by Colin Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017

Will Comfort has a burning mission: to wreak vengeance on the man who had him incarcerated during the Civil War. The quest brings him to the river town of Cayuse Crossing where he soon runs foul of the ruthless rancher, Rank Wilder. Comfort is increasingly drawn into the conflict between Wilder and...
by George Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Released from Yuma Prison in the fall of 1878, after serving three years for bank robbery, Anson Hawkstone returns to the Apache village where he lived, determined to find Rachel, his former love, and give up the outlaw trail. However, things do not go as planned when he is forced to take part in...
by Harry Jay Thorn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017

As Wyoming Territory succumbed to the bleakness of a Western winter Wes Harper, ex-jailbird, disgraced deputy marshal and sometime presidential bodyguard rode into Blackwater Creek. Folks called him the Shadow Rider and he had returned home with a free pardon in his saddlebag, a silver Colt .45 on...
by Bill Sheehy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

A gang of vigilantes calling themselves The Vigilance Committee are preventing a part of the Indian Territory from becoming a State, and Buck Armstrong and his partner Louie Lewis are being paid to bring them in. The two former Texas Rangers have been hired by local businesses to stop the vigilantes....
by Jay West
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

Sharper Wade rides into Virginia City more by chance than intent. He's hear about the Cornstock Lode and the vast wealth in gold and silver that was being mined there, but Sharoer's needs are limited to having enough money to eat, feed his horse and buy ammunition. He is in town no more than an hour...
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