Pen: 3888 books
Fight for the Sea
Naval Adventures from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
This collection of popular naval stories covers the entire span of World War II, beginning when the British Royal Navy faced fascist forces on its own until the final Allied victory over the Japanese in 1945. Fight for the Sea offers a rich mixture of accounts about such large and well-known battles...
by Colin Roderick Fulton
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
Historical fact meets heart-stopping action in a World War II thriller full of “intrigue and fast paced action . . . sure to appeal to fans of wartime fiction” (Heritage and History).
In February 1945, the US Air Force launched the largest daytime bombing offensive against Berlin, dropping...
One-hour Wargames
Practical Tabletop Battles for those with Limited Time and Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
One of the biggest problems facing wargamers is finding the time to actually play. Most commercially available sets of rules require several hours to set up and play to a conclusion; some can easily swallow up a whole day or weekend. For many gamers this means that their lavishly prepared miniature...
by Kerry Greenwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
The redoubtable Phryne Fisher is holidaying at Cave House, a Gothic mansion in the heart of Australia's Victorian mountain country. But the peaceful surroundings mask danger. Her host is receiving death threats, lethal traps are set without explanation, and the parlour maid is found strangled to death....
British Nannies and the Great War
How Norland's Regiment of Nannies Coped with Conflict and Childcare in the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In 1912, Norland children’s nurse Kate Fox was travelling by train heading to the British military station at Nowshera on the Afghan border to care for the premature baby born to the base’s commanding officer. Two years later, Kate was escaping from Germany in the first days of the Great War,...
Spartacus
Talons of an Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
What if Spartacus survived the slave rebellion? An enthralling, action-packed alternate-history novel of ancient Rome.
What path might history have taken if Spartacus had made it through the slave rebellion in 73 BC alive? What might he have achieved—and what blows might he have rained upon...
Tumult & Tears
An Anthology of Women’s First World War Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
During the First World War and its immediate aftermath, hundreds of women wrote thousands of poems on multiple themes and for many different purposes. Women’s poetry was published, sold (sometimes to raise funds for charities as diverse as ‘Beef Tea for Troops’ or ‘The Blue Cross Fund for...
by Gerry van Tonder
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
When the world held its breath …
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944—long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe—with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines...
Brutus of Troy
And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A “fascinating [and] unique exploration” of the mythological founder of Britain, divine ancestor of King Arthur, and symbol of British identity (Your Family History).
Believed to be a great-great-great grandson of the Greek goddess Aphrodite, Brutus of Troy led a voyage from Greece to Britain....
Deal With The Dead
A John Deal Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Life looks good for John Deal. A new contract promises to put the family business in the black and restore its reputation, tarnished by suicide, the suicide of John's father. Getting out from under Barton Deal's shady past is tough. The new contract is linked to old ties -- like the multi-million dollar...
Famous
1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
'Famous' tells the Great War stories of twenty of Britain's most respected, best known and even notorious celebrities. They include politicians, actors, writers, an explorer, a sculptor and even a murderer. The generation that grew up in the late 19th Century enlisted enthusiastically in the defense...
by Curt Autry
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Nine surviving members of a U-boat crew captured during World War II gather in North Carolina for their 60th reunion, only to find themselves targets for a group kill. Meanwhile, after scouring hospital records to find her biological parents, a 36 year-old unwed mother from Oklahoma stumbles upon an...
by Pen Clements
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2013
Wynn is swept into an island world of crystal seas, deep jungle and strange inhabitants. But it's no island paradise. Paradise doesn't have poison masters called the Teeth and it doesn't have Sorrowmaker patrolling the reef.If Wynn wants to save her sister, she must find the Oceanheart....
by Wayne Simpson (pen name Wayne Richards)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
Timmy was a bright and imaginative ten-year old. His mind was like a sponge. Everything he read or heard was tucked away neatly in his sense of how it was. He loved to tell a story to anybody who would listen. For him the story was all in the telling. It did not seem to bother him that he did not...