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Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An action-packed and authentic First World War thriller. A young woman has vital information that could save millions of lives, and Charlie Holt is chosen to pilot a newly-built airship to evacuate her from France. In return for her intelligence he must guarantee the safety of her and her invalid mother. But retrieving two women from war-torn France is easier said than done. Holt sets out with the help of a marine and an air mechanic, but when all...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Royal Navy commander is plunged into the bloody chaos of the Russian Civil War on a risky quest to save two young nurses . . .
In 1919, Lieutenant Commander Bob Cowan is serving with the Royal Navy in the Black Sea-and as a fluent Russian speaker, he has been tasked to rescue two young British women caught up in the Russian Civil War, working as nurses with the White Army.
Then news of defeat at the Front reaches Cowan. But the importance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling historical adventure in the shadow of the Russian Revolution. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, Lieutenant Bob Cowan of the British Royal Navy must rescue a party of five women, including two of the Tsar's daughters. With the women holed up in a refuge a hundred miles up the Astrakhan river, this will be easier said than done. Astrakhan, where the Volga empties into the Caspian, was a Bolshevik stronghold, sizeable naval base...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A thrilling World War One adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. It is October 1918 and Germany is suing for peace. All U-boats have been ordered home from patrol. Among them is U81, commanded by Otto von Mettendorff : young, dynamic, and infatuated with a girl who works near Wilhelmshaven, the port U81 is now returning to. Unfortunately, U81 is holed by a destroyer on its way home. Meanwhile in London, Anne Laurie , a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The second in the gripping historical Andy Holt Naval Thrillers series. Summer 1940: Andy Holt is second mate on the SS Barranquilla , sailing from the Clyde to Cuba. Though the outward journey may be perilous, it's the homeward trip where the real danger lies: U-boats prefer their victims deep-laden and full of cargo. There have been heavy losses off Norway and Dunkirk -- the vital priority is for escorting destroyers to counter the invasion threat....
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping historical adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. It is the summer of 1904 and Tsar Nicholas II is sending his Baltic fleet -- a ragtag bunch of old crooks, untrained, potentially mutinous crews and hopelessly inefficient officers -- halfway around the world to reinforce his few remaining ships in the Far East. Here the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo has been scoring success after success against the Russians....
7) Submariner
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Another epic Second World War adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. As captain of the submarine Ursa , Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel 's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph makes Mike top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The first in the gripping historical Andy Holt Naval Thrillers series. Andy Holt is third mate on the cargo ship PollyAnna, carrying coal through Nazi-infested waters. Holt's vessel is bound for Montevideo, all the while wary of a particular German warship, the Graf Spee, which is picking off British vessels. But as the PollyAnna leaves Montevideo, the Graf Spee shows up in the same port holding British prisoners. It seems the crew of the PollyAnna...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The vivid retelling of one of the most famous battles in naval history. On the last day of August 1591, Sir Richard Grenville in his famous galleon, the Revenge, must fight alone for fifteen hours against a fleet of Spanish galleons, each three times her size. Grenville, cousin of Sir Walter Raleigh and lifelong rival of Sir Francis Drake, is a soldier, sailor, and above all, servant of the Queen. Can he seize the moment in a supreme gamble? He must...
10) The Gatecrashers
Author
Series
Nicholas Everard WWII saga volume 6
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary, breathless final volume in the Nicholas Everard Naval Thrillers. Six submarines are about to be towed underwater from Scotland to Norway. Their targets: the giant German warships Tirpitz , Scharnhorst and Lutzow. The odds seem stacked against the smaller craft. But if they can survive the nightmarish 2,000-mile tow, Commander Paul Everard will have a chance to gatecrash the fjords and cripple the ship Churchill calls 'the Beast'....
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What price for the treasures of the Aphrodite Cargo? Tom Clinker , a former wartime member of the Special Boat Squadron, is in intensive care after a savage beating. With the hospital being surveyed constantly, the watcher's interest is transferred to Mike Clinker - who from his dying father's ravings has picked up fragments of a story about a cargo of Nazi loot, lost off the Greek island of Aphos forty years previously. Knowledge of the Aphrodite...
12) Final Dive
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A priceless cargo at the bottom of the ocean tempts the brave, and the foolish... In the depths of the Atlantic lies a cargo containing both gold and atomic secrets, upon which a Ukrainian retrieval vessel has sinister designs. They are not the only crew with hope of reaching the stranded treasure, and the race to the bottom is one of unconscionable risk and reward. But in the thrill and adventure of the dive, will they forget that to reach the ocean...
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