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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
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[2020]
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English
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They fought without glory - and without mercy. France, Winter 1944: The long-awaited liberation is at hand The bombing missions had gone well, and the crew of the Lancaster bomber had begun to relax. Then the Messerschmitt came out of the darkness, its guns blazing. Of the nine-man crew only Neville and Urqhart survive, parachuting into the heart of occupied France. Joining forces with the men of the French Resistance, they must enter a deadly game...
2) North Strike
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A searing tale of war and espionage from the edge of the world.
Magnusson had expected to go to war – though not as a spy, and certainly not in a windjammer. But it is 1939 and the Navy desperately needs information about German raiders and blockade runners operating in northern waters.
One of the key places to uncover that information is the port of Narvik in Norway – and the man to do it is Magnusson.
Soon he and the rest of the ship's crew...
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The crescendo of war; a crushing blow; a path to redemption...
Peacetime political maneuverings are threatening Kelly Maguire's ambitions for captain's rank. But the outbreak of war, and the need for those who are willing to risk everything, changes all that.
As World War 2 explodes around him, and after a devastating loss in the Battle of Narvik, Maguire finds himself washed up at Dunkirk during the perilous evacuation of 1940; once more he must...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"One last mission, a disastrous result, an impossible escape... Last in the RAF Trilogy, this story charts the final days of service of world-class British fighter pilot Dicken Quinney , in his most dangerous adventure yet. It is the summer of 1939, and the greatest war in history is on the horizon. Dicken is stationed in France when the fighting starts, but disaster strikes and his plane is shot out of the sky above enemy territory. Beset on all...
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A young recruit; a legendary battle; a cataclysmic war; a baptism by fire... Confident and strong willed, Kelly Maguire knew from a young age that he could accomplish great things. A constant and abiding love of the ocean would prove to be the making of him.
When the call of war is heard in the early 1910s, Kelly knows that he must answer it. Enlisting in the Royal Navy, he hopes to win both the war and personal glory.
But from the barbarous battles...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The classic war novel of espionage in the most extreme of situations. An essential flight from France crash lands in the North Sea, leaving the four remaining crew members of the RAF Hudson stranded on a dinghy. One man is critically injured, and another, a rocket expert, is carrying a briefcase stuffed with vital war secrets, that could prove devastating if allowed to fall into the wrong hands. As the days begin to stretch out, they can only pray...
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Fresh from his triumph in the Great War, Kelly Maguire returns to battle. Hero of Jutland in World War I, Kelly Maguire progresses rapidly through the ranks during the dangerous post-war years, despite the government's decision to cut down the Navy.
He eventually finds himself in Russia during the Civil War years, when the Navy manned armoured trains in order to rescue thousands of terrified White Army men, beset on all sides by disease and the rampaging...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The fate of a continent rests on one devastating battle... The Eighth Army, gathering its strength in the Nile delta, was preparing for a major assault against the combined forces of Rommel 's Afrika Korps. One of the places the Korps occupied was the little port of Qaba, two hundred miles to the west of Cairo. British Lieutenant-Colonel George Hockold saw great potential in Qaba, planning an offensive there to both distract the enemy and rob them...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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The first volume in an epic trilogy spanning four generations of a great soldiering family from the author of Blunted Lance and The Iron Stallions.
Colby Goff had been born to the cavalry-it was in his blood and in his bones. He would live, fight, love, and die as a soldier whose first allegiance was to his regiment.
He was eighteen the first time he faced death. That was in 1854-at Balaclava-at what would be called the Charge of the Light...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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One brave task force will take on an army.
It is the summer of 1940 — and Italian forces have entered British Somaliland. While this invasion is in progress, a small party of British soldiers is on its way to destroy a supply dump in the desert hills.
Strafed by Italian planes, the young lieutenant in command is killed — leaving behind four non-commissioned soldiers and the civilian driver. Cut off behind enemy lines — their radio dead, their...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"He must save the past, for the peoples' future... It is 1943, and Naples has been looted by the Allies and Axis powers alike, its priceless art treasures coveted by some of the most corrupt criminal minds in Europe. The country swarmed with bands of partisans, who included communists, genuine patriots, escaped POWs and ex-soldiers of the Italian army. Alongside them, but operating solely for gain, were gangs of bandits. Sergeant Tom Pugh was in Field...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"The final tale of a fighting family, in the greatest conflict of all time... In the 1920s, Josh Goff runs away from school and enlists under another name in the ranks of what to his family was always simply known as The Regiment. Soon enough, he finds himself on the front lines in the Second World War, from France to the Western Desert, from the D-Day beaches to Nazi Germany. The time of cavalrymen has long since passed, but Josh finds himself thinking...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Race for glory, race for your life... A huge cash prize awaits anyone who can make the perilous transatlantic flight between Paris and New York, as well as global notoriety. Though many have died attempting it, among those who are still ready to face the hazards of the long-distance flight is Ira Penaluna , a hard-bitten war veteran, along with his daughter and navigator, Alix. He discovers that the Courtney plane he is to fly requires drastic design...
14) Up For Grabs
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"A fighting team with a very special difference... In times gone by, the looting didn't start until the foe was vanquished! But in North Africa nobody bothered to hang around for the enemy to retreat. With half of Egypt waiting open-armed for anything going, people stole whatever wasn't screwed down -- and flogged it on the Cairo black market. The British... The Italians... and Rommel's Afrika Corps: they all used each other's captured weapons, stores,...
15) The Fledglings
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another.
It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Martin Falconer and his friend, Frank, were anxious to 'get into the scrap' as soon as possible, their youth blinding them to the real danger of it all.
Geoffrey, Martin's elder brother, knew that it wasn't a game. He had fought in the trenches, been wounded and had seen friends die.
For Geoffrey the R.F.C. offered an opportunity...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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To swing the tide of the war, he must take to the air once again.
It was 1916. The First World War had still two years to run. Martin Falconer, at eighteen an experienced pilot with service in France to his credit, was kicking his heels in England, awaiting another posting to the Front.
Throughout the spring he watched the progress of the war, especially the war in the air, acknowledging to himself the German's superiority. Their machines were better,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"A swarm of enemy aircraft. A hopeless task. A brilliant commander. Kubaiyah, an RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of her allies, things look bleak. Only the eccentric and gifted flying officer, Anthony Boumphrey , can save them. Armed with forty planes, all of which are training machines and biplanes, Boumphrey leads...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"One last mission, but this time it's personal... In the Spring of 1920 the Mexican revolution was almost over. Just across the border in Texas was Martin Falconer , barely out of his teens yet already a veteran airman. He had only just escaped from the Russian Civil War with his three friends, Slingsby , 'Puddy' Pudhovkin and 'Tommy' Tucker , and they were all looking forward to a little peace. Martin had cabled his girlfriend Charley , who was in...
19) The Mercenaries
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A new conflict looms, at the very edge of the world. For World War One flying ace Ira Penaluna , peace brings frustration and disillusionment. Desperate to continue flying, he accepts an offer to go to China as a commander of the ramshackle air-force of General Tsu , a local warlord. With him he takes a bizarre trio of misfits: Pat , the boozy, bragging Irishman, more interested in bar hopping than flying, Sammy , the mechanical genius, and Ellie...
20) Sunset at Sheba
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A brutal rebellion. Two clashing armies. A battle to decide their fate. South Africa, 1914. Diehard Boer generals led a new rebellion against the British-friendly governments of both Jan Smuts and Louis Botha. General Christiaan De Wet 's attempt to join up with the Germans in South-West Africa failed, but the threat of the rebel forces was real to all of the men who lived through it. This is a story which began with fervent patriotism and ended...
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