Author: Alexander Kent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780099560135
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: James Edmond Macdonnell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: Jan Kamienski
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770703624
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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For 16-year-old Jan Kamienski, life as he knows it ends when Germany invades Poland on September 1, 1939. After a great deal of hardship, he joins the Polish Resistance and eventually, in 1941, is sent to Dresden, Germany, to take up Underground activities there. Armed with false papers, he works at various jobs, maintains a clandestine stopover for Allied couriers, produces Polish-language news bulletins for Poles housed in forced-labour camps, and does everything he can within the heartland of the Third Reich to sabotage the Nazis’ war effort. Among Kamienksi’s many horrific experiences is his survival during the terrible firebombing of Dresden in February 1945. After the war, the author becomes a translator in East Germany for the Russian occupiers, studies at the art academy in Dresden, and eventually finds work as an artist. In 1948, after marrying a German woman, he escapes the Soviet zone, is brutally interrogated in a Polish

Author: Alexander Kent
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409062325
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Fans of Patrick O'Brian and C. S. Forester will love this engrossing and enthralling naval adventure from multi-million copy seller Alexander Kent. You'll be gripped from page one! 'One of our foremost writers of naval fiction' -- Sunday Times 'As a former naval officer, Alexander Kent knows what it is like to be at sea' -- The Times 'Impossible to put down!' -- ***** Reader review 'Plenty of action and intrigue to keep you wanting to read just one more chapter' -- ***** Reader review 'As ever, the author keeps you totally involved. A true page turner.' -- ***** Reader review 'A jolly good read and difficult to put down' -- ***** Reader review 'Outstanding' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************** 1794: as the year draws to a close Richard Bolitho, commanding the old Hyperion, leaves Plymouth to join a squadron blockading the rising power of Revolutionary France. After six months of repairs his ship is ready to fight again, but her company is mostly raw and untrained. Unfortunately, Bolitho finds himself under a commodore who is no match for the French admiral, Lequiller, whose powerful squadron uses guile and ruthless determination to elude him and vanish into the Atlantic. Hyperion gives chase, the desperate voyage taking them from the Bay of Biscay's squall to the heat of the Caribbean - and for each mile sailed and every battle fought, Bolitho finds himself being forced into the ever more demanding role of strategist and squadron commander. Is he up to the challenge? Bolitho's adventures continue in The Flag Captain.

Author: Bill Bragg
Publisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN: 9780843922042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: Marta Perry
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1426849184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Hometown Hero Returns by Colleen Montgomery (staff reporter) DraftU.S. Air Force captain Kenneth Vance is back in Colorado Springs onmedical leave, and currently working for his old friend QuinnMontgomery's vandalism-plagued construction company. Sources say bothfamilies are being targeted for their roles in taking down that SouthAmerican drug cartel a year ago. Ken has been seen around town withJulianna Red Feather, who has been busy training caninesearch-and-rescue teams. Each is at a turning point in their careers—and lives—and spending all this time together might lead to good news for theVance family for the first time in months!

Author: Esmond Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sam Genirberg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781611700763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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THIS REMARKABLE WORLD WAR II MEMOIR documents the true story of a Jewish youth from Ukraine who evades death during the Holocaust by joining a transport of non-Jews conscripted for compulsory labor in Germany. Incredibly, he lives in plain sight among his enemies for almost three years.

Author: Andrew Wood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Stanley Reginald Harry Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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