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1) Bomber
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'Bomber' follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of 24 hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, in the air and on the ground, in Britain and Germany.
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Ebury Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL WHO GIVE AID TO A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO HARBOUR A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO FEED A JEW. DEATH TO ALL WHO PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO A JEW. Reese Witherspooon's Bookclub YA. One knock at the door could be the death of them all? It is 1943, and sixteen-year-old Stefania Podg�rska has been working for the Diamant family in their grocery store in Przemsyl, Poland, for four years. She has even made a promise to one of their sons, Izio...
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Canelo Severn House
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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As the Second World War continues to bring heartache to those left behind, Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort. She is appalled by the plight of young women left pregnant and destitute following ill-fated love affairs with passing sailors or American GIs, and establishes a place of refuge for unmarried mothers. But Megan?s plan incurs her father?s intense disapproval and she finds herself cast out from the family and unprepared...
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Biggles' WW1 Adventures volume 4
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English
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Biggles turns double agent! Biggles is in London on leave from the Front when he is approached by a stranger who greets him as ?Captain Brunow?. Curious, Biggles plays along with the mistaken identity, and is quickly offered the chance to become a spy for the Germans! Reporting the encounter to Air Staff Intelligence, Biggles is encouraged to seize the opportunity and find out all he can about a German known only as El Shereef, operating somewhere...
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Canelo Severn House
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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Her destiny was certain but love had other plans? Lieutenant Kate Russell?s post-war life was all mapped out. According to her upper class parents? wishes, she planned to marry a man with a pedigree like her own. But fate had other ideas in the form of Robert Campbell, a mere staff driver. Kate is irresistibly drawn to him and they decide to wed. Her family, initially outraged by the proposal, agree to accept their marriage but only if Robert climbs...
7) Raven lord
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Last Viking volume 2
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Mercenary. Exile. Warlord.At the edge of the world, the clouds of war are gathering? 1034AD Cast out from the Kyivan Rus, Harald Sigurdsson?s quest for fame and fortune takes him to the far reaches of Europe; the lands of the Eastern Roman empire. The empire is dying the slow death of decay and corruption. In desperation to fend off a myriad of foes, the emperor turns to the legendary Varangian guard for salvation. These deadly warriors from the far...
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Biggles' WW1 Adventures volume 1
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Canelo Adventure
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A legend is born. Join Biggles as he takes to the skies for the first time over the trenches and battlefields of France in World War One. Flying in his trusty Sopwith Camel fighter with the men of 266 Squadron, Biggles duels German aces, leads daring raids on enemy aerodromes and helps British spies complete their missions in a series of classic adventures. We also meet key characters; Algernon ?Algy? Montgomery Lacey appears here for the first time,...
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The Asian Saga volume 1
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Shogun, the classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, is now available for the first time in serial format. Part Two contains the second half of the complete novel. After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen-Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between...
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Sun of Blood and Ruin volume 1
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HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Mexican history and Mesoamerican mythology meet in this thrilling historical fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, romance, and adventure. The empire of Moctezuma II has long fallen, a city raised on the bones of Tenochtitlan. None dare whisper the names of their gods- or speak of the magic that once graced the land, of the witches who hunted as jaguars, the warriors who soared as eagles. Until a new name emerges- a curse on the lips of the Spanish,...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe. Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of his beloved Barcelona and into exile. When opportunity to seek refuge arises, they board a ship chartered...
12) Sword of kings
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Uhtred of Bebbanburg is a man of his word. An oath bound him to King Alfred. An oath bound him to Aethelflaed. And now an oath will wrench him away from the ancestral home he fought so hard to regain. For Uhtred has sworn that on King Edward?s death, he will kill two men. And now Edward is dying. A violent attack drives Uhtred south with a small band of warriors, and headlong into the battle for kingship. Plunged into a world of shifting alliances...
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