Dicken Quinney, a brilliant, heroic character, comes to life in this turbulent action novel. Quinney finds himself flying in the Baltic in a fight against the Bolsheviks. But tragedy mixes with adventure as Quinney loses his lover, Zoe. This is the second novel in the trilogy involving the air ac...
She was still a little dazed by what she’d done as Brosy’s Grace came to see her off. ‘You pregnant again?’ Grace asked, studying her expression. ‘No. Why?’ Grace laughed. ‘Always seems to occur at the first mention of goin’ overseas,’ she said. ‘I’...
Unimaginative politicians offered schemes which were worthless and, as far as the poor were concerned, entirely surgical, cold-blooded and inhuman, and still there remained the firm prophecy that the following year, despite everything that was tried, there would be a deficit of a hundred and seve...
As soon as the wires were ashore in the shadow of the Rock he stormed on to the quay to see the admiral and within twelve hours was heading for the destroyer, Norseman, which was due to move north to join the Grand Fleet. He seemed to have saved the situation entirely, but...
Taking a taxi to King’s Cross, the Field Marshal climbed into his compartment feeling as old as God. York station was full of soldiers and, having a long time to wait for the train to Braxby, he went into the station hotel, where he almost bumped into Hedley Ackroyd. ‘Bett...
The train was a vast amorphous mass of sleeping soldiers and civilians in and on a mixture of flat cars, box cars and old coaches. The carriages were stuffed with people propped on hard wooden benches and the roofs were black with more of them, bracing themselves against the vibration and the cur...
Red Nazi banners with their crooked crosses moved lazily in the warm breeze, there were brown-shirted men on every street corner and a distinct aggressive confidence in the air. Hitler had made it clear where Germany was heading and anyone who was likely to object was behind bars or had fled. &nb...
The Navy had not let the Army down, but the cost had been heavy. In addition to the losses off Greece, they had now lost the cruisers, Gloucester, Calcutta and Fiji, with Warspite, Formidable, Valiant, Barham, Orion, Ajax, Perth, Dido, Naiad, Coventry and Carlisle damaged. The destroyer losses ha...