WW2
Little Gods
This is a story revolving around four people, Jean, Gloria, Jack and Denny. It begins in England just before WWII.…
The Chapel at the Edge of the World
In 1942, Italian prisoners of war were taken to the Orkneys and employed to build the defences around Scapa Flow…
Winter in June
Third in Haines’s Rosie Winter mystery series, this outing finds the World War II-era actress on a steamer to the…
Darkest Hour
Sergeant Jack Tanner hasn’t even been at Manston training camp for 24 hours before he realises something dodgy is going…
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles
When his village is evacuated by the Finnish army, Timo Vatanen, a village idiot who makes his living as a…
A Season of Leaves
The novel begins in 1992, in Cornwall, England, with an old lady, Rose Pepper, preparing for a trip to Prague.…
Hollywood Buzz
To begin with, Pucci Lewis is a WASP, Women’s Airforce Service Pilot, that is, the organization established during World War…
The Moon Looked Down
Sophie Heller and her family flee the Nazi regime in 1933, emigrating to the United States from Germany. The family…
The Dead of Winter
This is the final book in the murder mystery trilogy featuring Inspector Madden. In wartime London, a young Polish girl…
Evil for Evil
In this fourth installment of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries, the intrepid lieutenant from South Boston is sent…
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