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Betrayal
Editors' choice
‘The repossession of Buenos Aires has been stained with such deliberate acts of treachery and perfidy as are not to…
Conquest
The Battle of Trafalgar has been won, but even before Nelson’s body has been interred, Captain Thomas Kydd finds himself…
In the King’s Name
In the King’s Name is the latest in a long naval series, set during the Napoleonic wars, ‘starring’ first Richard…
The Katyn Order
Poland’s dilemma has always been based on geography. Located between Germany and Russia, Poland and its people have time and…
Wings: A Novel of World War ll Flygirls
Sally Ketchum, a poor farmer’s daughter, has little opportunity until one day she falls in love with a pilot named…
The Tide of War
Sailors are a superstitious lot. Firm believers in an unlucky ship, the officers assigned to them face innumerable problems in…
The Time of Terror
This novel opens in 1793 with Nathaniel Peake, master and commander of the British brig sloop Nereus, patrolling the sea…
Invasion
Commander Thomas Kydd, RN, is determined to once again sally forth to protect England from the threat of Napoleonic France.…
The Fight for Rome
In 68 AD, the period known as the “Year of the Four Emperors,” Quintus Honorius Romanus, aka Taurus the gladiator,…
Tomorrow The World
I’d heard raves about John Biggins’s novels set in the last fifty years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Now I understand…
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