If you like historical novels this is the list for you!
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Shattered D
reams is the continuing saga of the Dockerty family. Based on a manuscript left by Vivienne’s mother when she died, the story tells of a young couple’s dreams for their future together, only to have them shattered because of the 30’s Depression and the Second World War. Most of the story is written from the experiences of an ordinary soldier in his endeavours to keep himself alive, whilst battles raged all around him and many of his comrades were killed.
Eddie was a stricken man who returned to Civvy Street to a land that was certainly not fit for heroes. The country still faced rationing, there was mass unemployment and a huge amount of money owed to the U.S.A and at the expense of the country’s younger generation, many hadn’t survived to make Britain great again.
WW2 Germany. The German war machine has invaded Poland and is advancing west toward France. In Berlin Kurt Muller, an Abwehr signalman, discovers a colleague lying dead at his radio receiver. The criminal police dismiss the death as suicide, but Kurt is not convinced. Kurt follows a trail of mysteries, witnessing several atrocities that expose the Nazi regime for what it truly is. When the trail leads him to the German resistance, he faces the most difficult choices of his life. He must choose between his duty and his conscience, between his country and his family, between love and death.
It is February of 1939. International tensions are at an all-time high, and there is little trust in Germany’s new leader as Ian Mackay, a decorated Royal Flying Corps ace of the Great War, settles atop the mountain of Ben Lomond to watch the sunrise. A short time later, Ian observes what he believes is an experimental German reconnaissance airplane spying on Scotland from above. But there are no other witnesses, and the rudimentary radar of the day is unreliable. Ian has seen his share of hardship and unfortunately knows all too well about the realities of war. Still, he is driven to report what he has seen to Scotland’s military intelligence officials; they are skeptical at first but eventually agree to send Ian on an intelligence mission to investigate the latest German reconnaissance aircraft.
Elsa Baum dreamed of moving away from Germany a country she had watched everyday being dragged deeper into war by Adolf Hitler. Everyone was under his spell, listening and believing in everything he told them. Elsa and her close friends were the exception, they despised the Nazi’s and were soon to learn the extent of their hatred towards others they considered a threat to their ideology of the perfect superior race. After a chance meeting with the daughter of a high ranking Nazi, feelings developed and she found herself a part of the minority the Nazis were trying to eradicate. “I don’t want my story to inspire people nor make them sad; I want it to educate them because hate, homophobia and racism still exist today, and although the chance of another event like the Holocaust is rare; the world will never be rid of the foundations that cause hatred among us.” — Elsa Baum
Falstaff the Incorrigible, a mercenary pilot and scoundrel with an evil temper. A series set to investigate and expose the true Horror of the Japanese occupation of China and their conduct during WW2. It is the eve of war in Europe, but Falstaff has unfinished business with a princess, the Japanese Army and loot still to find in the east. Falstaff Wild is down but not out. His eye for the ladies and the chance for a quick buck have got him trouble again.
This book is a spiritual journey set on the eve of WW2. With Japanese spies, beautiful women, assassins after him Falstaff Wild blazes across the skies of China to Bhutan, exploring Burma and Assam. Leaving dear old England Falstaff Wild becomes a rogue pilot trapped behind lines in Asia. Meaner than Bond, a rogue like Flashman. Its Biggles, – only with Balls! Falstaff Wild flies high, fly on his coat tails through China in this historic adventure!
From the moment Rhoda Middleton opens one of her husband’s letters and finds it is from another woman, she is convinced he is having an affair. But when Rhoda tracks her down, she discovers the mysterious woman is not his lover after all, but the wife of his best friend, Archie Foster. There is only one problem – Rhoda has never even heard of Archie Foster.
Devastated by this betrayal of trust, Rhoda tries to find out how and why her husband, Peter, has kept this friendship hidden for so long. Her search leads her back to 1945, but as she gradually uncovers Peter’s wartime secrets she must wrestle with painful memories of her own. For if they are ever to understand each other, Rhoda too must escape the ghosts of the past.
Waldek, the boy who defied the Nazis (La Búsqueda in Spanish) chronicles the dramatic and heroic story of Waldek Grodek, who experienced first-hand and at a very young age the German occupation of his native Poland.
Many decades later, while visiting the UN offices that granted compensation to the survivors of the Nazi concentration camps, Waldek reflects on the events that started when he was made prisoner and taken to Auschwitz and Mauthausen and, in the years following his liberation, subjected him to the whims of European and Latin American totalitarian regimes, international espionage and the Mossad. Waldek Grodek is a memorable character whose unique perspective and amazing life story deserves to be told.
