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Lance Corporal Neville 'Timber' Wood was among the last British soldiers to be evacuated from Dunkirk, he served in North Africa and Sicily, took part in the D-Day landings and witnessed the horror of Bergen-Belsen. This is his extraordinary story.

Tupac Shakur had THREE "Number One" albums come out after his death. John Kennedy Toole won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for a book published eleven YEARS after he died. And Vincent Van Gogh didn't live to see a single cent of the MILLIONS his art eventually commanded (but at least he never had to hear that horrible song Don Mclean sang about him ) Granted, even dead, all of the above still have more talent than Mike Wood, but that's not stopping him from publishing his posthumous stuff now, while he's still alive to reap the rewards. Inside you will find short stories ranging from...

Growing up in a small town in Virginia named Harper's Ferry, life was pretty boring, Until John Brown came, then the Civil War came to the city. The town would never be the same. This is a story of a young man growing up there, falling in love. Then to have their world turned upside down. Then it was time for the state to call up volunteers, everybody rushed to save their country. This young man enlisted into the 1st Virginia cavalry. He fought at the first battle at Manassas, alongside General Jeb Stuart through the battles they fought, with each other, or the on the battlefield against the...

Book 3 of Mike Lunnon-Wood's BRITISH MILITARY QUARTET

'IF TOM CLANCY HAD BEEN BRITISH HE'D HAVE WRITTEN THRILLERS LIKE THIS' - Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607

When Belize is invaded by a powerful neighbour it's Britain that must spring to the defence of this old outpost of empire. But intervening in distant Central America will test the limits of the former colonial power. And in the end the outcome will turn on the skill, boldness and heart-bursting bravery of handful of British forces already in country...

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Max Seager was the best there was. His skills sharpened in the midst of a brutal African civil war, he was at once a policeman, soldier and detective – a tracker of men. Max thought he’d left that life behind him, but then he learns that his particular expertise is required again. Two teenage girls have been abducted and are being held to ransom, hidden deep within the Zimbabwean bush that was once his hunting ground. The mother of one of the girls begs him to help and, unable to walk away, Max returns to Africa with a handpicked team of former comrades-in-arms. But it soon becomes clear...

Book 2 of Mike Lunnon-Wood's BRITISH MILITARY QUARTET

'ONE THE BEST MILITARY ADVENTURE STORIES I'VE EVER READ' - Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607

As a powerful insurgent army closes on Liberia's capital, London is forced to act, and HMS Beaufort is despatched to West Africa to pull British nationals from the teeth of encroaching danger. But when the volatile situation ashore unravels, the frigate's crew must draw deep on reserves of skill, ingenuity and sheer bloody mindedness to save it. And with time...

Book 4 of Mike Lunnon-Wood's BRITISH MILITARY QUARTET

'SNIPER ONE MEETS HEART OF DARKNESS' - Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607

When a group of missionaries get caught up in bloody African civil war London is forced to act. For the men of 40 Commando, Royal Marines, it should be a quick in and out. A nice clean operation. But what awaits them will test them like never before. And, facing overwhelming odds, this time the skill and raw courage of...

Book 1 of Mike Lunnon-Wood's BRITISH MILITARY QUARTET

'Thrilling, authentic and powerful...reads like a British Perfect Storm' - Rowland White, author of Vulcan 607

A crippled cargo ship drifts helplessly in the face of an oncoming hurricane-force storm. On board, a passenger whose presence means the world is watching. Only the skill, determination and raw courage of a lifeboat crew and the British military forces despatched to save them offer any hope of survival. But set against the...

Von 1 bis 100: Der große Wimmel-Zählspaß mit vielen Rätselfragen

Willkommen in der bunten Welt der Zahlen. Großformatige Wimmelbilder laden Kinder zum Suchen und Entdecken ein. Dabei ist jede Doppelseite einer Zahl gewidmet. Und während auf der ersten Seite jedes Tier und jede Sache nur einmal zu zählen ist, so sind auf der Ritterburg schon sechs Schatztruhen und Ritter zu finden. Acht Seepferdchen verstecken sich in der Unterwasserwelt und auf dem Jahrmarkt sind sechzehn rote Luftballons zu entdecken. Aber wer schafft es, fünfzig verlorene Goldmünzen auf der...

The summer of 1984 was a golden time in America. From California, where gymnast Mary Lou Retton was winning Olympic gold, to Cape Cod, where explorer Barry Clifford was discovering pirate gold, the nation seemed obsessed with the precious metal. But for 15-year old Al, that obsession hits a little too close to home when he finds a code-filled notebook belonging to his missing father that may contain the ancient formula for turning lead to gold. Convinced that his father's sudden disappearance is connected to his secret experiments in alchemy, Al sets out to find the truth. He enlists the help...