NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this remarkable debut novel reveals the power of unsung women to change history in their quest for love, freedom, and second chances.

“Extremely moving and memorable . . . This impressive debut should appeal strongly to historical fiction readers and to book clubs that adored Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See.”—Library Journal (starred review)

New York socialite Caroline Ferriday has her hands full with her post at the French consulate and a new love on the horizon. But Caroline’s world is forever changed when Hitler’s army invades Poland in September 1939—and then sets its sights on France.

An ocean away from Caroline, Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager, senses her carefree youth disappearing as she is drawn deeper into her role as courier for the underground resistance movement. In a tense atmosphere of watchful eyes and suspecting neighbors, one false move can have dire consequences.

For the ambitious young German doctor, Herta Oberheuser, an ad for a government medical position seems her ticket out of a desolate life. Once hired, though, she finds herself trapped in a male-dominated realm of Nazi secrets and power.

The lives of these three women are set on a collision course when the unthinkable happens and Kasia is sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious Nazi concentration camp for women. Their stories cross continents—from New York to Paris, Germany, and Poland—as Caroline and Kasia strive to bring justice to those whom history has forgotten.

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“The deck lurched beneath him, the ship rolling hard to starboard. Steam screamed from the torn plating as men shouted, scrambled, and slid across the tilting deck. Hedley Bellman gripped the hatch coaming — their ship was dying beneath his feet.”

‘A brilliant book . . . gripping and authentic.’ Daily Telegraph
‘Brings the tragic fate of HMS Invincible alive with dreadful vividness and authenticity.’ The Irish Times
‘Superb . . . this is the authentic Navy.’ Manchester Evening News

1914. The battlecruiser Invincible sails into the Great War with a thousand men aboard — and four whose lives will be changed forever.

George Pope, an ambitious Australian who has risen to gunnery lieutenant, hides a shameful illness and a dangerous weakness for another man’s wife.
Hedley Bellman, a young English sub-lieutenant from a respectable family, is in love with Pope’s wife — a secret that could ruin them both.
Steve Bundy, a professional boxer from London’s slums, chose the Royal Marines rather than throw a rigged fight — and now must battle for his life on deck and ashore.
Albert Seeley, a child of the Glasgow slums, is forced to enlist under threat of prison, discovering unexpected courage deep in the smoke-filled magazines below decks.

From the slum streets of Leith and the prize rings of the East End, through the training ground of the Worcester and the killing ground of Gallipoli, follow these four men to their inevitable fate on the Invincible as the battleship fires its last great guns of the evening to the west of Jutland Bank

This gripping WW1 historical naval thriller, written by a retired naval officer, is perfect for fans of Douglas Reeman, Alexander Fullerton and Patrick O’Brian.

READERS LOVE THE GUNS OF EVENING
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?????????? ‘Excellent account of Scapa and hope to read more of Bassett.’ Bill C.
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A missing father...
A splintered family...
Will the son escape those who destroyed his life?

Can Richard navigate his way through a medieval world full of knights, battles, blood and iron?

Book One in The Legend of Richard Keynes series follows Richard's varied trials as he battles through a period of history famed for its violence and uncertainty. Mounted on his faithful warhorse, Richard must learn how to fight his enemies with his lance as well as his wits, and sometimes with the help of his friends.

The story follows Richard in his very medieval quest to win the symbol of knighthood, his golden spurs.

Featuring characters and a story set within real historical events, Golden Spurs is a small window into the middle ages, a time when men had to stand up and fight for what they believed in.

Begin your journey through this rich and captivating world to discover Richard's fate.

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The year is 1215 in medieval Europe. Pope Innocent III is waging two Crusades simultaneously. The smaller Albigensian Crusade is a vicious war on the Cathars, an extremist sect of separatists in Southern France. The Fifth Crusade is also raging, emptying Europe's fighting men into the Middle East and Northern Africa and slaughtering thousands. The peoples of Europe are exhausted and skeptical of the Church, which has thrust civilization back into madness.

Out of the North, a warrior emerges. He is Amir Stonefist, a master blacksmith and descendant of Vikings. Word of the Crusades has reached his homeland and he sets out into Europe with a wanderer's heart. He wants only to avoid the wars of foreign religions, but he is tempted by the fire of combat and riches of warfare at every turn.

What follows is the fascinating tale of the Fifth Crusade, a long-forgotten war brought to life through the authorship of Mark Butler.