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Based on their experiences during the First World War, the Reichswehr decided that the infantry support gun of the future should be an armored, motorized vehicle: the Sturmgeschütz III. The weapon was used in the 'fire brigade role' at hotspots along the Front, where it was much feared by enemy forces. This book tells the tale of Brigade 191, aka the 'Buffalo Brigade', who used the Sturmgeschütz III as they took part in Operation Barbarossa in the Ukraine, saw action during the fight for Greece and were deployed to the areas of heaviest fighting in the campaign against the Soviet Union.

A British soldier storming the Normandy D-Day beachhead, a man whose girlfriend had been deported to Auschwitz four years previously - "Whenever I see a German in SS black? I see a dead German in SS black." The #1 Amazon charts bestseller - The Long Road to Auschwitz explores the horrors of the Holocaust whilst looking to what would eventually end Nazi tyranny in Europe - the Allied soldiers landing on Normandy Beach. Pre-War Europe - May 1939. A couple meet and fall in love on a Parisian street. Max is a British Territorial soldier and Zia is a Jewish girl from the south of France. Zia's ...

At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over 100, but the police couldn’t touch him. Then undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. The Iceman chronicles Kuklinski’s grisly career and exposes his murderous double life.

An Auschwitz survivor is sentenced to a Siberian Gulag for crimes against the state after suffering abuse at the hands of a passing KGB unit. From the Arctic Circle, she writes of the injustices of fascism and the savage extremes of Stalinist socialism in a series of mysterious letters that surface in Cold War Berlin. An IRA assassin determines to rescue her no matter the cost to him or those around him. He enlists a sworn enemy, the British Army soldier recently captured by a Republican cell in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Despite the political divide that separates them, the two men find ...

The word 'Bellator' is Latin for 'Warrior' - apply SAS to this, and you have something far more lethal. Ever since 9/11, the world had been waiting for another attack on a similarly devastating scale. In these modern times of digital footprints, it is difficult to disappear - to fall off the grid entirely. Except, if one is immensely wealthy and is totally committed to a cause. In this case, a fugitive Jihadist who is about to run out of places to hide. The writing was on the wall for a former Saudi prince whose last throw of the dice would be an act of unprecedented terror in the very ...

Do unto others before they do it to you. Three disillusioned SAS Special Forces soldiers return to Britain in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf conflict to discover an increasingly corrupt judiciary. Smirking miscreants walk free whilst the innocent suffer. Aided by a Scotland Yard informant, the trio embark on a brutal, covert crusade to rid Britain of its nefarious untouchables. Drug dealers, paedophiles and various other lawbreakers are targeted as the morgues fill and the courts empty. Detective Inspector Jim Brannigan, a former military policeman, investigates, suspecting that the deaths ...

Is it ethical to fight terror with terror? The British government's crisis committee, known as Cobra, meet in emergency session after a jihadist terror cell strikes at the heart of the United Kingdom, causing massive loss of life. The Heathrow attack is soon followed by coordinated atrocities around the world creating an atmosphere of fear, unprecedented since 9/11. Cobra calls upon a unit of former Special Forces to track and eliminate the terrorists responsible as the country grinds to a halt. While the West uses all justifiable, and intolerable means, to prevent further atrocities, ...

This book goes over every situation that could occur while you and your bros hang out. As well as all the rules and punishments that govern them.

A rogue ISIS warlord kidnaps the aid-worker granddaughter of Zia Cooney, a woman who survived the hell of Auschwitz. Max Cooney, the father, has now witnessed personal tragedy spanning three generations and his thoughts turn to suicide. On the very day that he decides to give up on his tenacious pursuit of his daughter, who is being held somewhere in the Syrian desert, his doorbell rings. Yuri Sherman, a notorious arms dealer and a friend of Max Cooney, offers to find his daughter. Previous rescue attempts by Max had resulted in tragedy, in particular, the horrific cage burning of a group ...

This fictional account of the rise of a Hitler-like figure is something that might not be too far off the mark. Be careful what you wish for. There was a consensus of thought that after the catastrophic loss of life resulting from the depravity of the Nazi era that no such ideology could darken our world again. We were supposed to have learned a lesson from history but after witnessing the defragmentation of Yugoslavia and the subsequent Balkan wars and death camps, the lesson was all too soon forgotten. The only question was - where, when and how could it happen again? Not in Britain, surely?

Marcus Tychon Triarius is a Kentuckian, a Bluegrass Borderline. He admires President Lincoln but has enormous respect for Jefferson Davis. Marcus is a remarkable sharpshooter with a divided conscience and a cantankerous sibling forever talking of their valiant ancestors. Rebelling against his family, he dons the Union Blue but is blown off his feet at the Battle of Perryville on his first day at war. He sees his friend's heart beat its last beat and he runs; he runs straight into trouble. Discharged, he falls into a ruinous lifestyle and very soon becomes involved in a gunfight where three ...

As the Western World learns of the news that Mikhail Gorbachev has been arrested by hardline communists within the crumbling Soviet Union, the CIA send a black ops team to Rome to divert vital American SDI software from falling into the hardliner's possession who seek to use the stolen disc to legitimize their shocking coup d'état. Shortly after Marcus Tychon Triarius arrives in the Eternal City, a car bomb attempt is made on his life - but who knew of his covert movements? Has his illustrious bloodline been corrupted by someone dear to him or has the Central Intelligence Agency set him up...

The finality of abortion can threaten the human mind with devastating consequences. This fictitious work does not judge anyone. Every circumstance is unique to the parent, or parents. Holding on is the tale of a man haunted by a botched abortion he did little to prevent. As he walks an empty beach, he meets his future self, who has questions to ask of him?

The Roman legions quit Britannia in 410 AD with the Roman emperor Honorius advising them to "look to their own defenses." This was too good to be true for so many warring despots seeking kingships and plunder in a divided land. In the centuries that followed one such man was the Pendragon, an unmerciful tyrant whose cruelty stretched the most barbaric warrior's imagination. What this king, along with a few demonic, wannbe wizards, did not bank on was a man who thought - "I'll fight back, to the death, if need be." The courageous rebel had something special up his sleeve - his arrows never ...

A serial killer who can read the thoughts of victims and investigators. Detective Mickey Rourke is called to a late night homicide in Queens, New York. The scene resembles a slaughterhouse. The sole victim had been torn apart. A distraught elderly neighbour informs Rourke that the victim was a serial killer - the victim? She then asks the NYPD detective to look "behind the walls" of the apartment. What is found within, sickens a shocked and petrified populace. A serial killer had killed another serial killer leading to a week of carnage with only a female psychic to lead the embattled cop ...

We live in a stressful world, preoccupied with so many work, relationship and financial anxieties. We all need an outlet. This is a collection of clever quotes, final words and assorted sayings of some of the smartest people who have ever lived. It is a reference book to browse through when your spirits are low. Examples of what you will find inside - "Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself." Saint John Vianney. "The heart of the meek is the throne on which the Lord reposes." Saint John Climacus. "The nature of water is soft, and the nature of stone is hard; but...

"There were two gunmen!" + "The shots came from over there!" It takes more than a bullet to kill a President. Witnesses can play just as much a role as any Lee Harvey Oswald or John Wilkes Booth.

From benefits and the job queue to winning millions on the lottery! Happy? No. Anxious? Yes. Imprisoned? Yes. Chased by the Mob? Absolutely! Everything is not what it seems to be in this madcap story. Who would you trust with two million pounds? An anxious tale of a peculiar man who wins a fortune, receives a jail sentence, escapes and is then hunted by a variety of London's most notorious criminals. Peace of mind is a forgotten luxury when your life hangs in the balance. Is the money worth it? "A dark comedy of outrageous magnitude!" Ray Hoy of the Fiction Works "A crazy idea brought to ...

How can an overnight millionaire who is on the run from prison and the Mob threaten world peace? Meet Niles Mason. Hell on earth for a man who placed his fortune, his trust and his life in the hands of the wrong people. Worse follows when he meets the woman of his dreams who is the last person alive who he should befriend. She has ice in her veins and mental cruelty in mind. Trust nobody when it comes to money. * This second Ruthless book has been published in two parts - due to Audio and Paperback restrictions. 788 pages did not sit well with the software.

Niles Mason's troubles continue as his exact double conspires to embroil Russia and the US in a devastating war. As he attempts to avoid an untimely death, Mason meets some unlikely allies who believe in him, and his tale of a missing fortune. * The second Ruthless book has been published in two parts, this is part two of Ruthless, And Then Some Too. This is due to Audio and Paperback restrictions. 788 pages did not sit well with the software.