Two missions are afoot. The Asturian, Sergeant Massu must seek out a princess in hiding who may hold the key to bringing down the Italian Fascists while Sergeant Dodd and Georgiou are determined to kill the German General Bräuer. On the grander stage the way must be cleared for an allied invasion of Greece, the enemy must at all costs believe that the target is really Sicily and the master of deception remains Commandante O'Neill. Meanwhile a refitted...

Election night in a united European Union, live from the European Broadcasting Corporation.

"The first question that comes when writing a history of fascism is often simply where to begin?” The totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, fascism and communism, went to war in 1941. The victory of communism was not permanent, but the defeat of fascism was. In this thoughtful work, Pablo Portillo imagines a 20th century in which fascism, never quite destroyed by the catastrophes of its own making in the mid-20th century, lasts longer and...

Adolf Hitler is regarded as history's most notorious villain for good reason. As an individual filled with hate, he was a natural convert to the extremist movements spreading around Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century and his warped ability to harness the desperation of millions of dispossessed Germans enabled his regime to slaughter countless victims. The Nazi movement that he founded was, and is, universally regarded as a dark reflection...

Today, the Pacific islands reflect the best and worst in western society. On the one hand are the bravery and persistence of early European navigators, missionaries, and government officers; the early, well-meaning efforts by many westerners to help the islanders become 'civilized'; the assistance readily given in times of natural disasters; and the grants and concessional loans to help Pacific countries develop into independent economic entities,...

George III is actually sane? The American Revolution quashed? Nelson survives Trafalgar? Napoleon is defeated by... Who??? Read these gripping situations from the 18th century in The Elder Rose, the new book in the Knight and Daye series! Within these tales of alternative history, the stories of the Woodes-Hastings dynasty are, told by an 18th-century British soldier, Colonel William Alexander Woodes-Hastings and his daughter, Cynthia Rose. Aside...

Brandenburgers is a historical fantasy set during Operation Barbarrossa, the German invasion of Russia in June of 1941. It is a fast-paced tale about a squad of soldiers racing across the Baltic States toward Leningrad. The squad is held together by the main character, Sergeant Wolfgang Steiner, and Corporal Fritz Schumann. These two drive their companions forward through one difficulty after another. These Special Forces are wrapped up in the epic...

Meet Maxim Arturovitch Pyatnitski, also known as Pyat. Tsarist rebel, Nazi thug, continental conman, and reactionary counterspy: the dark and dangerous anti-hero of Michael Moorcock's most controversial work Published in 1981 to great critical acclaim-then condemned to the shadows and unavailable in the U.S. for thirty years-Byzantium Endures, the first of the Pyat Quartet, is not a book for the faint-hearted. It's the story of a cocaine addict,...

The Alternative History Trilogy opened with A Southern Yarn in which R. W. Richards forged new ground in the field of historical fiction. Using a little known trap set by Lee for Grant along the North Anna River, the Yarn reverses the outcome of the War Between the States. The South achieves independence but yields on the issue of slavery. Now comes Book II of the Trilogy, Brothers in Gray, prequel to the Yarn and every bit as unique. This is the...

Flush with the proceeds from the 'Israeli Caper' Prentice takes up with Caroline Maxwell the daughter of Lord Stigwell of Bashwell Higham. She is working as a Financial Advisor at Spooner, Sedgewick & Pell a City branch of Standish Holdings Plc., her father's Business Empire - a relic of the Victorian Era. Prentice is looking for advice on where to invest his new found riches from the 'Israeli Caper'. But it all comes apart at the seams when Caroline...