Download or read book Smiling Willie And The Tiger written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boer War is ending and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll. But the army chooses an officer to track them down. While the thieves wait to return to the stolen bounty, the officer chases them, giving rise to a riotous set of events. Based on a true story, John Harris’ adventure entertains and delights.
Download or read book Smiling Willie and the Tiger written by John Harris and published by . This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Quick Boat Men written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Bourdillon’s parents perished on the waves and, brought up by his uncle who owns a boatyard, Edward leads a life in love with the sea - until he sinks his uncle’s yacht. Soon he is bound for Cape Town on an old tramp steamer. From earthquakes to shipwreck, his fortune turns sour until forgiveness and World War One loom on the horizon.
Download or read book Flawed Banner written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Nazi hordes of Germany overrun France, devouring the free world with fascist fervour, a young intelligence officer, James Woodyatt, is shipped across the Channel to find a First World War hero...an old man who may have been a spy...who may be in possession of Nazi secrets.
Download or read book The Claws of Mercy written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sierra Leone, a remote community crackles with racial tensions. Few white people live amongst the natives of Freetown, where life revolves around an iron mine with a man in charge who dictates peace and prosperity for everyone. But his leadership is a matter of life or death where every decision is like being snatched by the claws of mercy.
Download or read book Right Of Reply written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggle, scandal and mutiny run riot in a 1970s political crisis. An invasion is planned by a convoy of British troop ships sighted off the coast of West Africa. A base is at stake. The British claim sovereignty but sedition is in the air. Can the British government turn back before it’s too late? John Harris leaves us on tenterhooks.
Download or read book The Lonely Voyage written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a boy, Jess Ferigo, who winds up on a charge of poaching along with Pat Fee and Old Boxer. They then sail with him on his journey into manhood. As Jess leaves his boyhood behind, bitter years are followed by the Second World War, where they make a poignant rescue on the sand dunes of Dunkirk. Finally, the lonely voyage is over.
Download or read book The Thirty Days War written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kubaiyah, a RAF airstrip squeezed between a razor-like ridge and a harsh desert plain, must be defended. But with the Nazis poised to conquer the Middle East and Britain stripped of her allies, Kubaiyah could be lost. Only the eccentric and gifted flying officer, Anthony Boumphrey, can save them.
Download or read book A Kind Of Courage written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major Billy Pentecost is commander of a remote desert outpost. His orders are to move out along with a handful of British soldiers. Impatient tribesmen gather outside the fort, eager to reclaim the land of their blood. A friendship forms between two very different commanders but when Pentecost’s orders are reversed, a nightmarish tragedy ensues.
Download or read book Tiger written by Witter Bynner and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bynner's second book, a one-act play set in a house near Times Square in New York City.
Download or read book The Fleeing Tiger written by Max Hennessy and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A huge prize awaits them, but only if they can escape. The Second Boer War is finally ending, and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat cools off. While they wait for an opportunity to return to their stolen bounty, the entire might of the army gives chase, giving rise to a riotous set of events. Based on a true story, John Harris’ adventure entertains and delights in a series of incredulous scenarios brought to glorious life against the backdrop of South Africa’s diamond mines. A gripping, nostalgic military heist thriller from master author Max Hennessy, perfect for fans of Jack Higgins, Hammond Innes and Alistair MacLean.
Download or read book So Far From God written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pierce Slattery, a renegade cavalry officer, brings an astonishing insight and masterful fighting abilities to the aid of a revolution. The army of ill-trained, poorly prepared peasants are fighting for their lives and their freedom – but British Intelligence has an interest in the Mexican Revolution and in the striking Slattery.
Download or read book Vardy written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Paris of Napoleon III, the beautiful, impetuous Vardy falls in love with a soldier of fortune. When the Franco-Prussian war begins, Vardy must be rescued from the siege of Paris. But when she returns, she is caught in the wake of violence and finds her lover’s career is in ruins. This historical drama is a romp through the chaos of war.
Download or read book Ride Out The Storm written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Allies, faced with shameful defeat, are trapped between the mighty German army and the tumult of the ocean waves. But only nine days later more than a quarter of a million men have been rescued and placed safely on the shores of England. This is the incredible story of a mass exodus across the Channel. The miraculous story of Dunkirk.
Download or read book Army of Shadows written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the winter of 1944. France is under the iron fist of the Nazis. But liberation is just around the corner when the crew of a Lancaster bomber are hit by a Messerschmitt which blazes through the sky in a fiery attack. Only two men survive to parachute and join an ever-growing French Resistance, to play a lethal game of cat and mouse.
Download or read book Sunset At Sheba written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative and moving novel set in the landscape of South Africa, 1914, where a story of courage and bloodlust unravels ‘between the mimosa shrubs and the thin pepper trees’; this is a story which began with fervent patriotism and ended in more bloodshed than anyone ever meant to spill. This is the story of the Battle of Sheba.
Download or read book Harkaway s Sixth Column written by John Harris and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive action-packed war drama: four British soldiers are cut off behind enemy lines in British Somaliland and when they decide to utilise a secret arms dump and fight a rearguard action, an unlikely alliance is sought between two local warring tribes. What follows is an amazing mission.
