Download or read book The Searight Saga written by Rupert Colley and published by Rupert Colley. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One family. Three generations. Three epic stories. A soldier. A nurse. A love story that reverberates down the century. Historical fiction at its best… Three engrossing novels following the fortunes of one family from World War One to the turn of the new millennium. This Time Tomorrow Two brothers. One woman. A nation at war. When Guy Searight reluctantly volunteers to fight with the British army in the early days of World War One, he leaves behind his girlfriend, Mary. While away fighting, Guy’s younger brother, Jack, seizes an opportunity to woo Mary for himself. Forthright and self-assured, Guy has always looked out for his confident but frail brother and blithely promises his fretting mother that he’ll look out for him when Jack’s turn comes to join up. But embittered by Jack’s betrayal, Guy vows that when Jack has to face the horrors of war for himself, he won’t be there to look after him. When the brothers are reunited in the trenches of the Western Front, their thoughts are both with Mary. As Jack buckles under the strain of war, can Guy sustain his anger and allow his brother to suffer alone? A shocking event, catastrophic in its intensity and barbaric in its conclusion, forces Guy to re-evaluate his relationship with his brother, with Mary and ultimately himself. The Unforgiving Sea Ten men adrift on a lifeboat. Only one will live to tell the tale. June 1944, World War Two: a convoy ship is torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat. Most on board are killed but ten sailors manage to clamber aboard a lifeboat. Robert Searight emerges as the sole survivor. Traumatized by the experience, he returns to his English village to recuperate. His only task is to return a dead friend’s wedding ring to Joanna, the man’s widow. But Joanna is nowhere to be found. His return to the village brings back the heartache he felt when, a year previously, his fiancée, troubled by her own past, broke off their relationship. But ultimately, it’s his own dark secret that he must confront before he can come to terms with his broken heart and the trauma of having survived The Unforgiving Sea. The Red Oak The past is always with us; it’s just that sometimes we don’t see it. Summer 2004. Tom Searight can’t relate to his 14-year-old daughter, Charlotte, or his cantankerous old father, Robert. But his life really disintegrates when he discovers his wife of 15 years, Julie, is having an affair with Charlotte’s favourite teacher. A chance letter from France takes Tom on a journey to learn about the life of his great uncle, Guy Searight, a veteran of the First World War. But as Tom learns more about his family’s tragic past and his own father’s turbulent childhood, his future becomes increasingly uncertain.
Download or read book The Unforgiving Sea written by Rupert Colley and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten men adrift on a lifeboat. Only one will live to tell the tale. The Unforgiving Sea is, on its surface, a tale of murder, survival and loss, while at its core we find a story of deep love, loyalty and forgiveness.
Download or read book The Red Oak written by Rupert Colley and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past is always with us; it's just that sometimes we don't see it. Part Three of The Searight Saga.
Download or read book Steaming East written by Sarah Searight and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 19th century, it took months to get from England to India, clear at the other end of the Empire. Better communications were imperative. This is the story of how it was done - laboriously, stubbornly, sometimes misguidedly - by several generations of entrepeneurs, engineers, inventors and military men, first with steamships and then by railway. It is a story full of colourful anecdotes and even more colourful characters, from Captain Charles Chesney (who tried - and failed - to establish a steamship route on the Euphrates River to the founder of the Orient Express (who rejoiced in the name of Georges Nagelmackers) to Major James Buster Browne, builder of a rail line across a Northwest Indian desert so inhospitable that 32 soldiers died there of heat stroke when their train broke down. The account spans roughly a century, from the first tentative use of steam engines in ships to the decline of the great age of railways following World War I.
Download or read book The Woman on the Train written by R.P.G. Colley and published by Rupert Colley. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She once saved my life. She now wants to destroy it." Summer 1942, Nazi-occupied France. A young and frightened resistance fighter sits on a train. Opposite him, a middle-aged woman. During the course of the next hour, this woman will save the young man’s life. Paris, 1968, that young man is now France’s most famous music conductor, adored and feted wherever he goes. And he’s fallen in love. He is happy. But he never forgets the woman on the train. So when, unexpectedly, he receives a desperate letter from her, begging him to come to her aid, he gladly offers to return the favour. But the woman hides a dark and terrible secret, which, if exposed, threatens to destroy them both. Torn between the woman he loves and the woman who saved his life, France watches as his life and reputation are placed on the line. Why did the Woman on the Train help him all those years ago, and who, exactly, is she? Historical fiction with heart and drama. Part of The Love and War Series, ten novels set during the 20th century's darkest years. Can be read in any order.
Download or read book My Brother the Enemy written by Rupert Colley and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fear on the streets. Death on every corner. But the real enemy is the brother at his side. Short, heart-wrenching historical fiction on a large canvas from the founder of History In An Hour. My Brother the Enemy is a story of jealousy, sibling rivalry and betrayal, and a desperate bid for freedom, set against a backdrop of Nazi oppression and war. 1936 - Exiled by the Nazi regime for their father's beliefs, Peter's love for his brother is slowly eroded as Martin proves himself to be ruthless and manipulative. When Monika comes into their young lives, their mutual jealousies heighten and threaten to tear them apart. 1941 - A childhood accident saves Peter from active service. His brother, posted to the killing fields of the Eastern Front, isn't so lucky. 1945 - Berlin is torn apart by Allied bombs. Amid the carnage and death that descends over the city, Martin returns from Russia - battered and embittered. The twins' seething bitterness and their shared love for Monika finally explodes with devastating consequences. "I have read Rupert Colley's work before and he didn't disappoint me here again." "A good, fast, page-turning read and I cared about the characters and wanted to know what happened to them." "Fraternal jealousies and rivalries are searingly drawn." "Could hardly stand to put it down but at the same time I didn't want to finish it! Would recommend to all." "Turbulent historical setting? Check. Vivid descriptions? Check. Realistic and likeable central character? Check. Page-turning excitement? Check. Heart-stopping denouement? Check. Passion, heroism, betrayal? Check, check, and check." Historical fiction with heart and drama.
Download or read book World War Two History in an Hour written by Rupert Colley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
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Download or read book The Chinese Navy written by Institute for National Strategic Studies and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the growing Chinese Navy - The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - and its expanding capabilities, evolving roles and military implications for the USA. Divided into four thematic sections, this special collection of essays surveys and analyzes the most important aspects of China's navel modernization.
Download or read book World Cruising Routes written by Jimmy Cornell and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to nearly 1,000 sailing routes covering all the oceans of the world, geared specifically to the needs of cruising sailors. It advises on the winds, currents, regional and seasonal weather, and optimum times for individual routes, plus over 6,000 waypoints.
Download or read book World War One History in an Hour written by Rupert Colley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.
Download or read book Frithiof s Saga written by Esaias Tegnér (Bishop of Växjö.) and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mightier Than the Sword the Edge of the Word 2 written by Drew Callander and published by Penguin Workshop. This book was released on 2019 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Write, draw, and puzzle your way through [an] adventure story that is unique to every reader"--Publisher marketing.
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Download or read book The Xenoworld Saga written by Kyle West and published by Ragnarok Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 2852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Xenoworld Saga series - now available as a discounted e-book box set! Over 3,000 pages of thrilling post-apocalyptic fantasy set in The Wasteland Chronicles universe. Four hundred years after the Ragnarok War, the world will never be the same. Humanity never recovered from the impact of the meteor that unleashed the xenovirus. While the virus is no longer hostile to human life thanks to Alex Keener and his friends, there is strife between their Elekai descendants, the dragons, and those of pure human blood. As humanity fights amongst itself, an ancient evil awakens, plotting destruction. And at the center of it all stands Shanti Roshar, a young woman growing up in the slums of Colonia, capital of the Annaran Covenant. Her life forever changes the day she discovers she shares the blood of the Elekai, as well as their amazing connection to dragons. And that connection might be the world's only hope... The Xenoworld Saga is the sequel series to The Wasteland Chronicles, and completes the overall story.
Download or read book Frithiof s Saga written by Esaias Tegnér and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
