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What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, he'd barely made detective when war was dec…
What's a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with Haakon, the king of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Unwilling to fight-and perhaps die-for England, he was relie…
Whats a twenty-two-year-old Irish-American cop whos never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with Haakon, King of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, hed barely made detective when war was decla…
Billy is dispatched to the seat of the Norwegian government in exile. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned, but it is feared that there is a German spy amongst the Norwegians.
Billy Boyle, a young Irish-American cop from Boston, has just made detective when World War II breaks out. His "Uncle Ike" is Dwight D. Eisenhower, plucked from obscurity to command Army forces in Europe, and he wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Accompanied by an aris…
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau takes on a new identity after her husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear to escape Nazi forces, leaving Emma behind to face the atrocities of war and deny her growing attraction to another man.
In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was a young woman enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. As a naïve journalist, Nancy Wake witnessed a horrific scene of Nazi violence in a Viennese street. From that momement…
"The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Beno?t Courr?ges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the caf? still rule. Bruno?as he is affectionately nicknamed?may be the town?s only municipal policeman, but in the hearts a…
Bruno is a former soldier who has embraced the pleasures and slow rhythms of country life--living in his restored shepherd's cottage; patronizing the weekly market; sparring with, and basically ignoring, the European Union bureaucrats from Brussels. He has a gun but never wears …
"The first installment in a wonderful new series that follows the exploits of Benoît Courrèges, a policeman in a small French village where the rituals of the café still rule. Bruno--as he is affectionately nicknamed--may be the town-s only municipal policeman, but in the hearts…
Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childh…