Blood of Honour: A Jack Tanner Adventure

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Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this all-action, blood-pumping wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland. Full of wholly convincing battles scenes and expert characterisation, as well as a compelling, high-octane storyline, this is one you won’t be able to put down!’Absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting’ — Daily Telegraph’Fantastic – unputdownable!’ — ***** Reader review’Great stuff. Highly entertaining and well written’ — ***** Reader review’Once you start you cannot put this down’ — ***** Reader review’Another cracking Jack Tanner novel’ — ***** Reader review***********************************************************Crete, 1941: THE NAZI HAMMER IS ABOUT TO FALL ONCE MORE…In the face of a German invasion, Sergeant Jack Tanner is embroiled in a deadly game of survival that will test his resolve more than ever before. Not only has he fallen out with his commander but he has mortally offended Alopex, a powerful local chieftain.As if that wasn’t enough, Tanner and the rest of his battalion are caught in vicious close-quarter fighting against crack German paratroopers. Before long, they find themselves in bitter retreat to the mountainous interior where only one man can help them – Alopex.Although whether he will come to their rescue or not remains to be seen…Jack Tanner’s adventures continue in Hellfire.

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Weight 0.35 kg
Dimensions 3.2 × 12.8 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

512

Publisher

Year Published

2011-7-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0552773980

About The Author

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently Brothers In Arms and Normandy '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented – and written – many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

Plenty of action… sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting

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A good old-fashined action hero makes his appearance in this page-turning thriller… James Holland, a respected military historian, has produced a story authentic in every detail

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