Incisive historical novel based around a threat by the British Empire to go to war with its oldest ally, Portugal, over a tract of swamp and scrub-land in south-east Africa. ...
Random Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on The New York Times list of best-selling novels for the year.<P> It is set in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Second World War. It is told in the first person of Harrison, and by means of two extended external analepses ...
The Second Adventure MEGAPACK® assembles 23 tales (and a poem) of grand adventure. We’ve plundered a wide variety of sources to bring you an assortment of rip-roaring action tales, exotic locales, and even a little romance—spanning many continents and time periods. So hold onto your hat (if you’re wearing one) and get ready for a thrilling read!<P> Included are:<P>> THE REBEL, by Frank Belknap Long (poem)<BR> PEARL OF GRE ...
"SOMETHING is going to happen to me!"<P> Joe Hammond was in Rome on furlough after fifteen months at the front. It was to be seven days of excitement and pleasure – a lifetime of love in one week. The first day he met Maria Consorti who gave him her body for a meal, and then abandoned him for an American capitano. Then he found Nina Bonte, business woman, who left her prosperous Bar Nazionale long enough to have a brief affair with h ...
Ghosts range – fearsome figures in gleaming armor, spirits of the conquistadores – are striking terror into the herdsmen of Texas' Matagorda Bay country.... But maybe, a skeptical Slade told himself, they're not ghosts – just smart owlhoots wrapped in tin plate.... So the Ranger ace went «ghost»-hunting – with hot lead and fighting fury!<P> But Slade didn't know how close he himself would come to being made a ghost.... ...
This is a fine World War 2-era historical novel (based on Allan Cole's family experiences) set in Florida, on the «Home Front». Nazi submarine attacks off the coast are but the start of the problems for local residents. But human will to overcome obstacles in the face of adversity will surely save the day…won't it? <P> The author writes: «Between February and May of 1942, German U-boats operated with impunity off the Florida co ...
E. Hoffmann Price’s Exotic Adventures MEGAPACK® contains 11 stories and short novels set in a wide range of locales: Europe, Polynesia, Asia, the Middle East, etc. Their settings also range chronologically, from historical adventures to contemporary thrillers and were all published between 1935 and 1945 (with an outlier from 1971 as the finale). These are full-blooded, two-fisted tales of warriors throughout the ages, seeking glory and triumph. ...
