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  • Glimpses of the Famous
    Chris Heal
    Lying in a hospital bed after a heart attack, unsure whether there would be a tomorrow, author Chris Heal retreated from the noise and intrusion of the ward. He played a private counting game. How many famous people had he met? Later, Heal wrote this book containing short stories about seventy of the famous people he could recall, all personal moments, mostly fleeting, sometime...
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    24,35 €

  • The War of the Raven
    Chris Heal
    Georg Gerth saw pre-war naval service off West Africa at the time of the brutal suppression of the Herero and Nama peoples. Bored by his initial time in the Baltic, he volunteered for excitement and a u-boat command to counter England’s attempt to blockade and starve Germany into submission.His patrols in 1917 took him from his base in Flanders into the North Sea, the English C...
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    20,30 €

  • Saints and Sinners
    Chris Heal
    Between the world wars, three powerful men befriended and influenced the young u-boat captain, Erich Gerth, all vehemently anti-communist and on the far right of German politics.Wilhelm Canaris, Erich’s naval classmate, was the master spy who became a Vizeamiral and then head of the Abewehr, the Nazi military intelligence.Admiral Adolf von Trotha, Erich’s leader when he returne...
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    23,22 €

  • Bad Moon Rising
    Chris Heal
    Three disturbing stories about despair on the edge of your world.Disgraced soldier Billy Budd returns to Alton having lost all belief in authority. His greatest wish is to destroy those who make the rules. A foreign power spots an opportunity and hands Budd the wherewithal to tear his home town apart.Mary May is a recently widowed pensioner without family or close friends. She ...
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    22,74 €

  • The Winchester Tales
    Chris Heal
    Invading a prosperous neighbouring country brings its own set of problems:maintaining power at home while your back is turned,distributing the loot among your supporters while holding most for yourself, keeping the remnants of the defeated army at bay, taking control of the native estates and squeezing out ever-increasing taxes and, all the while, placing a resentful population...
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    26,53 €

  • Reappearing
    Chris Heal
    When an elderly couple save you from a bad death in the Sahara, there’s an honest debt to be paid. But this couple have unexpected plans: one leads to the bedroom, the other an impossible trip back to Europe where the author is wanted in Brussels for the murder of the president of the European Union. In both cases, determined killers lie in wait.Friends turn out to be, well, un...
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    18,71 €

  • Disappearing
    Chris Heal
    You may assume that most of this book is fantasy, but the facts check out. You sense that the author has been there, from rock climbing to Van Gogh, from flamenco to the Biafran war, from begging in Winchester to travelling through the Sahara. Much of the story may be true. It could even mostly be true. Two parcels of fifty copies each of Disappearing were ordered to confidenti...
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    19,45 €