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Historical person
1874–1965
Winston Churchill was British prime minister during most of the Second World War and again in the 1950s. His wartime leadership, speeches, imperial views and long political career made him one of the most prominent British figures of the twentieth century.
In John Rhodes’s Triumph and Tragedy, at the same time, the alliance between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin begins to fracture as each government looks beyond victory to the post-war settlement. In Douglas Jackson’s Blood Vengeance, Jan Kalisz is flown from occupied Warsaw and charged by Winston Churchill with finding the killer before the case becomes a political crisis. Other novels featuring Winston Churchill include Christopher Nicole’s Commando, James Holland’s Duty Calls: Dunkirk, Griff Hosker’s Conscript’s Call, Winston Graham’s Night Journey, and Winston Graham’s Cameo.
In non-fiction, Winston Churchill is discussed in Ben Macintyre’s Never Surrender, Ian Rutledge’s Enemy on the Euphrates, Damien Lewis’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Giles Milton’s Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and James Holland’s The War in the West: A New History, Volume 1. In Ben Macintyre’s Never Surrender, its biographical pieces consider figures such as Winston Churchill, William Slim, Paddy Mayne and J. Robert Oppenheimer alongside broader accounts of military and political turning points.
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Series
The Breaking Point series follows RAF fighter pilot Johnnie Shaux and mathematician-turned-military analyst Eleanor Rand, later Eleanor Shaux, through the successive years of the Second World War. Johnnie experiences the conflict from cockpits, airfields and operational units, while Eleanor works in headquarters where intelligence, logistics and strategy determine…
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Rifleman follows John Sharratt from wartime loss and conscription into the British Army during the Second World War. The sequence moves from the Blitz and training into the North African desert, where ordinary infantry experience the pressure of modern war, retreat, endurance and battle against Rommel’s forces.
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Combined Operations follows Tom Harsker and a commando unit through the Second World War and into Korea. The series begins with Britain under pressure in 1940 and moves through raids, occupied Europe, Dieppe, Sicily, D-Day, the Scheldt and the final advance into Germany before shifting to the Korean…
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Duty Calls is James Holland’s young-adult sequence about teenage servicemen caught inside the major British battles of 1940. Duty Calls: Dunkirk follows the under-age Private Johnny Hawke through the collapse of the British campaign in France and the evacuation from Dunkirk, presenting combat from the limited viewpoint of…
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The Jack Tanner series follows a sergeant in the fictional King’s Own Yorkshire Rangers through the British Army’s changing fortunes between 1940 and 1943. The Odin Mission begins during the retreat from Norway, Darkest Hour moves through the fall of France and Dunkirk, and Blood of Honour places…
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The Century Trilogy follows five interconnected families from Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States from the years before the First World War to the collapse of Communist rule in Europe. Across three generations, miners, aristocrats, diplomats, political organisers, soldiers and journalists experience public events through marriages, rivalries…
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The After Dunkirk series follows the Littlefield family from the evacuation of 1940 through the final campaigns of the Second World War. Separated across occupied France, Britain, North Africa, Italy, Germany and the Pacific, the siblings serve as pilots, soldiers, intelligence officers, codebreakers and resistance operatives while their…
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The Warsaw Quartet follows Jan Kalisz, a former senior Polish investigator forced to work for the German criminal police after the occupation of Warsaw. Secretly serving the Polish resistance, Kalisz investigates murders that the occupying authorities value according to the nationality and usefulness of the victims, while concealing…
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The Assegai Sequence follows Leon Courtney and his daughter Saffron from British East Africa before the First World War through the rise of Nazism, the Second World War and the early post-war struggle over colonial Kenya. The books combine family conflict, espionage and military history across Africa and…
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The Commando trilogy, first published under the Alan Savage pen name, follows Harry Curtis from the retreat at Dunkirk into Britain’s newly formed raiding forces. Early operations combine sabotage, coastal attack and code intelligence, while the losses at Lofoten and St Nazaire establish the physical and psychological cost…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
