1. The Sword and the Scalpel
Harry Brand feels he can never live up to his military family’s illustrious past. So when he fails medical school in 1935, he takes himself off to Ethiopia to serve as a medical orderly with a Red Cross unit. In these sun-baked deserts, serving with the…
2. The Sword and the Jungle
Having finally escaped from Singapore, Captain Harry Brand and his wife Constance find themselves in British-held Burma. But this is World War II and Burma is falling. The Forgotten War: a struggle to defend India and recapture Burma, is about to begin. Harry vows to stay…
3. The Sword and the Prison
When honour is worth more than life itself. Germany, 1940 The fall of France has struck a demoralising blow for the British forces fleeing the Continent. The badly wounded Major Hector Brand, leading his men to St Valery for extraction, is horrified when German planes destroy…
4. Stop Rommel!
Egypt, 1939 When John Warrey agrees to act as navigator for a trans-Saharan expedition led by the famous photographer Margo Cartwright, he has no idea what he is getting himself into. What begins an exotic adventure quickly turns into a grim battle for survival. The Italian…
5. The Afrika Korps
Tobruk has fallen and the British are desperate. The only way to win the war in North Africa is to eliminate the lethal Afrika Korps commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. However, one commando raid has already failed disastrously and Rommel is now at the Egyptian frontier.…
6. The Traitor Within
The truth always comes out. After the glorious victory at El Alamein, Colonel John Warrey’s military record is an enviable string of accolades. Now, however, the time has come for him to add Italian partisan to his chequered list of identities. Signs of Italian unrest offer…