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British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young are conducting a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front. They take the place...
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First published in 1915, this novel marks the end of an era and presents one of literary modernism's greatest achievements. Set in prewar Germany, the story concerns Edward Ashburnham, a first-rate soldier and a perfect English gentleman whose single and fatal flaw is his blind ruthlessness in affairs of love.
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Killer Reads
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2018.
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"When Helen moves abroad with her loving husband Gary, she can't wait to meet her fellow expat teachers from the local International School. But her new start is about to become her worst nightmare... As soon as the charming family across the way welcome Helen into their home, she begins to suspect that all is not as it seems. Then Gary starts to behave strangely and a child goes missing, vanished without a trace. When violence and tragedy strike,...
7) A lonely man
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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2021.
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"An existential mystery that explores the uncertain intersection between fiction and reality, and the disastrous consequences of a chance encounter"--
8) The innocent
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War-weary Berlin has much to offer Leonard Markham, a young, naive postal engineer: first the arts of sophisticated intrigue, then the delights of sexual pleasure. But Leonard's new knowledge carries a heavy price, dragging him into a life that is exhaustively suspenseful and utterly irresistible.
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2020.
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"Berlin, 1938: It's the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war. When fledgling reporter Georgie Young is posted to Berlin, alongside fellow Londoner Max Spender, she knows they are entering the eye of the storm. Arriving to a city swathed in red flags and crawling with Nazis, Georgie feels helpless, witnessing innocent people being torn from their homes. As tensions rise, she realises she and Max have to act - even if it means putting...
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You are a secret agent working for the British in Berlin. You are due to go home on leave, but you are being followed by the enemy—or your own people. A man meets you in the theater and briefs you on a plot to revive the power of Nazi Germany. You do not believe him, but you remember that one of the suspects mentioned was a senior SS officer you met while you were working as a spy in Nazi Germany. Next you make contact with a beautiful girl who
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Flashman papers volume 2
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"In the sequel to Flashman, Harry Paget Flashman becomes embroiled in Otto von Bismarck's plan to topple Europe but finds that he is an assassin's target and flees after losing jewels to Lola Montez"--NoveList.
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Call for the dead: George Smiley had liked Samuel Fennan, and now Fennan was dead from an apparent suicide. But why? Fennan, a Foreign Office man, had been under investigation for alleged Communist Party activities, but Smiley had made it clear that the investigation -- little more than a routine security check -- was over and that the file on Fennan could be closed. The very next day, Fennan was found dead with a note by his body saying his career...
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Alma Classics
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2018.
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What could be better during the golden age of boating on the Thames than a relaxing row up the river? So think J., George and Harris not forgetting Montmorency the dog but little do they suspect the mishaps, the scrapes and the japes that lie along the winding way. From becoming impossibly lost in the maze at Hampton Court to battles with tins of pineapple chunks, all the while attempting to limit the destruction wrought by the mischievous Montmorency,...
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