Duncan Harding

• 1920
• / Suspense
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Winter 1944, and a sick half-mad Hitler is planning to launch his secret weapon at New York. Alerted by intelligence, it is up to the British Admiralty to stop the German U-boats crossing the Atlantic with their spies, saboteurs and new terror weapon...

• 1920
• / Suspense
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Set in 1939 and based on fact, this novel is about a plan - codenamed Operation Judgement - to destroy the Italian fleet from the air. But with only 30 out-of-date torpedo bombers to take on the Italian navy, the task is daunting, but they dare not f...

• Nov-1995
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-1997
• / Action Adventure
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Churchill was in despair. Britain fighting alone had been brought almost to its knees by the German U-boat blockade. The Germans were sinking allied merchantmen faster than they could build them. Britain would soon be starved into submission.

The p...

• Sep-1999
• / Action Adventure
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January, 1942. Hitler is paranoid about Norway. He thinks the new Anglo-American coalition will invade and urgently transfers forces north. Now he needs naval firepower to ward off enemy sea attacks -- but from where?

Since April 1941, two great Ge...

• Oct-1999
• / Action Adventure
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In the eyes of the world, they don't even exist ...

Supposedly disbanded over forty years ago, their identities are shrouded in secrecy, their exploits known only to a few. They are the elite, the daring loners of the sea. They are the men of t...

• Apr-2001
• / General Fiction
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Mixing fact and fiction, Harding tackles one of the biggest mysterious of World War II. The Hood, pride of the Royal Navy, was sunk by the Bismarck in the naval battle of May 1941. What secret did the Germans possess that enabled them to destroy a wa...

• Jan-2002
• / General Fiction
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As captain of the Kelly, Lord Louis Mountbatten was at the height of his naval fame. But he had two fatal weaknesses - his wife, the spoilt Edwina, and his overweening ambition. This is the dramatic story of Mountbatten and his ill-fated ship....

• Oct-2002
• / General Fiction
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Warspite was a fearsome British battleship that withstood heavy attacks by the famous Black Devils torpedo squadron. During one engagement an Italian-German soldier was taken prisoner by the British and vowed to sink the mighty Warspite....

• Apr-2003
• / Action Adventure
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The first in the new X-Craft series This is the story of Colonel Lyn and his daring Commandos, and of Operation Malay Tiger, their top-secret mission, and the first experimental, and dramatic use of the 'Sleeping Beauty' craft, a new mini surface/sub...

• Oct-2003
• / Action Adventure
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The Second thrilling book in the X-Craft series It is almost by accident that the Americans capture the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen on 7 March 1945. It certainly isn't part of the Allied masterplan, and Field Marshal Montgomery, who has long been pl...

• Nov-2006
• / Action Adventure
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Can the Mediterranean be saved from the Fascists? - Hot-headed Catalan Angles fought against the Fascists in Spain before joining the British Commandos. In 1941, Naval Intelligence Commander Ian Fleming (of James Bond fame) learns that Hitler wants F...

• May-2007
• / Action Adventure
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A World War II adventure from the bestselling authorHurtgen Forest, Germany. American new boys are drafted in to the the Death Factory regularly. After his first encounter with enemy fire, new boy Pruski is parted from his division. Terrified, he fin...

• Jun-2007
• / Historical
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A Great American fiascoIn the summer of 1942, seven months after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour, with the three Axis powers at war with the USA, what does President Roosevelt decide to do? He decides to invade French North Africa, of course. But...

• Oct-2007
• / Action Adventure
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The slaughter of World War I was over, but four men were needed who were prepared to die . . . - In 1919 four British sailors were given orders to enter Petrograd Harbour, deliver a British agent into the heart of Soviet Russia, then sink one of the ...

• Mar-2008
• / Historical
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Two young midshipmen stand between Britain's Royal Navy and catastrophe? 1913: Naval midshipmen de Vere Smith and ?Dickie? Bird are recruited by the mysterious secret service to spy on the German Navy's plans. Narrowly escaping death at the hands of ...

• Aug-2017
• / General Fiction
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September 1939, and the cry rings out around the gleeful ships of the Royal Navy. After twenty years in political exile, Winston Churchill has returned as First Sea Lord. If anyone can stop the ‘Phoney War’, it will be him. But the Royal Navy is ...

• Jan-2018
• / Thriller
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Operation Bluebeard will be the biggest snatch in history

A top KGB official, persuaded to defect by a hauntingly beautiful undercover agent, is to be plucked off a Russian cruise ship at a Spanish port.

But “Bluebeard” knows too much ab...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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The Western Allies called their attack on Saddam Hussein ‘Operation Desert Storm’. Now, six years after the Gulf War, the Iraqi dictator plans his revenge...Britain is planning to open a vast new oil field in the North Sea, which will provide for...

• / General Fiction
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In the dying embers of World War II, Winston Churchill orders Special Intelligence Service Commander Ian Fleming to mount a daring rescue mission. His orders: to bring home the brave women of the Special Operation Executive caught behind enemy lines ...

• / General Fiction
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Can the special relationship take the strain? Autumn '42, and the special relationship created by Churchill and President Roosevelt has been in existence for six months. Now FDR wants action namely the invasion of France, to take the pressure off emb...

• / Romance
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HMS Rose had a history of tragedy. The old sailors who could remember her past said that she was jinxed and ought never to sail again, but in the last days of 1940, as the phoney war drew to an end, Britain needed every ship she could lay her hands o...

• / General Fiction
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In the formidable dry dock of St Nazaire lay the Third Reich's largest and most deadly warship: the TIRPITZ. Already two German battleships, SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU, had slipped through the English Channel under the bows of the British fleet. HMS R...

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• / General Fiction
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Disgraced Lieutenant Seagram has to take his battered old tug right on to the beach at Sword on D-Day. His task is to mask the first British landings and prevent the first wave of infantry from being massacred. It's a do-or-die mission, but Seagram i...

• / General Fiction
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In North Africa Rommel is preparing to march on Cairo, and the British 8th Army is exhausted and demoralised. The only spark of hope is Malta, but their resources are running low. Churchill must take desperate measures to send a convoy with planes an...

• / General Fiction
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Bismarck is finally going out to fight the British enemy. It will be a prestigious operation for Admiral Raeder, the head of the German fleet. But Admiral Doenitz views the operation with disgust, and he'll sabotage Raeder's operation if he can....

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Major Nairns, former tea planter and now acting major in the Malaya Scounts, is on an intelligence patrol on the country's border with Siam when he stumbles on a secret Japanese seaplane reconnaissance base. With international unrest looming, Nairns'...

• / Action Adventure
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The slaughter of World War I was over, but already a new, more deadly war was beginning. In 1919 four British sailors were given orders to enter Petrograd Harbour, deliver a British agent into the heart of Soviet Russia, and then sink one of the Red ...

• / General Fiction
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Icy waters that froze a torpedoed sailor within minutes...frozen metal that would tear the flesh from a man's hands...screaming blizzards that whipped the sea to a white fury. This was the dreaded convoy run from Hull to Murmansk, through Arctic seas...