Harper Collins



Harper CollinsAdult FictionWar fictionAlexander, V. S. Her Hidden Life. 2018. War fiction. TB703010.It’s 1943 and Hitler’s Germany is a terrifying place to be. But Magda Ritter’s duty is the most dangerous of all…Assigned to The Berghof, Hitler’s mountain retreat, she must serve the Reich by becoming the Führer’s ‘Taster’ – a woman who checks his food for poison. Magda can see no way out of this hellish existence until she meets Karl, an SS officer who has formed an underground resistance group within Hitler’s inner circle. As their forbidden love grows, Magda and Karl see an opportunity to stop the atrocities of the madman leading their country. But in doing so, they risk their lives, their families and, above all, a love unlike either of them have ever known…Read by Elka de Witt. 11 hours 3 minutes.Cave, Peter. Invisible enemy in Kazakhstan. 2016. War fiction. TB700425.SAS Operation. Ultimate soldier. Ultimate mission. But will the SAS be able to defeat what awaits them inside a top secret Nazi research facility? In the 1990s, sketchy reports of an accident in a high-security research facility deep within the remote, mountainous region of Kazakhstan filter through to American intelligence. A Russian army team sent in to investigate disappears without trace. The Chinese, terrified that their territory might be threatened by the leak, turn to Britain, an unlikely ally, for help. Only one group of men is capable of discovering the truth behind the underground facility, and the SAS are sent in. In so doing they will have the chance to settle a score which goes back almost half a century but they will also face a new and terrifying enemy - one that will test their endurance, and their equipment, to the limit.Read by Colin Mace. 7 hours 29 minutes.Cave, Peter. War on the Streets. 2016. War fiction. TB700426.SAS Operation. Great Britain, 1995 hours With terrorist bombs destroying town and city streets, rising crime and a teenage drug problem that is out of control, police forces are stretched beyond their limit. And now a new threat is looming. A fanatical right-wing movement is spreading into the UK. Using terrorism and crime to fund its undercover activities, and a frightening new drug to spur on its growing army to unprecedented extremes of violence, it is threatening to turn Britain's towns and inner cities into battlegrounds of anarchic brutality. In desperation, civil authorities turn to the only men who might be able to confront these fanatics on their own terms: the SAS. Guided by a maverick undercover drug cop, they will be pitted against an enemy as ruthless and deadly as any the regiment has faced. The SAS are at war, and that war is just outside the window - a war on the streets.Read by Thomas Judd. 6 hours 49 minutesWar fictionClarke, Shaun. Behind Iraqi lines. 2016. War fiction. TB700226.SAS series. A novel based upon the exploits of the SAS during the Gulf war. As specialists in desert warfare, the SAS were plunged into a maelstrom of dangerous, covert operations. Their activities included espionage, sabotage, the capture of prisoners and the infiltration of Iraqi towns. By the end of the conflict they will perform feats that are the stuff of legend.Read by Josh Cohen. 5 hours 45 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Heroes of the South Atlantic. 2016. War fiction.TB700838.SAS Operation. It is 1982, and a brutal, bloody war is being waged as British forces try to battle the Argentinians into surrendering the Falkland Islands. As the fighting continues, it becomes clear to British Task Force commanders that they will need to call upon the help of the legendary Special Air Service, the SAS! Their mission, which must be shrouded in a veil of secrecy, is to infiltrate enemy territory by land and sea and from the air, performing tasks too dangerous for the average soldier. Read by James Lailey. 6 hours 6 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Secret war in Arabia. 2016. War fiction. TB700795.SAS Operation. While Communist-backed Adoo guerrillas have been waging a campaign of terror against Oman, British Army Training Teams have been winning hearts and minds with medical aid and educational programmes. Now the time has come to rid the country of the guerrillas. On October 1, 1971, two squadrons of SAS troopers start to clear the fanatical Adoo.Read by David John. 6 hours 55 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Sniper fire in Belfast. 2016. War fiction. TB700922.SAS Operation. It is the 1970s, and a mean and dirty war is being waged on British soil. Sectarian violence is an almost daily occurrence and the terrorist groups , who finance their operations through robbery, fraud and extortion, engage in torture, assassination and wholesale slaughter. To cope with the terrorists' activities the British Army need the support of exceptional soldiers who can operate deep undercover, the SAS. The regiment is soon embroiled in some of the most secretive, dangerous and controversial activities in its history.Read by Paul Thornley. 7 hours 3 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Guerrillas in the jungle. 2016. War fiction.TB700923.SAS Operation. Malaya in the 1950s, and Communist terrorists wage a bloody war against the country's estates and rubber plantation owners. Chased into the interior by British Army units, the guerrillas soon became experts at survival and evasion, emerging from the jungle only to launch increasingly ferocious attacks. On the recommendation of Lieutenant -Colonel `Mad' Mike Calvert, 22 SAS is formed as a special counter -insurgency force.Read by Sean Barrett. 6 hours 10 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Desert raiders. 2016. War fiction. TB700225.SAS Operation. A novel based upon the exploits of the SAS in the North African campaign of 1941. It describes how they worked with the Long Range Desert Group to mount a series of spectacular raids against airfields in the Benghazi region, destroying nearly 100 German aircraft. Desert Raiders is the colourful story of the birth of the SAS, the most renowned regiment in the history of the British Army.Read by Sean Barrett. 5 hours 41 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Counter-insurgency in Aden. 2016. War fiction. TB700724.SAS Operation. Aden, 1964, and the British are waging two different kinds of war. Inhabitants of northern Yemen's forbidding mountainous region of Radfan are conducting guerrilla attacks against the British. Armed by the Egyptians and trained by the communist Yemenis, they seem an invincible fighting force. With only one hope of beating them, the British draft in an even more tenacious group of soldiers, the SAS!Read by Colin Mace. 5 hours 27 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Embassy siege. 2016. War fiction. TB700839.SAS Operation. 30 April 1980 six well-armed terrorists seize the Iranian Embassy in London. Nineteen Iranian nationals and four British citizens are captured. Subsequent negotiations see some hostages released, but when, on the fifth day of the siege, one of the hostages is shot dead, his body dumped outside, the time for negotiation is over. It is time to end the siege, and the only men with enough skill and daring for this dangerous task are the legendary SAS!Read by James Lailey. 4 hours 49 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Night fighters in France. 2016. War fiction. TB700435.SAS Operation. September 1944 hours Operation Kipling begins when 46 jeeps and 107 well-armed SAS men from C Squadron are parachuted in with orders to establish a base and contact the Maquis - Frenchmen living in makeshift forest camps, conducting sabotage missions behind enemy lines. Over the coming weeks, CSquadron must carry out a succession of high risk night raids against the Germans, racing into occupied towns in jeeps, firing on the move, and racing out again: to continually harass the enemy and inflict heavy casualties. Or die trying.Read by Sean Barrett. 5 hours 55 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Death on Gibraltar. 2016. War fiction. TB700530.SAS Operation. May 1987: a successful SAS ambush results in the deaths of eight IRA terrorists in Loughgall. Knowing that retaliation is certain, and that Gibraltar has been selected by the IRA as a `soft' target associated with British imperialism, British intelligence goes on the alert. Tasked with preventing the bombing, if necessary by killing the terrorists, the SAS team will need to call into play all their expertise and tenacity in what will become a deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Read by Joseph Balderrama. 5 hours 58 minutes.Clarke, Shaun. Into Vietnam. 2016. War fiction. TB700531.SAS Operation. June 1966 hours 3 Squadron SAS (Australian Special Air Service) set up a Forward Operating Base in Vietnam's Phuoc Tuy province, a swampy hell of jungle and paddy-fields forty-five miles east of Saigon in the heart of enemy territory. The Viet Cong have bases throughout the jungle, and the Australians soon find themselves under constant attack. Enter three members of the legendary 22 SAS, to assist in a major assault against the Viet Cong.Read by Joseph Balderrama. 7 hours 1 minute.Clarke, Shaun. Headhunters of Borneo. 2016. War fiction. TB701022.SAS Operation. In the inhospitable, perilous terrain, braving jungle and swamp, the SAS are dispatched to live with the primitive, headhunting natives, to try to win hearts and minds with medical aid and assistance, in the hope of recruiting them as Border Scout paramilitaries. As the training progresses, other SAS soldiers move even deeper into the unexplored jungle, `the Gap', to establish ambush sites and helicopter LZs. It will be a bloody, nightmarish war, and the SAS must win it. Read by Paul Thornley. 5 hours 46 minutes.Cornwell, Bernard. The fort. 2010. War fiction. TB700235.Summer 1779. Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort above a harbour to create a base from which to control the New England seaboard. Forty-one American ships and over nine hundred men. Their orders: to expel the British. The battle that followed was a classic example of how the best -laid plans can be disrupted by personality and politics, and of how warfare can bring out both the best and worst in men.Read by Robin Bowerman. 13 hours 6 minutes.Corrigan, Peter. Bandit Country. 2016. War fiction. TB700447.SAS Operation. 1989, South Armagh: cheering mobs stand over the body of a British soldier. He is the ninth to have been killed by the so-called Border Fox, an IRA sniper whose activities have helped make this area of the United Kingdom the most feared killing ground in Western Europe. The SAS men of Ulster Troop are the best in the world at surveillance, unsurpassed in counter -insurgency techniques. And now, once again, they are going to have to prove it.Read by Paul Thornley. 6 hours 23 minutes.Garnet, Jay. Kidnap the emperor! 2016. War fiction. TB700556.SAS Operation. In 1975, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, recently deposed in a Communist revolution, is declared dead. Then an astonishing truth emerges . The Emperor is being kept alive in prison, but only until he reveals the location of his billion-pound fortune. There is only one answer: kidnap the Emperor. Three SAS soldiers are selected for this hazardous mission: to penetrate a remote desert fortress and then to escape through arid highlands with a frail old man in tow.Read by Colin Mace. 6 hours 44 minutes.Llewellyn, Sam. Storm Force from Navarone. 2017. War fiction. TB702367.Guns of Navarone: book 3. The surviving commandos are sent on a perilous journey through the Pyrenees to disable the greatest threat to the impending D-Day landings: the 'Werwolf' U-boats. But their Basque guides declare it mission impossible - D-Day is less than six days away. Read by Jonathan Oliver. 10 hours 13 minutes.Llewellyn, Sam. Thunderbolt from Navarone. 2018. War fiction. TB702651.Guns of Navarone: book 4. Fresh from their mission against Werwolf U-Boats, Mallory, Miller and Andrea are summoned to Naval HQ and given their new mission: to reconnoitre the Greek island of Kynthos and determine the German development of the lethal and experimental V3 rocket, and destroy any facilities. They're given a rocket expert to accompany them - but can they trust him?Read by Jonathan Oliver. 9 hours 14 minutes.MacLean, Alistair. HMS Ulysses. 2017. War fiction. TB700058.The novel is an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II .It is the compelling story of Convoy FR77 to Murmansk - a voyage that pushes men to the limits of human endurance, crippled by enemy attack and the bitter cold of the Arctic.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 13 hours 35 minutes.MacLean, Alistair. The guns of Navarone. 2017. War fiction. TB700059.Guns of Navarone: book 1. Twelve hundred British soldiers isolated on the small island of Kheros off the Turkish coast, are in jeopardy. Their lives could be saved if only the guns of Navarone could be silenced. Navarone itself is an apparently impregnable iron fortress manned by a mixed garrison of Germans and Italians. To Captain Keith Mallory fell the task of leading a small party to scale the vast, impossible precipice of Navarone and to blow up the guns.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 11 hours 51 minutes.MacLean, Alistair. Where eagles dare. 2017. War fiction. TB700056.One winter night, seven men and a woman are parachuted onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their objective: an apparently inaccessible castle, headquarters of the Gestapo. Their mission: to rescue a crashed American general before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D -Day plans.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 9 hours 11 minutes.MacLean, Alistair. Force Ten from Navarone. 2017. War fiction. TB701722.Guns of Navarone: book 2. The guns of Navarone have been silenced, but the heroic survivors have no time to rest on their laurels. Almost before the last echoes of the famous guns have died away, Keith Mallory, Andrea and Dusty Miller are parachuting into war-torn Yugoslavia to rescue a division of Partisans and to fulfil a secret mission, so deadly that it must be hidden from their own allies.Read by Jonathan Oliver. 9 hours 9 minutes.Monnery, David. Colombian cocaine war. 2016. War fiction.TB700694.SAS Operation. Needing help in the training of its elite Anti-Narcotics Unit, the Colombian Government turns to Britain and the legendary SAS. Two veterans are dispatched to Bogot. When one of them is kidnapped and held for ransom by the cartels, the only hope of securing his release seems to lie with the rest of the regiment back in England. Getting into Colombia will be hard enough. Getting out more perilous still.Read by Joseph Balderrama. 8 hours 43 minutes.Monnery, David. Mission to Argentina. 2016. War fiction. TB700954.SAS Operation. May 1982 hours as the British Task Force prepares to retake the Falkland Islands, a lone Sea King helicopter makes an apparently forced landing in the southernmost reaches of Chile. The only threat to the Task Force, and the enemy's only hope of ultimate victory, is Argentina's Super Etendard aircraft and their sea-skimming Exocet missiles. Since radar cannot be relied upon, the British must opt for a less conventional warning system.Read by Colin Mace. 7 hours 47 minutes.Monnery, David. Samarkand hijack. 2016. War fiction. TB700695.SAS Operation. In 1994, in the newly independent state of Uzbekistan, a party of mostly British tourists is on a day excursion from the fabled city of Samarkand when Muslim fundamentalists hijack their bus. Unknown to the hijackers, this particular group contains recently retired ex-SAS sergeant Jamie Docherty, and the rebellious daughter of the British Foreign Minister, already a tabloid favourite back home. The only force likely to have any chance of successfully penetrating the fortress and liberating the prisoners will be a group led by men of the legendary Special Air Service - the SAS!Read by Joseph Balderrama. 8 hours 25 minutes.Monnery, David. Guatemala - journey into evil. 2016. War fiction. TB700955.SAS Operation. In the Central American republic of Guatemala, government-sponsored torture and mass murder has reduced the Mayan Indian population to a despairing acquiescence. After five hundred years of struggle it seems as if the conqueror's peace can at last be proclaimed in the capital. Then a guerrilla leader who the authorities have long believed dead springs mysteriously back to life.Read by David John. 9 hours 19 minutes. ................
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