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Charles Whiting
Book List in Order: 27 titles
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48 Hours Hammelburg
- Mar-1984
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On a dark night in March 1945, Task Force Baum dashed through a break in the German Army lines created by troops of the U.S. Third Army and embarked on one of the most dramatic and dangerous rescue missions of World War II. Their target, the Allied P...
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Bugles at Dawn
- Mar-1990
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Charles Whiting's World War II thrillers under the Leo Kessler name are now followed by a historical action series featuring the 19th-century battle hero, John Bold. Arrested as a young ensign on the eve of Waterloo in 1815, John Bold flees to India ...
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Passage to Petrograd
- Aug-1995
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Common Smith's most dangerous mission yet...Russia, 1924. Lenin, Communist Dictator of Russia, is dying. In the wings, his chief aides are jostling for power, and in the provinces revolution is brewing once more. Soviet Russia is on the brink of expl...
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Death Trap
- Aug-1996
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Common Smith is in a race against time to retrieve sensitive British intelligence before it falls into enemy handsYugoslavia, Winter 1924. The British official courier plane from Cairo to Gibraltar has been forced down in the mountains off the Yugosl...
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Paths of Death and Glory
- Jul-1997
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On 4 January 1945, General 'Blood and Guts' Patton confided gloomily to his diary, 'We can still lose this war'. The Germans were attacking in Eastern France, Luxembourg and Belgium. General Eisenhower's allied armies had lost over 300,000 men in bat...
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The Balkan Chase
- Nov-1999
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SAS Brigadier-General Rory O'Sullivan is stranded in the desert with four of his men during the Gulf War. A desperate US attempt to rescue them ends in failure. Only the troop sergeant ever returns, badly wounded and out of his mind. Almost a decade ...
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Death on the Rhine
- Jan-2002
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An assassination threat risks plunging Europe into a second world war. Only Common Smith can avert calamityGermany, 1923. The beaten Fatherland is in turmoil, inflation is raging and millions are unemployed. Adolf Hitler is raising a right-wing tradi...
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T-Force the Last Mission
- Dec-2007
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The carnage of World War II is over, but, with the threat of Communism looming, General Patton is determined to continue his war against the Russians. He sends in T-Force with orders to ignore the ceasefire and stop at nothing...
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Kill Patton!
- Jun-2008
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General Patton is brooding after Washington took away his army. Languishing on Sicily the general starts to receive death threats which he thinks come from the British. Major McKenzie is called in to investigate links between the Mafia and the US Arm...
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The Frat Wagon
- Sep-2008
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The Second World War is coming to an end and the Occupation of Germany is beginning. Men and women are tasting the degradation of defeat. Here are the experiences and suffering not just of the Germans but also some of the British troops at a time of ...
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Journey to No End
- Sep-2010
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A professional revolutionary is sent to help a group of working men holding an important factory from going into the hands of East Germany. He soon realises that even though he has no political interest in the revolt, a series of incidents involve hi...
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The Baltic Run
From the carnage of war a new hero is born.1920. The slaughter of World War One is over, but already secret little wars are breaking out all over 'New Europe'.Sub-Lieutenant de Vere Smith VC, at twenty the youngest Victoria Cross holder in the Britis...
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The Destroyers
In December 1944 the battered German Army hurled a devastating attack on the 'Ghost Front' of the Ardennes, and in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge, a lone man slipped behind the Allied lines. He was an assassin, a fanatical SS killer dedicated ...
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Double Cross
Ultra, the handpicked elite of British Intelligence, have planted a German double agent in Switzerland to pass on signals to the Russians. However, when German High Command begins to suspect false play, they plant their own agent in Switzerland to in...
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Hell's Angels
When peace plans are threatened, Common Smith swings into actionGermany, 1929. England, France and the USA are preparing to de-militarise the West Bank of the Rhine. German nationalists, financed by the great industrialists, have other ideas. They pl...
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Highway Through Hell
The US Third Army was poised on the frontier of the Reich, ready to smash Hitler's Germany. Between them and their target lay the strongest network of fortifications ever constructed by man - the Siegfried Line. Empty since 1940, it had been hurriedl...
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In Turkish Waters
When an entire army retreats, Common Smith VC must turn the tide Spring, 1922. The Greek army is retreating from Turkey and Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish dictator, intends to have their convoy sunk. The resulting chaos will help a defeated Germany ...
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The Japanese Princess
A kidnapped princess sends Common Smith racing to the land of the rising sunChina, 1927. Communists and Nationalists are fighting each other, and bandits and warlords plague the country. Imperial Japan is eager to provoke a war, and when Princess Sad...
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Operation Fox Hunt
Survival or slaughter... Field-Marshal Eugen von Schwartau, the Caucasian Fox, led his Nazi stormtroopers to the very gates of Moscow, striking terror into the heartland of Russia. Now, with the fortunes of war temporarily going against the Germans, ...
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Operation II Duce
In 1943 the one-eyed Lieutenant Crooke, VC, led his hand-picked suicide squad, the Destroyers, on a deadly mission. Their task was to penetrate the mountain fortress of Monte Corno, where the deposed Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, was held pris...
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Operation Stalag
Late in 1942 Dutch Underground agents delivered to British Intelligence an insane young RAF pilot - the sole survivor of fifty others from Stalag IIIB, all shot in cold blood - but by whom and for what reason? Churchill suspected a massive blackmail...
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Wolf Hunt
In a rusty tin hut near Bletchley a group of Oxford dons pored over the latest coded message from Enigma, the newly captured German cipher machine. The message stated that the Grey Wolf was once again on the move. From that cryptic but startling inte...