Blood of Honour

<p>James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian writer and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently <i>Brothers In Arms</i> and <i>Normandy '44</i> he is also the author of nine works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts.<br><br>He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC Channel 4 National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. <br><br>With Al Murray he has a successful Second World War podcast <i>We Have Ways of Making You Talk</i> which also has its own festival and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.</p> Plenty of action... sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting A good old-fashined action hero makes his appearance in this page-turning thriller... James Holland a respected military historian has produced a story authentic in every detail <p><b><i>Readers of Robert Harris Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this all-action blood-pumping wartime thriller from <u>bestselling author and historian James Holland</u>. Full of wholly convincing battles scenes and expert characterisation as well as a compelling high-octane storyline this is one you won't be able to put down!</i></b><br><b><br>'Absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting' -- <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><b>'Fantastic - unputdownable!' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Great stuff. Highly entertaining and well written' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Once you start you cannot put this down' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Another cracking Jack Tanner novel' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b><br>***********************************************************</b><br><b>Crete 1941: THE NAZI HAMMER IS ABOUT TO FALL ONCE MORE...</b><br><br>In the face of a <b>German invasion</b> <b>Sergeant Jack Tanner</b> is embroiled in a deadly game of survival that will test his resolve more than ever before. Not only has he fallen out with his commander but he has mortally offended <b>Alopex</b> a powerful local chieftain.<br><br>As if that wasn't enough Tanner and the rest of his battalion are caught in vicious close-quarter fighting against crack German paratroopers. Before long they find themselves in bitter retreat to the mountainous interior where only one man can help them - Alopex.<br><br><b>Although whether he will come to their rescue or not remains to be seen...</b><br><b><br>Jack Tanner's adventures continue in<i> Hellfire</i>.</b></p>