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1) Audacity
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Commander Cochrane Smith must battle through treacherous waters in this First World War naval thriller. Spring 1918: Bolshevik Russia has withdrawn from the war and now stands isolated, ineffectually hostile to both Germany and the Allied Forces. The Russian fleet at Kronstadt remains highly vulnerable, and the British government fears that a German offensive to 'liberate' the Kronstadt naval force could swing the balance of seapower against the Royal...
2) Dauntless
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The odds are against Commander Smith in this unputdownable story of battle on the high seas. Autumn, 1917: Britain is just about surviving against incessant U-boat attacks, but there are mutinies in France, a revolution in Russia and stalemate on the Western Front. The Allies must get the upper hand and, in London, plans are hatched to renew the pressure in the Middle East. Commander David Cochrane Smith finds himself on a formidable assignment in...
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A secret mission sails into disaster in this Second World War thriller. 1939: Captain David Cochrane Smith, veteran of the First World War and now an intelligence officer, is sent to extract an American war correspondent, Hannah Fitzsimmons, from Franco's Guardias. But in rescuing the American he makes a narrow escape from German officer Kurt Larsen. En route to a new posting in Montevideo, his ship is attacked and he is taken prisoner in spite of...
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Commander David Cochrane Smith is about to embark on his most perilous adventure yet… November 1917: The Imperial German Navy has sent Kapitan Erwin Voss to command the mighty new battle cruiser Salzburg in the Adriatic. The doughty Smith is ordered by the Admiralty to seek out and destroy her in harbour - a seemingly suicidal task which is made all the more hopeless when he runs into the opposition of his superiors in Venice. But it is a vital...
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A renegade commander must take matters into his own hands in this epic First World War thriller! Summer, 1917: Britain is losing the war against the deadly German U-boats. After a close fought action, Commander David Cochrane Smith uncovers what he believes is a deadly plot against Britain from a dying German sailor. Code-named Schwerttriiger – or Swordbearer – it could turn the tide of the war in Germany's favour. But, already under suspicion,...
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Our rebel captain must save his daughter in this epic Second World War naval thriller. It is 1940 and the world is at war. Again. For veteran Captain David Smith the nightmare becomes personal as he believes his daughter Sarah to be imprisoned in the hold of Altmark. Although he is among the Cossacks who board the prison-ship in Jössingfjord, his search for Sarah is not over. And as Captain of the ageing cruiser Cassandra, after twenty years 'on...
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A heart-pounding First World War naval thriller featuring the rebel Captain Cochrane Smith1917: After three years, the outcome of the Great War is poised on a knife-edge. David Cochrane Smith, captain of the armoured cruiser HMS Thunder, is patrolling off the coast of South America. But then he attacks and sinks the Gerda, a neutral ship in a neutral port. Smith already has a reputation as a maverick and now he faces professional ruin for the sinking....
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"The greatest raid in British military history is about to begin…
March 1942: British commandos are preparing themselves for an audacious raid on the docks of Saint Nazaire – one of the boldest, most crucial naval operations of the Second World War.
Masterminded by Lieutenant Jack Ward and his highly trained team, it is a mission of daring, skill and extraordinary heroism. Time is desperately short, and the outcome uncertain. Let the battle...