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Harry Brand fails medical school in 1935 and takes himself off to Ethiopia, to serve as a medical orderly with a Red Cross unit, serving with the army of Hailie Selassie. There he gains first-hand knowledge of the horrors of war, as well as meeting a woman who is to have a profound effect on his life. Harry soon finds himself engaged in a greater war, against Nazi Germany. Harry's instincts are for saving lives, but now he must learn to kill to survive...

Having escaped from Singapore the day before it fell to the Japanese, Captain Harry Brand and his wife, Constance, seek refuge in Burma, their personal lives as chaotic as the disasters with which they are surrounded. When Burma is invaded, Harry is forced to endure the horrors of a Japanese prison camp, not knowing Constance's fate. He fights his way out and takes part in the epic fight back, first with Orde Wingate's Chindits and then with the 14th Army commanded by William Slim. For Harry, this is a personal crusade to avenge, or regain, the wife he hardly knows.

When honour is worth more than life itself... Badly wounded and a prisoner of war after the fall of France in 1940, Major Hector Brand is nursed back to health in the von Pattens' family home. The family treats him as an honoured guest, but military honour in turn demands that he escape just as soon as he can move. In the mountains south of Munich, freedom is tantalisingly near, yet Hector knows he needs help, which can only come from the Pattens themselves - in particular their two daughters. So, with ruthless determination, he attempts to seduce both girls to enlist their aid...

Book Four in the popular 'SWORD' series Egypt, 1939. When John Warrey agrees to act as navigator for a trans-Saharan expedition led by famous photographer Margo Cartwright, what begins as an adventure ends in a grim battle for survival, complicated by the discovery that Margo is a British secret agent. After training back in England, John returns to Cairo to spy on Il Duce's men and when war breaks out John and Margo are caught up in a web of intrigue and action - facing betrayal and death on every side...

Cairo, June 1942. The Afrika Corps, apparently beaten out of sight at the end of 1941, has now counter-attacked, and even the long-held sally port of Tobruk has fallen. The British are desperate -- the only way to win the war in North Africa is to eliminate the Afrika Corps commander, Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel -- but one commando raid has already failed disastrously and Rommel is now at the Egyptian frontier. John Warrey, reunited with his companion-in-arms, Margo Cartwright, renews old contacts with Senussi tribesmen, trying to persuade the Arabs to carry out the assassination. Although willing, their attempt fails and John finds himself engaged in ongoing guerrilla warfare against one of the most cunning and deadly military strategists of the twentieth century. Can he survive? And can vital information be passed through to the new British commander, General Bernard Montgomery, in time to prepare the final desert onslaught -- the battle at El Alamein... ?

Sicily, 1943. After the glorious victory at El Alamein, Warrey's military record boasts an enviable string of accolades -- even praise from Monty himself. Which is why British Intelligence cannot afford to let him go to waste -- particularly when there are signs of Italian unrest to be exploited. Such underground turmoil, if properly co-ordinated, could well mean the end of the volatile accord between II Duce and the Reich. So, with the coldly beautiful Annaliese Copparo posing as his wife, Warrey must somehow unite the partisans in Northern Italy in time for the Allied invasion of Sicily on 10 July.But Warrey's mission has an unwelcome observer. Someone who has served -- and suffered -- by his side before: Margo Cartwright cannot forget the cruel contrast between Warrey's decoration and her own demotion. Disillusioned and resentful, she has every reason now to desire his downfall, and with her background, she could be incredibly useful to certain people. Those people who were