Colours Aloft! (35 page)

Night of Flames
by Douglas W. Jacobson

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HAT PRICE WOULD YOU PAY TO KEEP YOUR SOUL
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In 1939 the Germans invade Poland, setting off a rising storm of violence and destruction. For Anna and Jan Kopernik the loss is unimaginable. She is an assistant professor at a university in Krakow; he, an offi cer in the Polish cavalry. Separated by the war, they must fi nd their own way in a world where everything they ever knew is gone.

When Anna's father is deported to a death camp, she must fl ee to Belgium where she joins the Resistance. Meanwhile, Jan escapes with the battered remnants of the Polish army to Britain. He returns to Poland in an undercover mission to contact the Resistance and seizes the chance to search for his missing wife. Through the long night of Nazi occupation, ordinary people across Europe fi ght a covert war of resistance against the overwhelming might of the German war machine. The struggle seems hopeless, but they are determined to take back what is theirs.

ISBN 978-1-59013-136-7 • Hardcover • $23.95

“Suspenseful, rich in convincingly detailed incidents, and impeccably researched.”

—Library Journal

“Well researched and skillfully executed . . . a highly readable work which is both informative and imaginative.”

—The Historical Novels Review

“A taut and twisting thriller with memorable flesh and blood characters.”

—James Conroyd Martin,
author of
Push Not the River

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The Matty Graves Novels
by Broos Campbell

1. No Quarter

In 1799, the young U.S. Navy faces France in
an undeclared Quasi-War for the Caribbean. Midshipman Matty Graves is caught up in escalating violence as he serves aboard the
Rattle-Snake
under his drunken cousin, Billy. Matty already knows how to handle the sails and fi ght a ship. Now, with the sarcastic Lieutenant Peter Wickett as his mentor and nemesis, he faces the ironies of a war where telling friend from foe is no mean trick.

ISBN 978-1-59013-139-8 • Trade Paperback • $16.95

“[Campbell's] characters are sharp, genuine and fascinating, his plotting fast-paced and authentic.”

—James L. Nelson
author of
The Only Life That Mattered

2. The War of Knives

Matty Graves, acting lieutenant in the newly formed U.S. Navy, becomes a spy in the French colony of Saint-Dómingue and plunges headlong into a brutal world of betrayal. At fi rst the bloody civil war between former slaves and their mixedrace overseers simply offers a way to test himself, but soon Matty is drawn into the heart of the conflict when he meets the fl amboyant Juge and the mysterious Grandfather Chatterbox—and faces an interrogation by the brutal colonel known as “The Whip.”

ISBN 978-1-59013-104-6 • Hardcover • $23.95

“Entertaining . . . a colorful cast of shady characters . . . an elaborate swashbuckling tale.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Don't start this one at bedtime; you'll be up all night!”

—William H. White
author of the Oliver Baldwin Novels

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