The second novel in the highly commercial series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner.
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 The Savage Storm and
Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a
dozen Ladybird Experts.
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.
With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We
Have Ways of Making You Talk, 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.
Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a
chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando
comics
*Mail on Sunday*
Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty, all action yarn!
*Sunday Telegraph*
Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff, and his
descriptions of the action are terrific
*Daily Telegraph*
Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys
it
*Daily Mail*
This is a well-researched page-turner that keeps you hungry for
more. An exciting tale full of historical details and action
*Soldier magazine*
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