Robert Jackson

Robert Jackson was born in 1941 in the North Yorkshire village of Melsonby. A former pilot and navigation instructor, his active involvement with aviation lasted many years. Following his retirement from the RAFVR in 1977 as a squadron leader, he became a full-time aviation writer and aerospace correspondent and lectured extensively on strategic issues. He speaks five languages, including Russian, and has written more than forty nonfiction works on military affairs. He is also the author of the popular Yeoman and SAS fiction series.

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Willi Heinrich was born in Heidelberg, and during the Second World War he experienced heavy fighting on the Eastern Front with the 1st Battalion 228th Jäger Regiment of the 101st Jäger Division. The same infantry unit featured in Das Geduldige Fleisch (The Willing Flesh; Cross of Iron).
During the war the 101st Jäger Division sustained a seven hundred per cent casualty rate; Heinrich himself was wounded five times.

After the war, Heinrich became a writer. His first novel, In Einem Schloss zu Wohnen, was written over a two year period (1950–1952). It was unpublished until 1976, after Heinrich was an established novelist. His first commercial novel, Das Geduldige Fleisch (The Willing Flesh), was published in 1955, and almost immediately was t
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Tom Williams

Tom Williams is a technology veteran with over four decades of experience leading private and public companies that profoundly altered the way we work, learn, entertain and interact.

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Kevin Doherty

Kevin Doherty is the author of the novels Landscape of Shadows, The Leonardo Gulag, Villa Normandie, Charlie's War, and Patriots.

Landscape of Shadows is set in a small French town in Nazi-occupied France. Two German troopers are assassinated. The town's mayor faces a terrible choice: surrender the headstrong and beautiful Resistance fighter to whom he is secretly giving refuge, or let the German commander execute ten innocent citizens in her place.

The Leonardo Gulag takes us to the heart of Stalin's regime of terror when a brilliant young artist is forced to make perfect forgeries of the drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. It is a tale of survival against all odds.

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Richard Townshend Bickers

Richard Leslie Townshend Bickers has written more books about the RAF and its predecessor, the RFC, than any other author past or present - some under a pseudonym. Being multilingual, he does his own research in foreign archives and by interviews and correspondence. His short stories and newspaper articles were first published and broadcast while he was a serving RAF officer. By the time he left the RAF his first four novels had appeared. His biography of his friend "Ginger" Lacey, the top-scoring pilot in the Battle of Britain, was published to acclaim in 1962.Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. In England he operated with Fighter and Coastal Commands; in North
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Tony Rea

Tony Rea is a writer and people's historian who lives in Devon, England and is currently working with Sapere Books on a series of World War 2 action novels featuring RAF pilot Gus 'Bouncer' Beaumont. He is an author of history, historical fiction and short stories.

Following a successful series of GSCE history books, Tony wrote SOUTH DEVON IN THE GREAT WAR (Pen and Sword, 2016) which was followed in 2019 by a stage play, THE ARMISTICE, about the Great War and how it impacted Ivybridge and the South Hams. His first novel, RED SKY OVER DARTMOOR (2017) and its sequel, THE ROAD TO ENNISKEAN (2023) feature Marc Bergeron and Doncha Ryan and are set in 1918-22.

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D.R. Bailey

D.R. Bailey was raised in a family of bibliophiles. From an early age, he developed eclectic tastes in fiction including Sci-Fi, Romance, Crime, and the Classics. Some of his favourite authors remain, Gerald Durrell, Jane Austen, Peter James, Ellis Peters, and Isaac Asimov. At the age of eleven, he wrote his first fictional story about his toy teddy bear clan. Since then he has gone on to have some of his non-fiction article published in magazines, published a fictional crime series and a courtroom drama series. He has engaged in several different careers and says that these life experiences have all contributed greatly to his penchant for storytelling.

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Frank A. Mason

Frank A. Mason is the pen name for author Robert (Bob) F. Amason, Ph.D.

Professor at Large at Northern Illinois University (Semi-Retired). He earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech and University of Florida. A retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, Bob Amason was a college professor for 25 years. As an officer in the USAF, Bob flew B-52s during the Cold War, was a flying training instructor, and directed high-level staff organizations over 22 years of his early adult life.

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M.D. Hall is a British writer of science fiction, tales of the supernatural and historical fiction. He is about to publish a historical novel set in Roman Britain and what is now Scotland.
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John Harris

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Pseudonyms: Max Hennessy; Mark Hebden

Image is a self caricature from the late 1970s.

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John Harris was a British author. He published a series of crime novels featuring the character Inspector Pel, and war books. He wrote with his own name, and also with the pseudonym of Mark Hebden. His 1953 novel The Sea Shall Not Have Them was the basis for a feature film of the same name in 1954. He was the father of Juliet Harris, who published more Inspector Pel books under the name of Juliet Hebden.
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