In the final book in the New York Times bestselling Ruined series, the romance of The Selection and the epic stakes of Red Queen come together in a story of revenge, adventure, and unexpected love. Emelina Flores and her sister, Olivia, were determined to bring peace to the people of Ruina. But as the war for liberation raged on, what triumph and freedom meant to Em and Olivia slowly changed. As Olivia’s violence and thirst for vengeance became her only ambition, Em was left to pick up the pieces. But it’s not only Em who is upset by Olivia’s increased violence. Other members of the Ruined army are beginning to see the cracks, and soon a small group of them defects from Olivia’s army and joins Em instead. The two sisters are soon pitted against each other in an epic battle for the kingdom and the future, and only one will win.

Allied fighter pilots began encountering German jets – principally the outstanding Me 262 fighter – from the autumn of 1944. Stunned by the aircraft's speed and rate of climb, it took USAAF and RAF units time to work out how to combat this deadly threat as the Luftwaffe targeted the medium and heavy bombers attacking targets across the Reich.A number of high-scoring aces from the Eighth Air Force (Drew, Glover, Meyer, Norley and Yeager, to name but a few) succeeded in claiming Me 262s, Me 163 and Ar 234s during the final months of the campaign, as did RAF aces like Tony Gaze and 'Foob' Fairbanks. The exploits of both famous and little-known pilots will be chronicled in this volume, detailing how they pushed their P-47s, P-51s, Spitfires and Tempests to the limits of their performance in order to down the Luftwaffe's 'wonder weapons'.

He's Falling For A Princess… But She's A Commoner!A wild scheme to secure a patron for her father’s play finds Elidh Easton at a house party dressed as Italian royalty! But Elidh catches the eye of their dashing host, Sutton Keynes, who has four weeks to find a noble bride. He’d never look twice at her normally–poor, plain and untitled–but in the moment, it’s easy to imagine they have a future!

Ten years after the publication of his Services Spéciaux (1935-1945), Paillole took up his pen once again in order to shed further light on the critical role that the French Secret Service played in the infiltration of German agencies. In this first English edition of The Spy in Hitler’s Inner Circle, Paillole brings us to the very heart of the world of espionage and counterintelligence, providing unique insight into the key figures that led to the decoding of the Enigma machine at Bletchley and the ultimate collapse of Hitler’s Third Reich, most notably through Hans-Thilo Schmidt, France’s German spy embedded in the very heart of the Third Reich. In compelling narrative style Paillole details how Schmidt delivered intelligence to France right from the source of the German Cipher Office. Schmidt, who’s brother Rudolf occupied one of the highest postings in the Third Reich, commander of 2nd Panzer Army in Russia, created an intelligence network between France, Poland and England, and successfully transmitted crucial details about Hitler’s strategic plans. From information about Germany’s rearmament and the reoccupation of the Rhineland, to fundamental technical intelligence about the Enigma machine, Schmidt’s contributions are key to the Allied victory in the intelligence war, despite the fact that France largely ignored his communications. Revealed here are the most secret aspects of the ‘secret war,’ the ‘war of numbers.’ By way of Hans-Thilo Schmidt Paillole sheds further light on the interaction of secret agents working inside the German government, bringing attention to the cooperation between the French, English and Polish agencies surrounding the challenges of decoding the Enigma machine. We learn the innermost details of the roles that men such as Gustave Bertrand, Rudolphe Lemoine, and Richard Sorge played in this dramatic history and ultimately the pivotal role that Bletchley’s Alan Turing was able to perform as a result. Paillole brings renewed focus onto one of the most important espionage affairs of the war and sheds new light on already existent Anglo-Saxon and Polish historiography, revealing new aspects of the participation of Enigma during the decisive phases of the Second World War: the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Libya and the Battle of Normandy.

Six weeks after Edith and her vampire family were exiled from their clan, Darren waits at the rendezvous, poised for a reunion that might never come. With every passing day, his hope of ever seeing the vampire who showed him what it means to be human again dwindles.On the run from Hunters and her own clan alike, Edith strives to protect those in her care, all the while fighting to get back to Darren and the family she'd long dreamed of. But even when their paths do cross again, reunion comes at a cost.When Mr. Heartsong brazenly declares war on all humanity, allegiances will be tested. Will Edith side with the man she's come to believe may be her destiny or the creator who gave her a second chance at life?

Royah lives, having only barely survived the journey. Exhausted, she recognizes that her quest has been far more arduous than she could have ever imagined.But now her destination is in sight, and the answers to all her questions about why humans were abandoned in deep space, how they can survive, and how they can avoid extinction are within reach. All of the answers are at her fingertips.But she encounters a deadly new foe at the worst possible time—a man with all the power in the world and an army at his back. If she refuses his demands, he will unleash a weapon of mass destruction, forever ending Royah's quest—and her life.It will also annihilate every living being on Planet Home.

Get in and get out—he treats his relationships just like his high-stakes missions. "Mrs. Tappan writes one of the best accounts of today's military fighting man/woman... The characters are so real, and the story so enthralling, that you don't want to put the book down!" ~ Fan review Lieutenant Kyle "Mikey" Hammond operates on self-destruct: wild partying, one-night stands, and toxic relationships. Right on target, the night before he's due to provide security for a journalist in Pakistan, he pulls a pre-emptive screwup with her. Never one to make a bad situation better, he continues to go heavy on the flirtation. When undeniable feelings for the spunky, unshakeable woman grow, it's time to pull another one of his usual moves: bail out. A master at dealing with violent terrorists, LA Times journalist Samantha Dougin is called in to negotiate the release of four American hostages. But something fishy is going on, and her days...

During the final days of World War II, German SS officers crammed trains, cars, and trucks full of gold, currency, and jewels, and headed for the mountains of Austria. Fearful of arrest and determined to keep the stolen loot out of Allied hands, they concealed their treasures and fled. Most of these men were eventually apprehended, but many managed to evade capture. The intensive postwar Allied investigation that followed recovered only a sliver of this mountain of gold. What happened to the rest of it, and what fate befell these men? Authors Alford and Savas answer these questions and many more in this fast-paced and well-written new book. Their groundbreaking study is based upon thousands of pages of previously unpublished and recently declassified documents. The result is a fresh and absolutely original reading experience that offers insights into the minds and methods of these SS thieves, the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) within which they labored, how they achieved their positions of near-absolute power, the complex Allied investigation into their activities, and what happened to the vast sums of wealth they looted from Europe’s Jews. Nazi Millionaires deftly captures the high drama surrounding these men and women and the secrets they carried with them during the closing days of World War II—and in some cases, to the grave. It is a remarkable tale of greed, lust, fraud, deceit, treachery, and murder. And it is one you will long remember.

One of the great arguments of World War II took place among Allied military leaders over when and where to launch a second front against Germany in Europe. Stalin, holding on by his teeth in Russia, urged a major invasion from the west as soon as possible. The Americans, led by Marshall and Wedemeyer, argued likewise. It was Churchill who got his way, however, with his Mediterranean strategy, including a campaign on the Italian peninsula, which he mistakenly called the “soft underbelly of Europe.”

PI Robert Brixton is back in Margaret Truman's Allied in Danger, Donald Bain's next installment in the New York Times bestselling Capital Crimes seriesDavid Portland works security for America's British Embassy in London. His life is upended when his son Trevor dies mysteriously in Nigeria, while employed by a suspicious security/mercenary company known as SureSafe. One night, Portland sees a man in a bar wearing a bracelet—a family heirloom, which he had given his son—and attacks the man. The information he learns will send Portland down a rabbit-hole of deadly deception—one which he hopes will lead him to the truth about his son's death.Meanwhile, Robert Brixton, a noted Washington DC-based international investigator, has been hired to look into a fraudulent charity and a criminal warlord in Nigeria. His life and his investigations will soon become intertwined with Portland's probe and that of his estranged,...

ReviewPublishers Weekly“Few stories can rival the ones told in The Enemy I Knew.”Library Journal (Starred Review)"This is a collection of 27 first-person combat accounts, sought out by the author, from German and Austrian Jews who served in the Allied Armed Forces in North Africa and Europe. These men (and one woman) had emigrated as children or young adults to the United States or Great Britain between 1937 and 1941. All of them jumped at the chance to fight the Nazis, and all served in combat (the woman was an ambulance driver). One man served in both the European and the Pacific theaters and returned to Germany in 1946 for occupation duty. These accounts, all newly published, are filled with terror and a simple courage, with a feeling of a duty fulfilled. Recommended." Military Heritage"Imagine fleeing Nazi Germany because of one’s Jewish faith and then returning during the war as a member of the Allied forces. Author Steven Karras began interviewing Jewish refugees in 1999 who had fled Nazi persecution because of their religion and come to the United States and Great Britain, only to find themselves being inducted into the military and returning to their homeland. Following the oral-history format, Karras selected 27 individuals to interview for his book. One became a U.S. commando and actually liberated his own parents from a Nazi concentration camp. Another soldier was assigned to military intelligence and later questioned a former classmate who was serving in the German Army. Each vignette describes the individual’s early life in German or Austria and his subsequent military service."The Jewish Tribune"Steven Karras has avoided what could have been a dry academic analysis of the motives of German Jews for fighting in Allied armies against the Nazis. Rather, he has produced a collection of twenty-seven personal interviews in which people recall their emotions more than fifty years after World War II...The tales of battle are mind-boggling, as young men risked life and limb for an ideal....the narratives are fascinating." The Daily News"Heroic, poignant and heartbreaking, it is a compelling book. Some of the memoirs, especially those concerning escape from Germany, provide graphic pictures of the desperation that the Jewish community felt in the late 1930s, especially after Crystal Night, when the Nazis were closing and there were very few places to flee." America in WWII"...the unique background of these 27 veterans give The Enemy I Knew value for students of Jewish experiences before and during the war, as well as devotees of war stories." Accent on Tampa Bay Magazine“This book is a tribute to the overlooked men and women who risked everything to help rid the world of evil.”Intermountain Jewish News “In prose, the first-person accounts are riveting and illuminating, shining a light on a little-known dimension of the vast and complex story of World War II. The veterans who bear witness to their wartime experience are sometimes direct and blunt in their descriptions, often eloquent and philosophical and always fascinating...If you’re looking for powerful expressions of heartfelt patriotism—the kind that only personal experience can create—look no further than The Enemy I Knew. There is drama aplenty...After reading The Enemy I Knew, one is forced to conclude that the legendary Greatest Generation was even greater than we realized.”The Jewish Review (Portland, OR)“For all those who have not heard this story at their father’s or grandfather’s knee, and for anyone who has considered the question, ‘Why didn’t the Jews fight back?’ this book is essential.”North County Times“A sort of real-life version of the film ‘Inglourious Basterds’ without the baseball bats, the oral history The Enemy I Knew lets more than two dozen Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria who served in the U.S. and British militaries in Europe during World War II tell their stories. The larger themes may be familiar, but the story of Jews who fought back against their oppressors -- who returned home in the conquering army -- is uplifting in the face of the horror of the Holocaust...The stereotype of the weak Jew, going meekly to his fate in the death camps, is put to rest here. Those Jews who had the ability to fight back surely did -- often in the uniform of the United States or Great Britain. (3 out of 4 stars).”HistoryMike Blog"The Enemy I Knew is an important contribution to the literature of the Holocaust and the Second World War, and I recommend the book to scholars and general readers alike. The book contains quite a few fascinating images not previously published, and readers will gain a much greater sense of this form of Jewish resistance to Nazi efforts to exterminate Jews and their culture."Bookviews“A little known story of WWII was the role of German Jews and it is told in The Enemy I Knew by Steven Karras. Though the Nazis rounded up and killed six million Jews, some German and Austrian Jews who had fled the Nazis were inducted into the Allied forces. The stories of 27 of them, including gripping recollections from Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of State, are documented. They displayed incredible courage.”The Jewish Magazine"This is not a dry academic analysis of the motives of German Jews to fight in Allied armies against the Nazis. Rather, this is a collection of twenty-seven personal interviews in which people recollected their emotions more than fifty years after World War II. Some of those relating events are known, such as Henry Kissenger. Most, however, are faceless Jews who stepped forward to serve their newly found country in time of need." Book DescriptionIn view of the circumstances of the Holocaust–even now, who would believe what was happening?–some still ask: Why didn't the Jews fight back? In fact, over 10,000 German Jews–34 percent of the refugee population between the ages of eighteen and forty–fought in the allied armies of World War II. This book contains twenty-seven interviews with those brave souls, European-born Jewish combat veterans of World War II who faced their persecutors by joining the American and British armies in the fight against the country of their birth. Offering a unique view of the harrowing experience of German and Austrian Jews fighting the Axis in North Africa and Europe, the book is testament to heroism, resilience, and courage.