Alan White
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There's only one way home: straight through the enemy.
From the author of The Long Day's Dying, a tense, gripping novella about a daring commando mission in Occupied France during WW2.
Four commandos parachute into occupied Holland. Their mission: to delay and impede German communications long enough to cover the escape of an Allied unit a few miles away. Soon the countryside is in chaos, and the whole German army is hunting for them.
If they...
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Three commandos. Cut off. Surrounded. Desperate.
A classic of war fiction and a major film.
They were three soldiers, on watch in the French countryside, their base a disused barn. Three ordinary men seconded into the horrors of World War II, each with his own ideals, his own feelings, his own fears.
Their task was a nightmare of waiting. German forces were stationed over the brow of a hill, and every moment of every day passed in nerve-shattering...
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You can't hide when the sun never sets...
Norway, 1943. A land in the grip of Nazi occupation, where men and women still fight for freedom in constant danger from German murder squads and Norwegian traitors.
It is to find such a traitor that two men are sent from Britain. Their mission is two-fold. First, to expose the traitor and kill them. Second, to carry out a brilliant and daring operation of rescue and sabotage....
Another thrilling commando...
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Being diagnosed with prostate cancer once in a lifetime is enough. In 2011, Alan White was facing a second round with this life-threatening disease.
Alan's years of experience as a natural health practitioner and counsellor helped him and his wife, Fiona, to make the choice that no man really wants to make — surgical removal of the prostate gland — and to recover, physically and emotionally.
Talking about the things not usually discussed — sex...
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Sometimes it's the waiting that kills...
Millions of lives could be saved by a top-secret scientific formula. But the professor who holds the information is in the hands of the Germans, closely guarded in a secret laboratory in high-security prison.
A small group of men led by the tough and ruthless Major Rhodes are ordered to smash their way through and rescue the professor. Unseen forces soon threaten the bloody venture, however, and only the...
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Alan White served in the RAF from 1953 to 1987 roughly the period of the Cold War. His introduction to flying came in his University Air Squadron. This seduced him into dropping out of University and joining the RAF. He initially had success during the piston-engine stages of his training but damage to a Vampire T11 and a bad start on the Hunter Weaponry Course set his confidence back until he recovered during service with his first Hunter Squadron....
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Once you step out of the plane there's no way back...
French Resistance fighters uncover the position of a secret German store containing files and reports of vital information on the movement of troops. The details are passed to British Intelligence, who formulate an ingenious plan – to break into the heavily guarded store and steal the information – thus gaining the upper hand for a precious few hours.
This was a job that demanded a tough,...
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Once a traitor, always a traitor?
David Hinton is a traitor, both to Britain and Nazi Germany. A British Nazi sympathiser at the start of the war, he answered Fatherland's call, heading to Fortress Europe and broadcasting Nazi propaganda back over the Channel via radio. But then, growing disillusioned with Hitler, he defected again, returning to London.
Now the Allies want him to make one more broadcast, this time for them, from Strasbourg Radio...
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Being diagnosed with prostate cancer once in a lifetime is enough. In 2011, Alan White was facing a second round with this life-threatening disease.
Alan's years of experience as a natural health practitioner and counsellor helped him and his wife, Fiona, to make the choice that no man really wants to make, surgical removal of the prostate gland, and to recover, physically and emotionally.
Talking about the things not usually discussed, sex after...
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Jazz poems inspired by such great jazz artists as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Bill Evans, and Keith Jarrett. Beginning with the origins of jazz in New Orleans, the poems move through the swing and big band era to the bebop movement, the modal jazz period, and the avant garde movement.
11) Broken
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First Look Studios
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[2007]
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Hope, a young transplant to Los Angeles from the Midwest, comes face to face with her version of the seven deadly sins, as her dark-side incarnate comes at her from every angle in an all-out effort to devour her soul.
12) Reclaim
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[2014]
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A desperate American couple discovers all is not what it seems when they uncover a high-stakes underground scam while traveling abroad. To expose the truth and get back to the U.S., they must risk their lives to save their daughter.