V2 - signed, lined & datedOn the brink of defeat, Hitler commissioned 10,000 V2s ballistic rockets that carried a one ton warhead at three times the speed of sound, which he believed would win the war. Dr Rudi Graf who, along with his friend Werner von Braun, had once dreamt of sending a rocket to the moon, now finds himself in November 1944 in a bleak seaside town in Occupied Holland, launching V2s against London. No one understands the volatile, deadly machine better than

two strangers meet by chance

But during a skirmish to relieve a castle under attack

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The third novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News

It is a morning's lessons

Katie is pushed to unimaginable lengths as she pushes ahead in search of a better life and as Harry's safety wavers in the balance

I hit him with the Springfield and he went down

a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking

As they approach the magnificent Lake Toba

Combining powerful storytelling and rich characters

he is ordered by the First Lord of the Admiralty to recapture the Frenchman at any cost

to the vast undercroft beneath it