Alan Savage

Having escaped from Singapore the day before it fell to the Japanese, Captain Harry Brand and his wife, Constance, seek refuge in Burma. Caught up in the retreat from Japanese invasion in Burma, Harry and his wife are separated. Constance has to endure a Japanese prison camp, whilst Harry fights his way out with the Burma Corps and then takes part in the epic fight back, not knowing Constance's fate. He fights his way out and takes part in a fight back.

Cairo, June 1942. The Afrika Corps, apparently beaten out of sight at the end of 1941, has now counter-attacked, and even the long-held sally port of Tobruk has fallen. The British are desperate -- the only way to win the war in North Africa is to eliminate the Afrika Corps commander, Field-Marshal Erwin Rommel -- but one commando raid has already failed disastrously and Rommel is now at the Egyptian frontier. John Warrey, reunited with his companion-in-arms, Margo Cartwright, renews old contacts with Senussi tribesmen, trying to persuade the Arabs to carry out the assassination. Although willing, their attempt fails and John finds himself engaged in ongoing guerrilla warfare against one of the most cunning and deadly military strategists of the twentieth century. Can he survive? And can vital information be passed through to the new British commander, General Bernard Montgomery, in time to prepare the final desert onslaught -- the battle at El Alamein... ?

When the beautiful Margaret of Anjou married King Henry VI of England, she longed for love, power, wealth, and a son. Though her husband could satisfy none of her desires, there were others at court who could. This novel retells the story of how she became the all-powerful Queen of Lions.

The beautiful and accomplished Queen Joanna I of Naples was also a cold-blooded murderess and a woman of questionable morals. This is her story, told through the eyes of her devoted companion, an Englishwoman whose own life parallels Joanna's.

In this sequel to "The Eight Banners", the trading house of Barrington is firmly established in Shanghai. China, however, has begun her slow decline into anarchy, with not only the beginnings of the Boxer rebellion, but also the emergence of a semi-democratic movement under Sun Yat-Sen.

The first in a two-book sequence of historical adventures set in the Chinese Empire of the Manchu Dynasty. In 1793, Robert Barrington, a mariner, arrives in Peking, where he founds a trading house. Running parallel to the rise of the Barringtons are momentous events in Chinese history.

This is the story of the lives and lusts, ambitions and avarices, triumphs and defeats of the Moghuls, and five generations of the English family who witnessed and participated in it all. In 1524 Sir Thomas Blunt and his young cousin reach Goa in search of the fabled kingdom of Prester John. Instead, they discover an exotic and capricious land whose wealth far exceeds their wildest dreams, and become involved with the ruling Moghuls. They join the armies of a descendant of Genghis Khan and help to conquer the cities of Delhi and Agra.

In 1448 an English master-gunner, John Hawkwood, arrives in Constantinople. He intends to enter the service of the Byzantine Emperor, whose capital is this astonishing meeting place of East and West - now in dire threat from the Ottoman Turks. But even gunpowder cannot prevail and, in 1453, Constantinople falls to the foe. By fate the Hawkwoods have already changed allegiance, and now serve the conquerors in their victorious surge across eastern Europe and the Mediterranean shores. Though showered with wealth and privilege, they need every ounce of political cunning to survive the swirling intrigues and bloody massacres which dominate the Ottoman realm. For four generations the Hawkwood men are military leaders and envoys, while their women are beautiful captives or dutiful concubines trained in the arts of sensual pleasure. But always the grim spectres of betrayal and sudden death, of ravishment and torture lurk behind the gilded pillars of their palaces and harems. An historical epic which relates the exploits of the Hawkwood family of master gunners between 1448 and 1572, the date of the battle of Lepanto. The story revolves around Constantinople and recreates the dying years of the Byzantine emperors and the conquest and magnificence of the Ottomans.

The fourth novel in the Second World War saga of the Bayley brothers. In the winter of 1942, it is the job of the youthful General Max Bayley, son of an English RAF World War I ace and a German mother, to protect transport planes dropping supplies to the stranded Wehrmacht in Russia. While Max's mission may seem doomed to failure, the Luftwaffe is facing worse problems on the Western Front, where they must face the formidable new RAF Mosquito. Reichsmarshal Goering soon realizes that the war cannot be won without the Mosquito, so orders military intelligence to obtain the specifications at any cost. This they endeavour to do by targeting the American wife of Squadron Leader John Bayley, Max's half-brother. But little do they reckon upon the might of the Bayley family... "The Whirlwind" tells the story of two young men united by blood and separated by ideology, and of the women they love and are desperate to rejoin.

The third novel in the thrilling RAF series depicting the saga of the Bayley brothers. Opting for his mother's nationality before World War II started, Max Bayley has become one of Germany's leading fighter pilots, even if he abhors much of the Nazi philosophy. Spring, 1941: now a major, Max and his wing are transferred from the Channel coast to Eastern Europe where they find themselves taking part in Operation Barbarossa. For the Germans, this is a summer of continuous success and triumph in the air. But Max, despite his triumphs, is all but cashiered when he falls out with the SS over an act of gratuitous viciousness and is banished to a remote Norwegian station. Meanwhile English half-brother John Bayley, a successful pilot in the Spitfires, is shot down over France and has to make a long and dangerous journey as an Evader, to gain to Spain, Gibraltar and then home. On his return he is transferred to flying the new top secret, Mosquito, the fastest aircraft then in existence. Whereas Max, now re-habilitated, is in command of the Luftwaffe in North-Western France and the Netherlands.... Are the two brothers destined to remain on opposite sides of the war, or will their family bonds join them at last?

A compassionate and comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, a woman of enormous intelligence and titanic energy. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century. A stunning biography of one of the most exciting and powerful personalities of all time.

The third in the French Resistance series In Nazi-occupied France, the assassination of a new German commandant by Amalie de Gruchy sparks a crisis in both Nazi Germany and the British secret service. Supposedly killed in a raid a few months previously, Amalie is now being pursued by, amongst others, the head of the German secret police and the mysterious Joanna Jonnson, a spy with a murky past. Amalie's beautiful sister, Liane de Gruchy - also thought to have been killed months before - comes out of hiding to help in the search for Amalie. But soon the Resistance finds itself with a much bigger problem as the Germans uncover British plans which, in the wrong hands, could change the course of the war....

The second instalment in the thrilling RAF series, continuing the saga of the Bayley family Following the surrender of France in 1940, Nazi Germany begins to plan the invasion of Great Britain ? for which it needs complete air superiority. Thus the Luftwaffe is launched on a collision course with Fighter Command of the RAF, a conflict that will lead to the Battle of Britain, the first truly decisive battle of World War II. Flying a Messerschmitt 109 is Lieutenant Max Bayley, son of flying ace Mark Bayley and his aristocratic German wife ? and already, at the age of twenty-one, one of the Luftwaffe's leading pilots. He is well aware that flying a Spitfire for Fighter Command is his older half-brother, John, son of Mark and an Englishwoman. When Max joined up he had had no concept that Germany and England would ever go to war, and now however much he secretly regrets his decision, he remains loyal to his comrades: like most German airmen, he has little understanding of the true depravity of the Nazi regime. The dramatic story follows adventures of the brothers, both in the air and on the ground, often close to each other but never actually meeting until the climactic last battle.

A family drama encompassing both world wars. Having earned a medal at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Sergeant Mark Bayley, 4th Hussars, is posted back to England and volunteers for the Royal Flying Corps, becoming an ace with 23 'kills' to his credit, before being shot down over the German lines in March 1918. While in a prison hospital he falls in love with German nurse Karolina von Bitterman. They marry after the war, but Mark's apparently idyllic life carries a shadow. During embarkation leave in 1917, he had enjoyed a brief but ultimately catastrophic affair with an Englishwoman, and suddenly finds himself responsible for her orphaned son. Karolina willingly adopts the child, although she has a son of her own by Mark. As long as she lives there is harmony. But following her tragically early death from cancer in 1934, the family falls apart. The two boys, as sons of a famous airman, are naturally destined for the RAF, but while John, the son of the English mother, passes through Cranwell and into the service, Karolina's son, Max, allows himself to be seduced, by an unscrupulous German cousin, into returning to the Fatherland, where he renounces his British citizenship and joins the Luftwaffe. Thus, when war breaks out, in 1939, the two brothers find themselves on opposing sides.

A historical romance about the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, and of her relations with her ten children, including Kings Richard and John.