Written in 1915 while leading the 1/5th Manchester Regiment, Colonel Sir Henry Darlington's letters from Gallipoli are a commanding officer's firsthand account of leadership and endurance at Helles.Long considered one of the most valuable firsthand accounts of the Gallipoli campaign, original copies have become increasingly scarce since the publisher's remaining stock was destroyed during the London Blitz in December 1940.In this new and expanded edition, the editors, facil...

TomKat: Double Impact has been described as Jack Reacher meets Hanna with a touch of Thin Man savoir vivre tossed in. A story that had to be told. A love story of tremendous impact. A story about a small group of people willing to risk everything to stop the most serious threat to Western Civilization in modern history. There comes a time when a citizen must fulfill the constitution's requirements if the government fails to meet its obligation. TomKat: Double Impact is one of these stories...

"I was after all the experiences I could collect, and wanted to know what a great military hospital was like ... I had to go to one, and decided on the grand style of doing it."Corporal Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army's 42nd (East Lancashire) Division who served at Gallipoli in 1915. Four months on the peninsula left him debilitated, suffering nine septic sores and no less than four diseases - diphtheria, jaundice, enteritis and dysentery.Riley was evacuated ...

"From a ground-floor room at the end of one block shone a light. It came from a canteen. I saw others were busy while I was lowering a pint of shandy. I was so dry that I could not taste it-I could only just feel it. We felt better. Where there was beer there was hope."Alec Riley was a signaller in the British Army's 42nd (East Lancashire) Division. Egypt Diary 1914-1915 tells of the mobilisation of the division at the outbreak of war, and the territorials' eight-...

"We had a look around, through periscopes, at the remains of recent fighting. The dead were on top, and we, the living, were below the general ground-level. The usual order of life and death were reversed."So wrote Alec Riley in his account of an ordinary soldier in an extraordinary conflict, the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.A signaller with the 42nd (East Lancashire) Division, Riley was well placed to serve as an eyewitness to the sharp end of the campaign, being with the in...

Welcome to Red Heights. A town with a killer reputation… Seriously.Monsters. Homicidal maniacs. A killer sock monkey that never stops laughing. A whole gang of nightmares await your arrival with bloody, open arms.With LESSONS V: THE TERRIBLE TOWN AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES, you’ll find forty short tales, each only a hundred words long. Some will make you giggle. Others might make you want to sleep with the lights on.Either way, your stay at Red Heights will be a memo...

After being let go from his lousy job and finding his wife in bed with another man, Benjamin hits the bar, wondering what else could possibly go wrong—unaware he's about to have one of the worst days of his life."The universe is playing a series of cruel and unfortunate jokes on you. More jokes to follow."That's what's printed on the card Benjamin Goodman receives from a strange, drunken homeless man he meets at the bar.In this dark comedy of random and absurd situa...

It was supposed to be a simple robbery. But when things go horribly wrong and a bank teller winds up dead, Chad and Ray need to keep themselves hidden from the law. They find a house where conveniently the family is absent. It should’ve been the perfect place for them to stay out of danger.But there’s a greater danger lurking inside. A child’s sock monkey waits in the shadows, and has terrible, awful plans for the pair.From the author of LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES co...

An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global proportions. What has been less obvious is the effect on the locus of the attacks, New York City, not as a seat of political or economic power, but as a community; not in the days and weeks afterward, but over months and years. New York after 9/11 offers insightful and critical obser...

A sister's doll doesn't take kindly to insults, and proves it.A puppet maker believes his creations are out to get him.A mother can't stand her son's new favorite toy… and for good reason.In Michael Crane's latest collection of terrifying and darkly comic drabbles, you'll find out why Playtime is only fun for those with vicious intentions. In these 30 100-word stories you'll run into deranged toys with old scores to settle, homicidal sociopaths and other unapologetic ...

We've been expecting you…The morbid 100-word shorts of chaos and pure, sinister evil are back in LESSONS IV: The Dead Carnival and Other Morbid Drabbles. In his latest installment of twenty-nine horrifying and darkly humorous stories, author Michael Crane takes you on a trip to the carnival you'll never forget (and a trip you may not survive). Oh, there will be games that cheat you out of something far more valuable than money. Rides will break down, but not necessarily by accident...

A sinister puppet finally makes a new friend.A man learns about his bleak future.A killer has another painful lesson to teach.From the author of LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES comes this terrifying and amusing follow-up. 30 100-word shorts about horrible ghouls, monsters and deranged, bloodthirsty lunatics. In these drabbles, you'll run into kid-hungry goblins, sadistic dolls, zombies and psychopaths who believe that violence can solve just about anything.D...