Mustela wanted to return to the twenty first century when he was known as John, but he wanted to take Suras with him. Mustela had been his name when he had lived as a Roman 2000 years earlier. He'd returned to Rome having been transported in time by Leonardo Da Vinci. He'd met his friend Suras again for the first time in all those years and had easily fallen into his old life with him. He continued to live as a Roman with all the rough edges of a man born and bred in Essex. The friend that...

Two young brothers are sexually abused and murdered. They are both reincarnated but to different families. James remembers what happened and bit by bit, relates it to Dennis his father, naming names. He then tracks down Bob, his original dad, and he takes terrible revenge. With the help of an autistic victim, he lures the monks to their deaths. Seven abusers are mercilessly killed, including an ex-detective, who was in charge of the original case. The second brother is found, the brothers ...

John Bull,redundant and depressed sees a jacket in a charity shop window which unbeknown to him has an historical relic in the lining. He’s drawn to the jacket but he doesn’t know why. Forces from the 15th century have chosen him to return the relic to them, and are manipulating his every move. They chose him for good reason. Back through several previous lives, he had proved himself to be resourceful, brave and capable. The forces have developed a way of transporting someone in time & Joh...

John Bull and Alfie Turps are two friends having a drink at the "Fat Duck Inn."Both of them are knocked unconscious and hours later find themselves on a ship and bound for Spain. They've been kidnapped by a privateer. When they regain consciousness they're given the opportunity to either join the crew or be thrown overboard. They both choose the former. And so their life at sea begins, and they love it. On one of his voyages to Bristol, John visits Lucy who is a past lover. She is an innke...

Lofty and his friends are true Londoners. He is asked by them to arrange a vacation, but they insist that the destination remains a secret. Being an adventurer at heart, Lofty arranges a trip to the mountains in Spain. The area is remote, and rarely sees human visitors. They are livid when they discover where they are going. Simon is shot dead by a rifle shot, and it soon becomes evident that the friends are being hunted.Eastern Europeans have paid a vast sum to hunt human prey.Simon's mob...

Four life-long friends in their seventies who are discontented with their lives, and are fed up with being broke whilst watching their lives slip away, decide on a life of crime in order to give themselves one last chance of some good times. Ill health haunts them all. They plan to steal sheep, but it isn’t as easy as they’d expected. When one of them dies after their first caper, their determination becomes stronger, so they change plans and go into growing cannabis, often with funny resu...

James and Nat go back to sea for the last time, taking young John, who is James's son, and his best friend Joe Arnold. After a violent and horrendous act from Tom Crow against his old partner, they are forced to sail back early from India, when they are caught up in a fearsome storm. On their return, James and Nat hand over the ship to young John and Joe. They will spend five years with Tom Crow, learning the ropes to become Captains themselves. Their adventures begin on their first voyage...

Three times during the 17th century, England and Holland went to war as part of an ongoing struggle for economic and naval supremacy.Primarily fought in the cold waters of the North Sea and the English Channel, the wars proved revolutionary in their impact upon warship design, armament, and naval tactics. During this time, the warship evolved into the true ship-of-the-line that would dominate naval warfare until the advent of steam power.This book traces th...

This compact, illustrated guide examines the design, construction, and operation of the first six of the ten US fast battleships, two of the North Carolina class and four of the South Dakota class.These six battleships were all authorized in 1936 and were the first vessels built in the US since 1923. Consequently, these ships benefitted from enormous technological leaps, with improvements in ship design, power, armor, armament and the single most important improvem...

The Staghound was a unique World War II armored vehicle designed and manufactured in the US, but intended solely for the British army.Since its combat debut in Italy in 1943 until the end of the war it had performed particularly valuable service in a reconnaissance role where its speed and armor ensured that it was able to extricate itself from trouble as required without additional support.This book examines the development of this category of armored cars...

Described by one soldier as “a metal box designed by a sadist to move soldiers across the water,” the Landing Craft, Infantry was a large beaching craft intended to deliver an infantry company to a hostile shore, once the beachhead was secured.The LCI and its vehicle-delivery counterpart, the Landing Ship, Medium were widely used by the allies during World War II. Later, the hulls of these ships were used as the basis for a fire support ship. While the landing ship...

The tiny new state of the United Provinces of the Netherlands won its independence from the mighty Spanish empire by fighting and winning the Eighty Years' War, from 1568 and 1648.In this long conflict, warfare on water played a much bigger role in determining the ultimate victor. On the high seas the fleet carved out a new empire, growing national income to such levels that it could continue the costly war for independence. Yet it was in coastal and inland waters ...