James Holland was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and studied history at Durham University. The author of the best-selling Fortress Malta, Battle of Britain and Dam Busters, he has also written nine works of historical fiction, five of which feature the heroic Jack Tanner, a soldier of the Second World War. He regularly appears on television and radio, and has written and presented a number of acclaimed documentaries for the BBC. He is Co-Founder and Programme Director of the Chalke Valley History Festival, has his own collection at the Imperial War Museum, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Also by James Holland
Non-fiction
FORTRESS MALTA
TOGETHER WE STAND
HEROES
ITALY’S SORROW
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
DAM BUSTERS
Fiction
THE BURNING BLUE
A PAIR OF SILVER WINGS
THE ODIN MISSION
DARKEST HOUR
BLOOD OF HONOUR
HELLFIRE
DEVIL’S PACT
For more information on James Holland and his books, see his website at www.griffonmerlin.com
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First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Bantam Press an imprint of Transworld Publishers
Copyright © Stanley Christopherson 2014
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Front and back endpapers reproduced from Sherwood Rangers: The Story of the Nottinghamshire Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in the Second World War by T. M. Lindsay, published in 1952 by Barrup, Mathieson & Company. Photograph of Myles Hildyard with Rhona and Henry Trotter and Michael Parish, c. 1939–1940 from It’s Bliss Here: Letters Home 1939–1945 by Myles Hildyard reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop (www.petersfraserdunlop.com) on behalf of the Estate of Myles Hildyard.
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