Blood of Honour
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  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552773980
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $29.99
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Blood of Honour

A Jack Tanner Adventure

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1 Jul 2010
Audiobook
18 Oct 2012
Paperback
15 Jul 2011
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Sharpe for the Blitz years - the third novel in the highly acclaimed series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner.

Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this all-action, blood-pumping wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland. Full of wholly convincing battles scenes and expert characterisation, as well as a compelling, high-octane storyline, this is one you won't be able to put down!
'Absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting' -- Daily Telegraph
'Fantastic - unputdownable!' -- ***** Reader review
'Great stuff. Highly entertaining and well written' -- ***** Reader review
'Once you start you cannot put this down' -- ***** Reader review
'Another cracking Jack Tanner novel' -- ***** Reader review

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Crete, 1941: THE NAZI HAMMER IS ABOUT TO FALL ONCE MORE...

In the face of a German invasion, Sergeant Jack Tanner is embroiled in a deadly game of survival that will test his resolve more than ever before. Not only has he fallen out with his commander but he has mortally offended Alopex, a powerful local chieftain.

As if that wasn't enough, Tanner and the rest of his battalion are caught in vicious close-quarter fighting against crack German paratroopers. Before long, they find themselves in bitter retreat to the mountainous interior where only one man can help them - Alopex.

Although whether he will come to their rescue or not remains to be seen...

Jack Tanner's adventures continue in Hellfire.
  • Published: 15 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780552773980
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

James Holland

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including Battle of Britain, Dam Busters, Burma ’44 and, most recently, Big Week, he has also written nine works of historical fiction, including the Jack Tanner novels.

He is currently writing an acclaimed three-volume new history of the Second World War, The War in the West. He has presented – and written – many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, History and Discovery Channels.

He is also co-founder of the Chalke Valley History Festival and co-founder of WarGen.org, an online Second World War resource site, and presents the Chalk Valley History Hit podcast. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he also has a weekly podcast with Al Murray, We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Al Murray and James Holland Talk World War II. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940.

portrait photo of James Holland

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Alvesdon
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Praise for Blood of Honour

Plenty of action... sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting

Daily Telegraph

A good old-fashined action hero makes his appearance in this page-turning thriller... James Holland, a respected military historian, has produced a story authentic in every detail

Daily Telegraph