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  • Published: 18 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448154579
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 16 hr 23 min
  • Narrator: Gordon Griffin
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Darkest Hour

A Jack Tanner Adventure




Sharpe for the Blitz years - the new novel in the highly commercial series featuring Sergeant Jack Tanner

Readers of Robert Harris, Bernard Cornwell and Ken Follett will love this gripping, edge-of-your-seat wartime thriller from bestselling author and historian James Holland. Guaranteed to keep you turning the pages!

'Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics' -- Mail on Sunday
'Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty, all action yarn!' -- Sunday Telegraph
'Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff, and his descriptions of the action are terrific' -- Daily Telegraph
'Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it' -- Daily Mail
'Very difficult to put down' -- ***** Reader review
'An amazing read' -- ***** Reader review
'An adventure from start to finish but with great historical facts thrown in' -- ***** Reader review

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Dunkirk, 1940: ONE MAN MUST STEM THE NAZI TIDE...
Sergeant Jack Tanner has been posted to a training company on the south-east coast of England where the mysterious deaths of two Polish refugees lead him to believe there has been foul play.

As the Germans launch their Blitzkrieg in Europe, the entire company are sent to join the battle to stop Hitler's drive across the Low Countries. Pitted against the die-hard Nazis of the SS 'Death's Head' Division and the great panzer commander, General Rommel himself, it is left to Tanner to get his men back to Allied lines.

But if they are to have any hope of surviving the mayhem of Dunkirk, Tanner must first deal with an enemy far more deadly than the Germans...

Jack Tanner's adventures continue in Blood of Honour.

  • Published: 18 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781448154579
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 16 hr 23 min
  • Narrator: Gordon Griffin
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.

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Praise for Darkest Hour

This is a well-researched page-turner that keeps you hungry for more. An exciting tale full of historical details and action

Soldier magazine

Has the sure touch of someone who knows their subject and enjoys it

Daily Mail

Old-fashioned, testosterone-fuelled escapism and Tanner is a chiselled protagonist straight out of the pages of the old Commando comics

Mail on Sunday

Holland is a superb historian who knows his stuff, and his descriptions of the action are terrific

Daily Telegraph

Sharpe for the Blitz years...a meaty, all action yarn!

Sunday Telegraph