Young Paul Goetz loves aeroplanes and so joins the Luftwaffe as soon as he can. Like so many, he’s taken in, swept along in the unquestioning tide of excitement, keen to be airborne as a fighter pilot.His first posting sees him sent to Leningrad in December 1941. His squadron shoot down huge numbers of enemy aeroplanes and victory seems certain, but the war drags on for a second winter, becoming increasingly difficult. Comrades are lost or reported ‘Vermisst’ – missing – a...

A single dream forced me-someone who had intended to vanish into the crowd and live in seclusion-to step back onto that path.　　But is that really the case?　　Perhaps I have indeed been compelled to play a game of grand strategy.

Li Li transmigrated into the body of the vicious female supporting character in the melodramatic novel *Interstellar's Sole Favorite*-a true princess of the Interstellar Empire who had been lost and later found. According to the original plot, she was destined to turn villainous out of resentment-seeing her family lavish genuine affection on the imposter princess instead of her-and ultimately go down a dark, irredeemable path as a detestable antagonist.However, Li Li arrived a bit ...

Dennis Hubbard was a naïve 21 year old when he arrived at a small mining town called Broken Hill in tropical Northern Rhodesia, where he spent the next two years. They were to become the greatest and most formative of his life. Together with his best friend Fred, he became involved in expeditions deep into the African bush, first on pedal cycles and then in a 1946 Flying Standard motor car. They paddled a kayak on the lake adjacent to Mulungushi Dam, where they had first-hand encounters wi...

Have you ever thought your local hospital might be haunted? Did you know the police are sometimes called upon to deal with thieving patients, dishonest staff, and even medical professionals with strange and disturbing sexual habits? This and more is probably happening in your local hospital, but so far you have been blissfully unaware. Until now...

Who’d be a copper? follows Jonathan Nicholas in his transition from a long-haired world traveller to becoming one of ‘Thatcher’s army’ on the picket lines of the 1984 miner’s dispute and beyond. His first years in the police were often chaotic and difficult, and he was very nearly sacked for not prosecuting enough people. Working at the sharp end of inner-city policing for the entire thirty years, Jonathan saw how politics interfered with the job; from the massaging of crime figures to per...

Jonathan Nicholas spent an extraordinary year in Australia when he was twenty-two years old. It was a very eventful, challenging, dangerous, and wonderful year which as you will see was totally unforgettable. His time in the country started in a very strange manner but this was to become quite typical of his time in Australia.

Jonathan was a naïve eighteen-year-old who had just finished his A-levels. His cousin Andy suggested they fly to Israel in order to experience life on a kibbutz as a ‘volunteer’. Jonathan had never even heard the word kibbutz and he knew very little about Israel, but he agreed to take part in the adventure and made the necessary arrangements. He arrived at a fortified settlement in the Upper Galilee, surrounded by a high fence and rolls of barbed wire, called Kibbutz Daf...

Officer Burden finally passes his drawn-out promotion exams and gets bumped up to sergeant, a job he's been chasing after for a number of years. On receiving his stripes, he is told that he has to decide if he is 'on the Chief Constable's train, or not ...' At the time, he had absolutely no idea of where that particular train might be heading ...Meanwhile, after a beautiful woman walks into his jacuzzi at the local gym, things begin to heat up rapidly, resulting in a completely new...

Having completed his initial training, rookie cop PC 424 Burden has been authorised for solo patrol, and nervously takes to the streets of the beautiful university city of Cambridge, to learn how to police the streets alone, to arrest crooks and to try and make his mark, often with hilarious, sometimes terrifying and occasionally heart-breaking results.ONE FOR THE ROAD shows you the highs and lows of patrolling Britain's unpredictable streets, in a short, yet entertaining, read.

With police college a distant memory, Constable Burden quickly becomes one of the most experienced officers on his shift. Just a handful of years separate that awkward, nervous rookie from the professional he has become, and as he revels in his new undeclared status, the variety of incidents he has to face on a daily basis just continues to grow!Patrol alongside Constable Burden through the streets of Cambridge, as he deals with the terrifying, tragic and often unbelievable events ...

Swapping his army-greens for police-blues, ex-soldier Diem Burden chooses to do just that, initially suspecting he has joined 'just another army'.All that changes, however, once he is let loose on the unsuspecting public that makes up the beautiful British university city of Cambridge. From mad axe-men to heart-breaking agony messages, the new probationer samples everything that cops routinely face, whilst infamously making police college history along the way.This story is...