In the unpredictable maelstrom of war, heroes can come from the unlikeliest places...Malta, 1942 a thousand miles from friends, isolated, besieged, and slowly being starved into surrenderInto that hopeless situation fly two Wellington aircraft equipped with long-range radar. One is captained by a dedicated, veteran RAF pilot. The other by Peter Forrester, a hastily trained, carefree twenty-one-year-old.Their role is to find enemy convoys proceedin...

A battle of nerves between a British squadron-leader and a German sea-captain.Deep in a Norwegian fjord hides the German merchant-cruiser Groningen. Squadron-leader Guy Strickland knows it is there, but Military Intelligence refuses to take his word for granted.He leads his exhausted squadron into the air in order to take the vital photographic evidence but only his plane returns.A maverick and a brilliant flyer, Strickland becomes obsessed with t...

One man's disappearance could signal the beginning of World War Three.Group Captain Gavin Gallagher, after a spectacular career as an airman, was the Commanding Officer of the most powerful nuclear rocket station in the world. Until he vanishes, without a trace.He left the Zeus launching pads to return home to his wife and never arrived. From the Provost Marshal's office, Wing Commander Henderson is tasked with investigating the mystery t...

From World War to World War, the spirit of comradeship never dies.Autumn, 1940. The battered RAF 13 Squadron are stationed at Marshfield airfield, once home to the American 96th Squadron who lost their lives on the Hindenburg Line.Jack Horner and Ginger Johnson are appalled when they are assigned to Peter Maddox, a notoriously inept pilot. Though they fear for their lives, Maddox, despite his total lack of skill, achieves...

Investigations into the causes of aircraft accidents have for decades focused on what happened and who did it - very rarely Why? It is the question Why? that David Beaty has addressed here, fighting the misnomer of 'pilot error' and propounding that the cause should be sought deeper inside human beings who make apparently simple human errors.

Four stunning full cast dramatisation of WWII flying ace, David Beaty’s most exciting novelsListen now to this thrilling collection of four dramas from the master of the genre, David Beaty. These vintage dramatisations will have you on the edge of your seat and transport you to a bygone era when aviation was a new, thrilling and sometimes deadly world. If you are a fan of Jack Higgins or R.D. Wingfield, then you will love these adventures from a master of suspense....

A fighting team with a very special difference...In times gone by, the looting didn't start until the foe was vanquished! But in North Africa nobody bothered to hang around for the enemy to retreat.With half of Egypt waiting open-armed for anything going, people stole whatever wasn't screwed down and flogged it on the Cairo black market. The British The Italians and Rommel's Afrika Corps: they all used each other's captured weapons, stores, vehicles even their uniforms.

When an entire army retreats, Common Smith VC must turn the tideSpring, 1922. The Greek army is retreating from Turkey and Kemal Ataturk, the Turkish dictator, intends to have their convoy sunk. The resulting chaos will help a defeated Germany and Russia, unless someone intervenes.'C', the mysterious head of the British Secret Service, knows that Britain is already far too stretched, the French have their own problems, and America has retreated into isolation.As always in such si...

From the carnage of war a new hero is born.The slaughter of World War One is over, but already secret little wars are breaking out all over 'New Europe'.Sub-Lieutenant de Vere Smith VC, at twenty the youngest Victoria Cross holder in the British Empire, is asked by the head of the Secret Service to help convoy arms to the Poles, under threat from Russia and Germany.Jumping at the chance, Smith refits his old patrol boat, Swordfish

Two Royal Air Force pilots must defend the Falklands from more attacks in this action-packed thriller by the bestselling author of Point of Impact.The Falklands, 1999—a vital strategic stronghold and oil-rich gem in the South Atlantic. For RAF pilot Sean Riever, it is a place of ghosts. For Jane Clark, his co-pilot, a place of tough decisions.An air of menace hangs over the desolate, battle-scarred landscape; present dangers and past mysteries lurk...

Man against man. Face to face. One machine against another.It was shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. Martin Falconer and his friend, Frank, were anxious to 'get into the scrap' as soon as possible, their youth blinding them to the real danger of it all.Geoffrey, Martin's elder brother, knew that it wasn't a game. He had fought in the trenches, been wounded and had seen friends die.For Geoffrey the ...

They fought without glory and without mercy.France, Winter 1944: The long-awaited liberation is at handThe bombing missions had gone well, and the crew of the Lancaster bomber had begun to relax. Then the Messerschmitt came out of the darkness, its guns blazing.Of the nine-man crew only Neville and Urqhart survive, parachuting into the heart of occupied France. Joining forces with the men of the French Resistance, they must enter ...