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Help and revenge. They had always come at a price. But redemption? Redemption has a cost of its own. Donaldson's men have been asked to enter the heart of Stalin's Russia to rescue an imprisoned scientist and afterwards a grieving mother gives them a chance to gain what has long escaped them.....redemption. The stunning sequel to 'Mr. Donaldson's Company

From Gibraltar to Crete, the tangled lives of naval officers and their men, Pulver and Stebbings, of marines like O'Flynn, Maori warriors like Lieutenant Ngarimu, the healer 'Ronnie' Prasad and many more, following the orders of their political masters, intent on stabilising the newly-liberated Spain and smashing the German war machine on land, on seas patrolled by HMS Hood and her sisters, and in skies overflown by the RAF and the Luftwaffe. ...

The battle for Greece is well underway after Allied landings on the mainland and Dodds has the heavy burden of safeguarding all the inhabitants of his bride-to-be's village. Meanwhile in London politicians are turning their minds to creating a post-war Britain fit for heroes, in the Pacific the Hood is taking the war to the Japanese and Massu's quest to get the Princess to Rome meets unforseen human obstacles...

An alternative history of WW2 continues with Jorges battling for Asturias, the oncoming battle between The Hood and The Bismarck, and the German invasion of Spain about to commence.

Churchill is trying to persuade the Americans to commit to the war but Rommel has the task of pushing an army deep into the Basque heartlands and is facing a new form of war - barbaric, subtle and bloody guerilla resistance. And meanwhile The Hood and her sisters are loose on the high seas...

Small changes - screwing an extra knot out of a warship's engines or a petty functionary insisting a family sell a wedding clock before they can get unemployment benefit - small changes which can nevertheless lead to a different world war than the one we know explored from the viewpoint of Nationalist Spaniards, committed Nazis, British parliamentarians and Royal Naval officers to name but a few in this stunning fictional alternative history.

Even if the allies can win the war, can they win the peace? Hugh Lupus brings his alternative history of WWII to a stunning end with a series of blockbuster set-piece battles on land and at sea with surprising fates in store for Commandante O'Neil, Father Domenico, Pulver and his beloved ship HMS Hood, Lieutenant Donaldson and his unit of Glaswegian misfits and even the labour politician Ellen Wilkinson and her French ally Georges Mandel.

The war is far from over and the atrocities continue, perpetrated by the SS and their Basque, Asturian, Scots and Gurkha opponents on the French borders with German defeat imminent. Meanwhile under Sergeant Massu's protection his royal charge is endeavouring to unite Italy while the Hood is doing what she does best - making war on the waves of the vast Pacific Ocean.

Two missions are afoot. The Asturian, Sergeant Massu must seek out a princess in hiding who may hold the key to bringing down the Italian Fascists while Sergeant Dodd and Georgiou are determined to kill the German General Bräuer. On the grander stage the way must be cleared for an allied invasion of Greece, the enemy must at all costs believe that the target is really Sicily and the master of deception remains Commandante O'Neill. Meanwhile a ...