Anne Perry
We Shall not Sleep

The heartrending conclusion to Anne Perry's powerful quintet recreating the English experience of the First World War. It is October 1918 on the Western Front and Chaplain Joseph Reavley can barely bring himself to look at the body lying discarded outside the operating tent. Four years of facing the death and the horror of the trenches, yet nothing could have prepared him for the mutilation wrought upon young nurse Sarah Price. Charged with tracking down the man responsible, Joseph will do whatever it takes to bring him to justice. Meanwhile, Joseph's brother Matthew, of the British SIS, has to track down the Peacemaker. If he fails then freedom and liberty could cease to exist.

Douglas Reeman
The Greatest Enemy

In World War Two, HMS Terrapin was part of a crack hunter/killer group in the Battle of the Atlantic. Now she is working out her last commission in the Gulf of Thailand. To Lieutenant Commander Standish, the frigate seems to mark the end of his hopes of a career in the Navy. Then a new captain arrives, a man driven by an old-fashioned, almost obsessive patriotism. And under his stubborn leadership Standish and the crew discover a long forgotten unity of purpose.

Owen Sheers
Resistance

In an imagined alternative 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied. Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her remote Welsh village. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of their mission a mystery. When the severe winter forces the Germans and the all-female community into co-operation, a fragile mutual dependency develops. Sarah begins a faltering acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer, and it is to her that he reveals the purpose of his mission. But as the pressure of the war beyond presses in on the isolated community, this fragile state of harmony is increasingly threatened.