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This is a very good read. It is the first novel in an action-packed multi-book military saga that follows the life of a combat soldier from his early years in the Korean War to his middle age in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in Israel and the middle east in wars that are in the immediate future. It is fast paced and action-oriented as casualties and a willingness to sign up for additional front line tours and new wars result in Roberts shouldering responsibilities far beyond his years. Fans of WEB Griffin, Larry Bond, Tom Clancy, and Harold Coyle will enjoy this great addition ...

This is the third action-packed book in five books of Martin Archer's acclaimed "Soldiers and Marines" series. It describes what would have happened if a war had broken out between the Russians and NATO instead of the Berlin Wall coming down. The fighting is intense as a mature Chris Roberts unleashes a host of special operations and brings the entire United States Marines to Europe in a desperate effort to win the all out air, sea, and land battles that result. This exciting novel will appeal to the fans of the following genres and authors WEB Griffin Tom Clancy Paul Fussell Larry Bond ...

This is an action-packed story about the next war Israel will have to fight in order to survive – and the war’s very unexpected outcome that will forever change Israel's borders and its economy. More specifically, this is a fictionalized description of the likely military and political moves and countermoves that Israel and the various Islamic states are almost sure to make as Israel finally begins doing what almost certainly must be done after the fighting in Gaza. The novel’s reality is confirmed by the initial reviews of its Islamic readers—they generally agreed with the story as...

The Archers is the first book of an exciting saga of action and adventure set in medieval England. In this compelling tale, an Englishman rises to become the captain of a company of archers and leads its survivors back to England from King Richard's crusade.

Arrows fly, swords clash, women are bedded, prizes are taken, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. It is the summer of year 1321. Edward the Second and his lover Lord Despenser, are being challenged by the Queen and her lover Lord Mortimer who want to put her son on throne as England's king with the Queen as the boy's regent and Mortimer as the de facto King. The archers are hard at work doing what they do best when their is conflict and confusing - extracting coins from everyone. In this case to...

War in the East is the fourth book in Martin Archer’s acclaimed Soldiers and Marines saga. This is the fictionalized story of the intense fighting and American participation that would likely result if China takes advantage of Russia’s military and political weaknesses, and invades the Russian East in an effort to restore to China the lands that were taken by various treaties when China was weak and Russia was strong. The United States and some of its men are sucked into the intense fighting because Congress approved a naïve American Secretary of State’s treaty to end an earlier ...

Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. This a collection of three complete books from Martin Archer’s great action-packed saga about Cornwall’s Company of Archers, a free company that began operating armed transports and shipping posts at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and sometimes witty read that sticks pins into the Church and nobility along the way.It is the year 1219. George ...

Arrows fly, swords clash, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are successfully blamed for things they did not do. The Venetian Gambit is another story in Martin Archer’s great action-packed saga about Cornwall’s Company of Archers, a free company that began operating armed transports and shipping posts at the dawn of Britain’s military supremacy and the beginning of its great merchant companies. It is an enjoyable and sometimes witty read that sticks pins into the Church and nobility along the way. It is the year 1219. George Courtenay and ...

The United States appears to be on the verge of going to war in the near future. This is an action-packed novel about what might happen to America's soldiers and Marines when it does. It is a rewritten and updated version of an earlier Martin Archer novel entitled "War in the East."

The year is 1203 and John has succeeded Richard the Lionhearted as England's king. That's when Thomas is captured while trying to deliver a letter from the Pope to the crusaders gathering to once again try to liberate Jerusalem from the Saracens. The gritty realities of the time and the fighting, action, and betrayal are continuous as William takes his archers and galleys to Constantinople in an effort to rescue him.

Taking a train full of currency or capturing a Spanish treasure ship is nothing compared to the greatest theft in history—when the captain of a company of English archers and his men stole the entire treasury and religious relics of the world’s greatest and richest empire and escaped to Cornwall with chests and chests of gold coins and priceless relics. This is part of the exciting and action-packed story of how it happened and, in particular, what happened afterward to affect the people involved.

Anne is killed, vengeance is exacted, and arrows fly, when William and his company of archers conduct cutting-out expeditions to take French and Moorish prizes and search for the priceless religious relics that were seized amidst the fighting and taken from Constantinople while it was being sacked by the crusaders. It is another of Martin Archer's exciting and action-packed novels in his epic "The Company of Archers" saga about a serf who rose to become the captain of what was left of a company of crusading English archers—and what happens to him and his men after he leads the survivors ...

The Archers is an exciting action-packed adventure saga set in medieval England during the days of the Templar knights and the crusades. It is the tale of an Englishman who rose to become the captain of a company of archers and lead its survivors back to feudal England from King Richard's crusade - and forever change medieval and modern England and Britain. Many of the archers do not return as a result of disease and intense fighting, but some of the former serfs and free men do return - as battle hardened veterans determined to improve their lot in cruel and brutal feudal England.

Taking a train full of currency or capturing a Spanish treasure ship is nothing compared to the greatest theft in history—when the captain of a company of English archers and his men stole the entire treasury and religious relics of the world’s greatest and richest empire and escaped to Cornwall with chests and chests of gold coins and priceless relics. This is the action-packed story of what happened afterwards when the captain tried to turn the relics into coins for himself and his men. It is a very good read.

The Archer's Castle is the second book in an exciting action-packed saga set in medieval England during the days of King Richard and King John, prior to the Magna Carta. It is the tale of an English serf who rises to become the captain of a company of archers and leads its survivors as they fight their way back to dangerous and brutal feudal England after King Richard suddenly abandons his crusade - and what happens to him and his archers when they return. Most of the archers do not return as a result of intense fighting, but some of the former serfs and free men do return.

Battles result, blood is spilled, and women are won and lost when William and Thomas return from the crusades and discover that King Richard has ignored his regent's appointment of William and appointed someone else to be the Earl of Cornwall. This is the fourth audiobook in the acclaimed Archers saga set in beautiful and brutal medieval England.

This is the best and longest story yet in this great saga of medieval England. King John and Prince Louis of France both claim the English throne after the Magna Carta is signed; Thomas is captured by Louis and held for ransom; and William is shipwrecked on the coast of Moorish Spain with a new woman. This is a story about the wars for the English throne that will delight the fans of Cornwell, Hosker, C.S. Forester, George Martin, and all the other great writers of historical fiction.

This is a collection of the three most recent books in Martin Archer's exciting saga of Cornwall's Company of Archers at the dawn of Britain's rise as a military and merchant powerhouse. The action is non-stop as arrows fly, swords clash, women are bedded, nobles and churchmen are gulled out of their coins, and the French and Venetians are blamed for things they did not do. Medieval times were a real life game of thrones because there was little else to do. Harry Flashman and certain of today's people would have prospered in them.

This is the second action-packed book in Martin Archer's acclaimed "The Soldiers and Marines" saga describing what happens to a young combat soldier when he decides to become a professional soldier and stay on active duty. Chris Roberts leaves behind the intense Korean War combat between the United Nations' forces and the North Koreans and Chinese and is permanently assigned to Europe - until he finds himself serving with the French Foreign Legion's fabled Second Parachute Regiment as it goes down at Dien Bien Phu and then in charge of a small detachment tasked with filling NATO's gaps and ...

This is another of the great action-packed stories taken from the records of Cornwall’s Company of Archers. The mouse-eaten parchments on which this particular tale is based were found in a chest at the Bodleian Library during the 1887 renovation of its basement. It is the witty and almost true story, with a bit of embellishment that Harry Flashman would have enjoyed, about the early days of the Windsor family during the early days of Britain's rise as a great military power and the founding of the great merchant companies that came to have more power and commanded more allegiance than ...