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  • Kalvan Kingmaker

    by John F. Carr ...
    Kalvan Kingmaker is the 3rd book in the Kalvan Saga, after H. Beam Piper's groundbreaking parallel world's SF novel, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen, and the sequel, Great Kings' War by John F. Carr and Roland Green. The Paratime Police patrol an infinity of alternate earths. Their prime directive is to protect the Paratime Secret thereby keeping this infinity of worlds from mixing and destroying each ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Viking Saint

    Olaf II of Norway

    by John Carr ...
    A biography of the Viking king who sought to Christianize Norway in the Middle Ages—"A seminal and scholarly study that reads with all the inherent narrative storytelling flair of an historical novel" ( Midwest Book Review ).The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway's King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Spartan Wings

    The Royal Hellenic Air Force in World War Two

    by John Carr ...
    This WWII history chronicles the courageous but ill-prepared Greek air force from the Battle of Greece to the Battle of El Alamein and beyond.On October 28th, 1940, when Greece was invaded by Mussolini's Italy, the Royal Hellenic Air Force was severely outgunned. Without warning, the RHAF's paltry fleet was pitted against the much larger and more advanced Regia Aeronautica, whose pilots had ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Defence and Fall of Greece, 1940–41

    by John Carr ...
    This military history of the WWII Battle of Greece presents a vivid and detailed account with special focus on the Greek forces defending their homeland.On October 28th, 1940, the Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas refused to accept an ultimatum from Italy's Fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Immediately upon his refusal, Italian forces began the invasion of Greece via Albania. This aggression was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Knights Hospitaller

    A Military History of the Knights of St John

    by John Carr ...
    A military history of the medieval Catholic order that arose during the Crusades in the Holy Land.The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervor and discipline made them an elite component of most ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Komnene Dynasty

    Byzantium's Struggle for Survival, 1057–1185

    by John Carr ...
    The history of the Byzantine Empire's last great epoch, and the family that ruled it before the conquest of Constantinople.The 128-year dynasty of the Komneni, from 1057 to 1185, was the last great epoch of Byzantium, when the empire had to fend off Turkish and Norman foes simultaneously. Starting with the extremely able Alexios I, and unable now to count on help from the West, the Komneni played ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • RHNS Averof

    Thunder in the Aegean

    by John Carr ...
    Journalist John Carr tells the riveting history of Greece's RHNS Averof—an armored cruiser that served in three of the twentieth century's major wars.Built at Livorno in 1910, the 10,000-ton RHNS Averof was the flagship—and largest warship—of the Royal Hellenic Navy until 1951. More than a century after its construction, she is still afloat, one of just three armored cruisers still in existence in ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Three Coffins

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Dr. Gideon Fell solves two impossible murders in one of the most baffling locked room mysteries ever created.Professor Charles Grimaud is found dead in his study just moments after his housekeeper watched him greet a mysterious visitor and welcome him into the room. Yet no sign of the murderer or murder weapon can be found. The housekeeper saw no one leave through the door and the snow outside the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Last Space Viking

    by John F. Carr, Mike Robertson ...
    THE LAST SPACE VIKING by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is a sequel to H. Beam Piper’s science-fiction classic, Space Viking. This new novel takes place a hundred years after Lucas Trask founded the League of Civilized Worlds. Many changes have occurred in the Old Federation and King Trask’s plans for a new galaxy order are brought to a sudden halt when a new power emerges from the ashes of the Old ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Space Viking's Throne

    by John F. Carr, Mike Robertson ...
    SPACE VIKING’S THRONE by John F. Carr & Mike Robertson is the concluding sequel to The Last Space Viking, which is set at the end of the First Interregnum of H. Beam Piper’s galaxy spanning Terro-Human Future History. A century after H. Beam Piper’s seminal novel Space Viking, a new powerful entity, the Mardukan Empire, has arisen from the ashes of Lucas Trask’s League of Civilized Worlds. This ... Read more

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  • The Case of the Constant Suicides

    by John Dickson Carr ...
    Series series Dr. Gideon Fell
    Dr. Gideon Fell investigates multiple impossible crimes in this celebrated mystery from the master of the locked room mystery.After Angus Campbell falls to his death from a high window, his family is summoned to his Scottish manor to settle the estate. Just before his death, Campbell took out several large life insurance policies—all of which are voided in the event of suicide. The door to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Fighting Emperors of Byzantium

    by John Carr ...
    This lively history chronicles every Byzantine Emperor who personally fought in battle, from Constantine the Great to Constantine XI.The Eastern Roman or 'Byzantine' Empire had to fight for survival throughout its eleven centuries of history. Military ability was therefore a prime requisite for a successful Emperor. In Fighting Emperors of Byzantium, historian John Carr explores the personal and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus