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The Helmet of Navarre

Burke Wilkinson - France - 1965 - 198 pages
A biography of Henry of Navarre, the first great modern King of France.
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Night of the Short Knives

Burke Wilkinson - International intrigue - 1964 - 296 pages
Tense spy story within the precinct of SHAPE headquarters in Paris, where enemy agents kidnap an American interpreter.
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Cry Sabotage!: True Stories of 20th Century Saboteurs

Burke Wilkinson - Sabotage - 1972 - 296 pages
Includes material on the destruction of the USS Maine, Franz von Rintelen, the Black Tom explosion, the burning of the Reichstag, Otto Skorzeny, and the Pentagon papers.
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By Sea and By Stealth

Burke Wilkinson - History - 2017 - 139 pages
One night in December 1941 a young Italian sat shivering on a buoy in Alexandria Harbour. Four hours later two British battleships blew up and settled on the muddy bottom ...
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Proceed At Will

Burke Wilkinson - History - 2017 - 254 pages
HE COURTED DANGER TO WIN A WOMAN. WAS HE HERO OR HELL? Daredevil Geoffrey Mildmay’s war record gave no clue. The man who knew him best wasn’t sure of him. The women he loved ...
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Last Clear Chance

Burke Wilkinson - True Crime - 2018 - 189 pages
First published in 1953, this book is the second in author Burke Wilkinson’s trilogy, Adventures of Geoffrey Mildmay, and follows on from the 1948 bestseller Proceed at Will ...
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Run, Mongoose

Burke Wilkinson - History - 2018 - 260 pages
An upstart Jamaican rebellion, some key international interests in bauxite, an Englishman who follows trouble like a terrier, and an American engineer, Bill Stacy, who ...
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The Tragedy of Erskine Childers

Leonard Piper - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 284 pages
The story of Erskine Childers, a highly talented eccentric and the father of the modern genre of spy adventure novels. It tells of how his intense support of Irish Nationalism ...
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