Sergeant Jack Tanner series by James Holland (books #1 – #5)
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Overview: James Holland is a writer and historian. In April 2003, he published his first work of history, Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43 (Orion), which became a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. It was published in the United States in October 2003 and has since been published in Italy as well. Film rights were sold to Miramax Films (The English Patient, Cold Mountain etc). In January 2004, his first novel, The Burning Blue, set to a backdrop of the Battle of Britain, was published by William Heinemann. In May 2005, his second work of history, Together We Stand: North Africa 1942-1943, Turning the Tide in the West, was published by HarperCollins, and was published in the United States by Miramax Books in February 2006. His second novel, A Pair of Silver Wings, was published in March 2006. In August 2007, he published Heroes: The Greatest Generation and the Second World War. In March 2008, he published a major new work on the Italian Campaign, Italy’s Sorrow: A Year of War, 1944-1945, which has since been published in the United States and which has also been translated into four other languages.
In May 2008, Bantam Press published The Odin Mission, the first in a series of wartime novels to feature Jack Tanner. The television rights were bought by Tiger Aspect. The second Tanner novel, Darkest Hour, was published in June 2009 and the third, Blood of Honour, has been published this June, 2010.
Earlier this year, in May 2010, his latest non-fiction book was published. The Battle of Britain is a new history and the first account to tell the events of the summer of 1940 from both sides. It went straight into the Sunday Times top ten bestseller list.
In May 2005, he wrote and presented a film about the end of the war in Europe, Victory in Europe for UKTV History, reviewed as the day’s choice by fourteen newspapers and magazines, and which was watched by over a million viewers. He has also taken part in several other historical documentaries. In September 2010, he wrote and presented a film called Battle of Britain: The Real Story for BBC 2, made by Maya Vision International, owned by historian Michael Wood, and also took part in Battle of Britain Night on BBC 4.
This summer, 2011, will see the publication of the fourth Jack Tanner novel, Hellfire, and his first book of teenage fiction, Duty Calls: Dunkirk, for Puffin. He is currently working on a new account of the Dam Busters Raid.
He has also written for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Sunday Telegraph (for whom he went to Helmand Province in Afghanistan in 2008), Sunday Times, The Times, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, BBC History Magazine, Mail on Sunday and Sunday Express, and reviews books regularly for the Sunday Telegraph.
James regularly leads Second World War battlefield tours for the British military and for the Cultural Experience.
James Holland was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1970, and educated King’s School, Bruton, in Somerset, and at St Chad’s College, University of Durham, where he read history. He graduated in 1992. Subsequently, he worked in the PR and Marketing Department of Random House UK Ltd Publishers. In 1996 he left and went to work in the PR department of Reed Publishers and then a year later the PR department of Penguin Books UK Ltd, where he remained for five years. He is a member of the British Commission for Military History and the Guild of Battlefield Guides, and lives in a village near Salisbury with his wife, son and daughter.
Genre: General Fiction/Classics
The Odin Mission (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #1)
Fans of Sharpe will love the first novel in the Jack Tanner series. Set in Norway, April 1940. Sergeant Jack Tanner and his Yorks Rangers, separated from the main battalion, are drawn into a desperate mission to smuggle Norway’s King Haakon’s treasures to safety
Darkest Hour (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #2)
It is May, 1940. Following his return from Norway and a short time on coast guard duty in Kent, Sergeant Jack Tanner finds himself in Belgium with the 1st Battalion of the Kings Own Yorkshire Rangers, under Captain Nick Barclay. Their task is to hold the bottom part of the British line along the River Escaut against an increasingly powerful and impressive German army. Just when things couldn’t look worse, Tanner is dismayed to find that his new Company Sergeant Major is Bill Scrutton – a hard and unscrupulous former thief, and Tanner’s first sergeant in India. Tanner and Scrutton loathe one another. Soon after his arrival, Tanner is sent on a rescue mission when a Spitfire comes down nearby.The pilot is Captain Barclay’s brother and he has landed just yards away from the German position. Against the odds, and under a rain of machine gun fire and falling mortars, they manage to haul him to safety and retreat to rejoin their Battalion. But the Battalion has moved for the Germans have advanced. Tanner and his platoon are stranded. Somehow they must find a way to reach their Battalion and make it to Dunkirk, otherwise they will never make it out alive…
Blood of Honour (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #3)
Crete, May 1941, and there is trouble for Jack Tanner. In addition to the arrival of a new subaltern who seems determined to make life difficult, Tanner has offended a powerful local Cretan who has sworn to kill him. Then suddenly the Germans invade and British fortunes take another dive for the worse. Amidst the bitter fighting and subsequent evacuation of the island, Tanner finds himself embroiled in a deadly game of survival that will test his resolve more than ever before.
Hellfire (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #4)
August, 1942. North Africa. The desert war hangs in the balance. Although their retreat has finally been halted, morale in the British Army is at rock bottom. When the commander of the Eighth Army, General Gott, is killed, it seems that foul play is at work. An impenetrable Axis spy circuit could be compromising any hope the Allies have of stemming the Nazi tide.
Jack Tanner, recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital, is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a very different world when he returns to action. Fit once more, he finds himself facing the full onslaught of Rommel’s latest offensive
In its aftermath, Tanner and his trusty sidekick Sykes are recruited to work behind the Axis lines in a desperate attempt to take the fight to the Nazis. But the murky world of subterfuge, deceit and murder they find themselves in is a million miles away from the certainties of the battlefield and somehow they must discover who they can trust in the cat-and-mouse world of counter-espionage.
Hellfire sees Tanner fighting his way through his most dangerous adventure yet – one that takes him from the dark backstreets of Cairo to the open Mediterranean and finally to one of the decisive clashes of the entire war – the Battle of Alamein.
The Devil’s Pact (Sergeant Jack Tanner, #5)
July 1943.With North Africa secured, the Allies launch an invasion of Sicily, and the 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Rangers are in the van of the assault on the Italian beaches.
Now B Company Commander, Tanner’s promotion has brought him fresh problems. Not only has his new Battalion Commander decided to make his life as difficult as possible, but he and his men soon find themselves battling against some of the toughest troops in the Wehrmacht.
In the bitter fighting that follows, Tanner witnesses a new kind of warfare where the end will justify the means. Erstwhile outlaws, the Sicilian mafia are supposedly on the side of the Allies but their real purpose is feathering their own nests. And it is not just the Mafia who are playing dirty. It soon becomes clear that in the quest to force Italy out of the war, compromises and brutal choices need to be made – choices where the lines between right and wrong have become horribly blurred.
Forced to question the cause for which he has fought so long, Tanner and his trusted sidekick, Sykes, find themselves embroiled in a fight that has become deeply personal, where they have to use all their resolve, skill and experience if they are to have any chance of survival.
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