On the 1st of March, I joined the 1st Battalion Civil Service Rifles at Watford, after a week’s 'recruiting’ with the 2nd battalion, having been in training with the 2nd battalion since 31 August 1914 at Somerset House, the White City, and Dorking. During the first and second weeks of March, the battalion was engaged in strenuous work equipping itself for service overseas. New rifles, equipments, boots, clothes, limbers, horses, mules, waggons, identity discs, 1st field dressings, etc. had to be collected and distributed.Being a recruit, I had about a dozen fatigues in the first few days, but soon learnt …

A product of an unconventional childhood and unorthodox family, Dathan Charles is ambitious to create a business empire. A concealed mixture of ruthlessness and loyalty, she attracts the unwanted attention of Colonel Heydrich of the SS in Berlin in 1934, and later that year of Gregory Capeto, a notorious gangster from the days of Prohibition. In New York she builds her business against a background of interference from the Justice Department, the Treasury, organised crime and her partners. Returning to Germany to find her friends, she falls foul of the now General Heydrich. Wanted for murder, Dathan makes her escape …

A comprehensive, panoramic view of Nigeria’s oldest sports competition. This book traces the history of the Federation Cup through its life history spanning over 70 years. Its previous formats include The War Memorial Cup, The Governor’s Cup, Challenge Cup, and the Coca Cola FA Cup. It also covers the history of Nigerian football, from the playing fields of Victorian and Edwardian Lagos, Calabar, and Zaria in the early 1900s, through the early football competitions, such as the Beverley, Trenchard, and Lagos City Cup competitions. The growth of football administration, the great players and games of the competition through the years …

Personal adviser to President Ronald Reagan on sensitive terrorism situations, Eric Jordan was asked by the President to accept private top-secret missions to Lebanon and elsewhere concerning American hostages after U.S. agencies had failed. Renowned and respected for his international expertise, global policy-level contacts, and strategic perspectives, he continues to advise governments, corporations, and VIPs while working on a second novel, The Man, based on the astounding global influence wielded by today's billionaires. This book, Operation Hebron, is based on the author's vast government experience and is a satisfying thriller.

The nuclear peril of Iran looms over the world. The efforts of world powers – through embargoes, covert action, and cyberwarfare – fail to stem the Mullahs’ nuclear progress. Nothing works...Then, a super-empowered individual – a new, but very real concept in the 21st century – appears. An IT genius from Silicon Valley named Rick Sterling, with his very own private clandestine action network that he normally uses to attack drug cartels, has an audacious plan to tackle the Iranian nuclear threat. With the help of cool contemporary intelligence and weapon technologies, and a lethal team of experts in the …

Thirteen-year-old Julius McCoy is about to start his second year at Tijara Academy in the Zed Lunar Perimeter. With the threat of the Arneshians averted for the moment, he can get on with the important part of his school life: developing his rare mind skills.Of course, what any student on Zed looks forward to most is gaming in the Hologram Palace. But who is the mysterious lady hidden in one of the games? This encounter sets in motion an exciting and dangerous treasure hunt that will give him a whole new perspective on the real history of Zed, and ultimately …

Can a teenage thug that is beyond all hope and hated by his neighbours fall in love? Does he have feelings like all other so-called humans? Most of us think it’s impossible, or maybe we can’t imagine it. The church thinks there is good in everyone and maybe by this story they could be right. The first love of our young lad’s life is a girl that has spent most of her 18 years in and out of hospital with a weak heart. It’s a love full of sympathy on his part. Within a month or so of their meeting, …