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Jack Steele survived the first Gulf War, Bosnia, and his time as a UN peacekeeper. As a captain and tank commander, he saw the dark side of war. Two UN officials have gone missing. They were last seen in the Tumen Triangle. A 324-mile river that borders Russia, China, and North Korea, it’s a place few Westerners have heard of or understand. It would be a prize-winning story if he could crack it. Sometimes fate puts a person where they need to be - and then he saw the child fall beneath the ice. When Steele rescued the boy, it was the first domino to fall.

From Richard Lyntton, author of North Korea Deception, comes a gripping international thriller inspired in part by real events from the Bosnian War. London. Paris. Vienna. Split. Sarajevo. The Hague. As war tears apart the former Yugoslavia, British Army captain and UN Military Observer Jack Steele is sent into the heart of a conflict few outsiders truly understand. Officially, Steele’s mission is peacekeeping.

For history buffs and memoir lovers of the good old days, the way things used to be.... Escape to the past with this second-in-series, local history, and memoir-biography. Margaret Bramford presents the life and times, and true accounts of Spa town Malvern, Worcestershire (UK), as recollected by Malverners themselves looking back over the last century.

Florence Bramford was a ladies' maid to the ladies-in-waiting of two Queen Elizabeths from 1939 to 1974. Think real-life The Queen, Downton Abbey, or Upstairs Downstairs...inside the British Royal Family from the servant's perspective half a century ago. Margaret Bramford presents the life of her aunt, told in her own words. Florence had a Victorian childhood and Edwardian adolescence. She was privileged to reside in many royal residences with her ladies-in-waiting and joined many royal tours around the world.

As the Berlin Wall falls and the Cold War appears to be ending, the world dares to hope for peace. Leningrad. Stockholm. London. Venice. Capri. But in the shadows, others are determined to make sure peace never comes. British journalist and former tank commander Jack Steele is drawn into a deadly conspiracy stretching across Europe—where a secret Vatican-inspired plot to assassinate a world leader threatens to ignite global chaos.

Escape to the past with this third-in-series, local history, and memoir-biography. Margaret Bramford presents the life and times and true accounts from Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcestershire (UK), as recollected by Upton folk themselves, looking back over the last century. Enjoy this treasure trove of observations and anecdotes, a fascinating insight into the local characters' lives and the social history of a river town in Worcestershire, England, including Florence Bramford, who served and traveled the world on royal tours for 30 years as a ladies' maid to two Queen Elizabeths.