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HOME RUN - Escape From Nazi Europe
'A riveting & revealing account of WW2 bravery...I loved it' - Andy McNab, Author of Bravo Two Zero 'Enthralling, vivid and deeply moving - one of the great untold stories of the war' - Daily Mail 'Gripping, moving & thoughtful. The excellent team of Nichol & Rennell have done it again' - Patrick Bishop TAIL-END CHARLIES - The Last Battles of The Bomber War 1944-45
John Nichol and Tony Rennell tell the astonishing and deeply
moving stories of the controversial last battles in the skies above Germany,
through the eyewitness accounts of the many forgotten heroes who fought them. 'Compelling, powerful, gripping, revealing' - Daily Mail 'Nichol and Rennell's objective is to reclaim the proper place of the bomber crews in history ... they succeed. They have made an important contribution towards righting a historical wrong' - Patrick Bishop, Daily Telegraph
THE LAST ESCAPE - The Untold Story Of Allied POWs 1944-45
The Last Escape, co-authored with Tony Rennell, tells the story of the hundreds of thousands of Allied POWs held in prison camps across Nazi Germany as World War II was reaching its endgame. The Red Army was advancing on the Eastern Front and British and American troops were storming the beaches of northern France. Many POWs feared they would be killed by the retreating German armies rather than be allowed to fall into the hands of the Russians. Instead, in the depths of winter, their guards forced them to march out of the camps and further into Germany, away from their would-be liberators. The marches were long and desperately arduous. Some POWs walked for more than 500 miles, hundreds died of exhaustion, disease and starvation. Those who survived were awed by their experience. How they escaped with their lives and eventually reached home is a gripping story of endurance and courage, told here for the first time.
"Gripping, astonishing & Fascinating" - Daily Mail "Fascinating, fair-minded, thorough & readable" - Daily Telegraph "Packed with first-hand testimony and impressive scholarship but with all the pace of a novel, this is a superb memorial of those Allied heroes who thought - wrongly - that for them the war was over" - Andrew Roberts, Historian "The impressive research and tremendous way the survivors' stories are captured, make this a most remarkable and readable account. I couldn't put it down" - Charles Clarke, President, RAF Ex-POW Association
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RAF Tempests are crashing on apparently routine missions, and no one knows why. The Accident Investigation Bureau is blaming pilot error. Suspicious of a cover-up, Flight Lieutenant Drew Millar, whose own friends have been among the fatalities, determines to find out more. It soon becomes clear that the key to the mystery is in the cockpit of the Tempest - but how can he unlock it without ending up dead himself? "John Nichol straps you in and doesn't let you out until the very last page. Point Of Impact is the most explosive thriller I've read all year." - Andy McNab "The glimpses of aerial combat are brilliant - you can smell the hot oil, the sweat and the fear" - Daily Telegraph "Nichol's writing skills are first rate" - Daily Express
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January
1991. Tornado pilot Mark Hunter is shot down and captured in Iraq.
Tortured and badly wounded, he comes home a hero. But for him, the war
is far from over...
Six years later, his fellow captives have started to die. Following a trail which takes him from supersonic combat in the Nevada skies to an ultra secret research facility in the British countryside, Hunter and top UN scientist Natalie Kennedy must find out why. Because in ten days time they must both return to the place where the nightmare began.
"Startlingly pertinent...A thriller with a serious message" - The Times
"Fresh and compelling...as good as anything written by Jeffrey Archer or Dick Francis" - Daily Mail
The
Falklands, 1999 - a vital strategic stronghold in the South Atlantic, and a
prize gem in the oil-rich Antarctic. for RAF pilot Sean Riever it is a
place of ghosts. For Jane Clark, the only female in the squadron, a place
of tough decisions. An air of menace hangs over the desolate,
battle-scarred landscape; present dangers and past mysteries lurk in the shadows
on the skyline. And Sean's compulsion to live up to a legendary hero leads
him towards a woman whose loneliness matches his own. Then a Navy
submarine disappears, and Argentine jet fighters penetrate the Exclusion
Zone. As Sean and his companions stave off wave after wave of enemy
attacks, their fight to protect the islands becomes an epic battle for survival
- in which victory can only be achieved at a terrible price.
"A cracking combat thriller, with a delicate love story" - Mail On Sunday
"A fast paced...quality thriller" - The Mirror
Sickened by
the bloody toll of war, RAF pilot Sean Riever transfers to helicopters and heads
for the mountains of Afghanistan. His work there with the mine-clearance
teams takes him as close to the shadow of war as he wants to get. But when
a British passenger plane is shot down by a Stinger missile over the east coast
of America, Sean is forced once more into the cauldron of war.
"John Nichol is king of the aerial thriller" - Later
"Nichol has a natural feel for his subject...prepare for a breathtaking ride" - Peterborough Telegraph
When helicopter pilot Jack Griffiths leaves the RAF to join a private military company, Decisive Measures, he hopes to put behind him forever the brutal ethnic conflicts he witnessed in Bosnia and Kosovo. And to bury the memory of a disastrous mission which ended in the loss of many innocent lives. His new job takes him to Sierra Leone to carry out routine security operations in the diamond fields. Jack meets Layla, a doctor working with a local charity but their growing friendship is torn apart when civil war erupts. And Jack is sent back into combat where he has to confront once more the consequences of his past mistake. Then Decisive Measures abandon the mine workers to their fate and Jack and Layla are forced to decide where their true loyalties lie.
"John Nichol delivers another hard-hitting adventure" - The Mirror
" A terrific yarn" - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
" A topical military thriller exploding with action and yet possessed of a rare depth of conscience" - Northern Echo
They were on
the run in enemy territory with just one goal - to get back to Britain and to
safety. During WW2, thousands of Allied servicemen found themselves cut
off behind enemy lines - soldiers stranded after the evacuation of Dunkirk and
airmen blasted out of the skies during raids against German targets - they were
alone and on the run. Life for the evaders hung in the balance as the made
solitary treks through hundreds of miles of enemy territory, dodging enemy
patrols and search parties. Many placed their lives in the hands of brave
civilians who risked the wrath of a brutal regime if the offered
assistance. For all involved it was a matter of life and death. This
is the dramatic story of the heroes who made it home...and those who did not.
Night after night
they flew through the flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that
helped demolish the Third Reich - and they died in their tens of thousands. The
airmen of RAF's Bomber Command were heroes who defied Hitler in the early days
of the war and continued to sacrifice themselves to shatter the enemy right to
the end of the conflict. But with war over they were forgotten, some of their
actions seen as crimes.
TORNADO
DOWN (Autobiography)