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This is a story of a romance between a Royal Navy officer and a Red Cross nurse caught up in D-Day and the battles that follow up to the Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes and Holland. The naval officer commands fast coastal patrol boats (MTBs) and main function is to deceive German defence plans at D-Day and later intelligence work on finding V1 and V2 weapons sites. He spends some of his leave with his uncle who owns a farm near Newhaven and a few miles from his MTB depot. The nurse becomes emotionally involved with an American Army Medical doctor while her naval officer husband is wrapped up in clandestine intelligence operations and is reported “Missing in Action”. He is eventually ...
This is a story of a romance between a naval officer and nurse caught up in the closing days of World War Two; set in Malta and Italy. The NKVD, the Russian Security Service, put the nurse under surveillance. She is assigned to lead a party of nurses to Italy, while he patrols the Albanian coast in search of a German SS Panzer division. The NKVD assist the Nazis to escape in exchange for weapons. The SS Officer in charge, has encountered Hazel previously, and is obsessed with revenge. He tasks the NKVD to abduct her but they bungle it, capturing the nurses without the lead nurse. The nurses are held captive on a ship. She is re-united with her naval officer husband, who receives a special signal to rescue the nurses. It is a dramatic rescue. The European war ends. He undertakes a mission but his plane is sabotaged. He is safely rescued. A final drama besets Hazel when the vengeful SS Officer imprisons her in a derelict building. He is killed when she is rescued by the navy. The months march by and she reveals that they are to be a family. This seals their relationship and love for each other.
Nurse Hazel Almonde is caring for injured servicemen during the dark days of the siege of Malta during World War Two when she meets injured Naval Chief Petty Officer Ewan Jones, who has survived an attack on an Italian destroyer. They are immediately attracted to each other. Ewan is recruited into a naval intelligence operation to pose as an Italian naval officer who survived the sinking of the Italian destroyer. Hazel becomes his contact as the nurse attending the POW camp. Ewan infiltrates the Axis POWs to find out the invasion plans for Malta. Their relationship is severely tested when she suffers a harrowing ordeal at the hands of the Gestapo after the POW ship is captured and taken to Tripoli. Ewan escapes and finds himself in the Long Range Desert Group. Hazel is tormented again but rejoins Ewan. They return to Malta and are married, but the war continues.
Recently relocated Cam Newton has made it to the big time - New York, New York. This is his chance to make big money and have a successful career. He didn't know how difficult the city could be to those unaware of its dangers. Only six weeks into a stock broker job, Cam finds out that stocks are the only things that are volatile on Wall Street. He will have to learn on the fly - because his life depends on it.
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Ira Lipman Marvin Wolfgang was the greatest criminologist in the United States of America in the last half of the 20th century, if not the entire century. We first met on March 3, 1977, in Philadelphia. I sought him out after his work with Edwin Newman's NBC Reports: Violence in America. He was a tender, loving, caring individual who loved excellence-whether it be an intellectual challenge, the arts or any other pursuit. It is a great privilege to take part in honoring Marvin Wolfgang, a great American. Our approaches to the subject of crime came from different perspectives one as a researcher and the other as the founder of one of the world's largest security services companies. We both wan...
This book reviews the key controversies surrounding the police power to stop and search members of the public. It explores the history and development of these powers, assesses their effectiveness in tackling crime and their impact on public trust and confidence as well as on-going attempts at regulation and reform.