barbara a osborn (16 resultados)

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Condición: New. &Uumlber den AutorRichard Osborn was born and raised in England, and educated at King s School, Canterbury. He is a veteran of the British Army Royal Artillery and served in Cyprus from 1956 to 1958. After leaving the British Army, he e.

Condición: New. &Uumlber den AutorRichard Osborn was born and raised in England, and educated at King s School, Canterbury. He is a veteran of the British Army Royal Artillery and the United States Air Force. He is a graduate of California State Univer.

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Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This historical novel is about Ian Black, a young Second Lieutenant in the British Army, who arrives in Cyprus in the middle of the 1950s Emergency, after graduating from MONS, and is assigned to the Royal Artillery 188th Radar and Searchlight Battery. His first mission is to manage a radar site on the northwest coast of the island. As he travels on the narrow road to the camp, his convoy is ambushed and he has to use all his army skills to survive. While in the Nicosia BMH, recuperating from his wounds, he meets a nurse, the beautiful Aphrodite Palas. Upon returning to duty as the OIC for Camp Pomos, he comes face to face again with EOKA terrorists. Due to his fluency in the Greek language, Ian is recalled from Camp Pomos and transferred to the Intelligence Corps. In order to find the whereabouts of the EOKA leadership, including the infamous Grivas, newly promoted First Lieutenant Black has to prowl the back streets and alleys of Nicosia. In addition, to help prevent the smuggling of arms into the island, he has to fly on a RAF Shackleton search plane over the Mediterranean and travel to Beirut, Lebanon to look for the source of the arms. Twice, Ian saves the Governor-General of Cyprus from assassination attempts by the terrorists. Through the efforts of Lieutenant Black and others, the safe house where Grivas is hiding is finally located in Limassol. A plan is formulated so that they can capture him alive but, at the last minute, politics ends up trumping military action. This book by the Osborns shows that one man can make a difference, even in dangerous times.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - British Army intelligence officer Ian Black finds himself in Berlin, just as it is heating up during the Cold War, in the latest historical military thriller from bestselling authors Richard and Barbara Osborn. For the past few years, Lieutenant Ian Black has plied his trade during the Cyprus Emergency of the 1950's. Now, in Berlin, he is almost trapped in the communist part of the city, with a female acquaintance, when the Berlin Wall is suddenly erected by the East Germans, on a Sunday morning. After hearing from a dying man on the U-Bahn that there is a traitor somewhere in the West, Ian comes up with an ingenious plan to catch a mole and a swallow lurking in a West Berlin organization. He saves a Czechoslovakian ice skater from the Czech secret service as they are trying to drag her back to Eastern Europe. He enters the devil's labyrinth to negotiate a prisoner swap with the Stasi, the East German secret police, which includes the swallow and a British engineer. Lieutenant Black has learned his trade well and is applying the skills he has developed in almost every situation he comes across. The Osborns mix military facts and Cold War politics, in a way that thrills the readers and makes the novel come alive with realistic historical events.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - After working in military intelligence and then making a career at a large aerospace company, Ian Black comes out of retirement to help save the United States, from a president who wants to remain in office for life. President Tuckwell, and his advisor Valda Lewis, develop a heinous plan, which involves a false flag attack on Washington, with deadly consequences for many Americans. Similar to the 1933 scheme by Hitler and the Nazis, the purpose of the president's plot is to be able to declare a state of emergency and justify cancelling the next election. Ian Black, together with the governors of Tennessee and other states, figure out what is going on in Washington and plan a response. They have to stop Tuckwell, before it is too late, from reaching his ultimate goal; to be the first American dictator. This book by the Osborns shows that the quote by Lord Acton in 1887 is true: 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' This novel contains political intrigue, an attack on the homeland, sex and murder.

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 309 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.78 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. After serving six years for British Army intelligence in Cyprus and Berlin, U.S. Air Force Captain Ian Black suddenly finds himself thrust into the mission creep war, called Vietnam. He is given the task of ascertaining how developed the North Vietnamese IADS (Integrated Air Defense System) is, and then determine ways to prevent the increasing loss of American planes, from missiles and AAA guns. In order to obtain a tally of the PAVN weapons, he has to fly over North Vietnam in an F-4 Phantom, as the GIB (guy in back). All the while, Soviet SA-2 missiles and AAA guns are aimed at the aircraft. Using anti-radiation missiles, Ian has to destroy the Fan Song radars before the enemy can fire and guide the "telephone pole" to his aircraft. Can Ian survive all the dangers posed by the war and yet return to Giselle, who is waiting for him? The Osborns novel On The President's Vietnam Mission covers all the wartime action and drama, including the loss of LS-85 on top of Phou Pha Thi. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this action-filled trilogy, Lieutenant Ian Black starts his intelligence career in Cyprus searching for Greek terrorists that are trying to drive the British out and unite the island with Greece. While there, he falls in love with a nurse but unfortunately a tragedy intervenes with their romance. London politics overrules the British military and Lieutenant Black ends up in Berlin a few months before the infamous Wall is erected. He tours East Germany, tracking Soviet troop and equipment movements. Ian falls for a German fraeulein who turns out to be a mole as well as a swallow. When his father dies, Ian uses his dual citizenship and travels to the United States. There he manages to obtain a commission in the U.S. Air Force and ends up in Vietnam with the USAF Security Service. During the Vietnam War, Captain Ian Black is responsible for investigating and documenting the North Vietnam Integrated Air Defense System. In addition, he saves a downed pilot in the South and flies into the North to find out if the new anti-radiation missile works.Ian Black, by his actions, is a true patriot for Britain and the United States. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.