Operation PedestalOne of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the island fortress must be saved. This was not merely a matter of strategy, but of national prestige, when Britains fortunes and morale had fallen to

Then on the eve of war something unexpected happens

she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own

the 13th/18th and the 15th/19th Hussars

TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats

on a rainy Sunday afternoon

where knights compete for glory and riches

November 1917

Katie and Harry encounter a world that is forever changed

Ellis Dau dreams of the West

complex scenes that fix in your memory' EVENING STANDARD

Even in a city where crime is commonplace

In this second instalment of John Gardner's Bond series