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Gathered on the Beach is the thirteenth and final instalment of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR prequel series of the Timeline 10/27/62 series. It is October 1962 and the USS Beale swings around her chains at Norfolk, her crew little knowing what part in the coming drama they will play. The outcome of the Cuban Missiles Crisis hung in the balance right up to the moment, it did not. In the desperate hours as the sides groped for a way out of the hole they had dug for themselves, a single misstep might have been disastrous and to this day most people do not realise that the Cold War very nearly went HOT...

The American Revolution failed; the Continental Army was destroyed at the Battle of Long Island in 1776 and ever since, New England has been the great engine and on occasions, arsenal of the British Empire. The question is: is the Empire on which, literally, the Sun never sets which rules rather more than a quarter of the globe and well over a billion people, beginning to creak at the seams? The Forces of the Triple Alliance led by the wily Felipe Santa Anna have conquered tens of thousands of square miles of the South West, and driven the supposedly invincible Royal Navy out of the Gulf of...

La Argentina covers the period of the Argentine invasion of the British South Atlantic Dependencies (The Falkland Islands-Las Islas Malvinas, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territories) in the spring of 1964.

BEAR IN THE SKY is the sixteenth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. BEAR IN THE SKY was originally published as the second half of WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN and appears now in its separate form in the interests of making what was originally a humongously very long book more palatable, and hopefully digestible to readers! ________ There is always the unexpected; the best laid plans never seem to go quite the way they are supposed to go. Especially, in the still dysfunctional outer regions of the once-great Soviet empire. It is election year in the United States but a new ...

“Just for the record; this is insane!” By then I ought to have known better than to speak truth to a member of the SS but actually, given that I was sitting at the controls of a prototype aircraft which had crashed on its maiden flight – I should know, I was flying it at the time - and had presumably, been in the hangar under repair ever since, I had every right to be pessimistic about my odds of surviving the forthcoming take-off so basically, there was not a lot the man in the right hand seat could do to frighten me. Or rather, if one was being pedantic; frighten me any more than I ...

A little over 20 months have passed since the cataclysm of October 1962. It is a minute before midnight in Philadelphia on July 4, 1964, in a world stumbling inexorably toward a second, even more catastrophic nuclear war. The United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom have stepped to the edge of the thermonuclear abyss; who will blink first? In All Along the Watchtower, the main series and the USA series of Timeline 10/27/72 merge into a single global narrative of the most desperate hours in human history.

Fame, fortune, and beautiful models - Howard Chandler Christy had them all. Christy was the most famous American painter of the Jazz Age, a time when an elite brotherhood of New York artists dominated the publishing world. Christy had eclipsed all of them with his ''Christy Girl'', an idealized woman who redefined beauty, influenced fashion, and inspired generations of women.

FALLOUT SHELTER is the third book in the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series. It is December 1961 and the doomsday clock is ticking. The free and the unfree worlds live under the same dark shadow of a nuclear nightmare; and yet normal life continues. Love affairs flounder, stumble, bloom and life, even for those on the front line of the Cold War goes on, in the main without an excess of melodrama or untoward incident. But beneath the surface that Cold War continues, brutally with little ceremony and less remorse as the agendas of the players constantly shift posture. ‘Great’ Britain’s power is ...

Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. The COUNTDOWN TO WAR Series is: 1: The Autumn of Empire – October 1961 2: Enterprise – November 1961 3: Fallout Shelter – December 1961 4: The Lion Sleeps Tonight – January 1962 5: Doomsday Blues – February 1962 6: The Great Storm – March 1962 7: West Side Story – April 1962 8: The Wall – May 1962 9: Test Ban Treaty – June 1962 10: The Night of the Long Knives – July 1962 11: Marilyn – August 1962 12: ...

For nearly a century, SCIA's work has remained a dark secret within the underbelly of French Governments through war and peace. Nominally acting under the direction of the Ministry of the Interior, the Security Committee for Interloper Affairs - the best kept secret of the Fifth Republic - has become a bloated, corrupt monster, a rogue organ of state whose senior officers are more preoccupied with their own personal aggrandisement and the preservation of SCIA's power, than any meaningful notion of service to the French state.

Welcome to the Timeline 10/27/62 prequel series COUNTDOWN TO WAR starting in October 1961 and concluding when the world goes mad during the last weekend in October 1962. THE WALL is the eighth of thirteen books in this series which will be released at monthly intervals between 27th October 2023 and 27th October 2024. It is May 1962. A train of events which has been slowly coalescing since October 1961 in the confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin is beginning to play out. In the USSR, emboldened by apparent Western weakness and irresolution, the Kremlin, shaken by a sudden purge of ...

THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT is the fourth book in the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series. January 1962 and the new year dawns with the West and the Soviet Union locked in rhetorical sabre-rattling, with both side’s leaders deaf to – or perhaps, more accurately – in denial about the other’s problems. From sunny California to windswept Lincolnshire the shadow of war is ever-present, the leader of the free world exhorts his people to build bomb shelters, Nikita Khrushchev periodically threatens to rain nuclear brimstone on his enemies but for most people there is the routine of their normal lives, ...

The Ripper continues his rampage and the last secrets of Guy Winter's life are stripped away. As the bombs fall the mystery man unravels one mystery after another, knowing that sooner rather than later he must confront his deadliest foe. This time it is not just Guy Winter's life and loyalties that are under the microscope. The past mistakes of friends and enemies alike suddenly come home to roost, but Guy Winter never stops hunting his man.

DOOMSDAY BLUES is the fifth book of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series. It is February 1962. John Glenn, the first American has finally contrived to orbit the Earth. In Laurel Canyon and Beverley Hills one journey pauses and another ends. In England Peter Christopher guiltily reflects on his prospective marriage to a woman he does not love and the likely end of his long-distance, relationship with Maria Calleja, as he goes about his work on board HMS Talavera at Chatham. In Washington and Moscow, the spy game continues, wheels within wheels until it is unclear who exactly, is playing whom… The ...

WEST SIDE STORY is the seventh book of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR series. It is April 1962. In retrospect, historians make the mistake of assuming that at the time people were able to join up the dots the way they do years, decades later; as if everybody had perfect knowledge of everything that was going on around them in the world. It was ever thus; being all-knowing long after the event. In the spring of 1962 the Cold War is already hot and the seeds of disaster are being sown, casually, careless day by day while most people just get on with living their lives. The COUNTDOWN TO WAR continues, ...

ONLY IN AMERICA is the twelfth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is January 1966 in a world in which the Cuban Missiles Crisis went disastrously wrong and the ‘swinging sixties’ never happened. Now, on New Year’s Day 1966 the United States finds itself suddenly under attack and plunged into a Second Civil War. The enemy this time is not from without, it is from within its own tortured soul and wrecked heartlands in the Midwest. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died in an orgy of violence, great cities burn and the nightmare legions of the Kingdom of the End ...

August 1940 - Chief Inspector Guy Winter has been Fleet Street's favorite detective for over a decade. Dubbed the "Mystery Man" by his friends and enemies alike, for all his fame he cuts a lonely figure at Scotland Yard, where every newspaper story is fresh grist to an already tired mill. Laid low by personal tragedy, there are many who suspect that the great detective's career is over.

WARSAW CONCERTO is the thirteenth book in the core MAIN SERIES OF TIMELINE 10/27/62. It is November 1966 in an altered timeline in which the swinging sixties never happened and the Cold War has returned with a bitingly chilly vengeance. Four years on from the Cuban Missiles War the survivors are struggling to come to terms with the new world order in which the United States, seemingly all-powerful is still struggling to come to terms with the horrors of civil war in the Midwest. East and West have never been so far apart, the aftermath of World War III is still, painfully unravelling. Worse...

Even some of his friends think Guy Winter has gone rogue. The mystery man has disappeared and the dark forces which have driven him to the very edge of madness are gathering. The Ripper has eluded him, his political masters have stabbed him in the back. He has almost been cremated in a burning warehouse, shot, witnessed the destruction of Coventry and been thrown into wartime Britain’s most secret prison because he was on the verge of exposing MI5’s greatest mistake. And all the while the London Blitz continues. Sometimes a man can only come to terms with the tragedies which plague him ...

Get ready for a wild ride through dark streets, where monsters roam, magic crackles, and heroes fight shadows at every turn. From wizards to vampires, gods to shapeshifters, these stories will drag you into a world where the impossible is just another day.