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V A Stuart
aka William Stuart Long
aka Violet Vivian F Stuart Mann
1914 - 1986


Victors and Lords
The first part of the Alexander Sheridan Series sees the hero in the Crimean War commanding his East India Regiment. He has to put up with prejudice and favouritism as well as the Russian enemy.

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The Sepoy Mutiny
The second part of the Alexander Sheridan Series sees the hero in charge of a volunteer cavalry unit at the outbreak of the Indian Mutiny.

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Massacre at Cawnpore
The third part of the Alexander Sheridan Series sees the garrison at Cawnpore try to hold on before being double crossed. His family joins in with the hardship and much more.

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The Cannons of Lucknow
The fourth part of the Alexander Sheridan Series sees him travel with Havelock's column to the relief of Lucknow.

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The Heroic Garrison
The fifth part of the Alexander Sheridan Series sees the relievers become the besieged as they have to wait for rescue themselves!

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The Valiant Sailors
The first part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero as the first lieutenant under an incompetent captain on the Trojan. Then a mysterious lady passenger is taken aboard...

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The Brave Captains
The second part of the Phillip Hzzard series sees the hero go ashore with the bluejackets to try and hold back the Russian cavalry.

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The Hazard's Command
The third part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero and his ship attempting to come to the aid of a French medical supply ship. However, the weather and the Russians are not helping...

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Hazard of Huntress
The fourth part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero as the captain of the steam ship Huntress. Despite this new command, he is required to act as a spy in the enemy port of Odessa...

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Hazard in Circassia
The fifth part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero attempting to find a new ally in the Circassian mountains to help fight the Russians. He will be joined by a Polish expatriate and his beautiful daughter.

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Victory at Sebastapol
The sixth part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero attempt to buoy a channel under the shore batteries at the Strait of Yenikal in an attempt to cut off the Russian supply lines.

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Guns to the Far East
The seventh part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero is sent to India to support the beleaguered British army as the Mutiny gets underway.

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Escape From Hell
The eighth part of the Phillip Hazard series sees the hero serve in the Naval Brigade ashore in India during the Mutiny. It becomes personal whilst there as he attempt so find his two sisters.

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The Exiles
The first part of the Australians series. This tells the story of those criminals (and innocent) who were rounded up for the harsh journey and new life awaiting them in the new penal colony of Australia.

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The Settlers
The second part of the Australians series. The colonists have to carve out a new life in the incredibly harsh and unforgiving Australian wilderness.

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The Traitors
The third part of the Australians series. Through heartbreak and tragic loss they had fashioned a new life in the land of their exile. However, treacherous forces defy the king and country, threatening to destroy everything the settlers had sacrificed so much to build.

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The Explorers
The fourth part of the Australians series. At the birth of a new century, they are all part of one glorious dream - the legacy of lovely Jenny Taggart, who had seen in a renegade nation the bold promise of tomorrow, the splendid, treacherous destiny of the explorers.

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The Adventurers
The fifth part of the Australians series. After having survived such a devastating European war, Australia held no threat, only temptation. For them it was truly the Promised Land. And yet they found that their struggles had only just begun. Cherishing a dream, they were no longer exiles.

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The Colonists
The sixth part of the Australians series. For three tumultuous generations they had struggled to harness an alien wilderness, to lay the bold foundation for their dreams. But now, just as a radiant future beckons, they are menaced by distant powers hungry to seize what they have so bitterly won.

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The Gold Seekers
The seventh part of the Australians series. With the discovery of gold in the rugged outback, Australia offers a new canvas of opportunities for those willing to seek their fortunes.

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The Gallant
The eighth part of the Australians series. New squatters and pioneers push ever onward into the unexplored outback. But those with roots already deep in the dusty soil--the indomitable young Jenny Broome and Colonel William De Lancey--find their fighting spirit urging them toward a different horizon: to defend The British Empire in a distant place of undreamt horror and unimaginable desire.

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The Empire Builders
The ninth part of the Australians series. With the vast, rugged Australian continent behind them, they push on to the neighboring colony of New Zealand. Seasoned by hardship, driven by a vision of one majestic empire united under the Union Jack, they have the courage to fight as only the free-spirited can.

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The Seafarers
The tenth part of the Australians series. Samuel Gordon is mate aboard the clipper Cutty Sark

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The Nationalists
The eleventh part of the Australians series.The days of exploration are over. Now cries of "Unlock the Land!" echoed from the outback to the cosmopolitan streets of Sydney. A young generation--farmers, bushrangers, dancehall girls, shippers, soldiers, and "mates"--would be the first to call this down-under land their native soil and unify their new country.

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The Imperialists
The twelfth part of the Australians series. A new century dawns and new hopes drive the children of convicts and colonialists. Some will journey into the outback looking for treasures of gold and glory, finding danger in a desert land where only the mysterious aborigines survive. Others will turn to the intrigue of politics, raising new cities and grabbing the raw power to sail north to primitive New Guinea, where they can reign as the conquerors, the takers...the imperialists.

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