John Masters Livres

A fictional account of the events which led up to the Indian Mutiny, with descriptions of the fighting and its aftermath.

Enter the world of the Dragon Knights!Evil General Vayn gained power twelve years ago on the Islands of Alariss, defeating the Dragon Knights, an elite force with the ability to transform into dragons, using dark magic to bind them in their human forms.

Part Two Of Two PartsBY THE GREEN OF SPRING is the third and final volume in John Masters' trilogy Loss of Eden.The trilogy, starting with NOW GOD BE THANKED, depicts the impact of WW I on British life. HEART OF WAR carries the saga into the conflict's desperate middle years. BY THE GREEN OF SPRING brings the war to its close and casts the survivors (half the war-time generation was killed) on the barren shores of peace."An impressive, large-scale work. Masters never shifts his focus from the human element...his storytelling gifts, convincing characterization and skilled organizaton have never been more tellingly displayed." (John Barkham Reviews)

The memoirs of Field-Marshal Sir John Durham provoke a profound crisis within his family and the British government as the layers of secrecy and lies are peeled away from his decades long Army career and personal life.

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India, 1948. Margaret Wood and Rodney Savage are reunited, a year on from their first meeting on Independence Day. Margaret is a missionary and a nurse who came to India with her husband. But he has died of a terrible fever, and that has left her, questioning her faith and devotion, to carry out the mission alone. Savage, who has known, lived and fought in India for years, is bewildered by a country he no longer recognizes, and, now rootless, he struggles to find his place in it. As the two grow closer, the India that they knew falls apart. Savage is rejected from the village tribe that called him 'Gora Raja' - the White King. They tell him he is a danger to the people of India and when the village general dies in prison, he is accused of murder. Wanted as a criminal, Savage must turn his back on the India he once knew, and find his way in this strange land. For this was not the India of the Rajput knights who had fought against Jason Savage, but Nehru’s India. And it was a country that no longer needed the British...