Books with title The Return of the Soldier

van Lyon was a career soldier in the British Army who was bored by routine military life. Once he proved it by having a massive, ferocious tiger tattoed on his chest. Later, after he had escaped from Singapore in 1942, a purpose in life came to him. It was to repay the Japanese for their cruelty in the Malayan Campaign. He did it well. Organizing an irregular force he returned to Singapore in 1943 in small boats, placing mines on anchored shipping. Seven vessels went down. A year later he tried again with small ""canoe"" submarines, but was discovered and killed. The men with him were executed, but not before two of them had managed to cover 2000 miles in a small open boat in an escape attempt. The story is told sparely, in good taste, and yet with not too much attempt to understand Lyon the ""tiger"". Details of both raids, and of the painful trial of the captured men just before the close of the War, add colorful history to the writing done about the Pacific conflict.

Prepare for the adventure and mystery of The Red Soldier, a Young Adult novel following a young man tossed into a world of his parents' consequences. In a cryptic act of spontaneity, Miles Ruber’s repressive mother shuttles him off to a military school in the South American jungles where he joins other students searching for their purpose in the mysterious Colorum Society. Their purpose is dictated by an experiment all their parents took part in many years ago that was genetically passed to them. This experiment enhanced specific mental attributes. The School hopes to help these students channel these enhanced mental states of passion, perseverance, greed and more to become the Society’s leaders of the future. As Miles searches for his own mental enhancement he meets Lloyd Lockley, a student repeating his first year; he is dangerous according to other students, but his secret goes much deeper.

In The Return of the Sun, Mr Miserly is back to his old tricks. With the help of some bold spiders, he snatches the Sun Spirit and hides her in his mine. As a result it is winter all the year round and the dwarfs work nonstop. It takes the special skill of the Elfin Queen Mother, together with the help of Mr Miserly’s cat and all the other creatures of The North Side, to return the Sun Spirit to her home. But will the sun return to her summer position high up in the sky? This is the third book in The Cat Series, written for 6 to 9 year olds. It closes the first cycle of 3 books, which are aimed in particular at children in the 6 and 7 years age-group, with a reading level for 2nd grade = age 7.

van Lyon was a career soldier in the British Army who was bored by routine military life. Once he proved it by having a massive, ferocious tiger tattoed on his chest. Later, after he had escaped from Singapore in 1942, a purpose in life came to him. It was to repay the Japanese for their cruelty in the Malayan Campaign. He did it well. Organizing an irregular force he returned to Singapore in 1943 in small boats, placing mines on anchored shipping. Seven vessels went down. A year later he tried again with small ""canoe"" submarines, but was discovered and killed. The men with him were executed, but not before two of them had managed to cover 2000 miles in a small open boat in an escape attempt. The story is told sparely, in good taste, and yet with not too much attempt to understand Lyon the ""tiger"".