C. M. Harald

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The Sands Of War – Out Now!

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Buy the Sands of War, seventh book in the Royal Zombie Corps series.

The Sands Of War, the last instalment of the WWI zombie series, is out now and available from Amazon (link opens Books2Read.com universal Amazon link and will redirect you to your local Amazon store).

In this final instalment, the Great War is drawing to a close and Alfie Marsh finds himself accused of murder. Meanwhile, the British are planning to unleash a vast zombie outbreak to force Germany to the negotiating table. Find out what happens in The Sands Of War.

This is the seventh book in the Royal Zombie Corps series. Set during World War One, this alternative history series features a single change. Amidst the trenches of the Western Front, zombies have emerged as an additional danger to be faced by all sides. Follow the adventures of Alfie Marsh as the reanimated dead are drawn into the war as a weapon which may break the stalemate of the trenches.

Dead Handler available for pre-order

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Dead Handler, book 6 of the Royal Zombie Corps series is now available for pre-order on Amazon. Dead Handler will be released in the second half of August 2020. It’s a great book, and like Outbreak London, it is a longer book than the first four in the series. The final, 7th book in the series will follow later in 2020.

Amidst the chaos of the Great War, the Germans have a new weapon.

The dead have no sides, the people who command them do. 

With Britain reeling following the zombie outbreak in London, the Central Powers launch their Spring Offensive, a last desperate attack to knock Britain and France out of the war before the vast US army arrives. For the first time, Germany uses zombie soldiers. 

In a desperate attempt to end the new zombie threat, the British despatch their leading zombie expert to duel with the notorious Dead Handler. 

Outbreak London: released

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Get Outbreak London, released on Amazon now.

1918, London.  The unthinkable has happened, zombies are loose in the city.

Away from the trenches and assigned to a training unit, can the leading British zombie expert prevail against the zombie outbreak?  Already questioning his abilities, will Alfie Marsh be able to survive his leave in London?

Outbreak London is the fifth book in the Royal Zombie Corps series is a unique addition to the zombie and alternative history genres. 

If you like action, history and zombies, you won’t be able to put down C. M. Harald’s Outbreak London.

Outbreak London: Release Date & Cover

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Outbreak London: Release date

I’m delighted to announce the release date for the upcoming Outbreak London, book 5 in the Royal Zombie Corps series.  On Sunday 1st December, the book will launch on Amazon.

London, early 1918.  Zombies have arrived.  Will London survive?  Can Alfie Marsh restore order or will Britain be knocked out of the war?

This will be the first book in the Royal Zombie Corps series to be published since 2017.  The book is also the first to feature the cover art of the amazing Stuart Bache, who has created many excellent covers for writers including Stephen King, Mark Dawson and John le Carré.  

At over 40,000 words long, this new story is longer than the first four books in the series.  It continues the themes of zombies during World War One, but for the first time, the zombies are well away from the front lines.

Pre-order now on Amazon – Tigers at Cambrai

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Due to the half-term holiday, I’ve been able to quickly finish editing Tigers at Cambrai.  It is available for pre-order on Amazon as of today.  Tigers at Cambrai  can be downloaded from 3rd March 2017.  This is the fourth book in the Royal Zombie Corps series and the final one in the initial sequence covering 1916-1917.

Synopsis – Tigers at Cambrai

Their greatest challenge, so far, awaits the men of the Royal Zombie Corps at Cambrai. After a successful demonstration, the British plan to use the zombie tactics formulated by Alfie Marsh, alongside the other advances of the war. However, the enemy is determined to fight off this new horror of trench warfare, in an increasingly industrialised war.

Book 4 of the Royal Zombie Corps continues the story of Alfie Marsh, and his friends, as they face the might of the Triple Alliance in the trenches of Western Europe. Following a zombie outbreak in 1916, the British have been developing the zombie as an offensive weapon to break the deadlock of the trenches. Following the accidental discovery that zombies can be controlled by a select group of individuals, the men of the Royal Zombie Corps have been developing the tactics that they hope will bring the war to a successful conclusion in 1917.

This story is written in British English and is approximately 23,000 words long.

Buy Now on Amazon! Gas! Gas! Gas!

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At last ‘Gas! Gas! Gas!’, the third instalment of the Royal Zombie Corps has been uploaded to Amazon and is available now.

The third story in the Royal Zombie Corps series by C.M. Harald

I’ve been sitting on this book for quite a while as it was finished in July, but I’ve only just got around to completing the editing.  The great news for anyone following the series is that the fourth book is in the final editing stage.  Also the covers for the fourth book have already been created.

I had quite a bit of fun with this book as the events are closely linked to the developing expertise in the British Army, during this stage of the war.  This was especially interesting due to the ongoing debate about whether the Tommies were ‘lions lead by donkeys‘.  This is a concept that has become shorthand for mainstream British remembrance of the subject.  With the centenaries in recent years, many historians have been challenging this consensus.  It was therefore an engaging academic exercise to investigate these arguments and then assign different characters to represent some of the more obvious points.  By 1918, the British Army was almost unrecognisable.  The failures and experiences of 1915-1917 had created an effective force that married new technology to hard-won experience in a way demonstrated by no other country at the time.

Synopsis – Gas! Gas! Gas!

Following the failure to break through the German lines at Arras, the British look for new ways to turn their fearsome Tigers into a weapon that can turn the tide of the war in the trenches.

Book 3 of the Royal Zombie Corps continues the story of Alfie Marsh, and his friends, as they face the might of the Triple Alliance in the trenches of Western Europe. Along with the horror of zombies, Marsh has to content with the terrors of trench warfare and the ineptitude of some on his own side.

This story is written in British English and is approximately 23,500 words long.