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Commando
Commando
    Chris Terrill is a man in
    search of his limit. He's
    55 years old. He is not a
    soldier. He is being
    trained by the Royal
    Marines and he is going
    to Afghanistan. The only
    difference is that
    instead of a gun, Chris
    will be holding a camera
    and filming the whole
    ordeal for a major TV
    series.

    The Royal
    Marines Commando training
    base in Lympstone Devon,
    has a famous motto:
    '99.9% need not apply'.
    Of those who start
    training, after a very
    tough selection process,
    nearly 50% fail to make
    it through the most
    gruelling physical tests
    of any armed forces in
    the world in an eight
    month training regime.
    The elite who do
    eventually pass out are
    generally eighteen years
    old and at the peak of
    physical condition. But
    Chris Terrill is the
    exception: this book will
    tell of his heroic
    struggle to become the
    oldest man to win the
    coveted Royal Marines
    Commando Green Beret and
    enter the record
    books.

    And after
    six months of hell, what
    next? Chris will follow
    the raw recruits on a
    tour to Southern
    Afghanistan. He will tell
    the story in book and
    film of the fears and
    hopes of the youngsters
    as they are plunged into
    one of the planet's most
    dangerous wars in the
    outlaw mountain terrain
    of Helmand Province. He
    will tell of ferocious
    battles against the
    Taliban, of firefights,
    of jaw-dropping heroism,
    British sang froid and
    humour and tragedy as
    causalities are suffered
    -- all from the unique
    perspective of a civilian
    who has achieved the
    ultimate accolade: to be
    accepted as an honorary
    Royal Marines
    Commando. Commando
    is a brilliant account of
    modern war on the front
    line.
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Commando
Commando
    Chris Terrill is a man in
    search of his limit. He's
    55 years old. He is not a
    soldier. He is being
    trained by the Royal
    Marines and he is going
    to Afghanistan. The only
    difference is that
    instead of a gun, Chris
    will be holding a camera
    and filming the whole
    ordeal for a major TV
    series.

    The Royal
    Marines Commando training
    base in Lympstone Devon,
    has a famous motto:
    '99.9% need not apply'.
    Of those who start
    training, after a very
    tough selection process,
    nearly 50% fail to make
    it through the most
    gruelling physical tests
    of any armed forces in
    the world in an eight
    month training regime.
    The elite who do
    eventually pass out are
    generally eighteen years
    old and at the peak of
    physical condition. But
    Chris Terrill is the
    exception: this book will
    tell of his heroic
    struggle to become the
    oldest man to win the
    coveted Royal Marines
    Commando Green Beret and
    enter the record
    books.

    And after
    six months of hell, what
    next? Chris will follow
    the raw recruits on a
    tour to Southern
    Afghanistan. He will tell
    the story in book and
    film of the fears and
    hopes of the youngsters
    as they are plunged into
    one of the planet's most
    dangerous wars in the
    outlaw mountain terrain
    of Helmand Province. He
    will tell of ferocious
    battles against the
    Taliban, of firefights,
    of jaw-dropping heroism,
    British sang froid and
    humour and tragedy as
    causalities are suffered
    -- all from the unique
    perspective of a civilian
    who has achieved the
    ultimate accolade: to be
    accepted as an honorary
    Royal Marines
    Commando. Commando
    is a brilliant account of
    modern war on the front
    line.
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Shipmates
Shipmates
    This is the tie-in book
    to a two part BBC 1
    documentary series to be
    screened at 9.00pm in
    October and which will
    end on the bicentenary of
    the Battle of Trafalgar
    on 21st October. Chris
    Terrill is famous for his
    fly on the wall
    documentaries which have
    been watched by millions
    and received wide
    critical acclaim. We have
    had HMS Brilliant and The
    Cruise (audience reached
    11 million). Chris has
    based himself for the
    last few months in the
    very heart of the modern
    day naval experience. We
    will see: a Royal Naval
    Chaplain exorcising a
    haunted barracks in
    Portsmouth, a
    vodka-fuelled Trafalgar
    Day celebration in the
    British Embassy in the
    Moscow in 2004, a
    Polaris submarine
    crossing the Atlantic on
    an exercise in which it
    will 'pretend' to nuke
    America, the patrol of
    the frigate HMS Chatham
    in the Gulf, suddenly
    diverted to Sri Lanka
    after the Tsunami and the
    Fleet Review, where HMS
    Chatham in honour of her
    humanitarian role in
    Asia, will lead the
    entire assembly of a
    hundred warships,
    British and foreign,
    down the Solent. Chris is
    the only film maker to be
    granted exclusive,
    behind the scenes access
    by the Navy this year.
    During the filming Chris
    will capture the heart
    and soul of the sailors
    aboard, and on shore:
    there will be plenty of
    irreverence, practical
    jokes and laughs, and
    the human reality of the
    families left behind for
    months on end as warships
    and submarines go on
    extended tours of duty.
    This will be the fullest
    ever account of the
    Modern Navy in a year
    when the Trafalgar Day
    celebrations and the
    Fleet review will attract
    an avalanche of
    publicity.
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£18.00
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Amongst The Marines
Amongst The Marines
    AMONGST THE MARINES is
    Steven Preece's first
    hand account of life as
    an elite Royal Marine
    Commando. He delivers a
    direct and unflinching
    depiction of the
    excessive and often
    shocking lifestyle of the
    Marines and explains the
    impact this had on his
    own personality and
    behaviour.Preece
    fulfilled his childhood
    ambition by earning the
    coveted Green Beret from
    the Commando Training
    Centre at Lympstone when
    he was 18. He was unaware
    at that time of the
    brutal rite of passage
    that awaited him and all
    the other 'pieces of
    skin' (new recruits) at
    his first Marine Commando
    unit. Violence in the
    Marines, as Steven
    discovered, was not
    limited to the
    battlefield but a
    continual part of a
    pervasive culture of
    bullying and aggression.
    It did not take long for
    Preece to be accepted
    into this culture and to
    adopt it as his own. His
    personality changed
    beyond recognition - from
    friendly and approachable
    to hard and unforgiving -
    as he embraced the
    customs and values of the
    45 Commando Unit. On duty
    he was fit, committed
    and loyal, while off
    duty he displayed a
    mammoth capacity for
    drinking, fighting and,
    when the drink had run
    out, womanising. On home
    leave, Steven found it
    increasingly hard to
    adapt to civilian life.
    His drinking sessions in
    local pubs frequently
    ended in fights with the
    locals and even in
    violence against members
    of his own family. Preece
    earned a reputation
    amongst his fellow
    Marines for pranks and
    dangerous behaviour and
    his eagerness to accept
    any challenge from other
    commandos eventually led
    him to be
    court-maritialled. True
    to form, however,
    Preece was finally
    acquitted by the court.
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Standard Of Power
Standard Of Power
    Dan van der Vat, author
    of authoritative
    bestselling books on the
    Titanic and the history
    of the submarine, has
    now produced an
    enthralling and
    thoroughly researched
    history of the Royal Navy
    in the twentieth century.
    Beginning with the great
    'Dreadnought race' before
    the First World War,
    which set the theme for
    the great conflict with
    Germany which dominated
    most of the twentieth
    century, it follows
    through the sea conflicts
    of the Great War which so
    uncannily prefigured the
    ruthless battles of the
    Second, and takes the
    story through our 'Finest
    Hour' in the Battle of
    the Atlantic (the winning
    of which, even more than
    the Battle of Britain,
    secured our future) to
    the cuts of the post-war
    era, the final heroic
    but anachronistic
    flourish of the
    Falklands, and the
    present day, where the
    Royal Navy is once again
    entrusted with the major
    platform of our defence.
    Standard of Power
    is full of dramatic
    events, brilliantly
    recreated in narrative,
    and is also a serious
    study of technological
    and social change through
    which the Royal Navy,
    like Britain itself, has
    transformed itself almost
    beyond recognition.
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£11.25
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