Johnny Vince has retired from the Special Forces
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The Linebacker II campaign of 1972 saw America's fearsome but irreplaceable B-52s finally sent into action above the Vietnamese capital Hanoi in an attempt to bomb the Vietnamese to the negotiating table 96 pages Michel III Marshall ...

Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to & across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated by airborne troops Their objective along this road was the bridge at Arnhem the target of British & Polish airborne troops Once XXX Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German industrial area of the Ruhr The operation was bold in outlook but risky in concept Using specially commissioned artwork & detailed analysis Ken Ford completes his trilogy on Operation Market-Garden by examining this attack which if successful could have shortened the war in the west considerably Yet it turned out to be a bridge too far ...

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONOne April morning in 1943 a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain & set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted & certainly the strangest It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction & saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different in one crucial respect from any spy before or since he was dead His mission to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily the Allied armies planned to invade Greece The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer & a brilliant Jewish barrister the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist a gold-prospector an inventor a beautiful secret service secretary a submarine captain three novelists a transvestite English spymaster an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing & a dead Welsh tramp Using fraud imagination & seduction Churchill's team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate & so convincing that they began to believe it themselves The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall It travelled from London to Scotland to Spain to Germany & it ended up on Hitler's desk Ben Macintyre bestselling author of Agent Zigzag weaves together private documents photographs memories letters & diaries as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 & Naval Intelligence to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play World War II rage across the Pacific & Lt Cmdr Duke E Gifford is in the thick of it he evacuates children from enemy-held islands oversees the development of torpedoes at Pearl Harbor & prowls the depths in the submarine Thunderfish for a chance to aim his enhanced &tin fish&
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- at the enemy John Wayne plays Gifford in Operation Pacific &I&m no theory man I&m a line officer& Gifford barks He backs it up with lots of bite in several feverish sea battles He&s also a man of heart with a loving wife at home Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood World War II commander of all US Pacific submarines was technical advisor for this adventure packing real-you-are-there thrills!

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Evie is desperate for a holiday
- a good one Not only because she's been working all hours as a receptionist for two high-powered
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' Our nation's great satirist the most sustained feat of comic writing in Irish literature' Irish Times It's the end of the world as Ross knows it this time there's no way of escaping another monumental fock-up! Sorcha had thrown me out of the family home
- this time apparently for good & yet that was the least of my worries My old dear was in prison accused of murdering her second husband My sons were showing an unhealthy interest in
- someone call social services
- soccer! & my daughter wanted everyone to call her Eddie But don't even go there! On top of all that a blond wig discovered in a dusty attic had given my old man delusions of power Suddenly he was running for election promising to tear up the bailout deal & take Ireland out of Europe & that's to say nothing of his secret plan for Ireland's second city But shush! Don't mention the wall!


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Operation Valkyrie tells the astonishing true story of a bold German plot to assasinate Adolf Hitler & the man who risked everything to try & make it happen Sebastian Koch stars as Claus Von Stauffenberg a once idealistic German army colonel whose exposure to wartime atrocities & personal battle injuries move him to conspire to eliminate the power crazy Fuhrer The heroic tale remains a fascinating must see example of the German resistance to HItler&s oppression ...

Operation Warcade is a shooter specifically designed for virtual reality Inspired by late 80’s classic arcade games you can go old school by playing on a ‘virtual’ arcade machine or use the innovative immersion system to travel inside the video game & onto the battlefield in mind blowing VR As the environment pans by hundreds of enemies run towards you You’re given an uzi in one hand & grenades in the other to clear a way through There are several other weapons & grenade types which can be temporarily equipped after shooting specific targets inc bows & the game changing gravity gun which means that you can manipulate elements in the environment to your favour so you can gain the edge in battle Operation Warcade is compatible with the PSVR Aim Controller (not included) Required (not included) Play Station VR Headset Play Station 4 Camera ...

This proven textbook guides readers to a thorough understanding of the theory & design of operational amplifiers (Op Amps) The core of the book presents systematically the design of operational amplifiers classifying them into a periodic system of nine main overall configurations ranging from one gain stage up to four or more stages This division enables circuit designers to recognize quickly understand & choose optimal configurations Characterization of operational amplifiers is given by macro models & error matrices together with measurement techniques for their parameters Definitions are given for four types of operational amplifiers depending on the grounding of their input & output ports Many famous designs are evaluated in depth using a carefully structured approach enhanced by numerous figures In order to reinforce the concepts introduced & facilitate self-evaluation of design skills the author

Includes:: problems with detailed solutions as well as simulation exercises

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