This is a compelling & human portrait of modern war. Colonel Stuart Tootal is the first senior commander to provide an account of the fighting in Afghanistan. A gritty portrayal of unforgiving conflict, Danger Close captures the essence of combat, the risks involved & the aftermath. 3 PARA was the first unit into Helmand in 2006. Sent on a peace mission, it became engaged in a level of combat that has not been experienced by the British Army since the Korean War. Undermanned & suffering from equipment shortages, 3 PARA fought doggedly to win the break in battle. Numerous gallantry decorations were awarded, but they were not without cost. On returning from Afghanistan, Tootal fought to get proper treatment for his wounded & feeling frustrated with the Government's treatment of its soldiers, he resigned from the Army. This is a dramatic, & often moving, insight into the leadership of soldiers & the sharp end of war. The size of this book is 23.4cm in height & 15.1cm wide with 306 pages ...

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Autumn 1940: With invasion imminent, cities are blitzed night after night as the nation becomes the target of a campaign of aerial assault. & even after the bombers have turned fro home, a deadly manace remains: thousands of UXBs. Unexpploded bombs blocked supply routes, closed Spitfire factories & turned families into refugees. Dealing with this threat soon became Churchill's priority. An astonishing & compelling account of courage & self-sacrifice, this is the true story of how the Blitz was beaten. ...

The conventional history of art is one of great men making great paintings, & displaying their works to a predominantly male audience in male-run institutions. Women, however, have had a role, often working behind the scenes, out of sight or in resistance to prevailing attitudes & practices. & it is in these exceptions to the rules of the masculine world of art-making that women artists have been perceived as groundbreaking, defiant & even subversive. A compelling selection of more than 60 artists from the early Renaissance to the present day, among them Judith Leyster, Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo & Louise Bourgeois, Danger! Women Artists at Work explores the most intriguing & provocative aspects of art by women who shook up the art world. Through a lively introduction & six thematic chapters dealing with such subjects as the ways in which women have challenged the boundaries of expression & how they have viewed the human body, Debra N. Mancoff presents an absorbing tale of those who have struggled & triumphed in their efforts to transform the visual arts. ...

If ever there were a book to make you switch off your television set, The Dangerous Book for Boys is it.

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When Rachel Kemp is in danger of losing her job at a London University visiting academic Luke Holloway takes her for a sybaritic weekend in the country to cheer her up. Her encounters with Luke & his enigmatic friend Max, open up a world of sensual possibilities, & she is even offered a new job editing a sexually explicit Victorian diary. But when Rachel returns to London, she is accused of smuggling papers out of the country & is sacked on the spot. When she tries to clear her name she discovers her actions have dangerous
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Engl&, September 1939 Lily Shepherd boards a cruise liner for a new life in Australia & is plunged into a world of cocktails, jazz & glamorous friends. But as the sun beats down, poisonous secrets begin to surface. Suddenly Lily finds herself trapped with nowhere to go... ...

It's Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, & a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting against vile & contemptuous accusations. As Anna sets out to find her friend's killer; she discovers hard truths about her friendships, the slippery nature of truth, & the ache of young love. As she awaits the judge's decree, it becomes clear that everyone around her thinks she is not just guilty, but dangerous. When the truth comes out, it is more shocking than one could ever imagine... ...

A little girl is transported with the help of magic glasses from the tedium of a summer afternoon into an exciting world of mangrove swamps, spluttering volcanoes & sea where birds fly upside down & wild things threaten to pounce. But she is not alone. ...

In gangland London, Maura Ryan is queen...

No one thinks a seventeen-year-old girl can take on the hard men of London's

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