From surviving a horrific terrorist attack in Northern Irel&, to the violence of the Gulf War & an assault course of harrowing experiences in Iraq, Bosnia & Columbia, Major Bill Shaw, MBE had seen it all. But Bill's strength & courage was tested to its absolute limits when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. Posted in Afghanistan after two years in Iraq, Bill was responsible for the safety of four hundred men in a full-scale danger zone in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Bill had long accepted that each day could be his last. But he never expected to find his own life at risk under a corrupt legal system. Thrown into prison & forced to share a cramped, vermin-infested cell, Bill had no idea when, or even if, he would see his family again. This is the incredible true story of a brave soldier who survived some of the toughest war zones in the world only to face the nightmare of being wrongfully imprisoned a very long way from home. Gritty & gripping, this powerful military memoir is an eye-opening account of life on the frontline. ...

From surviving a horrific terrorist attack in Northern Irel&, to the violence of the Gulf War & an assault course of harrowing experiences in Iraq, Bosnia & Colombia, Major Bill Shaw had seen it all. But Bill's strength & courage was tested to its absolute limits when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit. This is the incredible true story of a brave soldier who survived some of the toughest war zones in the world only to face the nightmare of being wrongfully imprisoned a very long way from home. ...

A high-speed train from Milan draws into the station in Rome, & an horrific discovery in one carriage rocks the city. Preliminary investigations are put in the hands of Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli.

The police receive a message claiming responsibility for the act & announcing more murders to come, & they duly turn their attention to a small terrorist group of Islamic extremists. But investigator Dante Torre does not believe this angle.

For him, this feels like a smokescreen concealing the actions of a killer who has a far more terrible motivation to continue.

The trail leads to Berlin & Venice, where the waters of the Venetian Lagoon will turn blood red.. .

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781471165559
• Author: Sandrone Dazieri
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 452
• Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 3cm













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Kill Zone An American general is captured in the Middle East by terrorists who threaten to behead him. But moments before he's rendered unconscious, he notices that his captors speak American English. What's going on? Gunnery Sergeant Kyle Swanson received orders to mount a top-secret mission to rescue him. But as the Marines prepare to land in the desert, they fall victim to a terrible accident. Swanson, the only survivor discovers they were flying into an ambush. But how could the enemy have details of a mission known only to a few top US government officials? Dead Shot In Baghdad's Green Zone, an Iraqi scientist is murdered just before he is to reveal the monstrous secret weapon that Saddam Hussein took to his grave. The killing is the work of a mysterious sniper called Juba, originally trained by the British but who now works with a twisted mastermind determined to wrest leadership of the Islamic terrorist world from Al-Qa'eda... ...

Artist Rose Trevelyan is always there to offer her friends support if they need her; lately, it seems as though everyone has a problem to share. Meanwhile, Rose's sometime boyfriend DI Jack Pearce is investigating a series of burglaries & a spate of vicious attacks on young women in the area. As secrets get shared & the crimes become more serious, should Rose betray her friends' confidences? ...

So go on, ask me. ' Dear, dear Tuffy. Why was your Christmas so horrible'? Well. I couldn't climb the tree. I couldn't touch the dangly decorations. & Ellie made me part of her sing-along Christmas performance. Horrible. But I showed them. I was Tuffy the Acting Cat, superstar. How was I supposed to know things would get so.. .messy? ...

So go on, ask me. ' Dear, dear Tuffy. Why was your Christmas so horrible?' Well. I couldn't climb the tree. I couldn't touch the dangly decorations. & Ellie made me part of her sing-along Christmas performance. Horrible, horrible, horrible! But I showed them. I was Tuffy the Acting Cat, superstar. ...

This video is part of a series of 11 instructional tennis videos by top coach, Nick Bollettieri. It focuses on the forehand shot, & offers advice on techniques, strategy & training. Both singles & doubles tennis are addressed & the techniques are demonstrated. ...

From the boardroom to the bedroom, the catwalk to the kerbside... Starry-eyed ing?nue Coco Raeburn is passionately ambitious. She will do anything
- & anyone
- to get her own editorship at a top fashion magazine. & her ruthless boss Victoria Glossop, editor at top UK fashion magazine Style, will do everything in her power to stop her... But Victoria has her own ambitions
- she wants the top job at Style's US headquarters, & nothing will come between her & her dream. Uber-svengali Jacob Dupleix, media magnate, owner of Style, & one of the most powerful men in New York & London, is used to controlling all he sees. But when Victoria demands that he give her the US Style editorship, he gives in, little realizing that his empire could be about to fall apart. In New York, mentor & voice of calm in a storm, Mereille watches the shifts of power with detached amusement. If only they knew quite how much power she could wield if she had to.


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Books True Crime Books A gripping & explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine & his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting
- from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea & a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17
- to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts & compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's h&, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, & the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, & stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims. In the midst of one of the darkest acts of aggression in modern history
- Russia's invasion of Ukraine
- this book shines a light on Putin's rule & poses urgent questions about how the world must respond.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781804991206 •†Author:†  John Sweeney •†Publisher:†  Penguin •†Format:†  Paperback •†Pages:† 352 •†Dimensions:† 12.7 x 2.1 x 19.8 cm



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