Fire Support Base Matterhorn: a fortress carved out of the grey-green mountain jungle. Cold monsoon clouds wreath its mile-high summit, concealing a battery of 105-mm howitzers surrounded by deep bunkers, carefully constructed fields of fire & the 180 marines of Bravo Company. Just three kilometres from Laos & two from North Vietnam, there is no more isolated outpost of America's increasingly desperate war in Vietnam. Second Lieutenant Waino Mellas, 21 years old & just a few days into his 13-month tour, has barely arrived at Matterhorn before Bravo Company is ordered to abandon their mountain & sent deep in-country in pursuit of a North Vietnamese Army unit of unknown size. Beyond the relative safety of the perimeter wire, Mellas will face disease, starvation, leeches, tigers & an almost invisible enemy. Beneath the endless jungle canopy, Bravo Company will confront competing ambitions, duplicitous officers & simmering racial tensions. Behind them, always, Matterhorn. The impregnable mountain fortress they built & then abandoned, without a shot, to the North Vietnamese Army ...

Slagar, the Fox is bent on revenge
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Details: A beautiful collection of three books from the Sunday Times Bestselling Author. Au Revoir Liverpool
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With suggested itineraries & highlights sections that help make the most of any trip, this title
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A handy pocket-size guide that is packed with useful information, tips & recommendations, accompanied by colour photographs, charts & maps for the first-time traveller who wants to experience the major highlights that Mauritius has to offer. It includ ...

Semco is one of Latin America's fastest-growing companies, acknowledged to be the best in Brazil to work for, & with a waiting list of thousands of applicants waiting to join it. Here, the author shares his secrets, & tells how he tore up the rule books. ...

From the high seas at Trafalgar to the Normandy beaches, the course of history has been changed by military mavericks who have led from the front. In twelve riveting pen portraits, bestselling historian Robert Harvey explores the minds & the actions of such men including Clive of India, George Washington, Horatio Nelson, Field Marshal Montgomery & George Patton. ...

A cookbook featuring different recipes that has more emphasis on the outdoors
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Aimed at helping children master basic cookery techniques while learning to cook. This title features 46 recipes. The recipes are organised in six sections following on from a first section entitled ' Basic Techniques' that is dedicated to the basic skills the children can acquire as they work through the recipes. ...

Maw Broon & the Glebe Street Afternoon Tea Ladies bring you the best of their Scottish recipes for just under 100 Scottish fancy cakes & dainty savouries. Maw Broon & the Glebe Street Afternoon Tea Ladies bring you the best of their Scottish recipes for fancy cakes & dainty savouries. They've also written their very own (idiosyncratic) advice on the etiquette of afternoon tea for their friends & family, at home & abroad in the Commonwealth & Empire. Miss Gardner, a teacher, & one of the Glebe Street afternoon tea ladies, has written out the recipes, nice & neat, so that everyone can make the traditional recipes & enjoy a good Scottish afternoon tea. But Maw's proven advice & unique observations, in her own vernacular, are also sprinkled throughout this colourful, bright & entertaining book. You'll be well equipped to present an outstanding spread with near enough 100 braw recipes. These include cheese pastries, savoury choux buns, mini quiches, fairy cakes (who needs cupcakes!), millefeuille (whit? that's a vanilla slice if you're a Broon), swiss roll, . clairs, meringues, brandy snaps, gipsy creams, empire biscuits, & many more. In addition there's a selection of recipes to help you make the perfect celebration cake. Cover it in ganache, buttercream, marzipan, fondant or royal icing
- take your pick. Extras include illustrations of 12 recipe cards scattered throughout, that include strawberry jam, raspberry jam, apple jelly, tablet, chocolate truffles, & chantilly cream. & there are some vintage " Aunt Kate" recipes (taken from Maw's favourite magazine The People's Friend) for a nostalgic & homely look. This is the perfect gift, full of Broons humour & delicious Scottish recipes to enable you to host your own afternoon tea party
- or just conduct yourself with manners when you're in a posh tearoom. All the main recipes are braw.

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