The casualties of war aren't only on the battlefield... Coming back from war is never easy as Sergeant Dave Henley's platoon discovers all too quickly when they return from Afghanistan. Home can be an equally searing battlefield. When they are summoned back to Helmand to protect the US team destroying the opium crop it is almost a relief to the soldiers if not to their wives girlfriends & families who are turned inside out once more by their men's sudden departure. & now danger lurks around every corner
- for Dave's team who must learn new skills to survive & their loved ones in England whose lives be ripped apart by equally deadly weapons
- blind prejudice acid jealousy ugly rumour.

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Coming back from war is never easy as Sergeant Dave Henley's platoon discovers all too quickly when they return from fighting in Afghanistan. Life at home is very different than on the battlefield
- for everyone. When they are summoned back to Helmand to protect the US team assigned to destroy the opium crop it is almost a relief to the soldiers if not to their wives girlfriends & families who are turned inside out once more by their men's sudden departure. For all concerned danger lurks around every corner
- for Dave's team who must learn new skills to survive & their loved ones in England whose lives can be destroyed by equally deadly weapons
- a harsh look a misunderstanding an ugly rumour. Like War Torn" " Battle Lines" is at once a gritty close-to-the-action thriller & an involving story of the stresses & strains which families & relationships suffer when separated by thousands of miles & a wealth of experience. This is everyday life made brilliantly real by Andy Mc Nab whose continued involvement with the men & women of the British Army gives this extraordinary novel its authenticity its toughness & its heart."


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Battle Lines Ypres the first volume in Pen & Swords new series of walking cycling & driving guides to the Western Front is the essential companion for every visitor to the Ypres Salient & the battlefields of Belgium. Many of the most famous
- & most memorable
- Great War sites are featured here. Expert guides Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland take visitors over a series of routes that can be walked or biked or driven explaining the fighting that occurred in each place in vivid detail. They describe what happened where it happened & why & who was involved & point out the sights that remain there for the visitor to see. Their accounts give a fascinating insight into the landscape of the front line & the acts of war that took place there a century ago.

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A fresh perspective on the famous battle in which the victors threatened the very existence of the Ulster plantation but ironically brought about the fall of their own Assembly of the Catholic Supreme Council. On Friday 5th June 1646 near the village of Benburb Owen Roe ONeill leader of the Confederate native Irish Ulster army brought about his greatest military triumph in Ireland by putting to rout the combined Scottish/ British force of Robert Monro. This was no ordinary battle as the combatants came from Scotland England Wales & Ireland with the mixed interests of the imprisoned King Charles I his rebellious English parliament the Scottish covenanters the old English the Vatican the Ulster plantation & the native Irish. In this fresh new perspective the battle itself has been re-examined & broken down into tactical phases to understand the experiences the men had to endure & the reasons why the battle turned out the way it did. The rival forces themselves are investigated with full orders of battle the troops of horse & regiments of foot that participated in the campaign & the different types of soldiers that made up these units. ...

When turmoil strikes world monetary & financial markets leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder & defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of forty-four nations gathered in July 1944 in the midst of the century's second great war has become shorthand for enlightened globalization. The actual story surrounding the historic Bretton Woods accords however is full of startling drama intrigue & rivalry which are vividly brought to life in Benn Steil's epic account. Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury & aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic & political rival. At the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes the renowned & revolutionary British economist & Harry Dexter White the dogged self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new & striking archival evidence Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex & controversial figure of White
- the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system who also very privately admired Soviet economic planning & engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials & agents over many years. A remarkably deft work of storytelling that reveals how the blueprint for the postwar economic order was actually drawn The Battle of Bretton Woods" is destined to become a classic of economic & political history."
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From the bestselling author of Fighter Boys & Bomber Boys this is a magisterial chronicle of a defining episode in British history: the epic struggle of the Royal Air Force with the Luftwaffe. Patrick Bishops Battle of Britain is a compelling account of Britains fight for national survival from the shock defeat & evacuation from Dunkirk in May/ June 1940 to fighter Commands assertion of superiority over the Luftwaffe in mid-September. Battle of Britain takes the reader through that summer day by day revealing the ongoing battles impact on flyers & civilians alike. By enhancing his narrative with eye-witness accounts diary extracts & pilot profiles Bishop brings the often horrific reality of air combat vividly to life. In Battle of Britain Patrick Bishop has written the definitive account of one of the pivotal moments in twentieth-century British history & a nations finest hour. ...

This text illustrates & details the graves memorials crash sites & pilots of both the RAF & Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain. Twenty famous fighter aerodromes have been explored & there's a listing of The Few" in its entirety. An update is also available for 1.75 (cde F016)." ...

Officially Licensed & developed in partnership with the RAF this title is part of the fact-filled interactive sticker & activity books. It features bitesize information with stickers to complete scenes & content related activities. The target age is 8-12 boys & girls. Each book also has cut out & keep Plane Collector Cards detailing all the essential stat info on the planes featured in the book. Over 45 stickers in each title. It combines the sticker element of a Panini comic with fun content-related activities quizzes & facts. You will benefit from the very broad range of RAF licensed merchandise set hit the shelves this year including toys & games. ...

The Nazi Blitzkrieg was unlike any invasion the world had ever seen. It hit Europe with a force & aggression that no-one could counter. Within weeks the German armies were at the French coast & looking across at Britain a country still reeling from the opening salvoes of the war. It seemed impossible that she would be able to resist invasion. But between the Nazis & glory stood more than just the pilots of Fighter Comm&. There was Bomber & Coastal Command the Royal Navy & the incredible Auxiliary Patrol Service. In this darkest hour Britain's defence was truly a national effort & one that had been considerably better prepared for than the German attack. For the first time The Battle of Britain" tells this most epic of stories from a 360degree perspective drawing on extensive new research from around the world that challenges some of the long-held myths about the battle. Holland paints a complete picture of that extraordinary summer
- a time in which the fate of the world truly hung by a thread."
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RAF fighter pilot George Barclay kept a personal diary of his time flying Hurricanes & Spitfires in 1940
- 41 including his rare
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