Joe Pickett's outlaw companion Nate Romanowski faces the battle of his life: one he may very likely lose. Nate knows too much about Special Forces Black Ops in Afghanistan
- & he must be silenced. Nate's former comrades know the time has come to end the threat once & for all. & they do it by incorporating many of the same tactics that served their unique & secret unit well in the Middle East: recruiting locals. Nate can trust no one except Joe Pickett who is constrained by his oath & duty to the law & the state. But Nate must involve Joe because he knows his enemy will strike at his friends in order to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target. Nate can only fight back outside the law & Joe must make a choice: help his friend or keep the peace?
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Force on Force" brings the drama & action of modern warfare to the tabletop using miniature soldiers. The rules cover all aspects of modern warfare from the confidence & supply level of troops to air-strikes & off-board artillery & accommodates scenarios set anywhere from the end of World War II to the conflicts on today's news without sacrificing either character or playability. From infantry & armour to artillery & air support " Force on Force" presents everything that players need to recreate post-World War II warfare between conventional combined-arms forces. The book also contains the Ambush Alley rules that allow players to recreate intense counterinsurgency actions in an urban environment." ...

Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; & more recently that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200 000 women in the UK belong to the WI & their membership is growing. They cross class & religion include all ages -from students & metropolitan young professionals such as the Shoreditch Sisters to rural centenarians -with passions that range from supporting the 1920s Bastardy Bill (in response to a wartime legacy of illegitimate babies) to the current SOS for Honey Bees campaign. It was founded in 1915 not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country including suffragettes academics & social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood changing women's lives & their world in the process. Certainly its members boiled jam & sang ' Jerusalem ' but they also made history. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are
- & always were
- a force to be reckoned with.

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Everyone knows three things about the Womens Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; & more recently that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. 215 000 women in the UK belong to the WI. Their membership crosses class & has recently begun to recruit huge numbers of young women (eg Shoreditch Sisters (check))/ It was founded in 1915 not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country including suffragettes academics & social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood changing womens lives & their world in the process. Certainly its members made jam & sang Jerusalem but they did & do much more besides. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are
- & always were
- a force to be reckoned with.

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The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse the core of Churchills deterrent Force Z stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya & Thail&. He was to be proved tragically wrong. Denuded of aircraft cover Force Z was left disastrously exposed to air attack. Within eight days of their arrival at Singapore both ships were sunk with huge loss of life in a mass attack by 85 Japanese bombers. It was the Royal Navys greatest loss in a single engagement & the first time a modern battleship had been sunk by air power. With the naval force at the bottom of the sea & the RAF almost wiped out in Malaya on day one Singapore was left with no air or sea protection & fell two months later. This is the first book to explore in detail the wrecks of these two vessels & grippingly narrates a summary of the Japanese threat Fortress Singapore & the subsequent Japanese invasion. Today the wrecks of these two famous British warships lie on the bottom of the South China Sea 200 miles north of Singapore & 50 miles offshore. The author was invited as a civilian expert on a military expedition to dive & survey these wrecks & now for the first time the wrecks are revealed as they are today. Beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned artists illustrations of the wrecks each one is looked at in detail. The story of the loss of these two ships & of the sacrifice of the men who served in them is remembered. This has been a personal quest for the author whose grandfather was serving in Singapore when Force Z arrived. His wife & the authors father & two brothers were among the last civilians evacuated from Singapore before the final siege. His grandfather was taken into internment at Changi Gaol by the Japanese & suffered there for three years until Singapore was reoccupied by the British in 1945. Had the Fall of Singapore not happened the way it did the author would not be here to write this truly remarkable book. ...

Before the Ford Capri arrived in 1969 GT cars had tended to be expensive temperamental impractical & rarefied. Ford decided there was no reason why a four-seater coupe couldnt look stunning & go like a rocket (with the right engine) yet be as easy & cheap to run as a Ford Escort. Little wonder that the slogan they used in 1969 to launch it The car you always promised yourself made an immediate impact. The Capri was a hit from day one & continued to be a British favourite until 1986 at which time it had been somewhat overshadowed by the emergence of the Hot Hatchback. Over its lifetime the Capri was available in a vast array of guises over three distinct Marks but all of them had at their heart affordable fun & a surprising degree of everyday practicality. Nothing has ever quite replaced it but it lives on in the fond imagination of everyone who loved it. ...

Once there was a Cortina on every British street corner but now only a handful of the four million made survive & the rest are fond memories. For 1962 the Cortina was rushed to sale as an economy car but it rocketed to the top of the sales charts & stayed there for 20 years. To mark 50 years since the introduction of Fords best-seller this exhaustively researched history tells how it grew to be a worldwide success. With first-hand accounts from key people & evocative period photography the design & development of all five generations of Cortina is explored in detail. ...

Worldwide No.1 bestseller John Grisham takes you into the heart of Americas Deep South with a collection of stories connected by the life & crimes of Ford County: a place of harsh beauty where broken dreams & final wishes converge. From a hard-drinking downtrodden divorce lawyer looking for pay-dirt to a manipulative death row inmate with one last plea Ford County" features a vivid cast of attorneys crooks hustlers & convicts. Through their stories he paints a unique picture of lives lived & lost in Mississippi. Completely gripping frequently moving & always entertaining " Ford County" brims with the same page-turning quality & heart-stopping drama of his previous bestsellers & is proof once more why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller." ...

Escort RS1800 (Escort Mk II): This is a Rally Giant because it was consistently the fastest most successful & most versatile car in the second half of the 1970s. Developed from the Mk I it was a conventional front engine/rear drive machine which rallied with 2-litre engines of up to 270bhp. Rally successes were legendary
- British (RAC) Safari Acropolis Finland (1000 Lakes) Sweden Portugal Canada & many more. The cars won 17 World Rallies between 1975 & 1981. RS1800s won the World Makes Championship in 1979 & were always close to victory always competitive. Escort drivers like Bjorn Waldegard (1979) & Ari Vatanen (1981) won the World Drivers' Championships. Over the years hundreds
- & this is no exaggeration
- of RS1800s were built for motor sport & were the ideal car for almost any condition in the world because they were very powerful but simple & rugged. The RS1800 was also the layout template which was copied by other manufacturers for cars like the Talbot Sunbeam-Lotus the Vauxhall Chevette HSR & the Nissan GTs of the late 1970s/early 1980s which were really all Escort 'clones'. Ford claims & it may be right that RS1800s have won more rallies at World International & National level than any other car in the world.


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Drawing on first-hand experience of what can happen when you rely on basic paperwork & goodwill alone this book offers a unique insight into the would-be problems & pitfalls of buying a 1964-1973 Ford Mustang. Learn the strengths & weaknesses of Mustangs from an author with many years of experience performing ground-up restorations of these iconic cars. Learn what models & variants are on offer & what popular upgrades are commonly performed by owners & their effect on market values. Whether you want a show-car a daily driver or a restoration project all the key points & checks are here ranging from paperwork to market values & from trim to engine condition. This book is the essential companion when looking to buy one of Americas original Pony Cars. ...