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. ...

When the Capri was launched in 1969 its no-nonsense handling & roadholding & in 3-litre form its impressive performance singled it out from the bland & anonymous saloons of the late 1960s. Capris were straightforward easy to drive & simple to maintain & their popularity has been sustained largely because of this. Their simplicity of design & inherent ruggedness makes them ideal candidates for DIY restoration. The booming owners club movement & the continuing avilability of spare parts ensures that these cars will have a strong following for many years to come. ...

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. ...

Starting with the early experiments that led to the Model F at Dearborn in 1917 this book follows the development of the Fords on through to the Model N & the E27N to the widely successful Diesel Major & its little brother the Dexta. This accounts details Fordson production in Britain covering both Cork & Dagenham & making full mention of the personalities involved. Many of the little-known prototypes are described as well. A major section of the book is devoted to the American tractor line re-established in 1939 with the 9N built in collobaration with Harry Ferguson. The book concludes in 1964 just before the introduction of the worlwide" 6X range." ...