Most people are familiar with references to Scottish battles such as Bannockburn & Flodden but know little if anything about those events. Rugby & soccer fans outside Scotland may wonder at the sign 1314 held up by Scottish fans & not know that it is the date of the Battle of Bannockburn when an English king was defeated on Scottish soil. The battle is also commemorated in Scotlands unofficial national anthem The Flower of Scotland. Battles fought on Scottish soil include those of the Scottish Wars of Independence those occasioned by the English Civil Wars & the Jacobite Rebellions. This book tells the stories of these battles & many others fought in Scotland from the Roman victory at Mons Graupius in AD 83 to the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie at Culloden Moor in 1746. ...

Killing Floor is the first book in the internationally popular series about Jack Reacher hero of the new blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise. It presents Reacher for the first time as the tough ex-military cop of no fixed abode: a righter of wrongs the perfect action hero. Jack Reacher jumps off a bus & walks fourteen miles down a country road into Margrave Georgia. An arbitrary decision he's about to regret. Reacher is the only stranger in town on the day they have had their first homicide in thirty years. The cops arrest Reacher & the police chief turns eyewitness to place him at the scene. As nasty secrets leak out & the body count mounts one thing is for sure. They picked the wrong guy to take the fall. ...

ABSOLUTE POWERTOTAL MADNESSONLY ONE MAN CAN STOP ITIn the Regiment you might swear allegiance to Queen & country. But its your mates you take the bullets for. & your mates you kill to protect. So when Chet uncovers corruption at the very highest levels of power its Luke he wants to tell. Only Lukes got his hands full in Iraq. Which leaves Chet very much on his own. Just him the girl the war-mongering Prime Minister
- & a lethal assassin...
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On a rainy night in Denton Detective Inspector Jack Frost is called to the site of a macabre discovery in the woods
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A multiple rapist is on the loose a woman reports that her baby has been stolen & someone is trying to blackmail the local supermarket by poisoning some of the stock. When two young girls are reported missing the Denton crime wave reaches terrifying heights. As DI Jack Frost staggers exhausted from case to case something nasty arrives at the station in the form of Detective Chief Inspector Skinner. The scheming slippery Skinner clearly has his eye on the Superintendent's office but his first job is to manipulate the transfer of the unorthodox Frost to another division. Will Frost find the missing girls before his new nemesis forces him away from Denton once & for all? ...

Killing Giants" unveils practical strategies for overtaking larger competitors in any market looking at companies like that started out small but quickly dominated by using their opponents size to their advantage. Baidu has beaten Google at search in China & the Boston Beer Company took on Budweiser with Sam Adams Boston Lager. Stephen Denny shows how even behemoths like Nike & Coca Cola are susceptible to small even tiny competitors because of their size. Using a range of fresh case studies he explains how by taking a fresh approach you can carve out a larger chunk of any marketplace." ...

Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in & she couldn't care less. Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago & it's all God's fault. When Dawn's dad found God it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to everything. But that wasn't the end of it. ...

In the Western Ocean 1942 from the bridge of HMS Gladiator Lieutenant-Commander David Howards orders were chillingly clear. There could be no mercy. To the men who fought to protect the vital threatened Merchant Navy convoys in the Western Approaches the Battle of the Atlantic was a full-scale war. It was a relentless savage war against an ever-present enemy & a violent sea
- in an arena known only to its embittered survivors as the killing ground. HMS Gladiator was part of that war. He was an ordinary hard-worked destroyer & her company of men fighting for survival in a war with no rules...
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Jack Higgins the undisputed master of action & suspense is back with a brand new adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon. For intelligence operative Sean Dillon it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid born & bred in England but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways as Rashid has just found out to his pain. His thirteen-year-old daughter Sara has been kidnapped by Rashids own father & taken to Iraq to be married to a man known as the Hammer of God one of the Middle Easts most feared terrorists. Dillon has had his own run-ins with the tribe & when the distraught man begs him for help he sees a chance to settle some old scores
- but Dillon has no idea of the terrible chain of events he is about to unleash nor of the implacable enemies he is about to gain. Before his journey is done many men will die
- & Dillon may be one of them.

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Hej! If youve been experiencing an inexplicable longing for rain long dark nights & an overwhelming urge to pull on a slightly itchy looking jumper then congratulations
- You have Forbrydelsen Fever. Theres no need to panic. This is your chance to get inside the world of Sarah Lund: from the characters the plot holes & the politics to the language dating the Danish way & the jumpers... So if youve ever wondered who cut the CCTV wire outside Lunds flat in series one why Morten went so far to protect Troels (TROOOOOOOOOELLLLLLS) where you can start your walking tour of Copenhagen from woods to warehouses & the County Hall or even how you can knit your own Lund jumper
- this is the book for you. Emma Kennedy is a superfan & this is her hilarious guide to everything youre going to need to pretend you are Danish bone up on everything suspicious & transform yourself into Sarah Lund herself.

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