Rome 61 BC Recruited as a gladiator young Marcus Cornelius Primus faces a new life of brutal training governed by strict rules as he learns the skills of an elite warrior. But Marcus cannot simply forget his past. His father lies murdered by soldiers & his mother has been kidnapped & forced into slavery. Marcus is determined to find his fathers old commander Pompeius the Great to seek justice for his family & set his mother free. Yet unbeknown to him Marcus is hiding a life-threatening secret. & if the Romans discover it there will be no escape.. . ...

Jonah Delacroix cant stand the real world
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Pen & Sword Books are proud to be re-issuing this the only book that the legendary legless ace Douglas Bader (immortalised by the film Reach For The Sky) wrote. He tells the inspiring story of the Battle of Britain from the viewpoint of The Few. Using superb illustrations he traces the development of the Spitfire & Hurricane & describes the nail-biting actions of those who flew them against far superior numbers of enemy aircraft. As an added bonus other well-known fighter aces including Johnnie Johnson Laddie Lucas & Max Aikten contribute to Douglass book no doubt out of affection & respect. This is a really important contribution to RAF history by one of the greatest -and certainly the most famous
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This Self Defence book for women & children is a must for those who wish to walk the streets safely be able to identify dangerous situations & avoid them. You can learn how to stop these thugs from wrecking your family's stability happiness & more importantly lives. Fight For Your Life" has been specifically written for women & children who have no previous martial arts training & who would just like to remain safe on today's streets. This detailed step-by-step guide accompanied by 170 photographs covers all the situations we may find ourselves in & then shows you how to deal with them. Violent people walk past us every day many looking for their next victim; don t let it be you. There are chapters that deal specifically with child attacks school bullies sex attacks violent attacks safe travel abduction & importantly what should you do if you or your child are the intended victim. In short if you want to gain the knowledge & skills to help prevent you or one of your family from being another rape or violence statistic this guide has the lot. Don't take the chance
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Gutsy & funny
- Daily Telegraph". Catherine Fox is not your typical martial artist. Her initiation into the sacred rites of
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The mysterious world of elite combat units blown wide open... Find out how elite teams prepare for Close Quarter Battle. Discover how they launch assaults against pirate boats. Learn the secrets to directing air attack against a key intelligence target. Read how units manage to enter hostile territory undetected & carry out long-ranges reconnaissance mission deep behind enemy lines. In his new book former SAS hero Chris Ryan delves into the secretive world of elite warfare revealing the nuts & bolts of some of the toughest sharpest & most legendary fighting units in existence around the world today. Drawing on his experience as a soldier in the Regiment for a decade as well as his recent unique access to some of the worlds hardest & most sophisticated special police units for his TV show Elite World Cops Chris Ryan explores the secrets of the trade. From the HALO insertion technique to mounting ambushes & escape-&-evasion tips Chris Ryans Fight to Win is the ultimate guide to elite forces training & operations. ...

The Battle of Britain memoir of Hurricane pilot Barry Sutton DFC. At twenty-three years of age Barry Sutton had experienced more than the average person experiences in a lifetime. This book based on a diary he kept during the Battle of Britain covers September 1939 to September 1940 during which time based at North Weald one of Fighter Commands most important fighter stations he shot down three German fighters & was shot down twice himself. It is also the story of his family his wife whom he married in the midst of the epic air battle & who helped him survive the horrific injuries he sustained after bailing out of his burning Hurricane fighter plane. ...

In the summer of 1940 the future of Britain & the free world depended on the morale & skill of the young men of Fighter Comm&. This is their story. The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fought & the victory of Fighter Command over the Luftwaffe has always been celebrated as a classic feat of arms. But as Patrick Bishop shows in this superb history it was also a triumph of the spirit in which the attitudes of the pilots themselves played a crucial part. Reaching beyond the myths to convey the fear & exhilaration of life on this most perilous of frontlines Patrick Bishop offers an intimate & compelling account that is a soaring tribute to the exceptional young men of Fighter Comm&. ...

Tough Jobs! is a new narrative non-fiction series covering popular historical topics through a variety of colourful jobs in a down-to-earth readable style with plenty of toilet humour! Each chapter features a double page fact spread & there is a glossary at the end. In Fighter Pilot Britain is at war with Germany & your dream is to become a heroic fighter pilot. Experience what life in the skies is like as you make new friends on the nearby airbase & learn from them what it takes to train to be a pilot. You get to go up in a plane & even meet a real-life prisoner! You'll find it's a tough job being a fighter pilot. ...

His profound respect for the RAF aircrews of the Second World Warhas led aviation historian Pat Cunningham DFM to record the experiences of ten of those who volunteered to hazard their lives when bombing operations were Britain's only effective method of striking back. The young men who engaged in flying duties came from disparate backgrounds but having qualified in their specialist categories were skilfully merged as interdependent crew members. The fact that 8 305 of the 55 573 men killed in RAF Bomber Command died in accidents alone highlights the perils they faced. Others included technical malfunctions notwithstanding that each had implicit faith in their supporting ground personnel. Then again the pressure to get them operational meant that many completed the required 30 bombing sorties with less than 500 hours' experience. Even so they were required to navigate over hostile blacked-out terrain in uncertain weather & with few radio aids in machines packed with highly volatile substances. ' We were buoyed up ' as one reflects wryly 'with the supreme confidence of ignorance.' Any ignorance however did not blind them to the odds against them so there was always fear to contend with. 'I cannot conceive ' says another 'that anyone who flew on ops did not feel afraid at some time.' Bomber Command experiences over Central Europe feature largely but operations over Italy the Indian Ocean & Burma have their place This tribute by the author offered as the Aircrew Association fades away is backed by the perspective given by 20 000 hours of operational & non-operational flying gained in 40 years of Service & Civil aviation. ...