When the US Navy send their elite they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism hostage rescue & counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden & the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this behind-the-scenes chronicle former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALs & Special Forces snipers. From descriptions of the gruelling selection processes involved in reaching this elite within an elite to his terrifying ordeal at the Black Hawk Down battle in Somalia Wasdins book is one of the most explosive military memoirs in years. ...

When the US Navy send their elite they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite they send SEAL Team Six. SEAL Team Six is a clandestine unit tasked with counterterrorism hostage rescue & counterinsurgency. Until recently its existence was a closely-guarded secret. Then ST6 took down Osama bin Laden & the operatives within it were thrust into the global spotlight. In this internationally bestselling chronicle former ST6 shooter Howard Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALs & Special Forces snipers. From the inside track on the operation that killed the worlds most wanted man to his own experience of the gruelling ST6 selection processes to his terrifying ordeal at the Black Hawk Down battle in Somalia Wasdins book is one of the most explosive military memoirs in years. ...

After a separation of many years Emily Fido Faithfull bumps into her old friend Helen Codrington on the streets of Victorian London. Much has changed: Helen is more & more unhappy in her marriage to the older Vice-Admiral Codrington while Fido has become a successful woman of business & a pioneer in the British Womens Movement. But for all her independence of mind Fido is too trusting of her once-dear companion & finds herself drawn into aiding Helens obsessive affair with a young army officer. Then when the Vice-Admiral seizes the children & sues for divorce the womens friendship unravels amid accusations of adultery & counter-accusations of cruelty & attempted rape as well as a mysterious sealed letter that could destroy more than one life.. . ...

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At the height of the Second World War this small pocket-book was issued to all ratings on board ships of the Royal Navy. In straight period prose it outlines all the basic expressions & tasks a seaman needed to know to perform his duties efficiently. Chapters are broken down into: Sea Terms; Navigation; Steering the Ship; Rigging; Anchors & Cables; Boatwork; Miscellaneous (which

Includes:: details on uniform & folding a hammock etc); & Ship Safety. Functional black line illustrations are used throughout as well as a few pages of colour (used sparingly) for flag recognition. Faithfully reproduced with a short introduction by Brian Lavery which explains the importance of a book like this to a navy that had to take on vast numbers of civilians or Hostilities Only men to meet the manning needs of the war this volume provides a real mixture of wartime nostalgia & historical authenticity. It makes a world now lost to us accessible again explaining as it does the terms skills & conventions of ship board life a life that required a common language & where failure to respond to orders instantly could mean the difference between life & death. The book is sure to appeal to those who served in the war as well as the current generation who are becoming increasingly interested in the role their grandparents fathers & uncles played during that time.

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Maria Duenas's million copy best-selling tale of adventure tragedy love & war The Seamstress" a Richard & Judy 2012 book club pick. Spain 1936 & the brink of civil war. Young poor Sira Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned left penniless & in debt to the authorities she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing. Taken under the wing of the bullish but caring housekeeper Candelaria Sira is able to sew for the glamorous foreign English & German women in Tetouan. Privy to their unbridled gossip Sira becomes invaluable to the British secret service a position that is filled with untold risk. A story of danger espionage romance & war " The Seamstress" is a WWII tale like no other. " Maria Duenas is a true storyteller. Read this book & prepare to be transported." (Kate Morton author of " The House at Riverton"). "A wonderful novel with intrigue love mystery & tender audacious & clean-cut characters." (Mario Vargas Llosa). "A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history & intrigue." (Juan Gomez-Jurado author of " The Moses Expedition"). Maria Duenas holds a Ph D in English Philology & is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities is the author of several academic articles & has participated in various educational cultural & editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel." ...

Maria Duenass million copy best-selling tale of adventure tragedy love & war The Seamstress". Spain 1936 & the brink of civil war. Young poor Sara Quiroga is swept up in a whirlwind romance with her wily love Ramiro. Fleeing Madrid together for Morocco her love blinds her to his real failings. Soon abandoned left penniless & in debt to the authorities she has to rely on the one skill she still possesses: sewing. Taken under the wing of the bullish but caring housekeeper Candelaria Sara is able to sew for the glamorous foreign English & German women in Tetouan. Privy to their unbridled gossip Sara becomes invaluable to the British secret service a position that is filled with untold risk. A story of danger espionage romance & war " The Seamstress" is a WWII tale like no other. " Maria Duenas is a true storyteller. Read this book & prepare to be transported". " Kate Morton author of " The House at Riverton"). "A wonderful novel with intrigue love mystery & tender audacious & clean-cut characters". (Mario Vargas Llosa). "A magnificent novel that flawlessly brings together history & intrigue". (Juan Gomez-Jurado author of " The Moses Expedition"). Maria Duenas holds a Ph D in English Philology & is currently a professor at the University of Murcia. She has also taught at American universities is the author of several academic articles & has participated in various educational cultural & editorial projects. She is currently writing her second novel. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of The Seamstress Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for The Seamstress Judys Review Siras affair with Ramiro heady & exciting at first swiftly turns into the first great catastrophe of her life. Her lover is a fraud; a con man whose honeyed words & sweet caresses conceal an empty selfish heart. Ramiro persuades Sira to abandon her life in Madrid & the couple run away together to Morocco where they set up in a luxurious hotel. Sira has inherited a large sum of money from her distant father & we know from that moment her doom is sealed. Ramiro pretends to keep her inheritance safe for her & promises wonderful investments to make her even richer. Of course he abandons her at the first opportunity without a peseta to her name. He also leaves her with a huge unpaid hotel bill & Sira has no choice but to flee. She is an innocent abroad & is quickly picked up by the police. Betrayed & penniless a second catastrophe overtakes Sira. Civil war has erupted back in Spain & she cannot return home. Stuck in north Africa she must use her skills as a seamstress to eke out a living. It is a terrific start to a wonderful book. Maria Duenas goes on to take us & Sira back to a Spain now tearing itself apart before it succumbs to " ...

GCSE Student Text Guides analyse popular set texts & poems in terms of themes style context & where appropriate characterisation & plot. Each guide concludes with advice planning answers & writing essays & provides examples of A*- & C-grade answers to exam-style questions together with examiner's comments. ...

Sean Connerys creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain & its cinema allowing a cash-strapped morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate him from. Undaunted Connery went on to prove himself one of the cinemas most relaxed & assured stars & a guaranteed box-office draw. Moulding & remoulding his image to fit the contours of the age Connery has gone from Sadeian Sixties sex symbol to the sagacious magus figure to which todays young stars are forever turning. Spirited argumentative & sardonically celebratory Christopher Brays Sean Connery" is both a biography of a star & an investigation of what can happen to a man when the images he creates take over his life. & its an analysis of what it means to be star-struck
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Join Dora & Boots in this great look & find adventure. Each spread shows Dora & her friends in a different location with lots of hidden objects to find on the page. Little explorers will have great fun helping Dora & Boots find all the objects. ...