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They call it “The Accord:” a chance for lasting peace between Israel and Palestine. It’s the crowning achievement of President Carlisle’s administration and has the potential to end an age-old enmity that has gone on for centuries. Both sides seem to want the same thing—to put aside ancient animosity and forge a new future together—but dark forces gather ... Enemies of The Accord are determined to derail the peaceful process at any cost, and brave intelligence officers must prepare to step up and fight. When the West Bank settlement of Tel Etz is destroyed, it seems like yet another terrorist attack, but the evidence doesn’t stack up. CIA and MI6 team up to uncover the truth before it’s too late. Can agents Logan and Murtagh stop the plans of “The Seven,” or must the world face the wrath of one broken man?
'Here are two peoples almost identical in blood – the same language and religion; and yet a few years of quarrelsome isolation have so separated their thoughts and ways that not unions nor mutual dangers, not steamers nor railways, seem able to obliterate the broad distinction.' Robert Louis Stephenson
Describes the family drama, political and royal court intrigue and bloody military battles that erupted between Henry VIII of England and his brother-in-law James IV of Scotland during the splendor of the Renaissance as Scotland tried to assert its independence.
While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evolved from much longer practices. From the fourteenth century to the present day, this work analyses the changing commemoration and memories of British battlefields at home and overseas, from Bannockburn (1314) to Bosworth (1485) to Basra (1914-1921). Across these seven centuries, there have been a series of recurring post-battle rituals that have shaped and continue to shape memories of conflict. Three distinct but overlapping periods of memory ca...
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