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"Huh, so all those times I tried to get you to look us in the eye, that was stopping you from listening?" "Well yeah, kinda. Your eyes pulled me away from your voice."
The British Army's SAS--the Special Air Service--is recognized as one of the world's premier special operations units. During the Gulf War, deep behind Iraqi lines, an SAS team was compromised. A fierce firefight ensued, and the eight men were forced to run for their lives. Only one, Chris Ryan, escaped capture--by walking nearly 180 miles through the desert for a week. The One That Got Away is his breathtaking story of extraordinary courage under fire, of narrow escapes, of highly trained soldiers struggling against the most adverse of conditions, and, above all, of one man's courageous refusal to lie down and die.
“Comparable with Michael Lewis’ The Big Short or indeed Ian Fraser’s Shredded, Bob Wylie has done a forensic job . . . a powerful book.” —Talk Media Podcast The collapse in January 2018 of the construction giant Carillion, outsourcer of huge Government building contracts, is one of the great financial scandals of modern times. When it folded it had only £29 million in the bank and debts and other liabilities adding up to a staggering £7 billion. When the total losses were counted it was established that the banks were owed £1.3 billion in loans and that there was a hole in the pension fund of £2.6 billion. That left British taxpayers picking up the tab to salvage the pensions o...
Explores the policy of pacification after the accession of James I to the throne of England and his utilization of the largely co-operative Borders elite.
Scottish and European action - romance set in the 16th Century.
A look at how New Zealanders at home expreienced the Second World War
Subjects ranging from legal history to college endowments reflect the current emphasis of research in medieval history on economic, religious and social themes.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference on Security Education, WISE 8, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2013. It also includes papers from WISE 6, held in Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, in July 2009 and WISE 7, held in Lucerne, Switzerland in June 2011. The 34 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. They represent a cross section of applicable research as well as case studies in security education.
A major reassessment of England's break with Rome
In this truly remarkable collection of maritime tales, Jon Tucker brings humour and insight into the lifestyle which he and his red-haired bride began, as teenagers, when they set out to build the traditional ocean-going ketch that was to become their home for decades (along with their expanding family of five adventurous sons).