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The brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling
Goodwill House series.August 1940 As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna
Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land
girls, Sally, Daphne and Charlie. Sally, a feisty blonde from the
East End, has never seen a cow before, but she's desperate to
escape London and her horrible ex, Dennis. And although the hours
are long and the work hard, Sal quickly becomes good friends with
the other girls Daphne and Charlie and enjoys life at Goodwill
House. Until Dennis reappears threatening to drag her back to
London. Sal fears her life as a land girl is over, just as she
finally felt worthy. But Lady Joanna has other ideas and a plan to
keep Sal safe and doing the job she loves. Don't miss the next
heart-breaking instalment in Fenella J. Miller's beautiful Goodwill
House series. Praise for Fenella J. Miller: 'Curl up in a chair
with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another
time and another place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging characters and
setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain.
A fabulous series!' Jean Fullerton
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On War Volume II
(Hardcover)
Carl Von Clausewitz; Translated by Colonel J. J. Graham; Introduction by Colonel F M Maude
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Cambridge is one of the most famous universities in the world and
its library is one of only five copyright libraries in the UK. At
the start of the twentieth century it was a privileged life for
some, but many in Cambridge knew that war was becoming truly
inevitable. What the proverbial 'gown' feared communicated itself
to the surrounding 'town'. Terrible rumours were rife, that the
Germans would burn the university library and raise King's College
chapel to the ground, before firing shells along the tranquil
'Backs' of the River Cam until the weeping willows were just
blackened stumps. Frightened but determined, age-old 'town and
gown' rivalries were put aside as the city united against the
common enemy. This book tells Cambridge's fascinating story in the
grim years of the Great War. Thousands of university students,
graduates and lecturers alike enlisted, along with the patriotic
townsfolk. The First Eastern General Military Hospital was
subsequently established in Trinity College and treated more than
80,000 casualties from the Western Front.Though the university had
been the longtime hub of life and employment in the town, many
people suffered great losses and were parted from loved ones,
decimating traditional breadwinners and livelihoods, from the
rationing of food, drink and fuel, to hundreds of restrictions
imposed by DORA. As a result, feelings ran high and eventually led
to riots beneath the raiding zeppelins and ever-present threat of
death. The poet, Rupert Brooke, a graduate of King's College, died
on his way to the Dardanelles in 1915, but his most famous poem The
Soldier became a preemptive memorial and the epitaph of millions.
If I should die Think only this of me That there's some corner of a
foreign field That is forever England.
Security Strategies of Middle Powers in the Asia Pacific examines
what drives the different regional security strategies of four
middle powers in the Asia Pacific: Australia, Indonesia, South
Korea and Malaysia. Drawing on the extant middle power literature,
the authors argue that the regional security strategies of middle
powers could take two forms, namely, functional or normative. A
functional strategy means that the middle power targets its
resources to address a specific problem that it has a high level of
interest in, while a normative strategy refers to a focus on
promoting general behavioural standards and confidence building at
the multilateral level. This book argues that whether a middle
power ultimately employs a more functional or normative regional
security strategy depends on its resource availability and
strategic environment.
Special Forces are a key component of every modern army, capable of
carrying out clandestine operations, reconnaissance, and incisive
attacks behind enemy lines. Units such as the British SAS, US Navy
SEALs, the US Army’s Delta Force, Polish GROM and the France’s
National Gendarmerie Intervention Group are famous for their
bravery and formidable record. Aircraft are a key element of their
functionality, without which Special Forces would not be able to
move quickly to the combat zone. Arranged into chapters divided by
transports, gunships, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles,
the book includes the AC-130H gunship, which can be armed with
weapons such as the M61 Vulcan rotary cannon and can destroy ground
targets from a range of 2,000 metres; the CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor
aircraft, which can land large numbers of men and material in tight
spaces because of its STOL capabilities; the Eurocopter AS365
Dauphin II, used by the British Joint Special Forces Aviation Wing
(JSFAW) for the insertion of small units behind enemy lines; and
the Mil Mi- 171Sh Storm rotorcraft, used by the Russian Spetsnaz
commandos for operations in difficult terrain. Illustrated with 140
photographs and artworks, Aircraft of the Special Forces is a
dynamic guide to the specialist aircraft and UAVs deployed by
Special Forces throughout the world today.
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