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Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Mathew Baynton, Alastair MacKenzie, Gavin Mitchell, …
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R34
Discovery Miles 340
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Comedy in which two rival musicians are handcuffed together at a
music festival. Adam (Luke Treadway) and Morello (Natalia Tena)
appear to be as far apart from each other as performers at the same
festival can be. Adam is a member of a famous US boy band called
'The Make' and is in a relationship with a bland model, Lake (Ruta
Gedmintas). Morello, in contrast, fronts the 'Dirty Pinks', an
up-and-coming female indie band. When the two are handcuffed
together by an eccentric festival-goer, who proceeds to make off
with the key, the pair can only hope the unifying power of music
will work its magic. Not least as they both have to take to the
stage that day...
'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further;
it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.' If
there was ever anyone who went a little further, a little beyond,
it was Alastair MacKenzie. In a career spanning 30 years, MacKenzie
served uniquely with the New Zealand Army in Vietnam, the British
Parachute Regiment, the British Special Air Service (SAS), the
South African Defence Force's famed ParaBats, the Sultan of Oman's
Special Forces and a host of private security agencies and defence
contractors. MacKenzie lived the soldier's life to the full as he
journeyed 'the Golden Road to Samarkand'. This extraordinary new
work from the author of Special Force: The Untold Story of 22nd
Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) vividly documents the experience
of infantry combat in Vietnam, life with the Paras, the tempo of
selection for UK Special Forces, covert SAS operations in South
Armagh and SAS Counter Terrorist training on the UK mainland,
vehicle-mounted Pathfinder Brigade insertions into Angola and
maritime counter-terrorism work in Oman.
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The exploits of the British Army's elite 22nd Special Air
Service Regiment - the regiment of the SAS that forms part of the
Regular army - are shrouded in mystery and myths abound about its
members. But what is the truth behind the public facade of clinical
professionalism? How has such a small regiment attracted so many
weighty legends? And what is the purpose of the SAS in the 21st
century?
"Special Force" provides an original and unusually critical
overview of the activities of the SAS from the Malayan Emergency of
1950 to the present day. In the context of a detailed and often
controversial analysis of the post-war activities of the Regiment,
MacKenzie establishes that the Regiment's almost legendary
professional competence is often not backed up by reality. Far from
being part of a structured deployment of strategic military assets,
MacKenzie argues that the use of the SAS in recent years has been
primarily driven by the "entrepreneurial" actions of a few SAS
commanding officers.
"Special Force" not only offers a revelatory history of the SAS
in the modern period, it is also a disturbing expose of the truth
behind the myth. It will be essential reading for anyone with an
interest in the British military - past, present and future.
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