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The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military
history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an
eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842,
coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of
military campaigning. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan
government and its army shocked the world, as a resurgent Taliban
gathered its forces and swept across the country. Thousands of
Afghans who had worked with the allies were left to the meagre
mercy of the Taliban. As the Taliban went door to door to execute
'collaborators', a small international task force set out on a
daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as
possible. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the
politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue,
the young soldiers who were faced with the unenviable task of
keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, former
interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it
out - Escape from Kabul is the harrowing true story of Operation
Pitting and the Kabul airlift.
Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an
unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the
brutal reality of war - every scary, exciting moment - and the
bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed. 'If you could
choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?' Danny
said. 'Your arms or your legs?' In July 2009, Geraint (Gez) Jones
was sitting in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan with the rest of The Firm
- Danny, Jay, Toby and Jake, his four closest friends, all junior
NCOs and combat-hardened infantrymen. Thanks to the mangled remains
of a Jackal vehicle left tactlessly outside their tent, IEDs were
never far from their mind. Within days they'd be on the ground in
Musa Qala with the rest of 3 Platoon - a mixed bunch of men Gez
would die for. As they fight furiously, are pushed to their limits,
hemmed in by IEDs and hampered by the chain of command, Gez starts
to wonder what is the point of it all. The bombs they uncover on
patrol, on their stomachs brushing the sand away, are replaced the
next day. Firefights are a momentary victory in a war they can see
is unwinnable. Gez is a warrior - he wants more than this. But then
death and injury start to take their toll on The Firm, leaving Gez
with PTSD and a new battle just beginning. 'Jones writes of his
brothers and their Afghan experience, from its adrenalin-filled
highs to the many lows, with passion and candour.' - Major Adam
Jowett, bestselling author of No Way Out 'A gritty, brutal book
about men at war. Raw and real. Brilliant.' - Tom Marcus, author of
Soldier Spy
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Legion (Paperback)
Geraint Jones
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Battle, plunder, and glory awaitThe eagerly anticipated prequel
series to Blood Forest (Ambush) and Siege. AD 6: The greatest army
assembled in a generation prepares to march. But not Legionary
Corvus. He and half his legion are to be left behind to garrison
the province of Pannonia: a wild place where the mountains are as
deadly as any foe. Corvus despairs as he watches his closest friend
Marcus march to war, not knowing that his own eager thirst for
battle is about to be quenched. A huge rebel army has revolted
against the Empire, and Corvus and his few comrades are all that
stand against them... A gritty historical adventure, perfect for
fans of Ben Kane and Simon Scarrow. Praise for Geraint
Jones'Outstanding... Geraint's own military service has helped
create a realistic and gritty vision of what it was like to be a
soldier in Roman times. Bold, violent, but also deeply
introspective, this book offers insight not only into history, but
also the mind of the soldier. I couldn't put it down' Steven
Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire 'Blood and guts, but also a
clever exploration of the moral ambiguity of war and loyalty to a
flag' Mail on Sunday 'Brutal, audacious, and fast paced' Anthony
Riches, author of the Empire series. 'Historical fiction written by
a real war veteran who knows all there is to know about blood and
bonding in battle' Weekend Sport
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Rebel (Paperback)
Geraint Jones
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R313
R224
Discovery Miles 2 240
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When defeat is inevitable there are only two options: go out on
their terms, or yours.At last, the Roman Empire is winning one of
its most savage wars. King Pinnes is dead. The Pannonian tribes
have surrendered. Only the Dalmatians under Bato remain in the
fight, and this brutal leader holds the life of a former Roman
standard bearer in his hands. Corvus is spared only on condition
that he continues to fight against Rome as a rebel, but his enemies
are everywhere. Not only do the Romans want his head, but the
treacherous Ziva - his supposed ally - is a constant threat. With
the Pannonians knocked out of the war, the entire might of Rome is
directed against Bato's army. Legion after legion covers the
landscape. Sieges are laid. Towns burn. Thousands die. There is no
mercy. And there, in the fire of the rebellion's last stand, Corvus
must face his greatest betrayer - Marcus. The epic conclusion to
the Raven and the Eagle series, perfect for fans of Ben Kane and
Simon Scarrow. Praise for Geraint Jones'Blood and guts, but also a
clever exploration of the moral ambiguity of war and loyalty to a
flag' Mail on Sunday 'Brutal, audacious, and fast paced' Anthony
Riches, author of the Empire series. 'Historical fiction written by
a real war veteran who knows all there is to know about blood and
bonding in battle' Weekend Sport
The evacuation of Kabul in August 2021 will go down in military
history as one of the most unexpected events in modern times. In an
eerie replay of the disastrous British retreat from Kabul in 1842,
coalition troops withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of
military campaigning. The subsequent collapse of the Afghan
government and its army shocked the world, as a resurgent Taliban
gathered its forces and swept across the country. Thousands of
Afghans who had worked with the allies were left to the meagre
mercy of the Taliban. As the Taliban went door to door to execute
'collaborators', a small international task force set out on a
daring mission to evacuate as many Afghans and their families as
possible. Drawing on a wide range of first-hand accounts - the
politicians and officers who planned the trans-continental rescue,
the young soldiers who were faced with the unenviable task of
keeping a crowd of thousands of desperate people at bay, former
interpreters and soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces who made it
out - Escape from Kabul is the harrowing true story of Operation
Pitting and the Kabul airlift.
In July 2009, Geraint (Gez) Jones was sitting in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan with the rest of The Firm – Danny, Jay, Toby and Jake, his four closest friends, all junior NCOs and combat-hardened infantrymen. Thanks to the mangled remains of a Jackal vehicle left tactlessly outside their tent, IEDs were never far from their mind. Within days they’d be on the ground in Musa Qala with the rest of 3 Platoon – a mixed bunch of men Gez would die for.
As they fight furiously, are pushed to their limits, hemmed in by IEDs and hampered by the chain of command, Gez starts to wonder what is the point of it all. The bombs they uncover on patrol, on their stomachs brushing the sand away, are replaced the next day. Firefights are a momentary victory in a war they can see is unwinnable. Gez is a warrior – he wants more than this. But then death and injury start to take their toll on The Firm, leaving Gez with PTSD and a new battle just beginning.
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Traitor (Paperback)
Geraint Jones
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R313
R224
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You can't turn your back on RomeIn the bloodied mountains of
Pannonia, the Roman army struggles to put down a brutal rebellion.
Corvus is now the standard bearer of the Eighth Legion, which has
borne the brunt of the fighting. The famed soldier has lost one
comrade after another, and now his oldest friend, Marcus, has
betrayed him, shaking him to his core. Sick of the conflict, Corvus
deserts his legion and rides for home to end his days in peace. But
there is no escaping Rome, or its vengeance. Corvus might want a
simple life, but when tragedy strikes, he is hauled back into the
savage war. And this time, he won't be fighting on the Roman
side... The compelling second novel in the Raven and the Eagle
series, perfect for fans of Ben Kane and Simon Scarrow. Praise for
Geraint Jones'Blood and guts, but also a clever exploration of the
moral ambiguity of war and loyalty to a flag' Mail on Sunday
'Brutal, audacious, and fast paced' Anthony Riches, author of the
Empire series. 'Historical fiction written by a real war veteran
who knows all there is to know about blood and bonding in battle'
Weekend Sport
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Siege (Paperback)
Geraint Jones
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'Brutal, audacious, and fast-paced' - Anthony Riches, author of
bestselling Empire series 'Every page is drenched with the
soldier's experience' - Giles Kristian Former soldier Geraint Jones
delivers a visceral historical fiction epic that captures the
essence of the men fighting for the blood-stained legions on the
fringes of the Roman Empire. In the wake of a brutal massacre, the
battle-hardened legionary Felix is taken as a slave to a traitorous
Roman's German army: a force hellbent on tearing apart the Empire.
As legion after legion falls, it's up to Felix and his shackled
comrades to escape captivity and starvation, and to lead the
defence of a lone fort against an insurgent force that has
destroyed all in its path. because if their last stand fails then
Rome itself could be next...
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE BLOOD FOREST 'A BLOODY
PAGE-TURNER' Mail on Sunday For fans of Bernard Cornwell, Simon
Scarrow, Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden, a spectacular debut where
honour and duty, legions and tribes clash in bloody, heart-breaking
glory . . . ____________ AD 9. Fifteen thousand battle-hardened
Roman legionaries strike deep into dense forest. Awaiting them are
deadly, hostile Germanic tribes. In a clearing they find twelve
massacred and strung-up legionaries. Is this a threat, or a
warning? There is just one bloodied, broken survivor. He has no
idea who he is. Only that he is a soldier. And now he must fight.
As the legions are mercilessly cut down, the nameless soldier joins
a small band of survivors trapped in the forest. If they fight
together they have a slim chance of staying alive. But whose side
is the soldier on? And is it the right one? _____________ 'Blood
and guts, but also a clever exploration of the moral ambiguity of
war and loyalty to a flag' Mail on Sunday 'Gives Rome's legionaries
a contemporary voice - brutal, audacious and fast paced' Anthony
Riches, author of the Empire series 'Historical fiction written by
a real war veteran who knows all there is to know about blood and
bonding in battle. An earthy and powerful read' Sport
These proceedings contain the papers presented at a workshop on
Designing Correct Circuits, jointly organised by the Universities
of Oxford and Glasgow, and held in Oxford on 26-28 September 1990.
There is a growing interest in the application to hardware design
of the techniques of software engineering. As the complexity of
hardware systems grows, and as the cost both in money and time of
making design errors becomes more apparent, so there is an
eagerness to build on the success of mathematical techniques in
program develop ment. The harsher constraints on hardware designers
mean both that there is a greater need for good abstractions and
rigorous assurances of the trustworthyness of designs, and also
that there is greater reason to expect that these benefits can be
realised. The papers presented at this workshop consider the
application of mathematics to hardware design at several different
levels of abstraction. At the lowest level of this spectrum, Zhou
and Hoare show how to describe and reason about synchronous
switching circuits using UNilY, a formalism that was developed for
reasoning about parallel programs. Aagaard and Leeser use standard
mathematical tech niques to prove correct their implementation of
an algorithm for Boolean simplification. The circuits generated by
their formal synthesis system are thus correct by construction.
Thuau and Pilaud show how the declarative language LUSTRE, which
was designed for program ming real-time systems, can be used to
specify synchronous circuits.
The First and Second World Wars had a profound effect on all parts
of Great Britain, and the comparatively isolated and rural island
of Anglesey was no exception. Men were recruited and conscripted
into the armed forces in large numbers and some parts of Anglesey,
such as the port town of Holyhead, sprang to life. Many Anglesey
men found themselves in exotic locations all across the world,
while others lost their lives on the killing fields of Western
Europe during the First World War. Many soldiers wrote letters home
describing their experiences: good, bad and downright bizarre.
Airships were deployed during the First World War and RAF airbases
were established during the Second World War. The wars left a
legacy that can still be seen on the island today.
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