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Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport provides the first
comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its
implications on performance and well-being. It explores how
athletes', coaches', and support staffs' performance can be
enhanced while simultaneously optimizing their well-being in
contemporary sport. Divided into four sections following the stress
process, Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport covers key
topics including: Appraising and coping with stress in sport
Responses to and outcomes of stress in sport Moderators of the
stress process in sport Stress management to promote thriving in
sport Bringing together theory and practice, each chapter discusses
conceptual and theoretical issues, current research, and innovative
practical implications. Written by scholars around the globe,
Stress, Well-being, and Performance in Sport offers an
international perspective. It is important reading for students of
sport psychology as well as coaches, athletes, and support staff.
This book is the autobiography of one of the Baby Boomer generation
of individuals who now stand accused of all manner of heinous
crimes, including ruining the world and generally enjoying
themselves in the process. This is, of course, a fallacious
accusation, as is made very clear by the Baby Boomer subject of the
autobiography. He does this by recording not just a series of
events in his own life, but events that were taking place in the
world around him, and what his thoughts were on these events -
sometimes with not even a modest helping of reserve, but instead
with a fairly large dollop of irreverence. After all, any Baby
Boomer worth his salt, is hardly going to be constrained by the
dictates of 'wokism' or the edicts of modern-day puritanism. Far
from it. Indeed, this is only too apparent throughout the whole of
the autobiography and even more apparent in the autobiography's
three appendices, three veritable treasure troves of poetic pearls,
containing a carefully curated selection of the author's entirely
non-PC verses and his appalling epic odes. You have been warned.
Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport provides the first
comprehensive and contemporary overview of stress in sport and its
implications on performance and well-being. It explores how
athletes', coaches', and support staffs' performance can be
enhanced while simultaneously optimizing their well-being in
contemporary sport. Divided into four sections following the stress
process, Stress, Well-Being, and Performance in Sport covers key
topics including: Appraising and coping with stress in sport
Responses to and outcomes of stress in sport Moderators of the
stress process in sport Stress management to promote thriving in
sport Bringing together theory and practice, each chapter discusses
conceptual and theoretical issues, current research, and innovative
practical implications. Written by scholars around the globe,
Stress, Well-being, and Performance in Sport offers an
international perspective. It is important reading for students of
sport psychology as well as coaches, athletes, and support staff.
There was a keen lover named Claude Whose technique with women was
flawed And that's why, you see He had turned sixty-three By the
time he had finally scored This book does what it says on the tin -
and more. It not only provides 366 original ribald rhymes, but with
this armoury of new 21st century limericks, it also fights a
rearguard action against the forces of political correctness,
wokeness, unwarranted respect - and decency. Ideal for Baby
Boomers, A Leap Year in Limericks is not for the faint-hearted...
The Universal Carrier was a fast, lightly armed vehicle developed
by the British Army to carry infantry across ground defended by
small-arms fire; specifically the Bren light machine gun, hence the
name 'Bren Gun Carrier'. This name would stick with the Universal
Carrier and all of its future variants. This book details the
Carrier, which was employed in a number of roles including carrying
ammunition, and towing anti-aircraft guns and trailers. All Allies
used the Universal Carrier extensively during practically every
World War II campaign. By the war's end, the Universal Carrier had
proved itself to be an invaluable and successful cross-country
vehicle that was both agile and fast for its time.
The idea of British soldiers using American tanks was not viewed with a great deal of enthusiasm by the British Army. They perceived American tanks as being crudely made, mechanically unsophisticated and impossible to fight in. However, once British crews got used to them and learned to cope with some of their difficulties, such as limited fuel capacity and unfamiliar fighting techniques, they started to see them in a far more positive light, in particular their innate reliability and simplicity of maintenance.
This book, the last in a three-part series on British Battle Tanks by armour expert David Fletcher, concentrates on World War II and studies American tanks in British service, some of which were modified in ways peculiar to the British. It shows how the number of these tanks increased to the point that they virtually dominated, as well describing some types, such as the T14 and M26 Pershing, which were supplied but never used in British service.
Plagued by unreliable vehicles and poorly thought-out doctrine, the
early years of World War II were years of struggle for Britain's
tank corps. Relying on tanks built in the late 1930s, and those
designed and built with limited resources in the opening years of
the war, they battled valiantly against an opponent well versed in
the arts of armoured warfare. This book is the second of a
multi-volume history of British tanks by renowned British armour
expert David Fletcher MBE. It covers the development and use of the
Matilda, Crusader, and Valentine tanks that pushed back the Axis in
North Africa, the much-improved Churchill that fought with
distinction from North Africa to Normandy, and the excellent
Cromwell tank of 1944-45. It also looks at Britain's super-heavy
tank projects, the TOG1 and TOG2, and the Tortoise heavy assault
tank, designed to smash through the toughest of battlefield
conditions, but never put into production.
When British soldiers charged across the Somme in September 1916
they were accompanied by a new and astonishing weapon - the tank.
After a stuttering start armoured behemoths such as the Mark IV,
Mark V and Whippet played a crucial role in bringing World War I to
an end. Marking the centenary of their battlefield debut, this
comprehensive volume traces the design and development of the
famous British invention during World War I and the increasingly
tense years of the 1920s and 30s, from the first crude but
revolutionary prototype to the ever-more sophisticated designs of
later years. Bolstered by historic photographs and stunning
illustrations, author David Fletcher brings us the thrilling
history behind the early British battle tanks.
GROTESQUE TALES... UNEASY TALES... "The emaciated sodden legs beat
a ceaseless march on the unresisting veil, like those of a gallows
victim marking time in air. The battered, half-eaten arms clawed
blindly at nothing. The eyes were gone, and within their
ragged-edged hollows was manifest the coiling purposeful movement
of reptilian life." ('Animate in Death') Squadron Leader Leslie
Allin Lewis (1899-1961) was a veteran of both world wars, flying
Sopwith Camels over France in 1918 and Hurricanes over England in
1940. He was also one of the best writers in the macabre and
supernatural genre between wars. "Lewis undoubtedly earns a high
place among the best masters of supernatural and macabre literature
that Britain has ever produced." (Richard Dalby) "A brilliant
collection." (Mark Samuels) FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK.
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Tiger Tank (Icon) (Hardcover)
Michael Hayton, Steven Vase, David Fletcher
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The German Tiger I was the most feared battle tank of the Second
World War. Its invincibility lay in its main 8.8cm gun and heavy
defensive armour. This book gives a rare insight into acquiring,
owning and operating one of these awesome fighting machines, using
the UK's Tank Museum's Tiger 131 - the only Tiger I in the world
that has been restored to full running order. As well as offering
unique insights into maintenance and driving the Tiger, the book
includes vivid personal recollections from wartime German tank
crewmen and reveals what it was like to operate this 57-ton giant
in combat.
The NVG covers all seven Marks of Churchill gun tank with variations
and the curious self-propelled gun of 1941/42, but not the so-called
'Funnies' or the armoured recovery vehicle variants.
It will begin with the prototype tank A20, which has not been covered
in any detail before, then go on to look at all seven Marks of
Churchill, in particular their different guns. This book will also look
at the tank's service in Russia and later with the Irish, Jordanian and
Australian Armies. It will also feature on the disastrous Dieppe raid
of August 1942, ending with a brief look at the Black Prince or super
Churchill which was only developed up to the prototype stage at the end
of World War II.
The Churchill is an interesting tank, quite different from any other
British tank of World War II, built outside the normal process of
British tanks and the Department of Tank Design. It was built under the
watchful eye of the Prime Minister, after whom it was named, by a firm
with no previous experience of tank production. Despite being condemned
as unsuitable and more than once being scheduled to be replaced by a
better design this never actually happened. It remained in production
and ultimately vindicated itself since, although it was slow and noisy
it was found to have superior climbing ability and thicker frontal
armour than the vaunted German Tiger.
Its classification as an Infantry Tank has been extensively criticised
although recently one or two authors, notably Americans, seem to have
revised their views on this and even Field Marshal Montgomery, who
advocated a Universal Tank to fulfil all roles, found the Churchill a
useful tank on many occasions, particularly considering its ability to
absorb punishment.
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