8 June 1982, Falklands: Britain's Most Lethal Day of Combat since World
The updated paperback of the acclaimed first history of 8 June, 1982, Britains Worst Day of Combat since WWII.
In 1982, eight young Guards officers in their twenties found themselves suddenly on the way to the Falklands 8000 miles away from Britain. Some four decades later, they realised that no one had written the history of this ......
Debut fiction by former Conservative Minister George Walden about Billy Sweetman, an amiable middle-aged drunk of an MP who one morning wakes up about half his size. In fact, as Billy discovers, the entire country has shrunk overnight.
In this buoyant, inspirational A-Z, Angela Neustatter writes about the unexpectedly cheerful side of ageing. The ways we learn to deal with conflicts, problems, relationships, feelings about our appearance and behaviour through the years become a delight rather than a chore.
From Savage Global Mercenaries to Vladimir Putin's Unlikely Nemesis
This is the first book on the Wagner Group, the shadowy Russian paramilitary organisation that fought in Ukraine and staged a surprise uprising against Vladimir Putin on 23-24 June. It has been involved in conflicts in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, Venezuela and Mali, committing war crimes, rape, robbery of civilians, and torture.
Martin Peters finds himself in Berlin. Once a British spy involved in a controversial loyalist shooting in Belfast, he spent time in Berlin infiltrating the Punk scene just before the Wall came down. Now in his thirties, he is a detective in the local police force. He is struggling - two naked headless corpses were dredged from the Havel river. ......
A Sane Guide to the Practice that Can Change Your Life
Like many people Carla McKay thought that yoga sounded a bit too good to be true, and a bit to happy, and to bit too much for skinny yummie mummies. Things changed, however, when a friend persuaded her to give it try for a laugh after she separated from her husband.
Working as a student volunteer in a kennel for cats, philosopher Federica Sgarbi discovered to her surprise that applying the ideas of the great philosophers was a very successful way of finding new homes for abandoned cats. By carefully considering the character of the cats, she was able to match them to the type of person whose life would most ......
