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Entertainingly written and closely documented, the book provides each cover-up with a plausibility rating.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the sinister Vatican\/Mafia network that plotted the assassination of liberal John Paul, find out why NASA 'lost' its files on Mars, read why no-one enters Area 51, and consider why medical supplies were already on site at Edgware Road before the 7\/7 bombs detonated. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJust because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean that they aren't out to conspire against you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43399655948466,"sku":"9781845296087","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781845296087_7acee583-63fd-4602-a8d4-e9a29b20ee4f.jpg?v=1786029236"},{"product_id":"9781472110879","title":"The Mammoth Book Of Special Forces Training","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, focusing particularly on US and UK forces. He also looks at the codes that that bind the members of these elite units together. He reveals training secrets in everything from wilderness survival to hand-to-hand combat. In doing so, he draws extensively on biographies, autobiographies, training manuals, interviews and press coverage of key operations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The elite forces covered include: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The British Army’s \u003cb\u003eSpecial Air Service\u003c\/b\u003e (SAS), established in 1950, which has served as a model for the special forces of many countries. Its counter-terrorist wing famously took part in the hostage rescue during the siege of the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The \u003cb\u003eParachute Regiment\u003c\/b\u003e, the airborne infantry element of 16 Air Assault Brigade, which spearheads the British Army’s rapid intervention capability. It is closely linked to United Kingdom Special Forces.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The US Navy’s \u003cb\u003eSEALS \u003c\/b\u003e(Sea, Air, Land Teams), trained to conduct special operations in any environment, but uniquely specialised and equipped to operate from and in the sea. Together with speedboat-operating Naval Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, they form the operational arm of the Naval Special Warfare community, the Navy component of the US Special Operations Command. Their special operations include: neutralizing enemy forces; reconnaissance; counter-terrorism (famously in the killing of Osama bin Laden); and training allies.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The US Army’s \u003cb\u003eDelta Force\u003c\/b\u003e: The Special Mission Unit, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D), known simply as Delta Force, the Army component of Joint Special Operations Command. Its role is counter-terrorism, direct action and national intervention operations, though it has the capability to conduct many different kinds of clandestine missions, including hostage rescues and raids.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The US Army\u003cb\u003e Rangers\u003c\/b\u003e, a light infantry combat formation under the US Army Special Operation Command.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The \u003cb\u003eGreen Berets \u003c\/b\u003e– motto: ‘to free the oppressed’ – trained in languages, culture, diplomacy, psychological warfare and disinformation.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Russia’s \u003ci\u003eSpetsnaz\u003c\/i\u003e, whose crack anti-terrorist commandos ended the Moscow theatre siege, and who have a reputation for being among the world’s toughest and most ruthless soldiers. \u003ci\u003eSpetsnaz\u003c\/i\u003e units saw extensive action in Afghanistan and Chechnya, often operating far behind enemy lines.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Israeli Special Forces, especially \u003ci\u003eShayetet 13\u003c\/i\u003e (Flotilla 13), whose motto, in common with the rest of the Israeli military, is ‘Never again’, a reference to the Holocaust. They are particularly adept at the specifically Israeli martial art Krav Maga, which they dub ‘Jew-jitsu’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299876778357,"sku":"9781472110879","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781472110879_2ef190e4-4cc5-4a36-a076-c0e1ed436f6e.jpg?v=1786021034"},{"product_id":"9781472103987","title":"Voices from D-Day","description":"The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, and the Battle for Normandy is told here through first-hand testimonies from civilians and soldiers on both sides. It features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world’s finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville. Highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, a French housewife’s story of what it was like to wake up to the invasion, German soldiers’ accounts of finding themselves facing the biggest seaborne invasion in history, a view from the command post by a member of Eisenhower’s staff, combat reports, diaries and letters of British veterans of all forces and services, and accounts of the follow-up battle for Normandy, one of the bloodiest struggles of the war.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56300084330869,"sku":"9781472103987","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781472103987_66fcf863-0ea7-4d2f-8114-5962d7ce601d.jpg?v=1786020987"},{"product_id":"9781472116062","title":"The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were ‘in country’ in Vietnam. Before America’s longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese had died, along with 36,000 Americans. The Vietnam War was the first rock ’n’ roll war, the first helicopter war with its doctrine of ‘airmobility’, and the first television war; it made napalm and the defoliant Agent Orange infamous, and gave us the New Journalism of Michael Herr and others. It also saw the establishment of the Navy SEALs and Delta Force. At home, America fractured, with the peace movement protesting against the war; at Kent State University, Ohio National Guardsmen fired on unarmed students, killing four and injuring nine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLewis’s compelling selection of the best writing to come out of a war covered by some truly outstanding writers, both journalists and combatants, includes an eyewitness account of the first major battle between the US Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam at Ia Drang; a selection of letters home; Nicholas Tomalin’s famous ‘The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong’; Robert Mason’s ‘R\u0026amp;R’, Studs Terkel’s account of the police breaking up an anti-war protest; John Kifner on the shootings at Kent State; Ron Kovic’s ‘Born on the Fourth of July’; John T. 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His new model army of volunteers and conscripts at epic battles such as Austerlitz, Salamanca, Borodino, Jena and, of course, Waterloo marked the beginning of modern warfare, the road to the Sommes and Stalingrad.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The citizen-in-arms of Napoleon's \u003ci\u003eGrande Armée\u003c\/i\u003e and other armies of the time gave rise to a distinct body of soldiers' personal memoirs. The personal accounts that Jon E. Lewis has selected from these memoirs, as well as from letters and diaries, include those of Rifleman Harris fighting in the Peninsular Wars, and Captain Alexander Cavalie Mercer of the Royal Horse Artillery at Waterloo. They cover the land campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars (1739-1802), the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and the War of 1812 (1812-1815), in North America. This was the age of cavalry charges, of horse-drawn artillery, of muskets and hand-to-hand combat with sabres and bayonets. It was an era in which inspirational leadership and patriotic common cause counted for much at close quarters on chaotic and bloody battlefields.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The men who wrote these accounts were directly involved in the sweeping campaigns and climactic battles that set Europe and America alight at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the years that followed. Alongside recollections of the ferocity of hard-fought battles are the equally telling details of the common soldier's daily life - short rations, forced marches in the searing heat of the Iberian summer and the bitter cold of the Russian winter, debilitating illnesses and crippling wounds, looting and the lash, but also the compensations of hard-won comradeship in the face of ever-present death.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Collectively, these personal accounts give us the most vivid picture of warfare 200 and more years ago, in the evocative language of those who knew it at first hand - the men and officers of the British, French and American armies. 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