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The Fighting Season is military fiction of the first order: as tough as nails and packed with the insider knowledge of someone who has done it for real.' - Matthew Reilly 'Action packed, gritty and authentic to the core.' - Merrick Watts An explosive thriller from the heart of Afghanistan Outside the wire, Uruzghan Province, Afghanistan, 2010... In the badlands of central Afghanistan an Australian Special Forces platoon is fatally hit by a roadside bomb. A shadowy Taliban commander, codenamed 'Rapier', is identified as responsible for the deadly attack. Matt Rix, the ultra tough commando who led the ambushed platoon, swears vengeance. Rix is one of Special Forces' most lethal operators. He'll neutralise Rapier - whatever it takes. But in Afghanistan's brutal war, not all things are as they seem.
THIS IS THE FIRST EPISODE OF A SERIALISED THRILLER When the son of an American businessman is kidnapped in Malaysia, it marks the beginning of the unthinkable -- an Islamist uprising that pits Shiites against Sunnis. It’s a civil war that threatens to escalate and set the whole of Southeast Asia ablaze. Maya Raines is the covert operator brought in to help resolve the situation. Half-Malaysian and half-American, she has razor-sharp instincts, and she’s driven by an obsession to settle a personal debt. But her mission will be anything but easy, and as she searches the back alleys and ghettos of a nation on the verge of collapse, she will have to ask herself the hardest question of all: how do you stay moral in an immoral war? *** *** PRAISE FOR JOHN LING’S THRILLERS ‘A fair and balanced account of what’s really happening in the Islamic world today.’ -- Crime Watch ‘An engaging thriller that investigates the psychology of fanaticism.’ -- San Francisco Book Review ‘Thought-provoking themes. Exciting action.’ -- The Sun ‘The surveillance techniques and intelligence analysis bring it to life.’ -- The Star ‘Fast-paced faction; where fact and fiction collide.’ -- The Malaysian Insider ‘A powerful new voice in adventure stories.’ -- Pendulum Press ‘A cracking thriller.’ -- The TBR Pile ‘Realistic and tightly drawn.’ -- Aust Crime Fiction ‘Has the pacing of an action movie.’ -- The Kindle Book Review ‘An intriguing touch. Recommended.’ -- Midwest Book Review ‘I read it in one sitting. Couldn’t put it down.’ -- Beattie’s Book Blog ‘Fight scenes that play out through the pages like a ballet of words.’ -- Write Today ‘A must for lovers of the action tale.’ -- Boogle Books ‘Fast-paced, high-calibre writing. Heartily recommended.’ -- Lighthouse Media One
THIS IS THE SECOND EPISODE OF A SERIALISED THRILLER When the son of an American businessman is kidnapped in Malaysia, it marks the beginning of the unthinkable -- an Islamist uprising that pits Shiites against Sunnis. It’s a civil war that threatens to escalate and set the whole of Southeast Asia ablaze. Maya Raines is the covert operator brought in to help resolve the situation. Half-Malaysian and half-American, she has razor-sharp instincts, and she’s driven by an obsession to settle a personal debt. But her mission will be anything but easy, and as she searches the back alleys and ghettos of a nation on the verge of collapse, she will have to ask herself the hardest question of all: how do you stay moral in an immoral war? *** *** PRAISE FOR JOHN LING’S THRILLERS ‘A fair and balanced account of what’s really happening in the Islamic world today.’ -- Crime Watch ‘An engaging thriller that investigates the psychology of fanaticism.’ -- San Francisco Book Review ‘Thought-provoking themes. Exciting action.’ -- The Sun ‘The surveillance techniques and intelligence analysis bring it to life.’ -- The Star ‘Fast-paced faction; where fact and fiction collide.’ -- The Malaysian Insider ‘A powerful new voice in adventure stories.’ -- Pendulum Press ‘A cracking thriller.’ -- The TBR Pile ‘Realistic and tightly drawn.’ -- Aust Crime Fiction ‘Has the pacing of an action movie.’ -- The Kindle Book Review ‘An intriguing touch. Recommended.’ -- Midwest Book Review ‘I read it in one sitting. Couldn’t put it down.’ -- Beattie’s Book Blog ‘Fight scenes that play out through the pages like a ballet of words.’ -- Write Today ‘A must for lovers of the action tale.’ -- Boogle Books ‘Fast-paced, high-calibre writing. Heartily recommended.’ -- Lighthouse Media One
'Fighting Season' provides a significant and accomplished account of a soldier's experience in the Afghan campaign.
For centuries the Irish have been associated with a stick weapon called the Shillelagh. And for generations of Irishmen, the Shillelagh was a badge of honor - a symbol of their courage, their martial prowess and their willingness to fight for their rights and their honor. In modern popular culture, the Shillelagh has acquired a less appealing image, one that attempts to declaw the Irish through negative racial stereotypes of the Victorian era, which depict the Irish as harmless club-weilding Leprecauns or drunken, half-witted brawlers. John Hurley's illuminating study forever alters our view of this much maligned and misunderstood cultural icon by revealing the true martial arts culture of the Irish people, its history, evolution and decline and the resulting effects on the Shillelagh - the most powerful and controversial of Irish icons.
A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State from overthrowing the U.S.-backed government in the final years of the war in Afghanistan. A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Powerful, important, and searing." —General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly that “the longest war in American history” was over. But for some, it was just the beginning of a new war, fought by Special Operations Forces, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders. With big picture insight and on-the-ground grit, Jessica Donati shares the stories of the impossible choices these soldiers must make. After the fall of a major city to the Taliban that year, Hutch, a battle-worn Green Beret on his fifth combat tour was ordered on a secret mission to recapture it and inadvertently called in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing dozens. Caleb stepped on a bomb during a mission in notorious Sangin. Andy was trapped with his team during a raid with a crashed Black Hawk and no air support. Through successive policy directives under the Obama and Trump administrations, America came to rely almost entirely on US Special Forces, and without a long-term plan, failed to stabilize Afghanistan, undermining US interests both at home and abroad. Eagle Down is a riveting account of the heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy experienced by those that fought America’s longest war.
A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 ​The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.
Lou Holtz, coach of one of the nation's most popular football teams, tells of the championship season at Notre Dame. Holtz brought the Fighting Irish back from a five-year slump in 1987. Illustrated.
In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution’s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution—their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimi nation in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between men’s and women‘s separate but obviously unequal sports programs. In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the MSU women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics. They learned the hard way that even groundbreaking civil rights laws are not self-executing. This behind-the-scenes look at a university sports program challenges us all to think about what it really means to put equality into practice, especially in the money-driven world of college sports.