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As World War II came to an end and Americas nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki shocked the world, it became clear that the nascent Cold War would be as different a conflagration from WWII as that war was from WWI. Believing that the UK was extremely vulnerable to nuclear attack, it was quickly determined that only the threat of large-scale damage from similar weapons could prevent a Soviet attack. And, thus, V-Force was born.Entered into service between 1955 and 1957, the three models of V class bombers that made up Britains strategic nuclear strike force - the Vickers Valiant, Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor - were modern marvels of machinery. Capable of both high- and low-level attack with their slick delta wing designs, and supremely quick despite the massive bomb loads they carried, these aircraft were central tenets of Britains nuclear weapons development.Despite a fall as precipitous as their rise when the Royal Navy took over Britains nuclear deterrent role in 1968, like a phoenix from the ashes, the V bombers enjoyed a second life as conventional bombers: the Valiant gaining fame in the Suez Crisis; the Victors in the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation, and the Vulcans undertook the longest bombing raid in history for Operation Black Buck in the Falklands Campaign of 1982.V-Force is both an ode to these most resilient and beautiful of British aircraft, and a lens through which to view Britains Cold War experience.

Tadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corporation, he was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp on 15 November 1921.Barrys tragic death was a huge, but subsequently largely forgotten, event in Ireland. Dublin came to a standstill as a quarter of a million people lined the streets and the IRA had its last full mobilisation before the Treaty split. The funeral in Cork echoed those of Barrys comrades, the martyred lord mayors Tomas MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney.The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed three weeks later, all internees were released and the movement that elevated him to hero/martyr status was ripped asunder in the ensuing civil war. The name of Tadhg Barry became lost in the smoke.This is the first biography of a fascinating activist described by his British enemies as an Utter disloyalist and by a comrade as a characteristic product of Rebel Cork courageous, kindly, generous to a fault, bold and daring, and independent in speech and action. It offers fascinating new perspectives on the dynamics of Irelands long revolution, including glimpses of the roads not taken.

We Come Unseen, first published in 2001, follows the careers of six Royal Navy submariners from their graduation from Dartmouths Britannia Royal Naval College in 1963, just after the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Between these dates, it seemed that nuclear war was never far away - and Jim Ring explains not only the nuclear threat and its beginnings in the last days of the Second World War, but why the Polaris and Trident submarines (capable of inflicting the damage of the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki many times over), and their accompanying attack submarines, were critical to avoiding war. Alongside a gripping narrative of the Cold War game of hide-and-seek played out under the waves of the northern seas, Ring gives an account of the history of submarine warfare from its earliest, pre-nuclear days to the 1982 combat in the Falklands.A welcome acknowledgement of one of the Cold Wars little-known aspects. Alan Judd, Sunday TelegraphAn extraordinary story . . . one of the most significant naval books of the year.Ships TelegraphA remarkable story.Navy News

Tadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corporation, he was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp on 15 November 1921.Barrys tragic death was a huge, but subsequently largely forgotten, event in Ireland. Dublin came to a standstill as a quarter of a million people lined the streets and the IRA had its last full mobilisation before the Treaty split. The funeral in Cork echoed those of Barrys comrades, the martyred lord mayors Tomas MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney.The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed three weeks later, all internees were released and the movement that elevated him to hero/martyr status was ripped asunder in the ensuing civil war. The name of Tadhg Barry became lost in the smoke.This is the first biography of a fascinating activist described by his British enemies as an Utter disloyalist and by a comrade as a characteristic product of Rebel Cork courageous, kindly, generous to a fault, bold and daring, and independent in speech and action. It offers fascinating new perspectives on the dynamics of Irelands long revolution, including glimpses of the roads not taken.

This incredible book is very, very important. Damien Dempsey In November 2008, Tomás Mac Conmara sat with a 105 five-year-old woman at a nursing home in Clare. While gently moving through her memories, he asked the east Clare native; Do you remember the time that four lads were killed on the Bridge of Killaloe?. Almost immediately, the womans countenance changed to deep outward sadness. Her recollection took him back to 17th November 1920, when news of the brutal death of four men, who became known as the Scariff Martyrs, was revealed to the local community. Late the previous night, on the bridge of Killaloe they were shot by British Forces, who claimed they had attempted to escape. Locals insisted they were murdered. A story remembered for 100 years is now fully told. This incident presents a remarkable confluence of dimensions. The young rebels committed to a cause. Their betrayal by a spy, their torture and evident refusal to betray comrades, the loneliness and liminal nature of their site of death on a bridge. The withholding of their dead bodies and their collective burial. All these dimensions bequeath a moment which carries an enduring quality that has reverberated across the generations and continues to strike a deep chord within the local landscape of memory in East Clare and beyond.

We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic wars - but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank or a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers - how did the war touch their lives? Every part of Britain felt the long twenty years of war against the French: one in five families had people in the services and over 300,000 men died. As the years passed, so the bullish, flamboyant figure of Napoleon - Boney, the bogeyman - came to dominate so much that the whole long conflict was given his name. Jenny Uglow, the prize-winning author of The Lunar Men and Natures Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war, but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray, Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Jane Austen, Wordsworth, Scott and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century ahead.

On 14 April 1922 a group of 200 anti-Treaty IRA men occupied the Four Courts in Dublin in defiance of the Provisional Government. Michael Collins, who wanted to avoid civil war at all costs, did not attack them until June 1922, when British pressure forced his hand. This led to the Irish Civil War as fighting broke out in Dublin between the anti-Treaty IRA and the Provisional Governments troops. Under Collins supervision, the Free State rapidly took control of the capital. In Michael Collins and the Civil War, Ryle Dwyer sheds new light on Collins role in the Civil War, showing how in the weeks and months leading to the campaign he secretly persisted with guerrilla tactics in border areas. This involved not only assassination but also kidnapping and hostage taking. In confronting those tactics on behalf of the British, for instance, Winston Churchill engaged in similar behaviour, including killing and hostage-taking. But until now much of this has conveniently been swept under the carpet of history.

Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of one mans genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation. In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as the outstanding British naval historian of his generation - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelsons genius as Britannias God of War. He demonstrates how Admiral Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Nelsons unique gift was to take that which other commanders found complex, and reduce it to simplicity. Where his predecessors and opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson was always a step ahead - even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action, with officers and men struck down all around him. Excellent . . . Worthy of the stirring events [it celebrates].Independent

In 1919 a group of young men barely out of their teens, poorly armed, with no money and little training, renewed the fight, begun in 1916, to drive the British out of Ireland. Dan Breen was to become the best known of them. At first they were condemed on all sides. They became outlaws and My Fight describes graphically what life was like on the run, with an army at ones heels and a thousand pounds on ones head. A burning belief in their cause sustained them through many a dark and bitter day and slowly support came from the people.

Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War. A Sunday Times BestsellerElectric... Outstanding.GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the front line of the Falklands War.On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes she had capsized. In her final moments, after all the survivors had been evacuated, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.

Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy stole the imaginations of pioneering aircraft manufacturers in America, France, Britain and Italy, as they competed in a series of air races that attracted a hugely popular following. Perhaps inevitably, the dynamism of rival engineering led to the most potent military fighters of World War Two and Reginald Mitchells record-breaking Supermarine seaplanes morphed into the Spitfire.Wings Over Water tells the story of the Schneider air races afresh and also examines the wider politics and society of the early twentieth-century that framed the event. It is an exhilarating tale of raw adventure, public excitement and engineering genius.

El autor finaliza su trilogía sobre la Infantería Española abriendo el protagonismo al conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, como sucede en los tiempos actuales. Con mucho ritmo, narra un conflicto donde nuestros soldados, dentro de un marco multinacional, realizan una dificil operacion militar, en nuestra Frontera Avanzada africana. Senegal, año 2028, es el escenario.Ambientada en el imparable mundo global que nos toca vivir, ira entrelazando los diferentes niveles de responsabilidad y participacion, para que el lector obtenga una vision completa de como se gesta y va evolucionando un conflicto armado en la actualidad. Desde el nivel politico, hasta el mas sencillo combatiente de linea, tienen reflejo en la narracion, a traves de diferentes lineas argumentales que interactuan entre si.Son hombres y mujeres que, al regresar de un fin de semana, se ven inmersos en la preparacion urgente de una operacion para, en escasos tres dias, estar saltando en paracaidas en un pais del que nada sabian. Van a intentar parar un conflicto que ha surgido de manera imprevista. Atras quedan sus parejas e hijos, que sufren y les apoyan de manera ejemplar, como siempre ocurrio en las familias de nuestros militares.Una ocasion unica para conocer a nuestros soldados y saber como actuan en esas misiones, lejos de nuestras tierras, de las que tan poco sabemos.Sin duda, un excelente paso adelante de este prometedor escritor, que no deja de sorprendernos con su narrativa.

A través de esta compilación de cerca de 200 informes emitidos por la Unidad Central de Seguridad Privada, desde la entrada en vigor de la Ley 5/2014 de Seguridad Privada, se ofrece al lector una herramienta util y de consulta, dirigida a todos aquellos usuarios y entidades publicas o privadas relacionados con el ambito de la seguridad en España, que en algun momento precisen conocer el criterio fijado por el Cuerpo Nacional de Policia a traves de la Unidad Central de Seguridad Privada, sobre las diferentes cuestiones que fueron planteadas a esta Unidad, y a las que se le dieron respuesta para conocimiento de los interesados y de la sociedad en general.La seguridad no es solo un valor juridico, normativo o politico; es igualmente un valor social. Es uno de los pilares primordiales de la sociedad, se encuentra en la base de la libertad y la igualdad y contribuye al desarrollo pleno de los individuos.Ley 5/2014 de Seguridad Privada

The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as Big boys games, big boys rules. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be shot. In Big Boys Rules: The SAS and the Secret Struggle Against the IRA Mark Urban meticulously explores the security forces covert operations in Northern Ireland: from the mid-1970s, when they were stepped up, to the Loughall ambush in 1987, in which eight IRA Provisionals were killed. While charting the successes and failures of special operations during the troubles, Urban reveals the unenviable dilemmas faced by intelligence chiefs engaged in a daily struggle against one of the worlds most sophisticated terrorist organisations.This is a book that needed to be written and which fulfils the essentials of any Ulster story; it expands understanding beyond fragmented jingoism and newspaper headlines. John Stalker, Sunday Times

"A obsolescência tecnológica no ciclo de vida dos sistemas e materiais de emprego militar" explora um tema crucial e pouco abordado no contexto militar: a necessidade de gerenciamento eficiente da ob

In 1943, and with Allied victory in North Africa imminent, 1st Special Air Service Regiment was in danger of being disbanded. However, with the timely and vital intervention of Major Robert Blair Mayne, the unit was saved and replaced by an organisation known as HQ Raiding Forces, and Mayne was appointed to command the Special Raiding Squadron.The heroic spirit of 1st SAS Regiment continued to thrive in the squadron, and Paddy Mayne as he was known to his soldiers was an inspiration to those he commanded. Through action in Sicily in July 1943, undertaking distraction missions in Bagnara and finally aiding the Eighth Army in Termoli before being recalled to the UK to aid the SAS with the invasion of France, Paddys Men worked as a well-oiled, dangerous and fiercely loyal unit, performing skilfully under the immense pressure of war.In this book Stewart McClean provides an illustrated history of the Special Raiding Squadron, detailing the formation of the unit, the lives of the men and their operations during the Sicilian and Italian campaigns, and the extraordinary man who commanded the squadron: Robert Blair Mayne DSO, or Colonel Paddy Mayne as he became famously known throughout the world.

Thunder Run is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dug-in Iraqi forces, the Second (Tusker) Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Husseins Presidential Palace and Republican Guard headquarters.The product of dozens of interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, it is more than just a book about a single battle. It is a riveting account of how soldiers respond under fire and and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone. Many people believe that Baghdad was taken with a minimum of effort. But for the Tusker Brigade it was a cruel and terrifying three days of urban warfare. Thunder Run tells the inside story of one of the most brutal and decisive battles in combat history and the biggest armoured battle involving American troops since the Vietnam War. It is an unputdownable, unforgettable first-hand account of how a single armoured brigade of fewer than a thousand men captured an Arab capital defended by one of the worlds largest armies.

The SS grew out of Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmlers obsession to prevent the treachery they believed to have caused the German defeat in the First World War. The SS was to be an elite corps of politically aware soldiers whose primary aim was to prevent the undermining of the Nazi Party by rendering its potential enemies harmless. This disturbing story reveals not only the inner workings of the SS, but its paramount role in the mass murder of Europes Jews, homosexuals and gypsies, its organisation of the death squads and the military campaigns undertaken by the Waffen SS.

During World War 2, Hitlers engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 inter continental ballistic missile. With the Third Reich shattered and lying in ruins, in the summer of 1945, the Allies launched a frantic race to grab what they saw as the justifiable spoils of war. The Americans and Russians in particular were anxious to secure not only the aircraft and the research and production facilities, but also the key German scientists and engineers.This Nazi technology would define the balance of power in the phoney peace of the Cold War era, launching an arms race that shaped our modern world for decades to come. But what of Britains role in this supermarket sweep? The Race for Hitlers X-Planes tells the untold story of the British mission to Germany.

In the spring of 1980, the Irish Department of Defence sanctioned the establishment of a new unit within the Irish Defence Forces and the Irish Army Ranger Wing (ARW) came into being. In the decades that followed, its soldiers have been deployed on active service at home and abroad, generally without the knowledge of the wider public. The ARW is made up of seasoned men from across the island, who are selected through tough competition. Only the best of the best make it through and are trained in an extraordinary range of specialist skills. Being one of these elite operators takes more than simply being a skilled soldier it means believing you are the best.Shadow Warriors tells the story behind the creation of the ARW, from its origins in specialist counter-terrorism training in the late 1960s and the preparation of small unconventional units in the 1970s to the formation of the ARW itself in 1980 and its subsequent history. The first and only authoritative account in the public domain of this specialist unit, authors Paul OBrien and Sergeant Wayne Fitzgerald have been granted access to the closed and clandestine world of Irelands Special Forces, who train hard, fight harder and face unconventional types of warfare, yet prefer to stay out of the limelight.