Cut off, surrounded, and desperate, three WWII commandos wait for the chaos to begin in this "fiercely authentic" novel of combat ( Sunday Telegraph).They were three soldiers, on watch in the French countryside, their base a disused barn. Three ordinary men seconded into the horrors of World War II, each with his own ideals, his own feelings, his own fears.Their task was a nightmare of waiting. German forces were stationed over the brow of a hill, ...

There's only one way home: straight through the enemy . . . An action-packed WWII tale filled with "snappy authenticity" ( Kirkus Reviews).Four British commandos parachute into occupied Holland. Their mission: to delay and impede German communications long enough to cover the escape of an Allied unit a few miles away. Soon the countryside is in chaos, and the whole German army is hunting for them.And if they miss the rendezvous with the plane sent t...

"The action gets hot on the icy fjords" in this gripping novel of two British commandos in World War II Norway ( Kirkus Reviews).Norway, 1943. A land in the grip of Nazi occupation, where men and women still fight for freedom in constant danger from German murder squads and Norwegian traitors.It is to find such a traitor that two men are sent from Britain. Their mission is twofold. First, to expose—and kill—the traitor. Second, to carry out a brilli...

Alan White served in the RAF from 1953 to 1987 roughly the period of the Cold War. His introduction to flying came in his University Air Squadron. This seduced him into dropping out of University and joining the RAF. He initially had success during the piston-engine stages of his training but damage to a Vampire T11 and a bad start on the Hunter Weaponry Course set his confidence back until he recovered during service with his first Hunter Squadron. The infamous Duncan Sandys' cuts of 1957...

Sometimes it's the waiting that kills...Millions of lives could be saved by a top-secret scientific formula. But the professor who holds the information is in the hands of the Germans, closely guarded in a secret laboratory in high-security prison.A small group of men led by the tough and ruthless Major Rhodes are ordered to smash their way through and rescue the professor. Unseen forces soon threaten the bloody venture, however, and only the most cold-blooded of decisions ...

In this masterful work, leading German philosopher Lorenz B. Puntel answers the primordial question of philosophy: "Why is there Being at all and not absolutely nothing?"Considering the history of philosophy from Parmenides through to Heidegger and beyond, Puntel charges philosophy with persistently failing to adequately confront the question of Being. In response, Puntel sets out a systematic philosophy to rival Hegel's Science of Logic and Whitehead's

Once you step out of the plane there's no way back...French Resistance fighters uncover the position of a secret German store containing files and reports of vital information on the movement of troops. The details are passed to British Intelligence, who formulate an ingenious plan – to break into the heavily guarded store and steal the information – thus gaining the upper hand for a precious few hours.This was a job that demanded a tough, ruthless, highly trained band of m...

‘Outsourcing’ – when will the horror stories stop coming?Every year the government gives private companies like G4S, Serco, Capita and ATOS £80 billion of taxpayers’ money to handle some of our most sensitive and important services – but where is their transparency?Immigration is perhaps the most challenging and divisive issue of our time – so why has our government abdicated responsibility?As privatisation looms over an NHS in crisis, how do we hold these companies...

Every year the British government spends £80 billion outsourcing public services. Today, private companies are responsible for fulfilling some of the most sensitive and important roles of the state – running prisons and providing healthcare, transport, legal aid, even child protection. These organizations have been handed enormous amounts of power and yet for the most part they operate with no transparency or accountability.From deportations to NHS cutbacks, Alan White exposes what...

This writer attempts by God's goodness and leading to bring to the reader's mind, lessons and teachings of God's Word (KJVB). Centering our attention upon Him who is the only Omnipotent (All-powerful), Omniscient (All-Knowing and Wise), Omnipresent (in All-Places), and only One able to save us by His cleansing blood, shed upon Mt. Calvary, our Mighty Saviour Jesus Christ.This book gives instructions to receive eternal life (John 1:12; 6:47) and to live that Biblical Christ centered...

This edited collection brings together a range of experts on surrogacy, at a time when the law in the UK has been fully reconsidered for the first time in generations.Society has developed significantly since surrogacy laws were first written and the existing law is out of date and no longer fit for purpose. Each chapter in this collection considers one aspect of surrogacy regulation and analyses the potential effectiveness of proposed reforms or suggests what changes should be mad...

Moral values are real-we don't just make them up. Beauty is in the world-it's not just in the eye of the beholder. You are free-what you do is not always determined by electrochemical processes in your brain. And the universe we live in is God's creation.These are radical claims. But they are widely rejected in contemporary philosophy because they are almost always considered in relative isolation from one another. This book shows that when they are considered in conjunction, they ...