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Nothing can prepare a man for the horrors of war, nor the haunting memories that linger long after the battle is over.In The Impossible Survivo**r, Jeff Steel invites readers into the life of Neil Lindsay, a retired RAF Bomber Command veteran, as he confronts the shadows of his past. On a seemingly ordinary day in 1995, Neil and his daughter Margaret visit a memorial honouring the fallen soldiers of the Goulburn Valley. What begins as a simple outing soon unravels ...

Combat troops and the support units that kept them in the fight.In Vietnam, danger could come from an ambush, a minefield, the jungle itself, or a stranger whose loyalties were impossible to read.Vietnam 360 tells the story of the war through the Australians who experienced it firsthand. Drawing on veterans’ vivid recollections, Jeff Steel follows young men from conscription and training to the rubber plantations, dense jungles and uneasy routines ...

Follow the real-life adventures of Bill Adlam, from escaping Dunkirk and conducting commando raids to storming the D-Day beaches. Bill Adlam's hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like fiction. But it all happened. Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge into Nazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal 'for gallantry under fire' by King George VI. Later, Bill volunteered for commandos: he thriv...

Winner of the National Seniors Literary Prize (Australia) and the Philpott Prize.“I saw the flicker of flames as the first plane fired its guns and heard the trees above my head splintering as the stream of bullets hit them. Branches toppled down. Cattle panicked. The ricocheting bullets whined around the valley.”On September 1, 1939, ten-year-old Paul Cieslar’s peaceful childhood in the Polish countryside came to an end. German fighter planes roar...

Practice! Practice! Practice!Essential practice questions for AP Physics C—updated to reflect the latest exam.Organized for easy reference and tailored to help you maximize your study time, 500 AP Physics C Questions to Know by Test Day offers extensive review and rigorous practice. The 5 Steps team brings you the vital resources you need to help you score that 5!500 AP-style questions and answers referenced to core A...

Max had enjoyed the camaraderie in the Hitler Youth organisation. His week at the Berlin Olympics was a life-time highlight. He saw the Führer and fell in love with Inge. He loved the Third Reich.Russia was where it started going wrong. He knew primal fear as the ruthless Red Army attacked in countless numbers.He was repulsed at the order to march innocent Jews to the SS awaiting in the forest. What would a refusal mean? The reality was unspoken but understood; there was no e...

Another rip-roaring World War II history by prize-winning author Jeff Steel.Bill Adlam’s hair-raising escape from Dunkirk, his dramatic commando raids and his storming the D-Day beaches reads like fiction. It all happened.Bill escaped the Dunkirk disaster via a bayonet charge into Nazi machine guns. He was presented with the Military Medal ‘for gallantry under fire’ by King George VI. Bill volunteered for commandos: he thrived on adrenaline.Number 4 commando took him t...

His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot down by a night fighter: He has ten seconds to act or he will never see her again.Ambrose Adlam did not even want to go to war. Hitler’s war came looking for him. The war enveloped him, it took over his world; there was no escape. To do nothing was not an option. Ambrose joined RAF ground crew. That was not enough. He volunteered for active service as a Flight Engi...

Joe’s love of flying and adventure led him to volunteer for active service: dropping bombs on Nazi Germany. Tom’s hatred of Hitler’s vile regime brought him to the same point. The war was to throw Joe and Tom together. Within a few desperate seconds, on the way to Berlin a night-fighter attack would rip them apart.Best of Times Worst of Times tells the story of two very different men but with a single vocation: to put the Nazi war machine out of action. Ea...

Joshua Heter and David O’Hara have circled a diverse group of camper-philosophers around the fire in Camping and Philosophy: Big Ideas in the Great Outdoors to try to answer some unanswerable questions. There is an entire cosmos of reasons campers have been prone to spiritual experiences since humanity started sleeping under the stars (by choice) thousands of years ago. And these twenty-seven chapters offer their own answers to the questions asked by campers across the globe. What...

Authoritatively and expertly written, the new seventh edition of Bratton and Gold's Human Resource Management builds upon the enduring strengths of this renowned book. Thoroughly updated, topical and accessible, this textbook explores the theory and practice of human resource management and will encourage your students to reflect critically on the realities of the ever-changing world of work.The new edition truly captures the zeitgeist of contemporary human resource manage...

"The Tender Husband is, as a whole, very amusing; but unfortunately a second plot—alluded to in the title—is woven into the story which gives to the play its interest; and as this account of the manner in which the "tender husband" tries the faithfulness of a foolish wife by means of his mistress, disguised as a man, is unwholesome in tone and unnatural, it spoils what would otherwise be an excellent farcical comedy, and at the same time has no real connection with the rest of the play."