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  • The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn

    Edited by Peter Mercer-Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    The Companion to Mendelssohn, is written by leading scholars in the field. In fourteen chapters they explore the life, work, and reception of a composer-performer once thought uniquely untroubled in life and art alike, but who is now broadly understood as one of the nineteenth century's most deeply problematic musical figures. The first section of the volume considers issues of biography, with ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Gems of Exquisite Beauty

    How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America

    by Peter Mercer-Taylor ...
    In the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes. Hymnody was the most popular and commercially successful genre of the antebellum period in the United States, and the unquenchable thirst for new tunes to sing led to a phenomenon largely forgotten today: in their search for fresh material, editors lifted hundreds ... Read more

    $69.59 CAD

  • Dirty Deeds Done Cheap

    by Peter Mercer ...
    Pete Mercer takes us on an unforgettable journey through the dangerous backstreets of 21st-century Iraq, and reveals that the realities of the ongoing War on Terror are not all that they seem.Northern Iraq, 2004 - a lawless region so dangerous the regular coalition armies were reluctant to put their soliders in harm's way. Enter the 'civilian contractors': private armies in all but name. Working ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD

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  • Sniper in Helmand

    Six Months on the Frontline

    by James Cartwright ...
    "A book that conveys the realities of life for the sniper in Afghanistan, the highs and lows, the fear, boredom and excitement . . . thrilling." — FiretrenchFew soldiers are deemed good enough to be selected and trained as snipers and even fewer qualify. As a result, snipers are regarded as the elite of their units and their skills command the ungrudging respect of their fellows—and the enemy. The ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Afghan Heat: SAS Operations in Afghanistan

    War in Afghanistan, #1

    by Steve Stone ...
    Series Book 1 - War in Afghanistan
    Afghan Heat is a fast paced story of an SAS operative based on real operations in Afghanistan. From SAS selection through to a tour on the battlefields of Afghanistan. The book follows individual operations where special forces, aircraft, and the latest surveillance technology are fused together - in order to capture key figures or simply take out an enemy stronghold.The books account is both ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frontline: A Soldier's Story

    War in Afghanistan, #2

    by Steve Stone ...
    Series Book 2 - War in Afghanistan
    Frontline offers an insight into the life of just one soldier out of the many thousands in the British Infantry deployed to Afghanistan. These modern day heroes risk their lives on a daily basis to help bring peace to a troubled country.Some of these soldiers are fresh out of school, or college, and within a few months find themselves in a war zone fighting for their lives.The book gives a candid ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pathfinder

    A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines

    by David Blakeley ...
    Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No chance...First in - the official motto of one of the British Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son of the SAS. And like their counterparts in Hereford, the job of the Pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep behind enemy lines.When ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • War Dogs

    British Mercenaries in Bosnia Tell Their Own Story

    by Keith Cory-Jones ...
    Equally courageous, equally deadly, the British mercenaries in Bosnia have a story to tell as amazing as 'The One That Got Away', but a story without official blessing. 'War Dogs' follows the fortunes of a gang of eight British mercenaries, a mixed bunch, old and cynical, young and naive, mean and psychotic, two idealists, and the rest just in it for the money. Each of these rogue warriors has his ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Zero Six Bravo

    60 Special Forces. 100,000 Enemy. The Explosive True Story

    by Damien Lewis ...
    The Sunday Times No.1 bestseller.They were branded as cowards and accused of being the British Special Forces Squadron that ran away from the Iraqis. But nothing could be further from the truth. Ten years on, the story of these sixty men can finally be told.In March 2003 M Squadron - an SBS unit with SAS embeds - was sent 1,000 kilometres behind enemy lines on a true mission impossible, to take ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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  • The Circuit

    An Ex-SAS Soldier, the War on Terror, A True Story

    by Bob Shepherd ...
    Series Book 2 - The Pan Real Lives Series
    After nearly twenty years of SAS operations, including a never before published role in the infamous Bravo Two Zero patrol, Bob Shepherd retired from the military to work as an advisor on the international commercial security circuit. Certain his most dangerous days were behind him, Bob settled into a sedate life looking after VIPs. Then 9/11 happened . . .Bob found himself back in war zones on ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Extreme Risk

    by Chris Hunter ...
    BOSNIA...NORTHERN IRELAND...IRAQ...AFGHANISTAN...For the past twenty years, some of the most dangerous places on earth. And for Major Chris Hunter, just some of the places where he has defused bombs in his ceaseless battle against terrorism and the bombmakers.This is the story of a teenager with no hopes who joined the army at sixteen and went on to become one of the most successful counter ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Eye of the Storm: 25 Years in Action with the SAS

    Twenty-Five Years In Action With The SAS

    by Peter Ratcliffe ...
    A fast-paced, dramatic, funny and occasionally disturbing account of Peter Ratcliffe's 25-year career in the SAS. It is laced with first-hand descriptions of ferocious and bloody fighting, sudden death and incredible heroism, and peopled with a cast of extraordinary individuals, hard-fighting soldiers of every rank and background. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD