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7 hours 11 min

When Trevor Hawkins hits the open road in his beat-up old camper van with his incorrigible dog, Milly, his quest for adventure soon spirals dangerously out of control. The simple act of flushing a hotel toilet transforms his life from redundant sales assistant to fugitive from a gang of psychopathic villains, the police, and MI5.Then there's private detective Sandra Gray, who could cheerfully ... Read more

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The Great War and the Middle East

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The First World War in the Middle East swept away five hundred years of Ottoman domination. It ushered in new ideologies and radicalised old ones - from Arab nationalism and revolutionary socialism to impassioned forms of atavistic Islamism. It created heroic icons, like the enigmatic Lawrence of Arabia or the modernizing Atatürk, and destroyed others. And it completely re-drew the map of the ... Read more

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by Rob Johnson ...

How military forces have prevailed against the odds, explained through vivid narratives and specially commissioned battle plans.Throughout history men and women have fought, endured, and sometimes emerged victorious though the odds were against them. What conditions must exist to enable relatively small or weak forces to challenge and even overcome the strong? Here are twenty historical examples, ... Read more

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Oil, Islam and Conflict

Central Asia since 1945

by Rob Johnson ...

Series series Contemporary Worlds
Central Asia is likely to become a new arena of international interest in the twenty-first century, not least because of its volatile cocktail of abundant oil and gas, Islamic Jihadist groups, dictatorial regimes and the political and economic rivalry of the United States, Russia, China and Iran. Some believe that it could become the ‘new Middle East’ – a battleground for access to precious ... Read more

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Central Asia is likely to become a new arena of international interest in the twenty-first century, not least because of its volatile cocktail of abundant oil and gas, Islamic Jihadist groups, dictatorial regimes and the political and economic rivalry of the United States, Russia, China and Iran. Some believe that it could become the ‘new Middle East’ – a battleground for access to precious
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Narrated by Rob Johnson ...

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“Fabulously funny - a real must for lovers of all things Greek.”After living in Greece for thirteen years, writer and reluctant olive farmer Rob Johnson has got used to most of the things that he and his wife Penny found so bizarre at the beginning. Most, but not all.A Kilo of String is the story-so-far of this not-particularly-plucky couple’s often bewildering experiences among the descendants of ... Read more

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Series series Histories and Controversies
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A New Dawn

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Series Audiobook 2 - NONPARTICIPANT
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5 hours 41 min

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Strategic Integration and Military Interoperability

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For three decades after the Cold War, NATO member states no longer faced a major threat, and focused on out-of-area operations. They took the opportunity to reduce defense spending and foster their own national defense industries; interoperability was limited to air and maritime missions on a small scale. The 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and war by proxy in eastern Donbass was a wake-up call, ... Read more

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The essential military tactics that have enabled commanders from Alexander the Great to General Giap to achieve victory on the battlefield.This groundbreaking book examines battle tactics that have achieved victory through the ages. Drawing on examples of battles on land, at sea, and in the air, the authors reveal the enduring value of each tactic in clear and compelling descriptions and analysis ... Read more

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Let It Fly

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by Gino Wickman, Rob Johnson ...

From the outside, your life may look exactly the way you hoped it would.Yet beneath the momentum, the milestones, and the success, one quiet question refuses to go away:Why doesn't it feel like enough?Let It Fly is not a system. It is not a step-by-step guide to a better business. It is something rarer: fifteen unscripted, unfiltered riffs from one of entrepreneurship's most trusted voices, ... Read more

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