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One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander

Patrick Robinson

Sandy Woodward

Biographies & Memoirs

Naval Institute, 1992

Updated for the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War, this is the bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the conflict, written by the commander of the British Task Force. On 5 April 1982, three days after the invasion of the Falkland Islands, British armed forces were ordered to sail 8,000 miles to the South Atlantic unaware of what lay ahead of them or whether they would be committed to war with Argentina. In these engrossing memoirs, Admiral Sandy Woodward, Task Force commander from the aircraft carrier Hermes, takes us from day one to day one hundred of the conflict; from sailing through the waters of the Atlantic with hopes of a political settlement fading, and war becoming increasingly likely, to the repulse of the Argentinian navy and the daring amphibious landing at San Carlos Water. The war, which cost the lives of over 1,000 men, has left a legacy of many historical debates and controversies, from the sinking of ships such as HMS Coventry, HMS Sheffield and Sir Galahad, and the Argentinian cruiser, the Belgrano, to wider issues such as what was it like to command and fight a modern air and naval war, the biggest naval action since World War II. 'One Hundred Days' is unique as a dramatic portrayal of the world of modern naval warfare, where despite the use of sophisticated equipment and communications, the margins for human error and courage were as wide as they were in the days of Nelson.

One Hundred Days: Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander

Flamingo

With individual thoroughbred racehorses costing millions of pounds each, the explosion in the bloodstock industry in the 1980s was the ultimate gamble of the decade - symbol of the business euphoria of the times. Tracing the events of how Sangster and his elite Irish racing experts took the world's most prestigious bloodstock auction, the Keeneland Sales in Kentucky, by storm and written with the co-operation of Sangster himself, this book is the inside track on a breathtaking bid to corner the thoroughbred market. The shock waves from the spectacular crash that followed are still reverberating throughout the world of the sport of kings

Horsetrader: Robert Sangster and the Rise and Fall of the Sport of Kings

Harpercollins

A New York Times Bestselling Author If the massive crater of the volcano Cumbre Vieja on the island of La Palma in the Canary Islands was ever to erupt, it would send a mega-tsunami with waves more than 150 feet high crashing onto American shores, destroying cities from Miami to Boston. Now, what if someone sent a nuclear missle into the volcano and blew it up? Ravi Rashood has come up with just such a scheme, and it's up to United States Admiral Arnold Morgan to stop Rashood before the unimaginable happens.

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Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Harper Large Print

It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group.Its supersonic aircraft can level entire cities at a stroke. Its surveillance gear can track every target within thousands of square miles--in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Its crew of six thousand works night and day to keep this awesome military machine at peak performance. It's a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier, the most powerful weapons system on the planet. Nothing can touch it. So when the first stunned messages say only that the Thomas Jefferson has disappeared, the Navy reacts with disbelief. But as her battered escorts report in, the truth becomes inescapable: a Nimitz-Class carrier has been claimed by nuclear catastrophe--the mightiest military unit on earth, vaporized without warning by an accidental detonation of unimaginable power. No other explanation is possible. But as Navy maverick Bill Baldridge begins to investigate the disaster that claimed his idolized brother's life, another chilling alternative begins to emerge from the high-tech web of fleeting sonar contacts and elusive radar blips. It points to a rogue submarine commanded by a world-class undersea warrior with the steely nerve and cunning of a master spy. Suddenly it's up to Bill Baldridge to track down this shadowy nuclear terrorist, who has already turned America's ultimate weapon into the biggest sitting duck in history--and who still has another nuclear-tipped torpedo in his tubes. He's already proved he has the icy ruthlessness to incinerate six thousand sailors without a qualm. What will he do for an encore? In these pages the modern military springs to life, form the Pentagon's tense conferences to the screaming flight deck of a giant carrier to the silent conning tower of an attack sub on full alert. But as Bill Baldridge races against time to pursue the nation's most deadly enemy, we are forced to ask ourselves serious real-life questions: Have defense budget cuts jeopardized our national security? Are we prepared to defend ourselves against naval terrorist? How safe are we? Nimitz Class is a world-class techno-thriller with a plot as riveting as Hunt for Red October--and an explosive twist out of tomorrow's headlines. Today it's a novel. Tomorrow it might be the news.

Baracuda 945, Nimitz Class: 2 paperback books

United States

HarperTorch

Shark Mutiny

HarperCollins, Publishers

When Lehman Brothers bank went under, the world gasped. One of the world's biggest and most successful banks, its downfall was the event that sparked the slide of the world economy toward a Great Depression II. This is the gripping inside story of the dark characters who ruled Lehman, who refused to heed warnings that the company was headed for an iceberg; the world-class, mid-level people who valiantly fought to get Lehman off its disastrous course; and, the crash that didn't have to happen. This is a news-breaking explanation that answers the question everyone still asks: 'why did it happen'? Larry McDonald, a former vice-president at Lehman Brothers in charge of distressed debt trading and convertible securities, was right at the centre of the meltdown of the company and gives an intimate look at the madhouse that Lehman became. This book shows beyond a doubt that Richard Fuld, the long-time CEO of Lehman, and his top executives, were totally out to lunch, allowing Lehman's risk profile to reach gargantuan proportions. While the traders, like Larry McDonald, clearly predicted more than two years in advance that the market for packaged subprime mortgages and credit default swaps would evaporate, the high-flying Lehman bosses pushed hard on the gas pedal until the very end.

A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Incredible Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers

Business & Money

Lawrence G. McDonald

Biography & History

Ebury Press

Barracuda 945

Major Ray Kerman, a high-ranking SAS officer and renowned submariner, mysteriously disappears amidst a blood bath on the streets of Hebron. In the following months, a series of utterly devastating Hamas terrorist hits, stuns the British and American governments. Plainly, a military genius is at work. Kerman, intelligence ch

Random House]

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date :2007-4-1 Pages: 582 Publisher: Central Compilation and Translation Press Ravi Rashood. the arch-villain of Robinsons 2003 adventure. Barracuda 945. returns for another round with Adm Arnold Morgan. national security adviser for the former. . US president. a militaristic Republican Rashood and Morgans showdown takes on some of the aura of the HolmesMoriarty duel-Rashood has even named his new submarine Barracuda II-thanks. in part. to Robinsons rather plummy prose; not even Clive Cussler would have a character utter Streuth as an expletive At 64. the crusty Morgan has earned his retirement and married his longtime love (and longer-time secretary). Kathy OBrien The recently elected Democratic president. peacenik Charles McBride. has little use for Morgans services..; . Morgans sidelining gives Hamas General Rashood the opening he needs to ...

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Contemporary

Arrow Books

Born to Win: A Life-long Struggle to Capture the America's Cup

JOHN BERTRAND

BANTAM BOOKS

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