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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The newsthat the SAS was being investigated over allegations its soldiers had executedscores of unarmed captives in Afghanistan - and its officers had covered up theevidence - broke like a bombshell in 2017. Almost overnight, elite Britishsoldiers, long considered heroes, found themselves rebranded as war criminals. Blades lifts the lid on Special Forcesoperations in Afghanistan, revealing a fuller picture - one that is rarelyacknowledged. Government-imposed restrictions meant the enemy's bomb-makers,responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians, could not legally beshot, nor detained beyond a few days. SAS soldiers, undermined by theirgovernment and their generals, faced an agonising dilemma: obey the rules andlet colleagues and innocents be killed or enact frontier justice and faceaccusations of war crimes. AddressingOperation Northmoor - the furthest-reaching and most sensitive UK militarypolice investigation ever undertaken - in full for the first time, Bladesexposes how detectives faced a wall of silence and collusion by senior officersand found vital evidence destroyed. Drawing on thorough research, an exclusiveinterview with an SAS soldier who pulled the trigger during the contestedoperations and decades of experience covering military and foreign affairs,Mark Nicol offers a vital corrective to false reporting on Afghanistan, onethat forces us toconfront an uncomfortable question: when the rules of engagement make asoldier's job impossible, who should be held accountable for what happens next.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - National treasure and television pioneer Anneka Rice has had an action-packed career jumping out of helicopters, racing against the clock on Challenge Anneka and inspiring millions with her boundless energy and much-loved jumpsuits. But the daring spirit on screen was forged in a very different kind of challenge. In this candid memoir, Anneka opens up for the first time about her unusual childhood, revealing how the crippling loneliness she felt as a child and the teenage years she spent running her household sparked the fierce resilience that would later define her. With her trademark warmth and wit, she shares the vibrant, transformative possibilities that emerged from her arrival, aged twenty, in Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, knowing no one, and describes the epiphanic moment that made her realise she was part of something much bigger than herself - and that being useful was the key to her wellbeing. Full of heart, humour and hard-won wisdom, this is an astonishing story of adventure and survival, of personal battles and public triumphs. It's a manual on how to reinvent yourself, throw caution to the wind and take the path full of jeopardy. It's mad, bad and dangerous and should come with a warning: don't try this at home. Anneka Rice is donating all her author royalties to Alzheimer's Research UK.…