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Major Matthew Carr is a professional soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When faced with a cancerous invasion of his body, Matthew used the expert training he learnt in the Australian Army as a strategy to wage his own fierce and relentless battle with an enemy force. In January 2002, Matthew Carr was 25, ten foot tall and bullet proof. Not only was he trained and well prepared for war, he was looking for a fight. That same month, ...

The haunting history of the Pyrenees-a physical and political faultline that looms large in European history.

The Savage Frontier features: . The little-known history of Catalonia . The natural history of one of the world's great mountain ranges . The peculiar history of a shifting international border . Fascinating literary references spanning four hundred years . A broad range of cultural vignettes on everything from the surprising history of sheepherding, to the evolution of mountaineering, and the biography of Pablo Casals . A richly-detailed trav...

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In 1609, Philip III signed an edict denouncing the Muslims of Spain as heretics and the entire population was given three days to leave, on threat of death. In the exodus, some 300, 000 Muslims were deported and by 1614 Spain had successfully implemented the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history. The author chronicles this episode.

A thrilling quest for justice... [A] novel that is as exciting as it is enlightening from its first pages to its satisfying end." -The New York Times Book Review "A page-turner in the proper sense… Mr. Carr has written a gripping and enjoyable novel." -The Wall Street JournalThe gripping story of the dangerous high-stakes worlds of politics and religion in sixteenth-century Spain as a mysterious Muslim killer retaliates against the Catholic Ch...

A centuries-old story with remarkable contemporary resonance, Blood and Faith is celebrated journalist Matthew Carr's riveting and "richly detailed" (Choice) chronicle of what was, by 1614, the largest act of ethnic cleansing in European history.Months after King Philip III of Spain signed an edict in 1609 denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days...

On the militarized Turkish-Greek border, Afghan migrants brave minefields to cross into Europe-only to be summarily ejected by Greek border guards. At Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish enclaves in North Africa, migrants are turned back with razor wire and live ammunition. Deportees from the U.K. and France have died of "positional asphyxia" on deportation flights, strapped to chairs, their mouths sealed with tape. In a brilliant and shocking account,...

Covers the basic design and operating principles of the propulsion and auxiliary systems of today's Naval forces. Topics include the main components in the propulsion and auxiliary systems for both conventional and nuclear steam propulsion, gas turbine power plants, and internal combustion engines. Also discussed are fundamentals of pneumatic and hydraulic fluid power systems, as well as heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration...

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This "thought-provoking" military history considers the influence of General Sherman's Civil War tactics on American conflicts through the twentieth century (The New York Times).   "To know what war is, one should follow our tracks, " Gen. William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Sherman's Ghosts is an investigation of those tracks, as well as those left across the globe by the Americ...

Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on "the brutal frontiers of new Europe, " Fortress Europe is the story of how the world's most affluent region-and history's greatest experiment with globalization-has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian crisis that has galvanized the world's attention.Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life remarkable human dramas, based on ex- tensive interviews a...

With extraordinary narrative sweep, investigative journalist Carr unearths the complex realities of terrorist violence and the stunning similarities in societies' responses to terrorism despite profound political and cultural differences.

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JANUARY 2016 STOP PRESS

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