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Canadian Forces, including Special Operations Forces, have played an outsize role in the conflict in Afghanistan, often under a cloak of secrecy. For the first time, Col.

This collection of essays explores how fighting in the rugged, hostile lands of Afghanistan is no easy task. Afghanistan has long been considered the graveyard of empires.

L'ouvrage intitulé Une guerre difficile : Points de vue sur l'insurrection et les FOS aborde les concepts théoriques liés aux insurrections et à la pratique de la guerre irrégulière.

The Difficult War: Perspectives on Insurgency and Special Operations Forces is a collection of essays that deals with theoretical concepts related to insurgency as well as to the practice of irregu

The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish.

An elderly lady sleuth solves a series of murders in the West Indies.

Detective and mystery stories. In this Miss Marple novel a group of people gather at her house one Tuesday evening and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes.

Gordon Cloade is killed in a London air raid, and his vast fortune passes to his young wife Rosaleen.

There's a serial killer on the loose, workinghis way through the alphabet and the whole country is in a state of panic. A is for Mrs.

For an instant the two trains ran together, side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth witnessed a murder.

In this inviting collection, Agatha Christie enlists the services of her finest--Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and Parker Pyne--and puts them each to the test in the most challenging cases of their

Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against nine cunning adversaries in nine tales of murder, deception, terror, disappearance, and suspense.

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner.