The Libyan Connection

The Libyan Connection
Author: Christopher Jarman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1471728323

Adventure includes sailing a yacht into war-torn Libya and involving the Royal Marine Special Boat Service the SBS and the hunt for an international arms dealer.

War Against the Mafia

War Against the Mafia
Author: Don Pendleton
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497685540

The first book in the classic vigilante action series from a “writer who spawned a genre” (The New York Times). Overseas, Mack Bolan was dubbed “Sgt. Mercy” for the compassion he showed the innocent. On the home front, they’re calling him the Executioner for what he’s doing to the guilty. In the jungles of Southeast Asia, American sniper Mack Bolan honed his skills. After twelve years, with ninety-five confirmed hits, he returns home to Massachusetts. But it’s not to reunite with his family, it’s to bury them—victims in a mass murder/suicide. Even though Bolan’s own father pulled the trigger, he knows the old man was no killer. He was driven to madness by Mafia thugs who have turned his idyllic hometown into a new kind of war zone. Duty calls . . . Introducing an action hero “who would make Jack Reacher think twice,” this is the first book in the iconic series of vigilante justice that has become a publishing phenomenon (Empireonline.com). With more than two hundred million Executioner books sold since its debut, the series continues to stimulate. Gerry Conway, cocreator of Marvel Comics’ The Punisher, credits the Executioner as “my inspiration . . . that’s what gave me the idea for the lone, slightly psychotic avenger.” The series is also now in development as a major motion picture. War Against the Mafia is the 1st book in the Executioner series, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Precision and Purpose

Precision and Purpose
Author: Karl P. Mueller
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2015-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0833087932

Between March and October 2011, a coalition of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states and several partner nations waged a war against Muammar Qaddafi's Libyan regime that stemmed and then reversed the tide of Libya's civil war, preventing Qaddafi from crushing the nascent rebel movement seeking to overthrow his dictatorship and going on to enable opposition forces to prevail. The central element of this intervention was a relatively small multinational force's air campaign operating from NATO bases in several countries, as well as from a handful of aircraft carriers and amphibious ships in the Mediterranean Sea. The study details each country's contribution to that air campaign, examining such issues as the limits of airpower and coordination among nations. It also explores whether the Libyan experience offers a potential model for the future.

The Libya Connection

The Libya Connection
Author: Don Pendleton
Publisher: Gold Eagle
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1982
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780373610488

Libya Connection by Don Pendleton released on Oct 25, 1982 is available now for purchase.

The Enemy Within

The Enemy Within
Author: Seumas Milne
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781844675081

A new edition on the 20th anniversary of the miners' strike.

The Burning Shores

The Burning Shores
Author: Frederic Wehrey
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0374715289

A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi. The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis. In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline reporting, analysis, and history, Frederic Wehrey tells the story of what went wrong. An Arabic-speaking Middle East scholar, Wehrey interviewed the key actors in Libya and paints vivid portraits of lives upended by a country in turmoil: the once-hopeful activists murdered or exiled, revolutionaries transformed into militia bosses or jihadist recruits, an aging general who promises salvation from the chaos in exchange for a return to the old authoritarianism. He traveled where few Westerners have gone, from the shattered city of Benghazi, birthplace of the revolution, to the lawless Sahara, to the coastal stronghold of the Islamic State in Qadhafi’s hometown of Sirt. He chronicles the American and international missteps after the dictator’s death that hastened the country’s unraveling. Written with bravura, based on daring reportage, and informed by deep knowledge, TheBurning Shores is the definitive account of Libya’s fall.

Dispatches from the Dark Side

Dispatches from the Dark Side
Author: Gareth Peirce
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1844677591

In this set of devastating essays, Gareth Peirce analyzes the corruption of legal principles and practices in both the US and the UK that has accompanied the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring the few cases of torture that have come to light, such as those of Guantánamo detainees Shafiq Rasul and Binyam Mohamed, Peirce argues that they are evidence of a deeply entrenched culture of impunity among those investigating presumed radicals among British Muslim nationals and residents, who constitute the new suspect community in the UK. Peirce shows that the British government has colluded in a whole range of extrajudicial activities – rendition, internment without trial, torture – and has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal its actions. Its devices for maintaining secrecy are probably more deep-rooted than those of any other comparable democracy. If the government continues along this path, Peirce argues, it will destroy the moral and legal fabric it claims to be protecting.