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One Mission - Charles Goodyear - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

One Mission - Charles Goodyear - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Military precision meets corporate success in One Mission , as former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell draws on his extensive experience of high-pressure teamwork to show how organizations can become flatter, quicker, and much more collaborative across departments and divisions. ''Chris Fussell is one of the most dynamic thinkers of our day. His ideas and his perspectives have challenged many of my own assumptions and pushed me to think bigger. I’m smarter because of Chris Fussell. Read this book!'' – Simon Sinek, bestselling author of Start With Why Whilst sharing his own military experience, Fussell explores examples of transition in companies ranging from industry titans like Intuit and Under Armour to small businesses, which have all adopted the ‘Team of Teams’ model in order to unite everyone around single compelling mission. The result is a ‘shared consciousness’ that drives consistently better results with less friction and inter-group rivalry.Whether you''re a start-up or a corporate giant, One Mission is a practical handbook for any leader looking to evolve their workforce into a highly mobile and effective unit and inspire their teams to look beyond their narrow field of vision to understand – and effectively contribute to – the organization’s one true mission.The steps of transition include:· Achieving strategic alignment: communicating organizational priorities down the chain of command.· Determining operating rhythm: organizing regular company catch up and feedback sessions.· Setting up communication and decision-making processes: developing a hybrid decision-making structure to empower and inspire every person on the team.· Shifting leadership behaviour: ensuring successful transition with radical humility by starting with the leader and continuing down the chain of command.

DKK 141.00
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Housewife On Top - Alison Penton Harper - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Housewife On Top - Alison Penton Harper - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

‘I’ve left you a list on my desk,’ Rick said . . . The house fell silent and I wandered into the study to collect my instructions. There was only one scrawled piece of paper on the desk so there was no mistaking the single command. It said: organize Christmas. Helen is finally finding her feet just in time for the looming festive season. Surrounded by family, friends and the finer things in life, Helen’s generous offer to organize Christmas for the neurotic Leoni soon snowballs into an unmanageable avalanche of tasks when her chaotic boss dumps his seasonal arrangements on her too. And with Julia heading towards a mind-boggling midlife crisis of her own, it looks as though Helen is well and truly stuffed! And so it begins, the season of good grief to all women . . . Praise for Alison Penton Harper: ''Laugh-a-minute, frothy fun'' Sunday Express

DKK 148.00
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We Free the Stars - Hafsah Faizal - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

We Free the Stars - Hafsah Faizal - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The epic sequel to the bestselling TikTok sensation We Hunt the Flame ! This is YA fantasy at it''s best. Lush, hopeful and devestating, We Free the Stars is Hafsah Faizal''s spellbinding conclusion to the Sands of Arawiya duology, set in a world inspired by ancient Arabia. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo''s Shadow and Bone series. Darkness surged in his veins. Power bled from her bones. The battle is over, but the war is just beginning. Low on resources and allies alike, Zafira and Nasir are determined to finish their mission; to restore magic to their kingdom.But the land teems with the return of an ancient evil, and as Nasir fights to command the magic in his blood, Zafira battles a very different darkness. And yet, in spite of everything, they find themselves falling into a love they can''t stand to lose.Time is running out and if order is to be restored, sacrifices will have to be made . . .

DKK 113.00
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Dead Man's Walk - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Dead Man's Walk - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man''s Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry''s Lonesome Dove quartet. These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call – heroes of Lonesome Dove – first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters.Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious outlaw determined to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans. The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the only law – whether from nature, or from those whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico.Danger, sacrifice and fear test Gus and Call to the limits of endurance, as they seek the strength and courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in the West of early nineteenth-century America.Continue the series set in the Wild West with Comanche Moon .

DKK 127.00
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We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faizal - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faizal - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The bestselling TikTok sensation! Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizal''s We Hunt the Flame is a breathtaking debut about magic, conquering fear and taking identity into your own hands. P erfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo''s Shadow and Bone series. Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she risks everything to provide for her people.Nasir is the Prince of Death. A feared assassin who is forever bound to the command of his father, the sultan.Both are legends in their kingdom – but neither wants to be. And when Zafira embarks on a dangerous quest to return magic to their suffering land, Nasir is sent on a similar mission. But as their journey unfolds, an ancient evil begins to stir . . .Don''t miss the epic sequel and conclusion to the Sands of Arawiya duology, We Free The Stars . *An instant New York Times bestseller* *A BuzzFeed pick for ''YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring''*

DKK 113.00
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Hill of Doors - Robin Robertson - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Hill of Doors - Robin Robertson - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Charged with strangeness and beauty, Hill of Doors is a haunted and haunting book, where each successive poem seems a shape conjured from the shadows, and where the uncanny is made physically present. The collection sees the return of some familiar members of the Robertson company, including Strindberg – heading, as usual, towards calamity – and the shape-shifter Dionysus. Four loose retellings of stories of the Greek god form pillars for the book, alongside four short Ovid versions. Threaded through these are a series of pieces about the poet’s childhood on the north-east coast, his fascination with the sea and the islands of Scotland. However, the reader will also discover a distinct new note in Robertson’s austere but ravishing poetry: towards the possibility of contentment – a house, a door, a key – finding, at last, a ‘happiness of the hand and heart’. Magisterial in its command and range, indelibly moving and memorable in its speech, Hill of Doors is Robin Robertson’s most powerful book to date.

DKK 127.00
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Dead Man's Walk - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Dead Man's Walk - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Taking you deep into the heart of the American West, Dead Man''s Walk is the first book in Larry McMurtry''s Lonesome Dove quartet. These are the wild days when Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call – heroes of Lonesome Dove – first encounter the untamed frontier that will form their characters.Not yet twenty, Gus and Call enlist as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb, a capricious outlaw determined to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans. The two young men experience their first great adventure in the barren, empty landscape of the great plains, in which arbitrary violence is the only law – whether from nature, or from those whose territory they must cross in order to reach New Mexico.Danger, sacrifice and fear test Gus and Call to the limits of endurance, as they seek the strength and courage to survive against almost insurmountable odds in the West of early nineteenth-century America.Continue the series set in the Wild West with Comanche Moon . Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

DKK 141.00
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Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Stormdancer - Jay Kristoff - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

One girl and a griffin against an empire: A dying land. The Shima Imperium verges on collapse. Land and sky have been poisoned by clockwork industrialization, the Lotus Guild oppresses the populace and the nation’s Shogun is lost to his thirst for power. An impossible quest. Yukiko and her warrior father are forced to hunt down a griffin at the Shogun’s command. But any fool knows griffins are extinct – and death will be the price of failure. A hidden gift. Disaster strikes and Yukiko is stranded in the wilderness with a fabled griffin, now furious and crippled. Although she hears his thoughts and saved his life, Yukiko knows he’d rather see her dead than help her. And discovery of the talent allowing them to communicate would mean her execution. Yet together, the pair will form an indomitable bond, and rise to challenge an empire. Set in steampunk Japan, Jay Kristoff''s Stormdancer is full of mythic creatures, demons and Gods, and a strong female protagonist. Continue the Lotus War Trilogy with Kinslayer and Endsinger .

DKK 113.00
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The Last Mortal Bond - Brian Staveley - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Last Mortal Bond - Brian Staveley - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Kirkus Best SFF Books of 2016 ''Will keep you turning the pages late at night'' – Pierce Brown on The Emperor''s Blades Death is near, armies are gathered and the future rests on a knife-edge The Annurian Empire is losing a war on two fronts - and it''s unclear who''s in command. Adare is stationed in the thick of battle, calling herself Emperor. However, she can''t hold back the nomadic Urghul forces forever. She needs her brilliant general, Ran il Tornja, but will he betray her again?Adare''s brother Kaden is the true heir, yet he''ll accept a republic to save his divided people. And he faces something more terrible than war. He''s unmasked Ran il Tornja as a remnant of an ancient race, one that attempted to destroy mankind. The general now plans to finish what they started. Kaden has also discovered that capricious gods walk the earth in human guise - and their agendas may seal the fates of all. ''Deeply satisfying'' – Kirkus Reviews The Last Mortal Bond is the epic conclusion to the Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne trilogy by Brian Staveley.

DKK 127.00
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Embark - Sean O'brien - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Embark - Sean O'brien - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A new collection by Sean O’Brien – ‘Auden’s true inheritor’, and one of our wisest poetic chronographers – is not just a literary event, but also, invariably, a reckoning of the times. Given the nature of our times, his voice is an essential one: there is no other poet currently writing with O’Brien’s intellectual authority, historical literacy and sheer command of the facts. Embark also registers our unique cultural climacteric, where the larger crises of the planet – the pandemic and the terrifying spectre of revanchist nationalism among them – impact all of us, and where the illusion of a church-and-state separation of the personal and political can no longer hold. As the poet turns seventy, he shows us how the inevitable absences that age brings are assuaged by how we furnish them; the result is not just a logic made from loss and pain, but a music, a metaphysic, and finally a redemptive art. Embark reminds us of the enduring consolations of love, of friendship, of the freedoms and possible futures still afforded by the imagination – and, through O’Brien’s own exemplary model, of poetry itself.

DKK 127.00
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Comanche Moon - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Comanche Moon - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon , which follows on from Dead Man''s Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. It showcases Larry McMurtry''s strong affinity for the landscape and its inhabitants with a deeply felt lyrical intensity. On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull.When Scull''s favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry another man and Call finds that the town''s most notorious woman is desperate to settle down with him and become respectable. When Scull''s wealthy wife demands that her errant husband be brought home, with feelings akin to relief the two men set off once more into the vast, untamed plains . . .Continue the series set in the American West with the Pulitzer Prize winning Lonesome Dove .

DKK 123.00
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The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book - V. S. Naipaul - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

With a preface by the author. V. S. Naipaul’s legendary command of broad comedy and acute social observation is on abundant display in these classic works of fiction – two novels and a collection of stories – that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humour. The Suffrage of Elvira is Naipaul’s hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates’ tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of Mr Stone and the Knights Companion is an ageing Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and an unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in A Flag on the Island take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad – whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name – to a rooming house in London, where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, The Nightwatchman''s Occurrence Book is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language. ‘V. S. Naipaul has a substantial claim as a comic writer . . . This humour, conducted throughout with the utmost stylistic quietude, is completely original’ Kingsley Amis, Spectator

DKK 152.00
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The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Silver Swan - Benjamin Black - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Time has moved on for Quirke, the world-weary pathologist first encountered in Christine Falls. It is the middle of the 1950s, that low, dishonourable decade; a woman he loved has died, a man he once admired is dying, while the daughter he for so long denied is still finding it hard to accept him as her father. When an old acquaintance approaches him about his wife’s apparent suicide, Quirke recognizes trouble but, as always, trouble is something he cannot resist. ‘Drug addiction, morbid sexual obsession, blackmail and murder, as well as prose as crisp as a winter’s morning by the Liffey . . . Quirke is human enough to swell the hardest of hearts’ GQ ‘A neat whodunit plot and a delightful command of suspense’ Independent on Sunday ‘The death of Michael Dibdin left a huge hole in crime fiction. Black and Quirke are filling that gap with this wholly gripping account for the shady, priest-ridden and blithely corrupt society of mid-twentieth-century Dublin’ Daily Mail ‘A romp of a read, a compelling fix’ Scotsman ‘Dublin’s clammy atmosphere and its oppressive social and religious mores are a convincing backdrop to a moving drama conveyed by a master writer’ The Times

DKK 152.00
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Blood of an Exile - Brian Naslund - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Blood of an Exile - Brian Naslund - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Welcome to Brian Naslund''s spectacular, action-packed fantasy debut. The first book in the Dragons of Terra series, Blood of an Exile features a life-changing mission for a death-defying adventurer . . . If you liked The Witcher, you''ll love this.''Dark and adventurous, brazenly cinematic . . . sure to win over dragon-loads of fantasy fans'' - Sebastien de Castell, author of Spellslinger Sentenced to die. Impossible to kill.Bershad was supposed to die. When he was caught attempting to assassinate a fellow noble, he was given the harshest sentence: a command to slay dragons, so his death might serve the kingdom. Yet for some reason he never lost a fight and is now the most successful dragon-slayer in history. However, as a doomed man Bershad is still shunned by his peers and his countrymen. But that could all change.The king who sentenced Bershad has just given him a way out: kill a foreign monarch and walk free forever. But Bershad couldn’t care less about the fates of kingdoms – until the dragon-slayer discovers he could save an innocent child in the process.His mission might also save every creature in Terra. ''Fans of Joe Abercrombie’s First Law or Michael Sullivan’s Riyria Revelations will love Brian Naslund’s debut'' - Django Wexler, author of the Shadow Campaigns series

DKK 127.00
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No Way Out - Adam Jowett - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

No Way Out - Adam Jowett - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A Sunday Times bestseller, powerful, highly-charged and moving, No Way Out is Adam Jowett ’s tribute to the men of Easy Company who paid a heavy price for serving their country in Afghanistan. ''Fiercely immersive. Truly heroic.'' – Tom Marcus, bestselling author of Soldier Spy. ______________ In Helmand province in July 2006, Major Adam Jowett was given command of Easy Company, a hastily assembled and under-strength unit of Paras and Royal Irish rangers. Their mission was to hold the District Centre of Musa Qala at any cost. Easy Company found themselves in a ramshackle compound, cut off and heavily outnumbered by the Taliban in the town.In No Way Out , Adam evokes the heat and chaos of battle as the Taliban hit Easy Company with wave after wave of brutal attack. He describes what it was like to have responsibility for the lives of his men as they fought back heroically over twenty-one days and nights of relentless, nerve-shredding combat. Finally, as they came down to their last rounds and death stared Easy Company in the face, the siege took an extraordinary turn . . ._____________ ''Vivid and brilliantly written: a pulsating account of the battle for Musa Qala, the Rorke''s Drift of our times.’ – Martin Bell, OBE, war reporter. ''A superb account of the chaos and brutality of conflict'' – Levison Wood

DKK 127.00
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Comanche Moon - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Comanche Moon - Larry Mcmurtry - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The second book in the Lonesome Dove quartet, Comanche Moon , which follows on from Dead Man''s Walk, follows ranchers Gus and Call in their bitter struggle to protect the advancing West frontier against the defiant Comanches, courageously determined to defend their territory and their way of life. It showcases Larry McMurtry''s strong affinity for the landscape and its inhabitants with a deeply felt lyrical intensity. On the wild Texas frontier where barbarism and civilization come in many forms, Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call are pitched into the long, bitter, bloody fighting under the command of Captain Inish Scull.When Scull''s favourite horse is stolen by the Comanches, he decides to track him down, leaving Gus and Call in charge. However, on their return to Austin, Gus is greeted by the news that his sweetheart is to marry another man and Call finds that the town''s most notorious woman is desperate to settle down with him and become respectable. When Scull''s wealthy wife demands that her errant husband be brought home, with feelings akin to relief the two men set off once more into the vast, untamed plains . . .Continue the series set in the American West with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove . Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

DKK 141.00
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The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

''Simultaneously frightening and hilarious'' - The Times The Men Who Stare at Goats reveals the extraordinary – and completely nutty – national secrets at the core of Bush’s government. Often funny, sometimes chilling and with first-hand access to the leading players, Jon Ronson’s Sunday Times bestseller is a story so unbelievable it has to be true. In 1979, a secret unit was established by the most gifted minds within the US Army. Defying all known accepted military practice – and indeed, the laws of physics – they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them.Entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries, they were the First Earth Battalion. And they really weren’t joking. What’s more, in the early 2000s, they’re back and fighting George W. Bush’s War on Terror. But why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to the Barney the Purple Dinosaur show? Why have one hundred de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? And how was the US military associated with the mysterious mass-suicide of a strange cult from San Diego? Now a feature film starring George Clooney and Ewan McGregor. Part of the Picador Collection, a series celebrating fifty years of Picador books and showcasing the best of modern literature.

DKK 127.00
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A Life to Kill - Matthew Hall - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A Life to Kill - Matthew Hall - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

A Life to Kill is the seventh thrilling installment in Matthew Hall''s twice CWA Gold Dagger nominated Coroner Jenny Cooper series. If they''re hiding something, we''ve got a right to know. We''ve got a right to know what Kenny died for . . . The day they''ve all been waiting for is at hand. The last British combat soldiers in Helmand are counting the minutes until their departure for home. For their excited families in Highcliffe, it spells the end of an agonizing six month wait. But in the final hours, disaster strikes. Nineteen-year-old Private Pete ''Skippy'' Lyons is abducted and the patrol sent out to locate him is ambushed. One killed, two injured. One still missing in action . . .Their loved ones are left desperate for answers the Army won''t provide. How could Private Lyons have been snatched from a heavily fortified command post? And why are officers trying to disguise what happened during the mission to save him?Their only hope lies with Coroner Jenny Cooper, who must take on the full might of the military to stop the truth being buried along with the boy soldiers. But in a town filled with secrets and rumours, it''s not only the Army that has something to hide. The Jenny Cooper novels have been adapted into a hit TV series, Coroner , made for CBC and NBC Universal starring Serinda Swan and Roger Cross.

DKK 120.00
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The Image of a Drawn Sword - Jocelyn Brooke - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Image of a Drawn Sword - Jocelyn Brooke - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The calm of Reynard Langrish''s quietly predictable life is shattered when, on a night of rain-swept storm, a stranger - a young soldier called Captain Archer - appears at his remote Kentish cottage. He takes Langrish to an ancient hill fort and introduces him to the men under his command, all of whom share a mysterious tattoo - two snakes entwined around a drawn sword - and are engaged in preparations to defend against a nameless menace, referred to only as ''the Emergency''. As the dreamlike narrative rapidly accelerates into Kafkaesque nightmare, Langrish is drawn into a world where illusion, paranoia, and reality unite with lethal consequences, and disorienting shifts of time and perception culminate in a terrifying moment of pure horror. Originally published in 1950, The Image of a Drawn Sword is steeped in the themes and images that occupy much of Brooke''s writing - the relentlessness of time, suppressed homosexuality, condemned love, self-hatred, and futility; and, above all, an England that was both real and uniquely his own, a mystical, half-known natural world. ''In its way not inferior to Kafka . . . [it has] a haunting, sinister quality'' - Anthony Powell ''Seldom have naturalism and fantasy been more strangely merged'' - Elizabeth Bowen ''He is subtle as the devil'' - John Betjeman ''The skill and intensity of the writing made peculiarly haunting this cry of complaint on behalf of a bewildered Man'' - Pamela Hansford Johnson, Daily Telegraph

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Brothers in Arms - Geraint Jones - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Brothers in Arms - Geraint Jones - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier''s tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every scary, exciting moment – and the bonds of friendship that can never be destroyed. ‘If you could choose which two limbs got blown off, what would you go for?’ Danny said. ‘Your arms or your legs?’ In July 2009, Geraint (Gez) Jones was sitting in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan with the rest of The Firm – Danny, Jay, Toby and Jake, his four closest friends, all junior NCOs and combat-hardened infantrymen. Thanks to the mangled remains of a Jackal vehicle left tactlessly outside their tent, IEDs were never far from their mind. Within days they’d be on the ground in Musa Qala with the rest of 3 Platoon – a mixed bunch of men Gez would die for. As they fight furiously, are pushed to their limits, hemmed in by IEDs and hampered by the chain of command, Gez starts to wonder what is the point of it all. The bombs they uncover on patrol, on their stomachs brushing the sand away, are replaced the next day. Firefights are a momentary victory in a war they can see is unwinnable. Gez is a warrior – he wants more than this. But then death and injury start to take their toll on The Firm, leaving Gez with PTSD and a new battle just beginning. ''Jones writes of his brothers and their Afghan experience, from its adrenalin-filled highs to the many lows, with passion and candour.'' – Major Adam Jowett, bestselling author of No Way Out ''A gritty, brutal book about men at war. Raw and real. Brilliant.'' – Tom Marcus, author of Soldier Spy

DKK 113.00
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Standard Operating Procedure - Errol Morris - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Standard Operating Procedure - Errol Morris - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Standard Operating Procedure is an utterly original collaboration by the writer Philip Gourevitch ( We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families ) and the film-maker Errol Morris ( The Thin Blue Line , The Fog of War ). They have produced the first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib. Standard Operating Procedure reveals the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the haunting digital snapshots from Abu Ghraib prison that shocked the world – and simultaneously illuminates and alters forever our understanding of those images and the events they depict. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris’s startlingly frank and intimate interviews with Americans who served at Abu Ghraib and with some of their Iraqi prisoners, as well as on his own research, Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising account of Iraq’s occupation from the inside-out – rendering vivid portraits of guards and prisoners ensnared in an appalling breakdown of command authority and moral order. Gourevitch and Morris have crafted a nonfiction morality play that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines. By taking us deep into the voices and characters of the men and women who lived the horror of Abu Ghraib, the authors force us, whatever our politics, to re-examine the pat explanations in which we have been offered – or sought – refuge, and to see afresh this watershed episode. Instead of a ‘few bad apples’, we are confronted with disturbingly ordinary young American men and women who have been dropped into something out of Dante’s Inferno . This is a book that makes you think, and makes you see – an essential contribution from two of our finest nonfiction artists working at the peak of their powers.

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The Greek Escape - Karen Swan - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

The Greek Escape - Karen Swan - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Set on a lush Greek island, The Greek Escape by Karen Swan is a Sunday Times bestseller, and the perfect getaway for fans of Victoria Hislop and Santa Montefiore.''This irresistible story will sweep you right up into its pages and keep you there'' – Heat Before every new beginning, there must be an ending . . .Running from heartbreak, Chloe Marston leaves her old life in London for a fresh start in New York. Working at a luxury concierge company, she makes other people’s lives run perfectly, even if her own has ground to a halt.Then, a terrible accident forces her to step into a new role, up close and personal with the company’s most esteemed and powerful clients. Charismatic Joe Lincoln is one of them and his every wish is her command. So, when he asks her to find him a secluded holiday home in the Greek Islands, she sets about sourcing the perfect retreat.But when Tom, her ex, unexpectedly shows up in Manhattan, the stability of her new life is thrown off-balance again. So she jumps at the chance to help Joe inspect the holiday house; escaping to Greece will give her the time and space to decide where her future truly lies.Tom is the man she has loved for so long, but he has hurt her before – can she give him another chance?And as she draws closer to Joe, does she even want to? As magnetic as he is mysterious, there’s an undeniable chemistry between them that she can’t resist. Whatever her heart is telling her, Chloe is in over her head – another client’s wife has mysteriously disappeared, and serious allegations about Joe threaten more than just her happiness.Who can she trust? And will she uncover the truth in time? ''A charming, well-crafted tale of love, loss and reinvention'' – Marie Claire Readers love The Greek Escape . . . ''This book grabbed me from page one and didn''t let go''''Loved it from beginning to end''''Exactly what a summer read should be''

DKK 120.00
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Daughters of Chivalry - Kelcey Wilson Lee - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

Daughters of Chivalry - Kelcey Wilson Lee - Bog - Pan Macmillan - Plusbog.dk

''She imagines the experiences of the sisters with empathy and patience ... and ably manages to coax the few sparks of evidence into flames of personality ... Whoop, whoop! If anyone can find me another clutch of rebel princesses, let''s get crowd-funding.'' Hermione Eyre, Spectator Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized – and largely mythical – notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great English king, Edward I. The lives of these sisters – Eleanora, Joanna, Margaret, Mary and Elizabeth – ran the full gamut of experiences open to royal women in the Middle Ages. Living as they did in a courtly culture founded on romantic longing and brilliant pageantry, they knew that a princess was to be chaste yet a mother to many children, preferably sons, meek yet able to influence a recalcitrant husband or even command a host of men-at-arms. Edward’s daughters were of course expected to cement alliances and secure lands and territory by making great dynastic marriages, or endow religious houses with royal favour. But they also skilfully managed enormous households, navigated choppy diplomatic waters and promoted their family’s cause throughout Europe – and had the courage to defy their royal father. They might never wear the crown in their own right, but they were utterly confident of their crucial role in the spectacle of medieval kingship. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, Daughters of Chivalry offers a rich portrait of these spirited Plantagenet women. With their libraries of beautifully illustrated psalters and tales of romance, their rich silks and gleaming jewels, we follow these formidable women throughout their lives and see them – at long last – shine from out of the shadows, revealing what it was to be a princess in the Age of Chivalry.

DKK 120.00
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