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A Mercenary's Affair

Author : E. M. McLaucklin
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468969978
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book A Mercenary's Affair written by E. M. McLaucklin and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a hired mercenary has its perks. Sure there is the gold, plenty of ale, the free stuff from corpse looting... sometimes even a rowdy night of fun. With a simple contract of search and destroy, Jack treks through the forests of Deverance assuming this next job would quick. Once she catches her quarry, Jack finds out that assuming makes an... well, you know the saying. She had no clue that she would have to deal with her past, stand up to an Evil queen, or travel long distances, through mountains and foreign places, with an introverted princess and one powerful, yet annoying, wizard. So annoying... Jack needs to fulfill her contract, because what's a gal to do, offer her head on a platter instead? In doing so, will Jack inadvertently start an all-out war? Will Jack risk losing everything, even the battle over her heart?

Mercenaries and Missionaries

Author : Brandon Vaidyanathan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501736248
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries and Missionaries written by Brandon Vaidyanathan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenaries and Missionaries examines the relationship between rapidly diffusing forms of capitalism and Christianity in the Global South. Using more than two hundred interviews in Bangalore and Dubai, Brandon Vaidyanathan explains how and why global corporate professionals straddle conflicting moral orientations in the realms of work and religion. Seeking to place the spotlight on the role of religion in debates about the cultural consequences of capitalism, Vaidyanathan finds that an "apprehensive individualism" generated in global corporate workplaces is supported and sustained by a "therapeutic individualism" cultivated in evangelical-charismatic Catholicism. Mercenaries and Missionaries uncovers a symbiotic relationship between these individualisms and shows how this relationship unfolds in two global cities—Dubai, in non-democratic UAE, which holds what is considered the world's largest Catholic parish, and Bangalore, in democratic India, where the Catholic Church, though afflicted by ethnic and religious violence, runs many of the city's elite educational institutions. Vaidyanathan concludes that global corporations and religious communities create distinctive cultures, with normative models that powerfully orient people to those cultures—the Mercenary in cutthroat workplaces, and the Missionary in churches. As a result, global corporate professionals in rapidly developing cities negotiate starkly opposing moral commitments in the realms of work and religion, which in turn shapes their civic commitment to these cities.

The Modern Mercenary

Author : Sean McFate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621087
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Mercenary written by Sean McFate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sean McFate lays bare the opaque world of private military contractors, explaining the economic structure of the industry and showing in detail how firms operate on the ground. As a former paratrooper and private military contractor, McFate provides an unparalleled perspective into the nuts and bolts of the industry, as well as a sobering prognosis for the future of war.

Keenie Meenie

Author : Phil Miller
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745340791
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Keenie Meenie written by Phil Miller and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An explosive account of a secret group of mercenaries based on newly declassified documents.

The Seychelles Affair

Author : Mike Hoare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781805000914
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Seychelles Affair written by Mike Hoare and published by . This book was released on 2025-01-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable story of the Seychelles Affair began in 1978 when representatives of the exiled Seychelles president approached legendary mercenary commander Mike Hoare - who had successfully quelled the uprisings in the Congo in the early 1960s - to help overthrow the Marxist regime then in power. The coup was to take place in 1981, with Hoare's band of men disguised as a rugby club on board a flight to the Seychelles - AK-47s hidden in the bottom of their luggage. What happened when they arrived has gone down as one of the most astonishing events in the history of mercenary warfare. Hoare's eyewitness account of his escapades reads like a thriller, detailing the backroom scheming, the tense action at the airport on Mahé, the forced landing of the Air India Boeing and the subsequent escape of Hoare's band of mercenaries. The book also details their eventual capture and time spent in the South African prison, and their prosecution by those who had helped them prepare for the coup. This updated edition of this classic work is essential reading for anyone interested in mercenary warfare and military history.

Corporate Soldiers and International Security

Author : Christopher Kinsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134214103
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Corporate Soldiers and International Security written by Christopher Kinsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of private military companies, with a special focus on UK private forces. Christopher Kinsey examines the mercenary companies that filled the ranks of many European armies right up to the 1850s, the organizations that operated in Africa in the 1960s and early 1970s, the rise of legally established private military companies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and today’s private and important actors in international security and post-conflict reconstruction. He shows how and why the change from the mercenary organizations of the 1960s and 1970s came about, as the increasing newness of private military companies came to be recognised. It then examines how PMCs have been able to impact upon international security. Finally, Kinsey looks at the type of problems and advantages that can arise for organizations that decide to use private military companies and how they can make an unique contribution to international security. Corporate Soldiers and International Security will be of great interest to all students of international politics, security studies and war studies.

The Firebird Affair

Author : Dusko Doder
Publisher : Diversion Books
ISBN 13 : 0983839581
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book The Firebird Affair written by Dusko Doder and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE FIREBIRD AFFAIR centers on the suspicious death of Emily, the beautiful wife of WASHINGTON TRIBUNE correspondent Todd Martin. In 1991, she collapsed over lunch with a friend in a Moscow restaurant. A massive heart attack, Moscow authorities said and the US Embassy concurred. They shipped her body home to the US, without Todd even being aware she had died. He was out of contact covering one of the conflicts flaring up as the Soviet Union disintegrated. But Todd has managed to rebuild his life; he's now the TRIBUNE's chess columnist, from time to time drifting in and out of depression. He has always been doubtful Emily's death was an accident. His estranged son Rick is certain his mother was murdered, and blames his father for failing to protect her. By 2002, Todd gets an opportunity to establish the truth after a Russian spy approaches the CIA wanting to defect. The spy reveals the existence of a KGB mole inside the US government. He also alleges that the KGB played a role in Emily's death by sneaking a psychotropic drug into her drink. Holz, the former Moscow CIA station chief, now a senior CIA official, offers Todd the chance to go to Moscow on a rogue mission to uncover the traitor's identity. Todd undertakes the mission that leads him as well as Holz to confront wholly unexpected results. THE FIREBIRD AFFAIR explores the consequences of duplicity and betrayal, in both Moscow and Washington. It revolves around the actual KGB-led plot to remove Gorbachev from power, capturing the drama of the last months of Cold War and the subsequent changes in our public life.

Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome

Author : R. Kent Hughes
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433521016
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome written by R. Kent Hughes and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year thousands of God's servants leave the ministry convinced they are failures. Years ago, in the midst of a crisis of faith, Kent Hughes almost became one of them. But instead he and his wife Barbara turned to God's Word, determined to learn what God had to say about success and to evaluate their ministry from a biblical point of view. This book describes their journey and their liberation from the "success syndrome"-the misguided belief that success in ministry means increased numbers. In today's world it is easy to be seduced by the secular thinking that places a number on everything. But the authors teach that true success in ministry lies not in numbers but in several key areas: faithfulness, serving, loving, believing, prayer, holiness, and a Christlike attitude. Their thoughts will encourage readers who grapple with feelings of failure and lead them to a deeper, fuller understanding of success in Christian ministry. This book was originally published by Tyndale in 1987 and includes a new preface.

Religious Emotions

Author : Walter Van Herck
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381072X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Religious Emotions written by Walter Van Herck and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades contemporary Anglo-American philosophy has seen a boom in publications on the subject of ‘the emotions’. Most publications focus on the cognitive value of emotions and on their moral significance. The role which emotions play in religion, however, has sofar received little attention. In this volume a number of scholars present their research on ‘religious emotions’. Is there a category of ‘religious emotions’? What is so distinctive about them? Was there really a Christian-inspired repression of the emotions? Or did Christianity also made use of the human emotional potential? How is the relation between religion and emotions conditioned by the process of secularisation? How and why did a shift from the concept of ‘passion’ to that of ‘emotion’ occur from the eighteenth century on? This collection includes systematical treatments as well as historical approaches of these issues. The last part gives some paradigmatical cases of religious emotions, like emptiness and oceanic feeling. In the study of what constitutes a human being neither religion nor emotion can be neglected. The reader is invited to reflect on their interaction.

Report from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1483340309
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies written by Alan Axelrod and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercenaries have been active in battle from the beginning of military history and, as private armies and military support firms, they are a major component of warfare today. Security, military advice, training, logistics support, policing, technological expertise, intelligence, transportation—all are outsourced to a greater or lesser degree in the U.S. military. However, privatization is not a uniquely American phenomenon. Countries as diverse as Saudi Arabia and Australia rely on privatization in one form or another. Historically, heads of state, politicians, and other administrators have justified use of mercenaries on the basis of their effectiveness, and cost-savings. These reasons and others continue to serve as rationales for use of private military companies in military strategy. Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies provides a comprehensive survey and guide to mercenary forces, entrepreneurs, and corporations active on the international military scene today, including a concise history of mercenaries and private armies on land, sea, and in the air. Narrative chapters are amply supplemented by sidebars including biographies of major figures, key statistics, historical and current documents, contracts, and legislation on private armies and outsourced military services. Each chapter includes a bibliography of books, journal articles, and web sites, and a general bibliography concludes the entire work.

Just a Mercenary?

Author : D. Subbarao
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9357084517
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Just a Mercenary? written by D. Subbarao and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of his career as sub-collector of Parvathipuram sub-division in north-coastal Andhra Pradesh way back in 1974, Subbarao learnt—the hard way—that tribal development requires more than enthusiasm; it requires, most of all, an understanding of poverty. Nearly forty years later, in 2013, as the governor of the Reserve Bank of India in the midst of a fierce exchange rate crisis, Subbarao learnt—once again the hard way—the harsh challenges of emerging economies in an unequal world. Bookended by these assignments is the remarkable journey of a small-town boy from a modest background to the top echelons of India’s civil service and then on to the helm of the country’s central bank. Subbarao recounts that journey—his hopes and despair, his successes and setbacks, his mistakes and misdeeds, and the lessons he learnt along the way—with rare candour and honesty. The subtext of that story though is his constant soul searching about whether he has given back to society more than he received. Just a Mercenary? is a warm, engaging and earnest account of an extraordinary career that is bound to inform and inspire young professionals trying to find their way up their career ladders and discover meaning in their journeys.

A Military History of Australia

Author : Jeffrey Grey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139468286
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book A Military History of Australia written by Jeffrey Grey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Military History of Australia provides a detailed chronological narrative of Australia's wars across more than two hundred years, set in the contexts of defence and strategic policy, the development of society and the impact of war and military service on Australia and Australians. It discusses the development of the armed forces as institutions and examines the relationship between governments and military policy. This book is a revised and updated edition of one of the most acclaimed overviews of Australian military history available. It is the only comprehensive, single-volume treatment of the role and development of Australia's military and their involvement in war and peace across the span of Australia's modern history. It concludes with consideration of Australian involvement in its region and more widely since the terrorist attacks of September 11 and the waging of the global war on terror.

Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Affairs of the East India Company written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Life's Arrow

Author : Mark A G Nolan
Publisher : Mark Nolan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's Arrow written by Mark A G Nolan and published by Mark Nolan. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's recovery from addiction and total mental breakdown. The path that led to torment and his long to road to redemption.

Contract Warriors

Author : Bob Burton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440696357
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Contract Warriors written by Bob Burton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-04-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of soldiers for hire. From Biblical times and the Crusades through the American Revolution up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, mercenaries-professional soldiers who contract themselves out to the highest bidder-have played a vital role in most, if not all, military and paramilitary campaigns, helping to determine the victors and the vanquished. Contract Warriors reveals their compelling story for the first time. * Why they fight (and for how much) * How they fight * The unique lifestyle of mercenaries both on and off the battlefield * The spoils and business of war * The current role of mercenaries in the world's arms trade * The significance of the mercenary in popular culture and film Featuring a special afterword by W. Thomas Smith Jr. and his interview with Richard Marcinko, military consultant and author of the bestselling book Rogue Warrior

A History of Modern Mercenary Warfare

Author : Harry McCallion
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399050133
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Mercenary Warfare written by Harry McCallion and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before the time of Alexander the Great trained soldiers have sold their expertise on battlefield around the World, fighting and dying in other peoples wars for money, glory or the lust for violence and combat. In this book Harry McCallion explores the development of modern mercenary forces from the British SAS led deniable operation in Yemen in late 1960s, during which the Israelis were persuaded to arm the SAS led Yemeni tribesmen, through the bush wars in Africa, Britains ill fated intervention in the war in Afghanistan right up to todays War in Ukraine. Many of the modern day British mercenaries were known to the author personally. including such notably figures as the legendary SAS Fijian warriors Tak Takevesia who, although in his early sixties shot his way out of an ambush in Bagdad and Fred Big Fred Mrafano who devoted himself to the cause of the people of Serra Leone. SAS veteran .Bill Scully who received the Queen's Gallantry Medal single-handedly protected 1,300 civilians from rebel troops during the uprising in May 199 7after the Sierra Leone coup and American Vietnam veteran Major Mac Mackenzie, who although badly wounded in Vietnam, rose from trooper to command a Rhodesian SAS squadron and was one of the units most highly decorated soldiers. Also included are more notorious figures like Costas Georgiou also known by his alias Colonel Callan who served in the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment but was dishonorably discharged and sentenced to five years in prison for a post office robbery, later he proclaimed himself a Colonel and led a group of psychopathic mercenaries in the Angolan War of Independence, before being captured and executed by Angolan forces. The book explores the roles of modern day mercenaries, whos use has expanded precisely because they are mercenaries, fighting for money and not love of country, their deaths are not seen as a patriotic sacrifice, often they go unreported and in turn helps to conceal the true tragic human cost of waging a war. As one former private military contractor recently stated to Australian TV If you want to conquer in the 21st century you use mercenaries, special forces, things to keep war secret and nobodys better at secret wars than mercenaries.