Hints and tips:
...Analysis begins in medias res, with McElligott resembling the military sergeant who wakes you up during an enemy raid in the first mission of a video game....
...But there’s not enough playful chemistry between her and Isaac Powell’s Tony....
...I just finished the powerful book, The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powell. It is a moving and tragic story about soldiers fighting in Iraq....
...Even as a private, eventually being a sergeant, out on combat every day, even I saw a tremendous amount of that, so I think the Pentagon needs to be pared down....
...However, Jonathan Powell, Mr Blair’s former chief of staff, acknowledges he has since had second thoughts about the decision....
...The book instructs the young reader on the things for which Baden-Powell’s scouting boys got arm badges - tying knots of Gordian complexity, navigating by the stars, identifying trees....
...But given the fact that, as Enoch Powell observed, all careers end badly, their lives (sadly short and terminally wretched as many were) yielded many good years....
...“[Rantzen] was a formidable recruiting sergeant and had a genius for understanding mass market entertainment,” says Bazalgette....
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