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For details and links, please visit www.amberbooks.co.uk JANUARY 2019 PUBLICATION SAS Undercover Operations MIKE RYAN SAS: From World War II to the Gulf War SAS Undercover Operations tells the story of the SAS from its formation in PETER DARMAN North Africa in World War II through With the aid of more than 600 to its reformation in the 1950s and SAS Undercover Operations alphabetically arranged entries, SAS: deployment in Malaya and Oman, 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) From WWII to the Gulf War 1941– before detailing its role in Northern Extent: 192pp SAS: From WWII to the Gulf 1992 offers the reader an in-depth Ireland. From the Iranian Embassy Word count: 60,000 words War 1941–1992 Illustrations: 120 colour and b/w analysis of every aspect of the SAS’s siege to the Falklands, Sierra Leone to Format: 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) photographs, maps, and artworks history from 1941 up to and including the Gulf Wars and on to Afghanistan, the First Gulf War. All the Regiment’s Extent: 192pp ISBN: 978-1-78274-753-6 Word count: 60,000 words the book shows exactly why and how battles, campaigns and major figures, £19.99 Paperback Illustrations: 155 colour and b/w the SAS have earned their reputation together with their economic, political photographs, maps and diagrams as one of the world’s elite combat and and strategic background, are listed. ISBN: 978-1-78274-751-2 counter-terrorist units. In addition, the weapons, equipment £19.99 Paperback and techniques used by the Special Air Service are given in full. SAS in the Gulf War SAS Rescue Missions STEVE CRAWFORD BARRY DAVIES The SAS’s role in the First Gulf The British Special Air Service (SAS) War was much broader than Scud is well known as a fighting force, but hunting, but for some years the what is less documented is the role Regiment’s activities during the SAS in the Gulf War SAS Rescue Missions played by SAS soldiers as rescuers, conflict were shrouded in secrecy 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) whether of civilians or other military 240 x 189mm (9½ x 7½”) Extent: 192pp and misinformation. SAS in the Gulf units. Written by a former SAS man, Extent: 192pp Word count: 60,000 words Illustrations: 120 col and b/w photos War provides the full, dramatic story, details all the Illustrations: 120 colour and b/w SAS Rescue Missions Word count: 60,000 words revealing how Britain’s elite played occasions when SAS soldiers have photographs and maps ISBN: 978-1-78274-752-9 an integral part in the eventual Allied saved a friendly power, from Malaya ISBN: 978-1-78274-754-3 £19.99 Paperback victory. Drawing on accounts from £19.99 Paperback in the 1950s to Oman in the 1970s SAS soldiers and once classified to Gambia in the 1980s, and many information, this is a must for anyone more. The informative text describes interested in what the SAS really did how a handful of SAS men achieved during the First Gulf War. what often seemed impossible. 2 3 FEBRUARY 2019 PUBLICATION Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words MICHAEL KERRIGAN Ranging from the Egyptians to the World War II Illustrated Atlas late Roman Empire, Ancient Peoples In Their Own Words celebrates the DAVID JORDAN AND importance of historical primary Ancient Peoples in Their Own ANDREW WIEST sources in a way that will appeal Words With 160 colour maps, World War II to general readers. Presenting 297 x 227mm (11¾ x 9”) plots the conflict’s Illustrated Atlas numerous ancient inscriptions from Extent: 224pp course of the land, sea and air World War II Illustrated Atlas Word count: 60,000 words tombs, ceramics and buildings, campaigns in fine detail, enabling the 264x 202mm (10½ x 8”) Illustrations: over 200 colour accompanied by translations and reader to trace the ebb and flow of Extent: 256pp photographs text putting the words into context, the fortunes of both sides. Contents Word count: 80,000 words ISBN: 978-1-78274-707-9 Illustrations: 187 col maps, 52 this book explains the significance of include the land campaigns in North- £19.99 Hardback photographs these works both in the ancient world West Europe, Italy, North Africa, ISBN: 978-1-78274-736-9 and for today. Russia, South-East Asia and the £19.99 Hardback Pacific; the naval war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean; the carrier battles of the Pacific; and the bombing The Ancients In Their Own Words A Calendar in Stone The Ancients In Their Own Words Lost and Found: The ‘Moabite Stone’ A Calendar in Stone ON PUBLIC DISPLAY Lost and Found: The Gezer Calendar Stone is in the ON PUBLIC DISPLAY ‘To everything there is a season,’ says the Book of Ecclesiastes. A 3000-year-old Hebrew collection of the Museum of the The ‘Moabite Stone’ – successfully pieced campaigns of Europe and the Pacific. Ancient Orient in Istanbul. The ‘Moabite Stone’ together – is now to be seen among the inscription concurs. For a text of this antiquity, the Gezer Calendar Stone is strikingly exhibits in the Louvre. clear – but what does it really mean? The vaunts of Mesha, king of Moab, were recorded on a stela detailing his victories over Israel. Not only does the text shed intriguing light on biblical events, its Moabite is strikingly similar in Left: The town of Gezer was given as that Jewish farmers needed an I am Mesha, the son of appearance to early Hebrew script. a gift to King Solomon at the end of official aide-memoire for a regime Kemosh, King of Moab, the second millennium BC. The followed by their families for Calendar Stone appears to have been generations. A writing exercise for hen we say that an from Dibon. My father ruled in artefact has been fashioned not too long after. schoolboys? A folk song or Moab for thirty years and I children’s jingle? Perhaps, but then W‘discovered’, we may way it was actually lived at the why have it so solemnly displayed mean that it has been dug out of the succeeded him. I sanctified this ground where it has lain, literally “ time. Other ancient on public view? The Gezer high to Kemosh, because he inscriptions may impress in Calendar Stone reminds us that, lost, for centuries; sometimes, their grand sonority or their however clear we may think an though, a monument may have been protected me from all other hidden in plain sight. So it was with epic associations: this one has ancient inscription is, it may well kings and brought me victory an engagingly down-home keep back from us the meanings the Mesha Stela – a carved slab of quality. It is hard not to be that really matter. basalt similar in size and shape to against all enemies. Omri, King charmed – though it is always the headstone from a modern western grave but designed to serve of Israel, oppressed Moab for as well not to condescend to a very different purpose. It was the past, and our reaction Ups and Downs many days, for Kemosh was fashioned in the middle of the ninth highlights certain difficulties century BC on the orders of Mesha, angry with his people. Then with an inscription that The archeological evidence king of Moab at that time. Its presents more challenges than suggests that Gezer’s heyday his son succeeded him and purpose was to commemorate we may expect. was comparatively brief. It was Mesha’s successful rebellion against said ‘I too will oppress Moab’. reduced to rubble not long Israel and his re-establishment of el Gezer is mentioned in the WHICH HARVEST? He said this in my own time. after Solomon’s time. This Moabite independence. Book of Kings: the site was The first is obvious enough: that of The episode is recorded in the But I held him and his house given to Solomon as a dowry working out why there should be so conforms with the written T biblical Book of Kings. As Mesha’s when he married the daughter of many harvests – those for barley and evidence that it was sacked and in contempt. And Israel has stela has it, Kemosh, the god of the Egypt’s Pharaoh. The Pharaoh grapes are specifically identified, but destroyed by the Pharaoh Moabites, had allowed his kingdom was also interfering with a Above: In the middle of the ninth century been defeated, vanquished in (thought to have been Siamun) is that still leaves two. It has been Shoshenq I (the biblical Shishak) to be conquered by Israel’s King monument that, in the centuries BC, King Mesha made his stand against his said to have taken the city from the suggested that the ‘harvest’ of the perpetuity… And the King of towards the end of the tenth Omri and held in continued since it was first set up, had taken Israelite overlord here at Moab. The story Philistines and reduced it to ruins, first line is for olives. This is Israel built Atarot for himself, century BC.

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