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Shadows
By Alex Hunter
Luc Hansen, following eight years in the French Foreign Legion, is now a leading operative in the Departement de Enquête et Recherche, the European Union’s security and intelligence directorate, where he is valued for his intuitive and highly effective investigative work. His military experience in the Legion has made him an expert with most light infantry weapons, given him a high proficiency in unarmed combat and, having done the Legion’s interrogation course as both a victim and an interrogator, has left him with a high tolerance of pain and the knowledge of how to inflict it. The Legion has also made him strongly self-reliant, given him a deep sense of loyalty to his friends and team, and left him with a pragmatic recognition of the efficacy of authorised but deniable operations. Not a person to use force needlessly, he works outside the law when required and has no hesitation in using lethal force when that is the most effective solution. Not given to introspection, he has a strong sense of justice, morality and power that reflects the rather black-and-white world of the special-forces soldier.

Born in 1970, he is the son of a Belgian Catholic father and a Moroccan Muslim mother and has the black hair, dark eyes, and olive skin of his mother’s people. Luc holds a Masters degree in modern European Languages from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and speaks six languages (English, French, Arabic, Flemish, German and Russian). At 1 metre 75 centimetres (5 foot 9 inches), he is exceptionally fit but maintaining peak fitness is a challenge since he enjoys good food and is a regular smoker of Gauloises cigarettes, which he is not very successfully trying to give up. On the inside of his right wrist, he has a tattoo depicting the badge of the Legion’s elite 2 REP paratroop unit and, having been wounded a number of times, he carries the scars of battle, as well as those of the rough life of a serving soldier specialising in jungle and desert warfare.

 
   
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Dating the Bois d'Hougoumont - eBook
By Alasdair White
The Bois d’Hougoumont seldom gets a mention in the history books. Many authors have assumed that the wood was cut down well before the battle, but Alasdair White’s recent research into the age of some of the trees in the wood show that they pre-date the Battle of Waterloo

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Of Hedges, Myths and Memories - eBook
By Alasdair White
This is probably the most detailed historical appraisal of Hougoumont currently available. Making use of unpublished documentary records and detailed analysis of contemporary maps, White pieces together what the farm would have looked like and provides answers to the great historical question of how just 1,200 allied soldiers held off more than 6,000 French troops at the Battle of Waterloo.

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From proposal to thesis - Revised edition
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About to write your dissertation? Did you start the work and then get stuck? Don't worry, help is at hand - and there’s a revised edition!



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