Edward Hampshire: British Amphibious Assault Ships [2019] paperback OCCUL Never before has a rugby

Never before has a rugby autobiography given such intimate access not only to the realities of the dressing room and the heroes and villains of the modern game

all knowledge of their existence denied

through the first heart surgeries-which had to be completed in three minutes before death arrived-to heart transplants and the latest medical efforts to prolong our hearts' lives

to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss

earning a living as an itinerant type-setter

Edward Hampshire: British Amphibious Assault Ships [2019] paperback OCCUL Never before has a rugbyAmphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963 66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the Falklands, the use of amphibious assault ships was essential to the military success of the campaigns. The Suez Crisis saw two of the Royal Navy's former