Bøger af Chris Shaw

Echoes of Gallipoli is a book of compassion, with 25 stories of some combatants, and their Mums and Dads who were left behind, of the 10 nationalities serving with the Allied forces in Gallipoli.Those enormous emotional impacts of the loss of loved ones either killed and buried on foreign soil, or returning home wounded or broken, are being forgotten.Some of these stories are raw, but the humanity of the narrative will help uplift awareness from all wars in history.

Pro SQL Server 2012 Practices is an anthology of high-end wisdom from a group of accomplished database administrators who are quietly but relentlessly pushing the performance and feature envelope of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. With an emphasis upon performance-but also branching into release management, auditing, and other issues-the book helps you deliver the most value for your company's investment in Microsoft's flagship database system.Goes beyond the manual to cover good techniques and best practicesDelivers knowledge usually gained only by hard experienceFocuses upon performance, scalability, reliabilityHelps achieve the predictability needed to be in control at all times

TWO LOVERS A VIOLENT WAR ONE RAVAGED MIND AND BODY WILL FATE INTERVENE AND ALLOW THEM TO LIVE AND LOVE AGAIN?It is the year 1914 in central Norfolk, England, when young farmer Frank Matthews meets his all-time love, Gwen Bell, just before volunteering as a sniper in WWI. This captivating novel follows his journey as a lover, husband, father, killer and identity thief as he seeks to survive the horrors of war and the atrocities he both witnessed and committed.And just who is the mysterious discharged soldier Ken Bullen, appearing in Norfolk in 1917, intent on reclaiming his lost life and love? What happened to these two men fighting for their country in a bygone era of romance, violence, shell-shock and fragile new beginnings? The Imposter: A Norfolk Romance will reveal all…