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reviews | 35 BOOK THE FIGHTING IRISH: THE STORY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY IRISH SOLDIER Paperback: 380 pages Publisher: Constable & Robinson www.constablerobinson.com ISBN: 978-1849015158 Price: €10.99 (amazon.co.uk) FOR OVER hundreds of years, young Irishmen have left Ireland aboard ships bound for war or a chance for adventure. The Fighting Irish have been found in all corners of the world, wearing many different uniforms and under many flags. Ireland has provided some of the world's best soldiers. Whether they were fighting for or against the British Empire, Napoleon, or in the Americas, in two World Wars and not forgetting they're still serving in UN Peacekeeping missions across the globe, the Irishman is a born soldier. Tim Newark's book tells the story of the Irish fighting man from the Battle of the Boyne to the mountains of Afghanistan. Told in the soldiers own words that where gathered from diaries, letters and journals, archives and interviews with veterans in Ireland and across the world. The Fighting Irish: The Story of the Extraordinary Irish Soldier. "There are tales of exile in France, storming Spanish cities for the Duke of Wellington, military adventures in Mexico and Argentina, winning Victoria Crosses in Russia and China, death-defying charges in the American Civil War, slaughter on the Western Front, deception in the Second World War, surviving torture in Korea, desperate last-stands in the Congo, and sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan." Tim Newark was the editor of Military Illustrated for nearly 20yrs. He is also the author of numerous works of military history, including CAMOUFLAGE that accompanied the highly acclaimed exhibition, and The Mafia at War, the fascinating history of the invasion of Sicily. He consults and writes many TV series for BBC Worldwide and the History Channel including Churchill's Bodyguard and Hitler's Bodyguard. www.timnewark.com DVD TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY Director: Tomas Alfredson Genre: Thriller Cinema Release Date: 16 Sep 2011 Rental Release Date: 13 Jan 2012 Certification: Starring: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Simon McBurney, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Laura Carmichael, John Hurt and Toby Jones BASED ON John Le Carré's best-selling spy thriller, in which a semi-retired intelligence officer George Smiley (Oldman) is assigned the task of uncovering a high-ranking mole within MI6. The story starts in the early 1970s during the Cold War, when the head of MI6, 'Control' (Hurt), resigns after an operation in Budapest goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in MI6 was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. British agent Ricki Tarr (Hardy) discovers information on the Russian agent, and then the story starts to unravel, but with nearly a dozen key characters - most of whom go by at least two names – there is a considerable amount of raw information to be processed. Smiley is an old hand in intelligence circles with the aid of his associate Peter Gulliam (Cumberbatch), the pair are assigned the task of tracking down the agent, but must do so under the radar of the MI6 leadership, for the very reason that they are all under suspicion... www.tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.com GAME DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION IT IS the year 2027, 25 years before the events of the original Deus Ex. This means no nanotech augmentation technology. You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who's been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America's most experimental biotechnology firms. Jensen works in a security capacity for leading biotech company Sarif Industries. Following an attack on the company that leaves him horribly injured Jensen - is himself augmented. Instead of nano-augmentation, he is armed (and eyed) with more simplistic bio-mechanical augmentation. His job is, of course, to discover the cause of the attacks. The game is played out in Cyberbunk environments. The gamer gets through to the heart of the conspiracy in a number of different ways depending on the decisions made by the player at key moments during gameplay. These options include: Combat, Hacking, Exploration and Social. Choose your playing style and face the consequences of your actions: you decide how the story unfolds... Genre: Shoot 'Em Up Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC Price: €17 (gamestop) PEGI: 15 Released: 26 Aug 2011 http://deusex.com © Square Enix Ltd. Trademarks belong to their respective owners. All rights reserved. THE DEFENCE FORCES MAGAZINE

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