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The taliban will never embrace a game rooted in civility, fairness and equalitya soaring novel of resilience, strength, hope and tenderness, the taliban cricket club reveals how love can overcome, and outwit, the power of tyrantsa cricket tournament is announced, with the winning team to travel to pakistan for training and then represent afghanistan at an international levelsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand no one in afghanistan even knows how to play cricket, except rukhsanaall they have to do is learn to play cricket - and winthe tournament offers hope - a means of escape for her brother and young cousinsand for rukhsana, escape is essential - wahidi wants to marry her, a frightening proposition which will enslave her in his homewith the help of her cousins, rukhsana devises an audacious plan that could ensure their freedomoxfam shop colne road rukhsana, a spirited young journalist in kabul, is summoned to the infamous ministry for the propagation of virtue and prevention of vice to face its terrifying minister, zorak wahidiin reality, the idea is ludicrous
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But when one of the boys informs the local taliban of the seals' whereabouts it isn't long before the team are engaged in a bloody and ferocious battlethe film follows a group of four us navy seals as they are deployed on a mission to kill or capture ahmed shahd (yousuf azami), a formidable taliban leaderwhile working carefully to avoid detection, the team are spotted by a local goat herder and his two sonsfaced with the tough decision between killing them, an act that would be against the geneva conventions, and setting them free, which would potentially compromise their cover, the team choose the humane but risky optiondisc and case in very good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle combat drama starring mark wahlbergthe ensemble cast includes emile hirsch, taylor kitsch, ben foster and eric bana
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But when one of the boys informs the local taliban of the seals' whereabouts it isn't long before the team are engaged in a bloody and ferocious battlethe film follows a group of four us navy seals as they are deployed on a mission to kill or capture ahmed shahd (yousuf azami), a formidable taliban leaderwhile working carefully to avoid detection, the team are spotted by a local goat herder and his two sonsfaced with the tough decision between killing them, an act that would be against the geneva conventions, and setting them free, which would potentially compromise their cover, the team choose the humane but risky optionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop ulverston no-holds-barred combat drama written and directed by peter berg and starring mark wahlbergthe ensemble cast includes emile hirsch, taylor kitsch, ben foster and eric bana
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But when one of the boys informs the local taliban of the seals' whereabouts it isn't long before the team are engaged in a bloody and ferocious battlethe film follows a group of four us navy seals as they are deployed on a mission to kill or capture ahmed shahd (yousuf azami), a formidable taliban leaderwhile working carefully to avoid detection, the team are spotted by a local goat herder and his two sonsfaced with the tough decision between killing them, an act that would be against the geneva conventions, and setting them free, which would potentially compromise their cover, the team choose the humane but risky optionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop herne bay no-holds-barred combat drama written and directed by peter berg and starring mark wahlbergthe ensemble cast includes emile hirsch, taylor kitsch, ben foster and eric bana
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In 'return to afghanistan' kemp is embedded with british troops defending the town of musa qaleh from frequent and fierce taliban attacksin 'ross kemp in afghanistan' the actor travels with his father's old regiment to helmand province to experience firsthand the fight against the talibanas the fighting continues, away from the battle kemp takes time to find out from the soldiers what they actually think about the enemy, their life in the army, and the hardships modern warfare throws their wayoxfam shop colne road triple bill of documentary series following ross kemp in war-torn afghanistanfilmed during the summer of , the series shows in detail what life is like for the british forces and pulls no punches in its depiction of war and the effect it has on families back at homesee oxfam website for delivery information read moretravelling with whiskey company 45 commando royal marines and encountering many dangers along the way, he explores what the future holds with the plan to remove soldiers inin 'back on the front line' kemp returns to the war-torn country ten years after 9/11 to investigate how the situation has developed
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Then in september , taliban soldiers seized power in kabulmy forbidden face provides a poignant and highly personal account of life under the taliban regimewith painful honesty and clarity latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart, in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehendoxfam bookshop cheltenham latifa was born into an educated middle-class afghan family in kabul inher mother was banned from workingthe simplest and most basic freedoms - walking down the street, looking out a window - were no longer hersshe was now forced to wear a chadrisee oxfam website for delivery information read moreher voice captures a lost innocence, but also echoes her determination to live in freedom and hopeher school was closedshe dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friendsearlier this year, latifa and her parents escaped afghanistan with the help of a french-based afghan resistance groupher father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctorfrom that moment, latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home
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But when one of the boys informs the local taliban of the seals' whereabouts it isn't long before the team are engaged in a bloody and ferocious battlethe film follows a group of four us navy seals as they are deployed on a mission to kill or capture ahmed shahd (yousuf azami), a formidable taliban leaderwhile working carefully to avoid detection, the team are spotted by a local goat herder and his two sonsfaced with the tough decision between killing them, an act that would be against the geneva conventions, and setting them free, which would potentially compromise their cover, the team choose the humane but risky optiondisc and case in good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop carlisle war drama starring mark wahlberg
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After the russians invade and the family is forced to flee to america, amir realises that one day he must return to an afghanistan under taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemptionoxfam bookshop cheltenham a story of fathers and sons, friendship and betrayal, and the casualties of fates afghanistan: twelve-year-old amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend hassan promises to help himbut neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their livessee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam shop colne road *winner of the nobel peace prize*'malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world' j k rowling'inspirational and powerful' grazia'for sheer inspiration read i am malala' sunday times'a tale of immense courage and conviction' independent'she has the heart and courage of a lioness and is a true inspiration' lorraine kelly, the sunwhen the taliban took control of the swat valley, one girl fought for her right to an educationmalala yousafzai's extraordinary journey has taken her from a remote valley in northern pakistan to the halls of the united nationson tuesday, 9 october , she almost paid the ultimate price when she was shot in the head at point-blank rangeshe has become a global symbol of peaceful protest and is the youngest ever winner of the nobel peace prizei am malala will make you believe in the power of one person's voice to inspire change in the world see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Over the next decade mortenson built not just one but fifty-five schools - especially for girls - in remote villages across the forbidding and breathtaking landscape of pakistan and afghanistan, just as the taliban rose to poweroxfam bookshop cheltenham 'here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even diesee oxfam website for delivery information read morehis story is at once a riveting adventure and a testament to the power of the humanitarian spiritthree cups of tea is the story of that promise and its extraordinary outcomemoved by the inhabitants' kindness, he promised to return and build a school'haji ali, korphe village chief, karakoram mountains, pakistan in , after a terrifying and disastrous attempt to climb k2, a mountaineer called greg mortenson drifted, cold and dehydrated, into an impoverished pakistan village in the karakoram mountains
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When the taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fearsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroismoxfam bookshop hertford mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to kabul to marry rasheednearly two decades later, a friendship grows between mariam and a local teenager, laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter
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Oxfam bookshop st albans when the taliban took control of kabul, kamila sidiqi and all the women of kabul saw their lives transformedlittle did she know that the tailoring business she started to help her siblings would be the beginning of a dressmaking business that would create jobs and hope for one hundred neighbourhood women and would come to mean the difference between starvation and survival for hundreds of families like her ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read moredesperate to help her family and support her five brothers and sisters at home, kamila began sewing cothes in her living roomthe economy collapsed and young men left the city in search of work and securityovernight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden from leaving their front doors on their own
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Or marcus luttrell, a navy seal who single-handedly took on a taliban regiment before dragging his bleeding, bullet-ridden body for days through the harsh mountains of afghanistanoxfam bookshop cheltenham bear grylls knows what it takes to survivebut all of them are tales of eye-watering bravery, death-defying resilience and extraordinary mental toughness by men and women who have one thing in common: true gritsee oxfam website for delivery information read morein this gripping new book, bear tells the stories of the adventurers, explorers, soldiers and spies whose refusal to quit in the most extreme situations has inspired him throughout his lifeor nando parrado, one of the survivors of a horrific air-crash high in the ice-bound andes, who only lived because he was willing to eat the flesh of his dead companionssome of them make uncomfortable reading - survival is rarely prettytake the american bombardier louis zamperini, who survived 47 days stranded at sea by catching and killing hungry sharks and drinking the warm blood of albatrosses - only to be captured by the japanese and horrifically tortured for years in their most brutal pow campsbut he's not the first
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When the taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fearsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet love can move a person to act in unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroismoxfam bookshop st albans mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to kabul to marry rasheednearly two decades later, a friendship grows between mariam and a local teenager, laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter
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