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'Mad Mike' Hoare
Colonel Mike Hoare led 300 'Wild Geese' across the Congo to crush a communist rebellion, rescue 2000 nuns and priests from barbarity, beat Che Guevara ... and become a legend. Of Irish blood, Mike was schooled in England and, during World War 2, was the 'best bloody soldier in the British Army'. He demobbed as major, qualified in London as a chartered accountant and emigrated to South Africa. Going rogue, he started living dangerously to get more out of life, including trans-Africa motorbike trips, bluewater sailing, exploring remote areas, and leading safaris in the Kalahari Desert. Here Mike got to know the CIA agent who was to change his life ... and who was to stop Nelson Mandela's. Late...
Mad Mike's Own Story
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Pet Shop Boys, Catalogue
For over 20 years, the Pet Shop Boys have been at the cutting edge of popular music. This book is a lavish visual retrospective of the duo's career, featuring behind-the-scenes shots from every video, concert and theatre show.
To Exercise Our Talents
In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlets. In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.
Congo Mercenary
In July 1964, after four years of uneasy independence, the Democratic Republic of the Congo was engulfed by an armed rebellion that spread throughout the country like a bush fire. The rebel soldiers struck terror into the hearts of civilians and National Army soldiers alike. Faced with this situation, the Congolese government hired legendary mercenary leader Mike Hoare to quell the uprising and bring order to the country. In Congo Mercenary, Mike Hoare tells the true story of his resolute band of mercenaries during the Congo war. In fascinating detail, Hoare describes how the mercenaries were recruited and trained, and then recounts their adventures through four combat campaigns over an 18-month period during which they liberated Stanleyville, fought rebels in the hinterland, freed hundreds of European hostages and restored law and order to the Congo. Originally published in 1967, and now including a new foreword by Mike Hoare, Congo Mercenary is a well-written and historically important account of one of the most brutal rebellions in Africa, as well as an accurate and gritty depiction of the mercenary life.
Into the Fray
2012 James W. Tankard Book Award WinnerFrom 1961 to 1989, a committed group of documentary journalists from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) reported the stories of America s overseas conflicts. Stuart Schulberg supplied film evidence to prosecute Nazi war criminals and established documentary units in postwar Berlin and Paris. NBC newsman David Brinkley created the template for prime-time news in 1961 and bore the scars to prove it. In 1964 Ted Yates and Bob Rogers produced a documentary warning of the pitfalls in Vietnam. Yates was later shot and killed in Jerusalem on the first day of the Six-Day War while producing a documentary for NBC News.In "Into the Fray," Tom Mascaro vividly...
An Anthology of Intriguing Animals
Whether you love lions and butterflies to sharks or spiders, this animal encyclopedia with a twist has something for everyone! With stunning photography and gorgeous illustrations, this animal encyclopedia explores the wildlife of the world, from the largest whales to the smallest insects. Which one is your new favourite? This animal book for children will delight and inspire kids who love animals. They will discover incredible facts and fascinating stories about their favourite animals and some they have never heard of! Find out why the slow-motion sloth is so sluggish and how the plodding pangolin protects itself from predators, and more! Throughout the book, each specially chosen animal i...
Three Monkeys
The latest Dido Hoare mystery - Dido Hoare, antiquarian bookshop owner and single parent, is walking Ben home from nursery when he tells her he has seen a monkey. Really, dear? Then Dido remembers theres a local tramp who owns a monkey and she decides to restore his pet to him. The monkey is found, but the tramp only reappears briefly when he finds the dismembered body of a girl in a pile of rubbish across the road . . .
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds
The beauty and drama of the bird world brought to breathtaking life in ebook format From hummingbirds weighing less than a coin to monkey-eating eagles this is a unique celebration of birds, photographed and studied in their natural environments around the world. Explore the complete bird story: from their origins to up-to-date information on flight, anatomy, feeding, communication, breeding, habitat, migrations and life cycles. Spectacular features on the most impressive birds, plus a huge catalogue that profiles nearly fifteen hundred different species makes this a must-have for every bird enthusiast. Published with Birdlife International, the world's leading avian authority.
The London Lover
If Fielding's Tom Jones were alive in post-war England he might have been Clancy Sigal, the author of this restlessly curious memoir. Honest and devious, faithful and lustful, a mass of plucky contradictions, Sigal arrived in London in 1957. He was broke, homeless, and according to his FBI file, a dangerous 'subversive'. Over the next three decades, Clancy was to wander the streets of London, devouring as much as life could offer him. From the birth of the CND and his affair with Doris Lessing, to therapy with R.D.Laing and wondering whether the entire world was on acid, Clancy details it all to illuminating effect. Underneath these encounters is the character of Clancy himself: funny, hapless, warm-hearted and a self-professed 'crazy American'. Call it luck, charm or sheer lack of good sense, he escaped with a cracking good story.
