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This is the story of an attempted coup d'etat more than twenty years ago on the Seychelles, an idyllic but obscure group of islands in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the attempt made headlines across the world, partly because it involved names still famous or notorious from the mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960's, partly because it involved the hijacking of an Air India jetliner, partly because South Africa, the international pariah, was involved, and partly because the incident was perceived as another small skirmish in the Cold War. However, this is more than a behind-the-scenes account of those faded headlines. It is the story of one individual's personal growth.  The author writes, "I was wounded and captured in the Seychelles. I was severely beaten on a daily basis, stood trial and then was sentenced to death. I eventually served two and a half years in prison, a time, which I value with hindsight because I now realize it was then that I discovered hidden depths in my comrades and myself. I discovered humanity in my jailers and in the president of the Seychelles, whom my group had set out to depose. Cut off from my wife and family, I treasured their support from a distance and today do not for an instant take for granted the strength and joy of a loving family. And I deepened my religious faith, which today lights my path. It seems an odd thing to say, but I owe a lot to that escapade in the Seychelles. I realized how shallow and crass the racial attitudes are that exist in this world we live in. Human courage and kindness, I discovered, knows of no racial barriers. I experienced the unbelievable magnanimity and greatness of spirit of President Albert Ren, the man to whom I owe my life. I also experienced support from a distance from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a person I had been conditioned to expect nothing from except hostility. It was an illuminating and humbling experience. I also experienced the fickleness of the apartheid regime. I suppose, it would have been expecting a bit much for them to admit they backed the Seychelles attempt and supplied the weaponry, but as far as I am aware, they subsequently did not stir a finger, officially or unofficially, to ameliorate our condition or secure our release. What they did do was put sinister and unpleasant pressure on my wife, alone in Durban with two young children, for reasons I am still at a loss to understand." Paperback, 200 pages Published July 2014 This book is imported on demand and dispatched within 15 working days depending on supplier

This is the story of an attempted coup d'etat more than twenty years ago on the Seychelles, an idyllic but obscure group of islands in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the attempt made headlines across the world, partly because it involved names still famous or notorious from the mercenary involvement in the Congo in the 1960's, partly because it involved the hijacking of an Air India jetliner, partly because South Africa, the international pariah, was involved, and partly because the incident was perceived as another small skirmish in the Cold War. However, this is more than a behind-the-scenes account of those faded headlines. It is the story of one individual's personal growth.  The author writes, "I was wounded and captured in the Seychelles. I was severely beaten on a daily basis, stood trial and then was sentenced to death. I eventually served two and a half years in prison, a time, which I value with hindsight because I now realize it was then that I discovered hidden depths in my comrades and myself. I discovered humanity in my jailers and in the president of the Seychelles, whom my group had set out to depose. Cut off from my wife and family, I treasured their support from a distance and today do not for an instant take for granted the strength and joy of a loving family. And I deepened my religious faith, which today lights my path. It seems an odd thing to say, but I owe a lot to that escapade in the Seychelles. I realized how shallow and crass the racial attitudes are that exist in this world we live in. Human courage and kindness, I discovered, knows of no racial barriers. I experienced the unbelievable magnanimity and greatness of spirit of President Albert Ren, the man to whom I owe my life. I also experienced support from a distance from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a person I had been conditioned to expect nothing from except hostility. It was an illuminating and humbling experience. I also experienced the fickleness of the apartheid regime. I suppose, it would have been expecting a bit much for them to admit they backed the Seychelles attempt and supplied the weaponry, but as far as I am aware, they subsequently did not stir a finger, officially or unofficially, to ameliorate our condition or secure our release. What they did do was put sinister and unpleasant pressure on my wife, alone in Durban with two young children, for reasons I am still at a loss to understand." Paperback, 200 pages Published July 2014

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days In the s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West. Features Summary In "an enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulation, courageous truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor" ("Christian Science Monitor")... Author Adam Hochschild Publisher Mariner Books Release date Pages 366 ISBN ISBN

Chatto & Windus, London, 1953, 1st. Edition, 1953. 222 pp, -  B&W photographs, illustrations. "When, in 1940, Air Commodore Chisholm, then a Flying Officer in the Auxiliary Air Force Reserve, began operations with night fighters, the allied defences were still very ineffective; radar was an erratic novelty and the techniques of interception in the dark were undeveloped. The aircrew groped for enemy bombers in a virtual 'blind man's buff'. Yet the famous squadron in which Chisholm served, inspired by John Cunninghahm (who later was to command it), soon had a growing tally of success to its credit. Later in the war, after commanding an operational night fighter development unit, the author helped with the formation of a radio counter-measures group which was to increase the chances of survival of British bomber crews by impeding, deceiving and harassing the enemy defences. Radio counter-measures, which strictly encompassed only 'interference with and exploitation of the enemy's use of radio waves ', culminated in the staging of elaborate 'spoof' operations and a successful fighter offensive against the enemy night fighters.-  Dust jacket has thumb siza loss to top of spine - book still very good.        * Second World War * Word War II * *N.B.*  If you buy more than one book from me on the same day you only pay R 6 extra postage for each of the additional books - See what else I have to offer, it might just be worth your while.     

This special limited Collector s Edition set brings together the Blu-rays of two classic Deep Purple concerts at a very special price. Deep Purple have a long association with Montreux and it famously forms the backdrop to their most well-known song Smoke On The Water. The first of these two concerts was filmed in Montreux in on the tour for the Rapture Of The Deep album. The second was filmed in on their first tour accompanied by a full orchestra. These two contrasting shows capture the essence of Deep Purple live in concert with all their energy, subtlety, power and virtuosity. LIVE AT MONTREUX ) Pictures Of Home 2) Things I Never Said 3) Strange Kind Of Woman 4) Rapture Of The Deep 5) Wrong Man 6) The Well-Dressed Guitar 7) Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 8) When A Blind Man Cries 9) Lazy 10) Keyboard Solo 11) Space Truckin 12) Highway Star 13) Smoke On The Water 14) Hush 15) Too Much Fun 16) Black Night LIVE AT MONTREUX ) Highway Star 2) Hard Lovin Man 3) Maybe I m A Leo 4) Strange Kind Of Woman 5) Rapture Of The Deep 6) Woman From Tokyo 7) Contact Lost 8) When A Blind Man Cries 9) The Well-Dressed Guitar 10) Knocking At Your Back Door 11) Lazy 12) No One Came 13) Don Airey Solo 14) Perfect Strangers 15) Space Truckin 16) Smoke On The Water 17) Hush 18) Black Night

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days 'He was a single male alone in a small town with no family to care for him. By any criteria, he was a suicide risk.' This memoir tells the tragic true story leading up to the death of the author's younger brother, Matthew, at just 28 years old. Matthew's dream was not uncommon. The plan was to get out the big city - Sydney - and settle down in a small rural town - Temora, New South Wales. His dream eventually was to buy a little farm, begin a career as a schoolteacher and have a family. A simple plan you might think. Matthew lasted in Temora for just six months. Patricia's memoir reveals the untold stories from Temora. Using a collection of family and friends' recollections as well as witness statements and official reports, we learn the power of four young girls and a closed-minded community, a common attitude of guilty until proven innocent, the blinded eyes of those who are supposed to help and how a young man's life can be ruined in a split second. Features Summary A memoir of the tragic events leading up to the death by suicide in an isolated rural community of the author's younger brother. Author Patricia Anne McDermott Publisher Jane Curry Publishing Release date Pages 176 ISBN ISBN

The final psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon; the tortured detective from aThe Hidden Assassinsa and aThe Blind Man of Seville.aIn the wake of a terrorist attack on Seville; Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon is determined to fulfil his promise to its citizens - that he'll bring the real perpetrators to justice. The violent death of a gangster provides evidence implicating the Russian mafia in the outrage but pitches Falcon into the heart of a turf war over prostitution and drugs.Now the target of vicious hoods; Falcon finds those closest to him are also coming under intolerable pressure. His best friend; who's spying for the Spanish government; reveals he is being blackmailed by Islamist extremists; and Falcon's own lover suffers a mother's worst nightmare.Confronted by such fanaticism and brutality; Falcon realizes that only the most ruthless retaliation will work.But there is a terrible price to pay.

From the searing heat of the Zambezi Valley to the freezing cold of the Chimanimani Mountains in Rhodesia, from the bars in Port St Johns in the Transkei to the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa, this is the story of one man's fight against terror, and his conscience. Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time - the Selous Scouts. These men were highly trained and disciplined, with skills to rival the SAS, Navy Seals and the US Marines, although their dress and appearance were wildly unconventional: civilian clothing with blackened, hairy faces to resemble the very people they were fighting against. Twice decorated - with the Member of the Legion of Merit (MLM) and the Military Forces' Commendation (MFC) - Andrew Balaam was a member of the Rhodesian Light Infantry and later the Selous Scouts, for a period spanning twelve years. This is his honest and insightful account of his time as a pseudo operator. His story is brutally truthful, frightening, sometimes humorous and often sad. In later years, after Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, he was involved with a number of other former Selous Scouts in the attempted coups in the Ciskei, a South African homeland, and Lesotho, an independent nation, whose only crimes were supporting the African National Congress. Training terrorists, or as they preferred to be called, 'liberation armies', to conduct a war of terror on innocent civilians, was the very thing he had spent the last ten years in Rhodesia fighting against. This is the true, untold story of these failed attempts at governmental overthrows This book is imported on demand and dispatched within 15 working days depending on supplier Specifications Author: Andrew Balaam Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781909982772 ISBN: 1909982776 Label: Helion and Company Manufacturer: Helion and Company Number Of Pages: 288 PublicationDate: 2014-11-19 Publisher: Helion and Company Studio: Helion and Company    

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The untold story of how meat made America: a tale of the self-made magnates, pragmatic farmers, and impassioned activists who shaped us into the greatest eaters and providers of meat in history "Ogle is a terrific writer, and she takes us on a brisk romp through two centuries of history, full of deft portraits of entrepreneurs, inventors, promoters and charlatans.... Ms. Ogle believes, all exceptions admitted, that the food industry] has delivered Americans good value, and her book makes that case in fascinating detail." --"Wall Street Journal"The moment European settlers arrived in North America, they began transforming the land into a meat-eater's paradise. Long before revolution turned colonies into nation, Americans were eating meat on a scale the Old World could neither imagine nor provide: an average European was lucky to see meat once a week, while even a poor American man put away about two hundred pounds a year. Maureen Ogle guides us from that colonial paradise to the urban meat-making factories of the nineteenth century to the hyperefficient packing plants of the late twentieth century. From Swift and Armour to Tyson, Cargill, and ConAgra. From the s cattle bonanza to s feedlots. From agribusiness to today's "local" meat suppliers and organic countercuisine. Along the way, Ogle explains how Americans' carnivorous demands shaped urban landscapes, midwestern prairies, and western ranges, and how the American system of meat making became a source of both pride and controversy. Features Summary The untold story of how meat made America: a tale of the self-made magnates, pragmatic farmers, and impassioned activists who shaped us into the greatest eaters and providers of meat in history "Ogle is a terrific writer... Author Maureen Ogle Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Release date Pages 368 ISBN ISBN

Based in Kensington, Johannesburg Read once and now cluttering up my bookshelves. Cash sale only and sold per each but if you take 5 or more, we can negotiate a better price. The Collectors, Split Second, Last Man Standing, The Whole Truth (David Baldacci) The Righteous Men (Sam Bourne) Digital Fortress, The Lost Symbol,Angels and Demons, Deception Point (Dan Brown) Hello Darkness (Sandra Brown) Gemini (Mark Burnell) Without Fail, Bad Luck and Trouble (Lee Child) Stay Close (Harlan Coben) The Narrows, City of Bones, The Overlook, The Lovers (Michael Connelly) At Risk (Patricia Cornwell) A Maiden's Grave, The Cold Moon, The Devil's Teardrop, The Twelfth Card, Bloody River Blues, The Coffin Dancer (Jeffrey Deaver) Land of the Living, Secret Smile (Nicci French) Gone, The Other Daughter (Lisa Gardener) Accused (Mark Giminez) U is for Undertow, Q is for Quarry (2 copies) (Sue Grafton) Blood, Eyes (Joseph Glass) The Partner, The Street Lawyer (John Grisham) Better Than This (Stuart Harrison) Gone (Mo Hayder) Invisible Furies (Michiel Heyns) Dark Horse, Kill The Messenger (Tami Hoag) Cold Case, Stone Kiss, The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights,Blindman's Bluff, Blood Games (Faye Kellerman) Tango One (Stephen Leather) Drawing Conclusions (Donna Leon) Blood Lines (Grace Monroe) The Four Courts Murder (Andrew Nugent) Body Work (Sara Paretsky) The Lake House, Cross, London Bridges, The Midnight Club, Violets Are Blue, The Big Bad Wolf, Cross Country, Double Cross, 1st To Die, Four Blind Mice (James Patterson) Judge and Jury (James Patterson & Howard Roughan) Not in the Flesh (Ruth Rendell) Fantasy in Death, Ceremony in Death (2 copies), Conspiracy in Death (JD Robb) Count To Ten (Karen Rose) The Increment (Chris Ryan) Faithless (Karin Slaughter) Rose (Martin Cruz Smith) The Devil's Feather, The Dark Room, The Tinder Box, Omnibus: The Ice House & The Sculptress (Minette Walters) River's End (Nora Roberts) Sam's Letters for Jennifer (James Patterson) The World Below (Sam Miller) Dark Rivers of the Heart, Mr Murder, Winter Moon, The House of Thunder, Dragon Tears, Strange Highways (Dean Koontz) The Dark Half, Nightmares and Dreamscapes (Stephen King) Notes from the Dementia Ward (Finuala Darling) The Host (Stephanie Meyer) The Dargonesti (Paul B Thompson & Tonya Cook) Angel (L.A. Weatherly) Raising Demons (Rachel Hawking) Ultraviolet (R.J. Anderson) City of Lost Souls (Cassandra Clare)

2010 hardcover with dust jacket and 224 pages in splendid condition. R65 postage in SA. With his parting words "I shall return," General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain, named Russell Volckmann, refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur's HQ in Australia and directed Allied forces to key enemy positions. When General Yamashita finally surrendered, he made his initial overtures not to MacArthur, but to Volckmann. This book establishes how Volckmann's leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines. His ability to synthesize the realities and potential of guerrilla warfare led to a campaign that rendered Yamashita's forces incapable of repelling the Allied invasion. Had it not been for Volckmann, the Americans would have gone in "blind" during their counter-invasion, reducing their efforts to a trial-and-error campaign that would undoubtedly have cost more lives, materiel, and potentially stalled the pace of the entire Pacific War. Second, this book establishes Volckmann as the progenitor of modern counterinsurgency doctrine and the true "Father" of Army Special Forces—a title that history has erroneously awarded to Colonel Aaron Bank of the ETO. In 1950, Volckmann wrote two Army field manuals: Operations Against Guerrilla Forces and Organization and Conduct of Guerrilla Warfare, though today few realize he was their author. Together, they became the Army's first handbooks outlining the precepts for both special warfare and counter-guerrilla operations. Taking his argument directly to the Army Chief of Staff, Volckmann outlined the concept for Army Special Forces. At a time when U.S. military doctrine was conventional in outlook, he marketed the ideas of guerrilla warfare as a critical force multiplier for any future conflict, ultimately securing the establishment of the Army's first special operations unit—the 10th Special Forces Group. Volckmann himself remains a shadowy figure in modern military history, his name absent from every major biography on MacArthur, and in much of the Special Forces literature. Yet as modest, even secretive, as Volckmann was during his career, it is difficult to imagine a man whose heroic initiative had more impact on World War II. This long-overdue book not only chronicles the dramatic military exploits of Russell Volckmann, but analyzes how his leadership paved the way for modern special-warfare doctrine.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The year is . In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist workers' demonstration. Inside the car sit two-egg twins Rahel and Esthappen, and so begins their tale.... Armed only with the invincible innocence of children, they fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family - their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu (who loves by night the man her children love by day), their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt), and the ghost of an imperial entomologist's moth (with unusually dense dorsal tufts). When their English cousin, Sophie Mol, and her mother, Margaret Kochamma, arrive on a Christmas visit, Esthappen and Rahel learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river "graygreen. With fish in it. With the sky and trees in it. And at night, the broken yellow moon in it." Features Summary "A banquet for all the senses," said "Newsweek" of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.. Author Arundhati Roy Publisher Random House Release date Pages 333 ISBN ISBN

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Kate Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet; through this structure, Tempest holds up a mirror to contemporary life in a direct and provocative way rarely associated with poetry. A vastly popular and accomplished performance poet, Tempest commands a huge and dedicated following on the performance and rap circuit. Brand New Ancients, also available from Picador, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry and has played to packed concert halls on both sides of the Atlantic. Features Summary New poetry from a fiercely talented, Ted Hughes Award-winning poet Author Kate Tempest Publisher Macmillan Release date Pages 128 ISBN ISBN