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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 9 working days After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue (Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardises his professional judgement, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy only to discover that nothing can be done about Rogue or his plan as nothing is quite what it seems. Features Summary After his partner is brutally murdered, an FBI agent vows to avenge his partner's death. Contributors Jet Li (Actor), Jason Statham (Actor) Format Blu-ray disc Release date

1988. Hard cover with dust cover. 202 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg. The author describes his time as a prisoner of the Japenese during World War II.     

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

Polack is from an ethnically Polish family living within the borders of Germany, making him a "booty German". Karl is the son of a socialist who was sent to a concentration camp before the war for continuing his political activities. All three are part of the "Goulash Cannon Company" (the cooks and their helpers) who find themselves in a long retreat during 1942, cut off in a wandering pocket and surrounded by Soviet troops. They contemplate desertion, fight off Soviet attacks, are hunted by a band of all-women Partisans and finally reach the safety of SS Assault Regiment Wotan only to find themselves part of a German counter-attack to rescue their comrades which is headed straight for a Cossack trap.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 9 working days After his partner is brutally murdered by the infamous assassin Rogue (Li), FBI agent Jack Crawford (Statham) vows to find the elusive killer and personally avenge his partner's death. But Rogue proves untraceable until three years later when he resurfaces to ignite a bloody turf war between Chinese mob leader Chang and Japanese Yakuza boss Shiro. Eager to capture Rogue once and for all, Crawford leads his team of crime specialists headlong into the conflict. But Crawford's thirst for vengeance jeopardises his professional judgement, and as the violence escalates, Crawford finally comes face to face with his enemy only to discover that nothing can be done about Rogue or his plan as nothing is quite what it seems.

  Methuen, 1966. Reprint. Hardback. 188pp. An anthology selected and arranged by Brian Gardner. First world war poetry from over 70 poets including Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Herbert Read, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Newbolt etc. Substantial end section provides potted biographies of all those included. This is the companion volume to 'The Terrible Rain: The War Poets 1939-1945'.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 6 - 13 working days Published in hardback as THE ART OF BETRAYAL and fully updated for the paperback edition. The British Secret Service has been cloaked in secrecy and shrouded in myth since it was created a hundred years ago. Our understanding of what it is to be a spy has been largely defined by the fictional worlds of James Bond and John le Carre. THE ART OF BETRAYAL provides a unique and unprecedented insight into this secret world and the reality that lies behind the fiction. It tells the story of how the secret service has changed since the end of World War II and by focusing on the people and the relationships that lie at the heart of espionage, revealing the danger, the drama, the intrigue, the moral ambiguities and the occasional comedy that comes with working for British intelligence. From the defining period of the early Cold War through to the modern day, MI6 has undergone a dramatic transformation from a gung-ho, amateurish organisation to its modern, no less controversial, incarnation. Gordon Corera reveals the triumphs and disasters along the way. The grand dramas of the Cold War and after - the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the 11 September attacks and the Iraq war - are the backdrop for the human stories of the individual spies whose stories form the centrepiece of the narrative. But some of the individuals featured here, in turn, helped shape the course of those events. Corera draws on the first-hand accounts of those who have spied, lied and in some cases nearly died in service of the state. They range from the spymasters to the agents they ran to their sworn enemies. Many of these accounts are based on exclusive interviews and access. From Afghanistan to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the voices of those who have worked on the front line of Britain's secret wars. And the truth is often more remarkable than the fiction. Features Summary The secret history of MI6 - from the Cold War to the present day. Author Gordon Corera Publisher Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) Release date Pages 496 ISBN ISBN

It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with the unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history - the specters of inner violence and death; the pressurized arrival of manhood; and the place of conscience, friendship and beauty in the pervasive atmosphere of futile warfare. Softcover, 196 pages. Published 2002.

2002 first edition paperback with 196 pages in very good condition. Inscribed and signed in front. R60 postage in SA. Rhodesia It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with the unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history - the specters of inner violence and death; the pressurized arrival of manhood; and the place of conscience, friendship and beauty in the pervasive atmosphere of futile warfare.

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified. Features Summary The War Behind the Wire is the new book by the acclaimed author of Six Weeks which depicted the extraordinary story of British junior officers in the First World War in such harrowing detail... Author John Lewis-Stempel Publisher Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) Release date Pages 288 ISBN ISBN

ZULU ZULU GOLF Life and Death with Koevoet  ARN DURAND; Softcover Zebra Press 2011  ISBN 978 1 77022 148 2 ; No. of Pages; 303  Very good condition, tightly bound, no tears or writing added. Postage; Via SA PO  with tracking and within S A  then please add R45.00 alternatively via POSTNET  to POSTNET  for a parcel of up to 5kg  (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) then please add R104.00      Zulu Zulu Golf: Two Years With Koevoet by   Arn Durand   (Goodreads Author)   3.85    ·      Rating details  ·    47  Ratings   ·    3  Reviews The gripping account of Arn Durand s first two years with Koevoet, South Africa s most deadly fighting unit during the Border War. Through Durand s eyes, the reader will experience the madness, mayhem and complexity of the war. A unit of the South African police, Koevoet was the most deadly fighting force involved in the Border War. This book is the account of Arn Durand s first years with Koevoet, from 1982 to 1983. He describes patrols, ambushes and contacts, situations of certain death, dealings with the enemy and relationships with his Ovambo colleagues. This book does not glorify war or peddle propaganda. It simply relates, in a deadpan style, what it was like to be a killing machine in the heat of battle."

ZULU ZULU GOLF Life and Death with Koevoet  ARN DURAND; Softcover Zebra Press 2011  ISBN 978 1 77022 148 2 ; No. of Pages; 303  Please note that I have now also listed the sequel to this book; ZULU ZULU FOXTROT by the same author. Very good condition, tightly bound, no tears or writing added. Postage; Via SA PO  with tracking and within S A  then please add R45.00 alternatively via POSTNET  to POSTNET  for a parcel of up to 5kg  (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) then please add R104.00      Zulu Zulu Golf: Two Years With Koevoet by   Arn Durand   (Goodreads Author)   3.85    ·      Rating details  ·    47  Ratings   ·    3  Reviews The gripping account of Arn Durand s first two years with Koevoet, South Africa s most deadly fighting unit during the Border War. Through Durand s eyes, the reader will experience the madness, mayhem and complexity of the war. A unit of the South African police, Koevoet was the most deadly fighting force involved in the Border War. This book is the account of Arn Durand s first years with Koevoet, from 1982 to 1983. He describes patrols, ambushes and contacts, situations of certain death, dealings with the enemy and relationships with his Ovambo colleagues. This book does not glorify war or peddle propaganda. It simply relates, in a deadpan style, what it was like to be a killing machine in the heat of battle."

ZULU ZULU GOLF Life and Death with Koevoet  ARN DURAND; Softcover Zebra Press 2011  ISBN 978 1 77022 148 2 ; No. of Pages; 303  Please note that I have now also listed the sequel to this book; ZULU ZULU FOXTROT by the same author. Very good condition, tightly bound, no tears or writing added. Postage; Via SA PO  with tracking and within S A  then please add R50.00 alternatively and preferably via POSTNET  to POSTNET  for a parcel of up to 5kg  (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) then please add R104.00    I have also listed " ZULU ZULU FOXTROT  by ARN DURAND  " as a separate item; the SA PO  postage for both will be R60.00 and  the Postnet to Postnet will still be R104.00    Zulu Zulu Golf: Two Years With Koevoet by   Arn Durand   (Goodreads Author)   3.85    ·      Rating details  ·    47  Ratings   ·    3  Reviews The gripping account of Arn Durand s first two years with Koevoet, South Africa s most deadly fighting unit during the Border War. Through Durand s eyes, the reader will experience the madness, mayhem and complexity of the war. A unit of the South African police, Koevoet was the most deadly fighting force involved in the Border War. This book is the account of Arn Durand s first years with Koevoet, from 1982 to 1983. He describes patrols, ambushes and contacts, situations of certain death, dealings with the enemy and relationships with his Ovambo colleagues. This book does not glorify war or peddle propaganda. It simply relates, in a deadpan style, what it was like to be a killing machine in the heat of battle."