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POLICE STORY COLLECTION Synopsis: POLICE STORY: The world's # one action star is back. In Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Kevin (Chan), a heroic cop with the Hong Kong Police Department, is assigned to guard a key witness in the trial of a mobster he single-handedly captured. But the tables are turned when Kevin is duped by the comely witness. The drug boss is then released for lack of evidence, and Kevin is framed for murder. This entertaining action film pawned a successful franchise and is widely considered to be one of Chan's best movies. POLICE STORY 2: The world's number one action is back. POLICE STORY 2 finds super-cop Kevin once again at odds with his superiors over his unorthodox, yet effective, tactics. Demoted to a traffic officer, Kevin learns that the mob kingpin he put behind bars is out--and craving revenge! With the mix of high-flying action and hilarious slapstick one expects of a Chan picture. Kevin proceeds on a mission to thwart the criminal's evil bombing plot while trying to keep his beautiful girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) out of harm's way. POLICE STORY 3: Jackie Chan is back in his latest action movie. Meet the cop that can't be stopped! Action superstar Jackie Chan is back and hotter than ever in this explosive, thrill-a-minute hit! Now, Jackie's undercover and out of control on a high-stakes mission to take down a powerful drug lord in the crime capital of the world! Whether it's leaping from a ten-story building onto an airborne helicopter or landing on top of a speeding train, there's no job too tough for this hero...who'll do whatever it takes to uphold justice!     Starring: Jackie Chan Daniel Wu   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 13 V

POLICE STORY 3 Synopsis: Jackie Chan is back in his latest action movie. Meet the cop that can't be stopped! Action superstar Jackie Chan is back and hotter than ever in this explosive, thrill-a-minute hit! Now, Jackie's undercover and out of control on a high-stakes mission to take down a powerful drug lord in the crime capital of the world!  Whether it's leaping from a ten-story building onto an airborne helicopter or landing on top of a speeding train, there's no job too tough for this hero...who'll do whatever it takes to uphold justice!    Starring: Jackie Chan   Michelle Yoeh   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: PG

POLICE STORY Synopsis: The world's # one action star is back. In Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Kevin (Chan), a heroic cop with the Hong Kong Police Department, is assigned to guard a key witness in the trial of a mobster he single-handedly captured. But the tables are turned when Kevin is duped by the comely witness. The drug boss is then released for lack of evidence, and Kevin is framed for murder.  This entertaining action film pawned a successful franchise and is widely considered to be one of Chan's best movies.   Starring: Jackie Chan   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

POLICE STORY 2 Synopsis: The world's number one action is back. POLICE STORY 2 finds super-cop Kevin once again at odds with his superiors over his unorthodox, yet effective, tactics. Demoted to a traffic officer, Kevin learns that the mob kingpin he put behind bars is out--and craving revenge! With the mix of high-flying action and hilarious slapstick one expects of a Chan picture. Kevin proceeds on a mission to thwart the criminal's evil bombing plot while trying to keep his beautiful girlfriend (Maggie Cheung) out of harm's way.    Starring: Jackie Chan   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 10 V

EW POLICE STORY Synopsis: 24th Hong Kong Film Awards • Nomination - Best Picture • Nomination - Best Director (Benny Chan Muk-Sing) • Nomination - Best Actor (Jackie Chan) • Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Wu) • Nomination - Best Editing (Yau Chi-Wai) • Nomination - Best Action Design (Li Chung-Chi, Jackie Chan Stuntman Association) • Nomination - Best Sound Effects (Kinson Tsang Kin-Cheung) • Nomination - Best Visual Effects (Wong Won-Tak, Ho Chi-Fai) 41st Annual Golden Horse Awards • Winner - Best Supporting Actor (Daniel Wu) • Winner - Best Action Choreography (Li Chung-Chi, Jackie Chan Stunt Team) • Winner - Best Visual Effects (Victor Wong, Brian Ho) • Winner - Audience Choice Award • Nomination - Best Editing (Yau Chi-Wai) • Nomination - Best Art Direction (Wong Ching-Ching, Choo Sung-Pong, Oliver Wong) • Nomination - Best Sound Effects (Tsang King-Cheung) A New Breed Of Crime Welcome to the next generation of Police Story!  Global action superstar Jackie Chan shoots-em-up as a roguish special agent teamed with a crusty veteran cop to rescue a kidnapped business magnate. When he suspects that his partner may be involved in the abduction, Chan strikes out on his own to crack the case.  A serious action drama based on a true story.   Starring: Jackie Chan Daniel Wu   Category: Action, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 13 V

CRIME STORY Synopsis: 13th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards • Winner - Best Editing (Cheung Yiu-Chung) • Nomination - Best Picture • Nomination - Best Director (Kirk Wong Chi-Keung) • Nomination - Best Actor (Jackie Chan) • Nomination - Best Supporting Actor (Kent Cheng Juk-Si) • Nomination - Best Action Design (Jackie Chan) The Worlds number one action star is back. Jackie Chan stars in his grittiest role ever as a police detective on the edge, who races against time to solve a deadly kidnapping case. Based on the shocking true story of a billionaire abducted in a bold ambush, Crime Story pulses with tension and raw action. Director Kirk Wong (The Big Hit) deftly combines acrobatic fight choreography with edge-of-your-seat suspense to reveal an impressive new side to one of the world's greatest martial arts icons.   Starring: Jackie Chan Ken Lo   Category: Action, Martial Art   Age Restriction: 16 VL

GEN X COPS PRESENTED BY JACKIE CHAN Synopsis: Jackie Chan Presents... Only Time Enough To Die. Direct from the action film capital of the world comes Gen-X Cops, rocket-fueled drama at its most arresting! Hong Kong police crack an underground ring of smugglers, seizing a massive shipment of explosives. But when the arms are recovered by Japan's public enemy number one, Akatura, the countdown begins to a sale of the deadly contraband that will place the world in the hands of international mercenaries! But when a rebellious trio of Gen-X Cops infiltrate the underworld, they discover that Akatura has a much more sinister plan for the volatile cargo than fueling worldwide warfare. Now the criminal instincts that nearly barred them from the force are the most powerful weapons that Gen-X Cops have to save the city from the devastating act of terrorism!   Starring: Eric Tsang Grace Ip   Category: Action, Martial Art   Age Restriction: 16 VL

Christopher Bean was born into a police family in Yorkshire and joined the West Riding Constabulary as a cadet in 1952. For the next fifteen years or so he continued a career in the police service, in the Royal Corps of Military Police, the West Riding Constabulary, the Nyasaland Police and finally the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police. This account re-lives his experiences of those years, many of which are difficult to believe in these relatively enlightened days, and which often humorously outline life in Africa some half a century ago. Although the story starts in the Britain of the 1950's, it leads into a post-war Africa, with independence arriving in most of Africa and illustrating the enormous difference in police work in the UK in those days, and the exciting life of a colonial police officer. Paperback / 188 pages 30 b/w photos Published March 2014

 THE REGIMENT. The History and Uniform of the BSA Police - Richard Hamley - 2000 - Paperback in good, clean and tight condition. While it is generally accepted that the history of Rhodesia began in 1890, the history of that country's police force began a year earlier, in 1889. From the beginning, the Force held to the customs and traditions of a light cavalry regiment, with military ranks and disciplines and, reflecting the military ethos, laying emphasis upon a smartness of turnout and drill. The unique character of the Force developed from this time. Not only did it have to establish the rule of law, it also had to defend the borders of the country, a responsibility it held until 1953. This stunning volume, filled with the author's own vivid water color illustrations, traces the fascinating story of the British South Africa Police during its 90 year existence from 1890 to 1980.  

Bridge of Spies is the true story of three extraordinary characters — William Fisher, alias Rudolf Abel, a British born KGB agent arrested by the FBI in New York City and jailed as a Soviet superspy for trying to steal America's most precious nuclear secrets; Gary Powers, the American U-2 pilot who was captured when his plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over the closed cities of central Russia; and Frederic Pryor, a young American graduate student in Berlin mistakenly identified as a spy, arrested and held without charge by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police. By weaving the three strands of this story together for the first time, Giles Whittell masterfully portrays the intense political tensions and nuclear brinkmanship that brought the United States and Soviet Union so close to a hot war in the early 1960s. He reveals the dramatic lives of men drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, and the tragicomedy of errors that eventually induced Khrushchev to send missiles to Castro. Two of his subjects — the spy and the pilot — were the original seekers of weapons of mass destruction. The third, an intellectual, fluent in German, unencumbered by dependents, and researching a Ph.D. thesis on the foreign trade system of the Soviet bloc, seemed to the Stasi precisely the sort of person the CIA should have been recruiting. He was not. In over his head in the world capital of spying, he was wrongly charged with espionage and thus came to the Agency's notice by a more roundabout route. The three men were rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten. Yet they laid bare the pathological mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years.

South Africa was under serious terrorist attacks during the 1980's. Those attacks were mainly committed by Communists and the ANC. The South African Police as the main law enforcement agency had the task of maintaining law and order in an atmosphere, where the opposing sides only paid lip service to the international accepted protocols and conventions. Queensbury rules had been thrown over board and nobody knew where the next mine, grenade, bomb or bullet would be delivered. After 1994, the so-called first democratic election which brought Nelson Mandela to power, the former terrorists became heroes and those who's duty it was to serve and protect the villains. It is against this background that the author, who is known for his expertise and objectivity endeavors, in a concise manner, to put into perspective the other side of the story. The purpose is not to justify either the means or the ends, but rather for the thinking people in society to judge for themselves. Paperback, 198 pages.  Published  1997 ***Contains graphic images - for mature readers only***

1960, First edition.  Hard cover with dust cover. 165 pages. Very good condition; neat and clean. The binding is tight. Dust cover has minor edgewear.  Under 1kg.  

HEART OF A DRAGON Synopsis: Jackie is a dedicated Hong Kong policman with hopes of marrying his loyal girlfriend and becoming a sailor. However, he cannot pursue his dreams as he has to take care of his mischievous, mentally retarded brother (Hung), who is constantly getting into trouble.  When his brother is mistaken by the police as a robbery suspect, Jackie vows to clear his brother's name... and will fight with everything he's got to track down the real robbers.    Starring: Jackie Chan Sammo Hung   Category: Action, Comedy, Martial Art    Age Restriction: 13 PGV

In the world of espionage, truth is the first victim and nothing is as it seems. Here, for the first time, South Africas most notorious apartheid spy Olivia Forsyth lays bare the story of her remarkable life.   Olivia Forsyth was a romantic young woman in search of adventure when she joined the Security Police with visions of international derring-do. But Craig Williamson, her unit head, had other ideas and Olivia was trained to spy on students before being dispatched to Rhodes University, a supposed hotbed of anti-apartheid radicalism. It wasnt long before Olivia had infiltrated various student organisations, feeding vital information back to her handler. She came to hold prominent positions on campus and, as reward, was promoted to Lieutenant. Having reached the end of her studies, Olivia set her sights on a much more ambitious and dangerous target: the ANC in exile. But what should have been her greatest triumph as a spy turned into disaster when the ANC threw her into Quatro, the notorious internment camp in Angola. This is a riveting story set in the final years of apartheid. The Author: Olivia Forsyth was a Lieutenant in the South Africa Security Police in the 1980's. She spent four years at Rhodes University where she infiltrated various anti-apartheid organisations. Thereafter she was held in Angola by the ANC before escaping. She now lives in the United Kingdom.  

From Mushroom Valley to Delville Wood, South African Forces in World War One researched and excellently written by Tim Couzens. When war struck in 1914, it struck not just in Europe, but everywhere across the globe, including South Africa, whose troops saw action in five theatres. They fought one another on home soil, during a rebellion fuelled by old resentments; they fought the Germans in the deserts of South West Africa and the jungles of East Africa (now Namibia and Tanzania); they fought in Egypt; and they fought, and died in their thousands, on the Western Front. Tim Couzens’ The Great Silence tells the story of South Africa’s Great War, meticulously bringing the details of the different campaigns to light, with a dedicated chapter on each major theatre of action, from Sandfontein to Delville Wood, plus a special chapter on the contribution of black South African troops to the Allies’ ultimate victory. Fully illustrated with over 150 photographs, maps and graphics, and with eight special insets on some of the more extraordinary characters in the war – such as Jackie the baboon, who was wounded by shrapnel in Flanders and returned to South Africa a hero – The Great Silence takes us into the dark heart of the Great War itself. Softcover in good condition.266 pages. Illustrated. Tracked postage is R50.00.