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803 |
Foley, Charles
Legacy of Strife: Cyprus From Rebellion to Civil War
Paperback
1964, Penguin Special
Condition: very good
This gifted reporter provides an extremely clear perspective of the recent years of conflict and bloodshed. Since the declaration of the Emergency, Cyprus has pursued a tragic and often shocking progress in which soldiers, partisans, priests and politicians - some sincere, some sinister - have struggled and plotted to exploit the rift or heal the breach. Makarios, Grivas, Kutchuk, Lennox-Boyd, Sandys, Foot, Harding and many other personalities have played out their opposing roles in crisis after crisis.
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811 |
Fooner, Michael
Interpol
Paperback
1977, Popular Library
Condition: very good
At last, the inside story of the world's foremost international crime fighting organization can be told. From its fascinating beginnings to its present-day activities, Interpol's story is one of political intrigue and manipulation, international crime and detection, monumental bravery and deceit. Only Interpol can fight a bank fraud ring that fleeces Europe of millions of dollars. Only Interpol can track a giant international crime cartel that deals in illegal narcotics. Only Interpol can reveal the existence of worldwide slave markets that abuse and exploit men, women and children alike. Written with the cooperation of top Interpol officials, it is a story more exciting than any fiction could ever hope to be.
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Fordham, Peta
The Robbers' Tale
Paperback
1968, Penguin
Condition: very good
How was the Great Train Robbery planned? Who were the men involved and how did they organize it? Why did they leave a whole dossier of clues and fingerprints at Leatherslade Farm? What became of the two and half million pounds stolen? From intimate contacts in the underworld, Peta Fordham has pieced together the full human story of a desperate bid which began in high adventure and ended in misery all round.
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827 |
Forsey, Eugene A.
The Canadian Labour Movement, 1812-1902
Trade-size paperback
1974, The Canadian Historical Association
Condition: very good
Historical Booklet No. 27. The Canadian Historical Association has planned this series of booklets to provide the general reader, the teacher and the historical specialist with concise accounts of special historical problems. They are written by experts in their fields and include the results of the latest research.
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829 |
Fournier-Aubry, Fernando
Don Fernando
Paperback
1977, Pinnacle, illustrated
Condition: very good
"There is no resisting the wind of adventure. When it blows, I feel it and I obey." This is the creed of Fernando Fournier-Aubry, soldier of fortune, prospector, smuggler, explorer, drug merchant, head hunter and lover, who fled from his comfortable French family at eighteen to seek adventure in the primitive Cameroons. Soon merely surviving in the harsh and brutal jungles of the world became his way of life, his playground and his workbench. Over the years, Don Fernando loved many women, fathered many children and made several fortunes in whatever was available - sharks' livers, rare woods, gold, opium - never knowing from one day to another which man, beast or natural element was friend or enemy. Irreverent yet hopelessly romantic, Don Fernando now looks back on an amazing odyssey which spans fifty years.
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840 |
French, R. B. D.
P. G. Wodehouse
Paperback
1966, Oliver and Boyd
Condition: very good
P. G. Wodehouse's books are read by millions in England and America who take him as the unfailing purveyor of frivolous and very funny stories stamped with an idiom which has proved inimitable. This book is an attempt to relate him to the classical tradition of English comedy.
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842 |
Frischauer, Willi and Jackson, Robert
Navy's Here, The
Paperback
1957, Pan, illustrated
Condition: fair
This is the full story, compiled from eyewitness accounts by the men involved, of the most dramatic naval rescue of the War. It begins with the Navy's hunt for the raiding German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee, gives a vivid picture of the great victory which was won in the Battle of the River Plate, and concludes with an exciting account of the rescue, by night in the ice of a Norwegian fjord, of 300 prisoners who had been held for months in the holds of the notorious Altmark, the Graf Spee's supply vessel. Time and again the Altmark had eluded her pursuers in a chase from the South Atlantic to Norwegian territorial waters Then, at last, British Naval Intelligence located her. Too late the Altmark fled into the nearest fjord, relying for protection on Norwegian neutrality. There followed the gripping climax: the Cossack's entry into the fjord, the Altmark's attempt to ram her, the successful boarding by a party with bayonets fixed, the opening of the hatches, and the clear English voice ringing out: "Any Englishmen down there?" And finally, as three hundred voices shouted in reply, the response by the man at the head of the trunkway: "Come on up then ... the Navy's here!"
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843 |
Frolik, Josef
The Frolik Defection: The Memoirs of an Intelligence Agent
Paperback
1976, Corgi, illustrated
Condition: good
After seventeen years of the war in the shadows - in Prague, London and the Middle East - Frolik lost almost everything he cherished when he defected to the States. He was the most senior Eastern Intelligence man to "go West" since the last war. Finally, sickened by the intrigue, the exploitation of the Czech people, the in-fighting and the corruption of power, Frolik broke with the Communist regime. Today he lives in danger. Attempts are still made on his life. But he is free - and freedom to him is the greatest prize of all.
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847 |
Fuller, Curtis G.
Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress
Paperback
1980, Warner, illustrated
Condition: very good
After thirty years of research, eyewitness reports, hysteria, hoax and cover-up, what do we really know about the UFO phenomenon? To answer this fascinating question, Fate magazine sponsored the first conference of the world's foremost authorities and witnesses. Here are their extraordinary findings, ranging from Kenneth Arnold's vivid account of his historic sighting in 1947 to J. Allen Hynek's predictions about the future of ufology. Ted Phillips offers solid evidence for the existence of solid machines gathered from crash sights around the world. Ted Bloecher describes mysterious CEIII encounters. Betty Hill tells how she came to believe in the reality of her abduction; and noted scientists and investigators discuss thought transference, UFOs as psychic constructs, messages from space, UFO propulsion systems, hypnosis of imaginary abductees, cosmic brainwashing, men in black, the reliability of UFO witnesses, and many other subjects pertinent to the modern puzzle of UFOs.
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Fusero, Clemente
The Borgias
Paperback
1974, Corgi, illustrated
Condition: very good
Few families have aroused so much hatred or have had their misdeeds so widely recorded as the Borgias - their name alone suggests intrigue, poison, illicit love and dark adventures. Their rise from obscure origins in Spain to the Papacy and other pinnacles of power kindled in their contemporaries an overwhelming envy which led to the myth of Borgia monstrosity. In this penetrating study, Clemente Fusero examines the historical background of the family's career and shows how in reality the family was one of the most brilliant of the Italian Renaissance.
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Gallagher, J. P.
The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican
Paperback
1969, Fontana, illustrated
Condition: ex-library with card pocket, stamps and spine label, otherwise good
To thousands of people escaping - Allied prisoners, refugees, Jews and others wanted for various reasons by the Nazis - one of the greatest heroes of the Second World War was a tall, jolly Irish priest, Monsignor Hugh Joseph O'Flaherty. Working throughout the war at the Vatican, he organized, unofficially, an incredibly efficient underground system which gave shelter to unnumerable escapers. This very readable account of his adventures is an exciting story and throws some interesting light on one of the lesser-known aspects of the war.
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Gardner, Brian
On to Kilimanjaro
Paperback
1964, Macfadden, illustrated
Condition: good
They walked into a river full of crocodiles. The beasts snapped viciously at the hapless men. Those who managed to reach the shore were met by German machine-gun fire. This was Africa 1914, scene of the strangest campaign of World War I. Fought in unexplored jungles, amid torrential rains, the war in Africa presented its own peculiar military problems. Lions attacked troops from the rear as the enemy advanced from the front. Giraffes ate up most of the telegraph lines. Hippos were a major military hazard - they broke up important charges by storming angrily into troops. Soldiers got lost in the six-foot high grass - and ended up firing at each other instead of the enemy. Cannibals were an ever-present danger - more so than the cannons of the German Army. Here, for the first time, are all the action-packed details of this war of wits, adventure and high heroism.
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Gazaway, Rena
The Longest Mile
Paperback
1974, Penguin
Condition: very good
A vivid chronicle of life in an Appalachian Hollow. These almost forgotten Americans live throughout Appalachia in hamlets like Duddie's Branch, a place so removed from the concerns of modern America that it might as well be on another planet. Rena Gazaway spent more than a year in Duddie's Branch, learning about the Branchers and sharing their problems. There she saw a society where time, planning, leadership, and even health are irrelevant, where benumbed generations succeed each other in a wretched cycle of birth, poverty, and death. She also found a people with deep loyalties and with a keen appraisal of the worth of the inner man.
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