When Frank Johnson arrived in Vietnam in 1969, he was 19, a young soldier untested in combat like thousands of others - but with two important differences: Johnson volunteered for the elite L Company Rangers of the 101st Airborne Division, a long-range reconnaissance patrol unit, and kept a secret diary, a practice forbidden by the military to protect the security of LRRP operations. Now, more than three decades later, a rare look at the daily operations of one of the most courageous units that waged war in Vietnam. Johnson served in l Corps in northern South Vietnam, whee combat was furious, and the events he recounts emerge, stark and compelling: walking point in the A Shau Valley, braving enemy fire to rescue a downed comrade, surviving days and nights of relentless tension that suddenly exploded in the blinding fury of an NVA attack. Undimmed and unmuddled by the passing of years, Johnson's account is unique in the annals of Vietnam literature. Moreover, it is a timeless testimony to the sacrifice and heroism of the LRRPs who dared to risk it all.

Diary of an Airborne Ranger: A LRRP's Year in the Combat Zone

History

Frank Johnson

Military

Ballantine Books

The Janos People; a close encounter of the fourth kind. On board a Janos spaceship, over England, Monday June 19, 1978. Late one night, while traveling in their car on a lonely road in Oxfordshire, a family of three adults and two small children were intercepted by a large spaceship, and were taken on board for nearly an hour, during which the flying saucer made a short trip. They saw on film, how the Janos people lived, their clothes, houses and gardens, boats, lakes, and food and vegetation. They watched in horror.

Janos People: A Close Encounter of the Fourth Kind

Neville Spearman Ltd.

The story of a girl who was diagnosed with a serious illness in her teens and who died at the age of 18. The book concentrates on the spiritual aspect of her life. Chiara Luce was beatified on 25 September 2010 in Rome.

Chiara Luce: A Life Lived to the Full

Michele Zanzucchi

New City

The Mersey Fighters 2: More Lives and Times of Liverpool's Boxing Heroes: v. 2

Gary Shaw

Jim Jenkinson

Sports & Outdoors

Privately Published

Women fly combat missions today in the military services. They were just as capable 70 years ago. In the early months of WWII an enigmatic bush pilot comes to the rescue of downed American ferry pilot Roseanna Kendell in the northern wilds of Canada. The daughter of Dutch Kendell, president of North American Aviation, Roseanna is strong willed and volatile and has inherited her father's love of aviation. And from her Mexican mother she has inherited uncommon beauty and a bond with an extended family and their culture south of the border. When Roseanna learns that her savior is not only a Battle of Britain veteran but a 'Merlin magician' as well, she concocts a scheme to bring her new friend Waldo to Los Angeles ostensibly to work for her father but in fact, to become her mentor. She has never seen or met anyone who can fly like Waldo. But a plot to disrupt WWII aircraft production, resulting in family tragedy, changes her plans. With the help of her aging sidekick as well as a reluctant FBI agent turned Air Corps Captain, Roseanna sets off on a mission to learn who was behind the plot. After a rocky start, the three begin working together to solve a mystery that will lead them to more murders and take them throughout Southern California, into Mexico, to Washington, D.C. and eventually to Europe. It is a journey that will see them cross paths...and occasionally swords...with the likes of Howard Hughes, General Jimmy Doolittle, Hap Arnold, Captain Ronald Reagan, William Randolph Hearst and J. Edgar Hoover. In the process, the three will learn more than they bargained for...about each other and about who would destroy the Kendell family. Finally, while flying in the guise of civilian technical advisors in the skies of war-torn Europe, Roseanna and Waldo will fulfill their destinies from the cockpit of one of the deadliest fighters of WWII, the Mustang. Roseanna's Reply is a story about flying. It is a murder mystery. It is a story about family and love and friendship and a young woman born half a century too soon.

Roseanna's Reply

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Central Coast Press

Wado-Ryu Karate

Orient Publishing

For over 33 years, Frank Johnson delighted readers and kept politicians on their toes with his irreverent reports and when he died, the Evening Standard hoardings declared: 'Fleet Street Genius dead'. It was Johnson who coined the terms 'chattering classes', referred to Norman Tebbit as 'The Chingford Strangler', and dubbed the MP Dennis Skinner 'The Beast of Bolsover'. There are many comic masterpieces in the book in Johnson's dazzling and inimitable style, including his description of Margaret Thatcher's 'dimples of iron', and the moment when dung was flung from the Gallery onto the Members below! There are plenty of serious moments too: the Brighton bombing, the Falklands war, the Iraq war and the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly. Johnson also writes wittily about many other subjects such as his love of opera and ballet, and his life in France with his wife Virginia. Compiled by Virginia Fraser, and with introductions from William Rees-Mogg and Simon Hoggart, the book includes intriguing responses from leading politicians and others to the satirical pieces that Frank wrote about them. Frank Johnson was the award-winning parliamentary sketch writer for The Daily Telegraph and then The Times, before becoming editor of The Spectator.

Best Seat in the House: The Wit and Parliamentary Chronicles of Frank Johnson

Jr Books Ltd

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