Alan Moorehead

A fascinating portrait of Africa in the 50s - a seminal book of its era as the author visits the pygmys and get to close quarters to wild gorillas. From an era when man and the animal kingdom held an uneasy truce. Moorehead's misgivings about this fragile ecology were sadly prophetic.

Rum Jungle at the time was a recently discovered uranium mine. The book's principle theme is the sudden appearance of modern science in a region which has not really been civilised by white man.

History and events of the World War in North Africa from August 1941 to August 1942.

A brief, simple, and straightforward account of the Russian revolution in 1917 and the events that led up to it. Alan Moorehead, a native of Australia, was the first recipient of the Duff Cooper Memorial Award, which was presented to him in 1956 by Sir Winston Churchill.

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan Operation Cicero by L.C. Moyzisch From Russia, With Love by Ian Fleming I, Benedic Arnold: The Anatomy of Treason by Cornel Lengyel Background to Danger by Eric Ambler Klaus Fuchs, from The Traitors by Alan Moorehead The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John leCarré

"Three times I've compiled those damned lists, and I'm running out of names. But he still wants more. More souls for his experiments. More lives to be wasted in the pursuit of this vain, useless, futile hunt!" First Magus Vordegh's maniacal obsession to destroy the heretic cult of Order was running out of control. As the atrocities grew and the gods remained indifferent to pleas for sanity, the convictions of even Chaos's most devoted servants were starting to disintegrate. Faith seemed meaningless; trust impossible. The world was going mad. Benetan Liss's faith was cruelly tested by the part he was forced to play in Vordegh's savage reprisals. But the choice was stark: obedience or death, there was no third way. Or so he believed, until one violent event brought him into direct conflict with the heretics -- and the unearthly source of their power. (Star Shadow #2)