Peter Baxter: 17 books
Inside the Box
My Life with Test Match Special
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
A celebration of three decades of cricket and a unique insight into the world of radio and broadcasting. Test Match Special is both a sporting and broadcasting institution that has become synonymous with the British summertime. Since its first live broadcast back in 1957 it has proudly lived up to...
by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Test match special producer Peter Baxter presents tales of commentating capers from the Gabba to Eden Park in Jamaica. For 34 years from 1973 Peter Baxter was BBC producer of the hugely popular Test Match Special, and during that time he reported on Test matches from around the world. This funny and...
SAAF's Border War
The South African Air Force in Combat 1966-89
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
South African Mirages and Cuban MiG-21s dogfighting over Cuito Cuanavale, the largest tank battle on African soil since El Alamein; Puma troopships shot out of the skies by Strela missiles and RPG-7 rockets; Alouette III gunships hovering menacingly above Koevoet tracker-combat teams as they close...
France in Centrafrique
From Bokassa and Operation Barracude to the Days of EUFOR
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
France in Centrafrique explores the pre- and post-colonial history of the Republic of Central Africa as well as giving the reader a taste of the country's involvement in WWII itself. The main focus of this volume is on Central Africa's independence and the rise to power of Jean Bedel Bokassa including...
Mau Mau
The Kenyan Emergency 1952-60
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
The Second World War forever altered the complexion of the British Empire. From Cyprus to Malaya, from Borneo to Suez, the dominoes began to fall within a decade of peace in Europe. Africa in the late 1940s and 1950s was energized by the grant of independence to India, and the emergence of a credible...
Test Match Special - 50 Not Out
The Official History of a National Sporting Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
In 1957 a whole day's play of a Test Match was broadcast on BBC Radio for the first time with the slogan 'Don't miss a ball, we broadcast them all'.
This book celebrates 50 years of Test Match Special with anecdotes, behind-the-scenes stories, photos, reminiscences and champagne moments from...
Somalia
US Intervention, 1992–1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013
The end of the Cold War introduced an altered global dynamic. The old bond of East/West patronage in Africa was broken, weakening the first crop of independent revolutionary leadership on the continent who no longer had the support of one or other of the superpowers. With collapse of the Soviet Union,...
by Peter Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2014
It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment...
Gandhi, Smuts and Race in the British Empire
Of Passive and Violent Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2017
Towards the end of 1906, a meeting took place between two emerging giants of the age, Mohandas K. Gandhi and General Jan Christian Smuts. United under the same empire, but separated by distance and culture, Smuts was born in the Cape Colony, and Gandhi in Porbandar, a duchy of the Indian province...
Biafra
The Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Nigeria was a unique concept in the formation of modern Africa. It began life as a highly lucrative if climatically challenging holding of the Royal Niger Company, a British Chartered Company under the control of Victorian capitalist Sir George Taubman Goldie. It was handed over to indigenous rule...
Yom Kippur
No Peace, No War, October 1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
It is 25 years since the end of the Cold War, now a generation old. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944—long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe—with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on,...
by Andrew MacRae, Kenneth Gwin, Craig Faustus Buck
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Twenty-three noir stories of crime and desperation. Featuring, Michael Bracken
Kenneth Gwin, Michael Chandos, Warren Bull, Peter H. Denton, JoAnne Lucas, Karen Gough, J.J. Lamb, Craig Faustus Buck, Patricia Dusenbury, Herschel Cozine, Diane A. Hadoc, Wenda Morrone, Jan Christensen, Ross Baxter,...
by Peter F. Hamilton, Stephen Baxter
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
Solaris Rising is the first in an exciting new series of anthologies that are set to reaffirm Solaris’s proud reputation for producing high quality science fiction.
The book will feature all original short stories from many best-selling authors such as Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds,...
Die besten Ideen für mehr Humor
Erfolgreiche Speaker verraten ihre besten Konzepte und geben Impulse für die Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Humor macht das Leben leichter, gerade in Situationen, in denen einem schon mal das Lachen vergehen kann. Denn durch Humor gewinnen wir Abstand, wechseln die Perspektive und merken, dass wir die meisten Dinge gar nicht so schrecklich ernst nehmen müssen. Doch wie funktioniert Humor? Welcher Humor...
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