Bunkeya: How Danny Rook left home, acquired a history, and failed to stop Mao getting the H-bomb. - Couverture souple

Handley, A. P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1912119056 ISBN 13 : 9781912119059

Editeur : The Real Press, 2021

Synopsis

Studying history, we sometimes come to a point where the provable facts run out and then pick up again on the other side. The genre of Secret History - which is fiction, after all - invites readers to think about the previously untold story and perhaps to wonder whether it could be true. In the end, who can disprove a story that has never been recorded in the media or archive records, when all the other details appear to be established facts…?

Danny Rook is only 17, rather shy and he has somehow arrived in the Congo as a mercenary. Nor is he alone. Cuba, China, Russia – they all want a hand in the post-colonial re-domination of Africa. Naturally, the USA has a different outcome in mind.

When Danny’s training exercise turns nasty and then an RAF aircraft crashes nearby with something even more terrible in its bomb bay, it is China that seems to hold all the aces.

As the song goes – ‘it’s the same the whole world over’ – government incompetence at the highest level, with nobody knowing really what the hell is going on, and the little people at ground level having to dig the powerful people out of the mess they have got themselves and their countries into. If they want to survive,,,

And most important: this is also a story of how Chairman Mao got the Bomb.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Real Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1912119056
• ISBN 13: 9781912119059
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible