Takka Takka Bom Bom
eBook - ePub

Takka Takka Bom Bom

An Intrepid War Correspondent's 50 Year Odyssey

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Takka Takka Bom Bom

An Intrepid War Correspondent's 50 Year Odyssey

About this book

The world's oldest still-active war correspondent shares the real stories behind half a century of headlines from the front lines. The world's oldest still-active war correspondent, Al J. Venter, has reported from the front lines for well over half a century, witnessing the horrors humanity visits upon itself in twenty-five conflict zones across Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. In this memoir, Venter masterfully recounts his experiences, sharing the real stories behind the headlines and the sharp lessons he learned that enabled him to survive his countless exploits, ranging from exposing a major KGB operative in Rhodesia entirely by accident, and accompanying an Israeli force led by Ariel Sharon into Beirut, to gun-running into the United States.

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Information

Publisher
Casemate
Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781636243818

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Maps
  7. Author’s note
  8. Prologue Not an autobiography
  9. Chapter 1 Africa, the great continent with an appeal all its own
  10. Chapter 2 Home by five
  11. Chapter 3 Heading out into the unknown
  12. Chapter 4 Africa in the 1960s
  13. Chapter 5 Matilda and Albert Schweitzer’s jungle hospital
  14. Chapter 6 Plantain and palm wine in Libreville
  15. Chapter 7 Nigeria: ‘Crazy, but I love it!’
  16. Chapter 8 A peripatetic existence
  17. Chapter 9 Rib-eye and red wine in Abidjan
  18. Chapter 10 Kids with machine guns and water for fuel
  19. Chapter 11 Republic of Guinea to London
  20. Chapter 12 The Londoner: my dream of a ship
  21. Chapter 13 Looking for wars and learning to write
  22. Chapter 14 A bloody battle and a narrow escape in Lagos
  23. Chapter 15 Another close call
  24. Chapter 16 Getting the job done
  25. Chapter 17 Independence and revolutions
  26. Chapter 18 Subterfuge
  27. Chapter 19 The safari capital of the world
  28. Chapter 20 Banned from Rhodesia
  29. Chapter 21 Pen-pushing pals
  30. Chapter 22 Betrayal!
  31. Chapter 23 Undersea realm
  32. Chapter 24 Intelligence work: a quagmire of nuclear intrigue
  33. Chapter 25 Mayday
  34. Chapter 26 Lisbon
  35. Chapter 27 You’d be lucky to be hit
  36. Chapter 28 South Africa invades Angola
  37. Chapter 29 Getting to grips with the CIA
  38. Chapter 30 The Battle for Beirut
  39. Chapter 31 The murder of a United States Marine Corps colonel
  40. Chapter 32 The bin Laden syndrome in South Africa
  41. Epilogue
  42. Acknowledgements
  43. About the author
  44. Books by the same author