Stephen Harper's Published Work
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A Fatal Obsession
The Women of Cho Oyu
– a reporting saga
A Fatal Obsession - The Women of Cho Oyu, a reporting saga, tells the story of how the only all-woman Himalayan expedition ended in tragedy in 1959. The Himalayas had been regarded as a male preserve for 60 years until Madame Claude Kogan, an elfin figure became obsessed with scaling a peak called Cho Oyu, at 26,750 feet the sixth highest mountain in the world.
Capturing Enigma
How HMS Petard Seized
The German Naval Codes
An attack by a British destroyer on a German U-boat in the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1942 altered the course of the entire war. The capture of secret German Enigma coding material from U-559, at the cost of the lives of two of HMS Petard’s crew, enabled Bletchley Park's code breakers to crack a new Enigma system introduced to cover a maximum U-boat offensive.
More Books By Stephen Harper
Miracle Of Deliverance
The Case for the bombing Of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Forty years have passed since the first atomic bomb took the lives of 90,000 in Hiroshima on 6 August1945. It was an act of destruction deliberately calculated to be of such unprecedented frightfulness that it would shock the fanatical military rulers of Japan, with their policies of fighting to the last man, into immediate surrender.
Last Sunset
What Happened In Aden
What has happened to Aden? Why did we go there? Why did we leave? Since November 1967 when the last helicopter took off from the golf-course carrying the Royal Marine rearguard that had been covering the evacuation the last battle-scarred bastion of British power in the east has vanished from the news.
Live Till Tomorrow
Veterans of the Vietnam war, Washington Barber and his friend Dan Ledger settled for the opulent life-style of Saigon when their time was up. A prosperous business cemented the comradeship of war. Ledger's enchanting children by his beautiful Vietnamese wife rooted him even more firmly than his friend.
A Necessary End
The use of a double is said to be a common expedient of dictators anxious to reduce the load of ceremonial appearances or to make the job of assassinating them that much harder. But in a totalitarian state, founded on force and terror and admitting no scruples of mercy or morality, the existence of a double creates dangers of its own. Who, after all, can tell which is which?
Modern Warfare
Chapter 10 of The Imperial War Museum Book of Modern Warfare –
South Arabia and Aden, 1964-1967: Tribesmen and Terrorists
