Stephen Harper's Unpublished Work
Day of the Stuka
This book tells how Andrew B. Cunningham, regarded as Britain's greatest Admiral since Nelson, won clear command of the Mediterranean Sea which Italian dictator Mussolini boasted that he would make it Italy's Mare Nostrum. Because of his ally's defeats, Hitler reluctantly intervened south of the Alps to safeguard his right flank during his planned offensive against the Soviet Union.
Cannonball
"These chaps have stolen a cannonball and don't have the cannon to fire it" the Special Adviser on Nuclear Security told the Prime Minister after the most sensational aircraft hijacking since the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on September 11, 2001.
Child of War –
A Personal Story
My father’s war, known as the Great War, ended nearly six years before I was born, but the slaughter in the trenches of the Western Front brooded over my childhood like a malevolent ghost; constantly present in the faces of my father, my surviving uncles and their contemporaries. The nightmare of shelling, poison gas, close-quarter bayonet fighting, teeming rats, a constant smell of putrefying bodies, the cries of the wounded cut off in no-man's land, lost hopes kindled by fraternisation between the lines with soccer matches in no-man's land on the first Christmas, all near and real to them. Memories of the Menin Gate, the Angel of Mons, the "Wipers" salient, Neuve Chapelle, Loos, Passchendaele and the Somme haunted them.
Lament for the Lost Glory of Fleet Street
Stephen Harper tells his own story of a boyhood dream coming true when the legendary editor Arthur Christiansen took him on the Daily Express and started him on a long career as a foreign correspondent. Those were the balmy days when foreign correspondents were the aristocrats of Fleet Street and the Express sold close on 4 1/2 million copies a day.
"We came to show them how to kill communists' said the first US military advisor. Harper's story of Vietnam from 1961 to the fall of Saigon in 1975"
The Vietnam War as seen by a British foreign correspondent who covered the main developments of the conflict over a period of 15 years. United States Vice-President Lyndon Johnson visited Saigon while he was there, and at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport shortly after Johnson left he watched the arrival of a US Air Force C46 transport carrying young Americans wearing jeans, carrying kit-bags. They made for the bar where one of them told the author, "We've come to show the Vietnamese how to kill Communists."
