Product Description: The Church of England is popularly believed to have had a bad First World War. This book challenges that tired orthodoxy. It examines the relationship between parish churches and the Army during the war, using the important garrison town of Colchester as a case study...read more

Product Description: This autobiography describes the hours before and after Terry Waite was taken hostage. Waite analyzes his thoughts and feelings immediately prior to captivity. It is also an account of his years in solitary confinement and of the inner strengths which enabled him to survive.

Product Description: Poems both experimental and innovative,...clear shining gems,...blank verse that pierces straight to the heart,...I defy anyone to read and not be touched by the generation gap - Laurie John (Writer and BBC producer). In his poetry Kenneth's intellectual and emotional life unite and we are the fortunate beneficiaries - Terry Waite CBE (Church of England envoy)...read more

Product Description: Wendy Crompton's son William and his girlfriend Fiona were killed in a horrendous attack by a young man when William was just 18 years old. Justice for William shares Wendy's experience of what followed the murders when, as a secondary victim, she was treated in ways that ranged from insensitivity to downright prejudice and lack of respect...read more

Product Description: In contrast to his earlier bestseller Taken on Trust, this amusing new book shows another side to the man who was a hostage in Beirut for five years, yet it retains his carefully written prose and powers of description. In Lagos, Terry Waite had to stop an official motorcade in order to lean out of the Archbishop's car to be sick...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Taken hostage in Beirut in 1987 by Muslim guards, the author of Taken on Trust reflects on the stories, poems, and prayers that kept him sane during his four years of solitary confinement, when books were his only companions.

Product Description: In his prison cell in Beirut, where he spent 1,460 days in solitary confinement, Terry Waite wrote his autobiography in his head. Here he reveals the inner strength that helped him endure the savage treatment he received, his constant struggle to maintain his faith, and his resolve to have no regrets, no false sentimentality, no self-pity...read more