Product Description: The gripping true story of James Ashcroft’s audacious return to war-torn Iraq to save his friend The Mission: Get in. Rescue an entire family from death on teh streets of Baghdad. Get everyone out alive.  The Pay: Saving the life of a friend...read more

Candidly told in his own words, this is a no-holds-barred account of the man who has served prison sentences on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently for conspiring to kill Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar. From the bloody plains of Angola to the jungles of Colombia, David Tomkins’ career as a safe-breaker, arms dealer, and mercenary spans five decades. Born in London during World War II, he was hospitalized for a time in a psychiatric ward and sent to reform school after he was deemed "beyond parental control." Later, following a spell in the Merchant Navy, he graduated from safe-blower to demolitions expert with a notorious mercenary army in Angola. From intrigue in Mayfair offices to tribal lands in Pakistan, Tomkins’ story reads like a real-life version of a Tom Clancy thriller. It is a shocking account of crime and corruption, and the scope of his activities will amaze and intrigue.

A history of fourteenth-century Italy traces the period from the end of the Hundred Years' War, through the medieval period, to the onset of the Renaissance era, citing the activities of such individuals as John Hawkwood and numerous members of the clergy and royal family, and tracing the events of the Black Plague. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Reprint of the 1889 edition. Hardbound. Oversized octavo. Book 370 p. : ill. ; [Florence] ; London : T.F. Unwin [Printed by G. Barbèra], 1889 . HAWKWOOD, SIR JOHN (d. 1394), an English adventurer who attained great wealth and renown as a condottiere in the Italian warsof the 14th century...read more

'This was the age of the new man', the author writes, 'And John Hawkwood was the most audacious of them all. His scheme, quite simply, was to hold Europe's richest country to ransom, and he turned the business of war into an exorbitant art.

Product Description: Frontis, 351pp including Bibliography and Index. LSU Press Paperback Edition, 1995.