It was 1 January 1970. Frederick Forsyth was down on his luck. An out-of-work war correspondent, he had just fled the collapsing Republic of Biafra "with a price on my head". He had no money ...

BBC is reporting that declassified documents, --to be kept secret until 2065--, have cleared an army regiment of any blame in the biggest loss of British life during the Falklands War. Forty-eight ...

It is 50 years since the book by Frederick Forsyth was published but ... Back in 1970, the former RAF pilot and war correspondent was out of work. "[I was] skint, in debt, no flat, no car ...

So for the moment, at least, it's plain old Mr Frederick Forsyth nursing a glass of red ... The Odessa File and The Dogs Of War among countless other bestsellers. But a twinkling in the eye ...

A miscalculation by Galtieri was that he jumped into a risky project without securing his rear. The Argentine fleet was also not in a position to help because Galtieri was expecting a “stab in ...

Video: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV: No action scenes were required - these soldiers' faces told the story Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story (BBC2) does an outstanding job of ...

Transworld has acquired Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent’s The Revenge of Odessa, the sequel to The Odessa File (Arrow/Viking), written by Frederick Forsyth and Tony Kent. This new title comes 52 ...

With the capture of Mount Tumbledown, Wireless Ridge and Sapper Hill the Falkland Islands conflict ... the returning of the 11,313 prisoners of war in their own ships was not accepted and 4,167 ...

This led to a bitter dispute between Garrison and Douglass that, despite the efforts of others such as Harriet Beecher Stowe to reconcile the two, would last into the Civil War. Frederick Douglass ...

The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two ...

But rest easy. While it’s not faithful to the details of the plot, it is utterly in the spirit of Frederick Forsyth’s 1971 novel – both in the tale and its attention to detail. And the ...