THANKS A LOT MR KIBBLEWHITE
THANKS A LOT MR KIBBLEWHITE by Roger Daltrey (Blink £8.99, 352 pp)
by Roger Daltrey (Blink £8.99, 352 pp)
Many of us can remember a teacher who changed our lives.
Roger Daltrey certainly can. The Mr Kibblewhite namechecked in the title of Daltrey’s bestselling autobiography was his headmaster.
Expelling the future lead singer of The Who for a string of misdemeanours, he remarked: ‘You’ll never make anything of your life, Daltrey.’
But from the moment young Roger saw Elvis on his parents’ black-and-white telly, canlı tombala siteleri he knew what he wanted to do.
He got together with a couple of lads from school with the same idea, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.
After a few line-up changes and the arrival of drummer Keith Moon, Mr Kibblewhite’s prediction was as trashed as one of Pete’s guitars.
Daltrey’s memoir is a vivid chronicle of wild excess, but he never forgets the music behind it all.
‘When you’re singing, you’re happy,’ he insists.
SAS ITALIAN JOB
SAS ITALIAN JOB by Damien Lewis (Quercus £7.99, 352pp)
by Damien Lewis (Quercus £7.99, 352pp)
The 1943 Allied invasion of Italy was intended to ‘drive a dagger into the soft underbelly of Europe’, dividing Nazi forces before D-Day.
But, after initial success in the south, the Allied advance stalled on the Gothic Line — a string of defences stretching from coast to coast across the Apennine mountains.
The opportunity for canlı tombala siteleri a breakthrough came when an Italian woman told of a secret German headquarters controlling a huge stretch of the Gothic Line.
Led by SOE agent Captain Michael ‘Wild Man’ Lees and Major Roy Farran of the SAS, a daring plan was made to attack the HQ and kill the German commanders there.
Lewis’s fast-paced narrative recounts the astonishing audacity of the men who brought Operation Tombola to a successful conclusion — and the sour aftermath of the raid.
ULTIMATUM
ULTIMATUM by Frank Gardner (Corgi £8.99, 464 pp)
by Frank Gardner (Corgi £8.99, 464 pp)
Working for canlı tombala siteleri MI6 is tough, but someone has to do it, and there are a few perks.
Frank Gardner’s pacy debut thriller found agent Luke Carlton foiling a plot to place a dirty bomb at the Cenotaph.
In this bestselling sequel, Carlton is sent to Iran, where maverick scientists are developing a nuclear weapon.
He is ordered to recruit Tannaz Zamani, the beautiful 22-year-old daughter of a senior Iranian official.
But, as it turns out, little persuasion is required — moments after they meet at a party, Tannaz has ‘planted a kiss on his lips’.
This causes conflict with Luke’s girlfriend, Elise. Which is awkward, canlı tombala siteleri when war in the Gulf seems imminent and Luke is the only man who can avert it.
