Comprehensive and exciting biography of Jim Corbett, the man who tracked and hunted down the man-eating tigers and leopards which killed hundreds of defenceless field workers in the 1920s and 30s, throughout the jungles of Kumaon.
For the very first time, The War That Never Was tells the fascinating story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s.
'A lot of people know me,' wrote Alan Hillgarth in a letter, 'but I'm very much an enigma to most of them and regarded with suspicion because I don't fit into any category .