"A sobering reality check and an impressive work of fiction." --Washington Times
"An affecting, chilling historical novel." --New York
"Lurid and delightful, written with wit and real maturity." --Kirkus Reviews
"Genuinely beautiful and disturbing." --Village Voice
"Garrigan is the perfect foil for Amin, whose overwhelming physical presence, peacockish rhetoric and cold-blooded savagery are so well captured as to make this novel more than a mesmerizing read: it is also a forceful account of a surrealistic and especially ugly chapter of modern history."
--Publishers Weekly
Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, Scottish doctor Nicholas Garrigan is called to the scene of a bizarre accident: Idi Amin, careening down a dirt road in his Maserati, has hit a cow. When Garrigan tends to Amin, the dictator, obsessed with all things Scottish, appoints him as his personal physician. So begins a fateful dalliance with the African leader whose Emperor Jones-style autocracy would transform into a
reign of terror.
In The Last King of Scotland, Foden's Amin is as ridiculous as he is abhorrent: a self-proclaimed cannibal who, at the end of his eight years in power, would be responsible for 300,000 deaths. As Garrigan awakens to his patient's barbarism--and his own complicity in it--we enter a venturesome meditation on conscience, charisma, and the slow corruption of the human heart.
Adam Nicolson
Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Harper Collins US
Duration : 6 hours
Categories : Historical War & Military
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A heroic tale of duty amidst the battle of Trafalgar, Seize the Fire is an unmissable epic. More info...
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Bernard Cornwell
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 3 hours 42 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military
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It is 1809 and Lieutenant Sharpe, who belongs to a small British army that has a precarious foothold in Portugal... More info...
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Bernard Cornwell
Paul McGann
Publisher : Harper Collins UK
Duration : 2 hours 44 minutes
Categories : Historical War & Military
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'Sharpe's Battle' takes Richard Sharpe and his Riflemen back to the spring of 1811 and one of the bitterest battles of the Peninsular... More info...
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Jude Deveraux
Judith Light
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : General Western Historical
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Captain Ring Montgomery was handsome, a skilled rider, a crack shot, popular with the men and their ladies. More info...
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Lyndsey Davis
Full Cast Production
Publisher : BBC Audiobooks Ltd
Duration : 3 hours
Categories : Dramatizations Detective Historical British Drama
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Anton Lesser and Anna Madeley star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the fourth novel in Lindsey Davis’s bestselling series featuring Roman private eye Falco. More info...
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