"The Dogs of War (novel) The Dogs of War (1974) is a war novel by Frederick Forsyth featuring a small group of European mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the fictional African country of Zangaro. An eponymous film was released in 1980, based upon the novel and directed by John Irvin. The movie was filmed on location in Belize. The mercenary protagonists, like the protagonist in the author's earlier novel ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1971), are professional killers—ruthless, violent men, heroic only in the loosest sense of the word. Thus, they are anti-heroes."
"listed above are not fictional novels or novellas: ""The Biafra Story"" (1969), ""Emeka"" (1982), ""Great Flying Stories"" (1991) and ""The Outsider"" (2015). As writer only (except for ""Soldiers"", as presenter) Forsyth wrote lyrics to a lament titled ""Fallen Soldier"", with music by Gareth Ellis Williams, which was released as a single by Royal Opera House soprano Melissa Adler in 2016. Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, journalist for the Daily Express, spy, and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as ""The Day of the Jackal"", ""The Odessa File"", ""The"
"Frederick Forsyth Frederick McCarthy Forsyth, (born 25 August 1938) is an English author, journalist for the Daily Express, spy, and occasional political commentator. He is best known for thrillers such as ""The Day of the Jackal"", ""The Odessa File"", ""The Fourth Protocol"", ""The Dogs of War"", ""The Devil's Alternative"", ""The Fist of God"", ""Icon"", ""The Veteran"", ""Avenger"", ""The Afghan"", ""The Cobra"" and ""The Kill List"". Forsyth's works frequently appear on best-sellers lists and more than a dozen of his titles have been adapted to film. He has sold more than 70 million books in total. The son of a furrier,"
"the novel ""The Day of the Jackal"" by Frederick Forsyth, and its film adaptation. The story deals primarily with a fictional assassination plot against De Gaulle, where the organisation hires a British contract killer (the Jackal) to kill De Gaulle. Bastien-Thiry and the Petit-Clamart plot figure prominently in the early sections of the story. Forsyth also mentions the OAS in ""The Dogs of War"", with several of its protagonists having joined the movement. The fictional Colonel Rodin from ""Jackal"" is also alluded to. The OAS also featured prominently in Jack Higgins' ""Wrath of the Lion"", in which the organization fictionally"
"journalism. His first full-length novel, ""The Day of the Jackal"", was published in 1971. It became an international bestseller and gained its author the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel. In this book, the ""Organisation Armée Secrète"" hires an assassin to kill then-French President Charles de Gaulle. It was made into a film of the same name. In Forsyth's second full-length novel, ""The Odessa File"" (1972), a reporter attempts to track down an ex-Nazi SS officer in modern Germany. The reporter discovers him via the diary of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who committed suicide earlier, but he is being"
"The Day of the Jackal The Day of the Jackal (1971) is a thriller novel by English writer Frederick Forsyth about a professional assassin who is contracted by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to kill Charles de Gaulle, the President of France. The novel received admiring reviews and praise when first published in 1971, and it received a 1972 Best Novel Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The novel remains popular, and in 2003 it was listed on the BBC's survey The Big Read. The OAS does exist as described in the novel, and the book"
"clearly done in each case—became a success, and he followed it up with ""The Man of Property"" (1906), the first book of a Forsyte trilogy. Although he continued writing both plays and novels, it was as a playwright that he was mainly appreciated at the time. Along with those of other writers of the period, such as George Bernard Shaw, his plays addressed the class system and other social issues, two of the best known being ""Strife"" (1909) and ""The Skin Game"" (1920). He is now far better known for his novels, particularly ""The Forsyte Saga"", his trilogy about the"
"novel ""Goshawk Squadron"" (1971) by Derek Robinson depicts a British air-force unit in the closing months of World War I and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ""Three Cheers for Me"" (1962) and its sequel ""That's Me in the Middle"" (1973) by Donald Jack, are narrated by fictional Canadian air ace Bart Bandy; both won the Leacock Medal. Canadian novelist Timothy Findley's novel of the conflict ""The Wars"" was published in 1977 and it received his country's top award for literature. ""War Horse"" (1982) by Michael Morpurgo is set in World War I and won the Whitbread Book Award for"
"novel, the Permanent Under-Secretary of State (PUSS) of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office requires the Chief of the SIS to push Sam into early retirement. The four stories are presented to a grievance committee in an attempt to allow Sam to stay on active duty with the SIS. In 1994, Forsyth published ""The Fist of God"", a novel which concerns the first Gulf War. Next, in 1996, he published ""Icon"", about the rise of fascists to power in post-Soviet Russia. In 1999, Forsyth published ""The Phantom of Manhattan"", a sequel to ""The Phantom of the Opera"". It was intended as"
"about that brutal civil war during which Nigeria fought to prevent the secession of its eastern province, was published as a paperback by Penguin Books in late 1969. To Forsyth's disappointment, however, the book sold very few copies and so with the arrival of the 1970s the then 31-year-old freelance journalist, international adventurer, and onetime youngest (at 19) fighter pilot in the RAF found himself both out of work and ""flat broke"". To solve his financial problems he thus decided to try his hand at fiction by writing a political thriller as a ""one-off"" project to ""clear his debts"". Unlike"
"In several of his novels, Forsyth ridicules the C.I.A. and the ""subservient"" camp of the British S.I.S. as being over-awed by technology, such as sigint and satellite photography, and regarding spying through human agents as a thing of the past. Whereas experienced field agents like McCready know that these approaches can be avoided or fooled, and it takes a human agent to gather reliable intelligence. In Forsyth's subsequent novel, ""The Fist of God"", taking place during the Persian Gulf War, the Americans and British become suddenly (even comically) aware of the inadequacy of these approaches in giving them real insight"
"The Book of the War The Book of the War is a hypertext multi-author novel presented in the form of an encyclopedia of the first 50 years of the War in the Faction Paradox universe based on the ""Doctor Who"" universe. The book was edited by Lawrence Miles, and written by Miles, Simon Bucher-Jones, Daniel O'Mahony, Ian McIntire, Mags L. Halliday, Helen Fayle, Philip Purser-Hallard, Kelly Hale, Jonathan Dennis, and Mark Clapham. Although various plot threads can be found in the book, its real value lies in the wealth of ideas on display. It's primarily a guide to many of"
"""derring-do entertainment with a political message."" Publishers Weekly lauded the novel for using historical facts into a gripping what-if thriller. The Fist of God The Fist of God is a 1994 suspense novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, based loosely around the Iraqi Project Babylon and the resulting ""supergun"". Featuring a story set during the Persian Gulf War, the novel details an Allied effort to find a suspected Iraqi nuclear weapon. The story features the brothers Mike and Terry Martin who also appear in Forsyth's 2006 novel ""The Afghan"". Dr. Gerald Bull designs a supergun codenamed Project Babylon for Iraq."
"spy novels who depicted a shadowy world of espionage and counter-espionage, and his best known novel ""The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"" (1963), is often regarded as one of the greatest in the genre. Frederick Forsyth writes thriller novels and Ken Follett writes spy thrillers as well as historical novels, notably ""The Pillars of the Earth"" (1989). War novels include Alistair MacLean thriller's ""The Guns of Navarone"" (1957), ""Where Eagles Dare"" (1968), and Jack Higgins' ""The Eagle Has Landed"" (1975). Patrick O'Brian's nautical historical novels feature the ""Aubrey–Maturin series"" set in the Royal Navy. Ronald Welch's Carnegie Medal"
"war, involving rival paratime empires, was developed in Fritz Leiber's Change War series, starting with the Hugo Award winning ""The Big Time"" (1958); followed by Richard C. Meredith's ""Timeliner"" trilogy in the 1970s, Michael McCollum's ""A Greater Infinity"" (1982) and John Barnes' ""Timeline Wars"" trilogy in the 1990s. Such ""paratime"" stories may include speculation that the laws of nature can vary from one universe to the next, providing a science fictional explanation—or veneer—for what is normally fantasy. Aaron Allston's ""Doc Sidhe"" and ""Sidhe Devil"" take place between our world, the ""grim world"" and an alternate ""fair world"" where the Sidhe"
"most novelists, however, Forsyth would employ the same type of research techniques that he had used as an investigative reporter to bring a sense of increased reality to his work of fiction, a story which he first began to consider writing in 1962–63 while posted to Paris as a young Reuters foreign correspondent. When Forsyth arrived in 1962, French President Charles de Gaulle had just granted independence to Algeria to end the eight-year Algerian War, a highly controversial act that had incurred the wrath of the anti-decolonisation paramilitary group ""Organisation Armée Secrète"" (OAS) which then vowed to assassinate him. Forsyth"
"What's Become of Waring What’s Become of Waring is the fifth novel by the English writer Anthony Powell. It is his final novel of the 1930s, and the only one not published by Powell’s first employer and publisher, Duckworth. Published in 1939, Powell’s book was overshadowed by international events, limiting sales. Nonetheless, it marks a significant step in Powell’s development, anticipating his masterpiece, ""A Dance to the Music of Time"", via the introduction of the self-effacing first-person narrator. The title of the book is also the first line of the poem ""Waring"" by Robert Browning. ""What’s Become of Waring"" is"
"the War with a morbid outlook on death. Michael spends increasing time with his school friends and chafes at Barries's desire to keep him close; he drowns short of his 21st birthday. In later years, Barrie suffers loneliness but takes some measure of enjoyment in the company of the young son of his secretary, Lady Cynthia Asquith (Sheila Ruskin). Each of the boys is portrayed by a series of young actors as the years pass within the story: Writer Andrew Birkin had been hired to work on a musical adaptation of ""Peter Pan"" starring Mia Farrow and Danny Kaye. Wishing"
"who made war in the air, on the sea, and in key theatres such as the Pacific Ocean and Asia integral to the war novel. Among the most successful American war novels were Herman Wouk's ""The Caine Mutiny"", James Jones's ""From Here to Eternity"", and Hemingway's ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", the latter a novel set in the Spanish Civil War. Among more recent European novels is ""Ukraine - In the Time of War"", by Sonia Campbell-Gillies which has seen a sudden upsurge in demand since the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Ukraine's war-torn history is mirrored in the struggle"
"The Parafaith War The Parafaith War (1996) is a science fiction novel by American writer L. E. Modesitt, Jr.. It is set in a future where humanity has spread to the stars and divided into several factions. Two factions, the Eco-Tech Coalition and the Revenants of the Prophet (""revs"") are engaged in a futile war over territory and their competing social philosophies. The ecologically-aware Coalition must hold back the zealous rev hordes constantly seeking new territory for their ever-expanding theocratic society. The protagonist, Trystin Desoll, is a lieutenant in the Service, the military of the Eco-Tech Coalition. He is an"
"hand, blood in his mouth, and a bullet in his chest"". While researching the story of ""The Dogs of War"", Frederick Forsyth pretended to be preparing a ""coup d'état"" against Equatorial Guinea on behalf of the Igbo people whom he passionately supports; he was told it would cost 240,000 US dollars. Five years after the 1973 attempted ""coup d'état"", Forsyth's research was subject of a feature story in the London ""Times"", in 1978, that posited he had commissioned the operation in earnest; many people believed he was planning a real ""coup d'état"" in Equatorial Guinea. Later, Forsyth said that arms"
"work of art and a passionate indictment of the first cruel idiocy of the twentieth century."" Vanderhaeghe also sets ""The Wars"" in the context of other works of historical war fiction. His main distinction between ""The Wars"" and works like ""War and Peace"", ""The Naked and the Dead"", ""From Here to Eternity"", ""For Whom the Bell Tolls"", and ""A Farewell to Arms"" is the compressed size of ""The Wars"", usually being under two hundred pages (depending on the edition). Vanderhaeghe points towards Erich Maria Remarque's ""All Quiet on the Western Front"" as being perhaps the only other work to ""so"
"Fadiman compared ""The Big War"" to ""The Naked and the Dead"". ""Commonweal"" compared it to ""War and Peace"" and ""The Red Badge of Courage"". The ""Boston Herald"" described it as a modern ""Iliad"". The ""New York Times"" called it ""almost never exciting"". This novel became the basis for the 1958 movie ""In Love and War"", starring Robert Wagner Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman and Hope Lange. The Big War The Big War is the second novel of Anton Myrer, published by Appleton-Century-Crofts in 1957. While Myrer is best known for his 1968 novel ""Once an Eagle"", this was his first commercial"
"The Fist of God The Fist of God is a 1994 suspense novel by British writer Frederick Forsyth, based loosely around the Iraqi Project Babylon and the resulting ""supergun"". Featuring a story set during the Persian Gulf War, the novel details an Allied effort to find a suspected Iraqi nuclear weapon. The story features the brothers Mike and Terry Martin who also appear in Forsyth's 2006 novel ""The Afghan"". Dr. Gerald Bull designs a supergun codenamed Project Babylon for Iraq. He believes that it is for launching Arab satellites into space and that it could serve no military purpose because"
"The Dogs of War (film) The Dogs of War is a 1980 war film based upon the 1974 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth. Largely filmed in Belize, it was directed by John Irvin and starred Christopher Walken and Tom Berenger. In it a small mercenary unit of soldiers is privately hired to depose the president of a fictional African country so that a British tycoon can gain access to a platinum deposit. The title is based on a phrase from William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar: ""Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war."" Having escaped from"
"novel, ""High Tension"" (1938), was a critical success but less successful financially. His novel ""The Winter War"" (1961), about the 1877 winter campaign of the U.S. Army against the Sioux in Montana, was at the time of its publication a popular western and was awarded the Spur Award of the Western Writers of America. He also published a non-fiction book, ""Ultra"" in 1980, also based on his World War II experiences as an intelligence officer. His other books were ""The Honorable Rocky Slade"" (1955), ""Target"" (1964), and ""The Image"" (1968). His filmography credits are ""Alibi Ike"" (1935), ""Man of Iron"""
"Fortunes of War (novel series) Fortunes of War is the name given to a series of six novels by Olivia Manning that describe the experiences of a young married couple early in World War II. The series is made up of two trilogies: the books ""The Great Fortune"" (1960), ""The Spoilt City"" (1962), and ""Friends and Heroes"" (1965) comprise The Balkan Trilogy, while ""The Danger Tree"" (1977), ""The Battle Lost and Won"" (1978), and ""The Sum of Things"" (1980) comprise The Levant Trilogy. The novels were based on Manning's personal experiences during the war. The novels describe the experiences of"
"of the Last War provides details on the events, armies, battlefields, and themes of Eberron's greatest clash of nations. ""The Forge of War"" was written by James Wyatt, Ari Marmell, Wolfgang Baur, and published in June 2007. Cover art was by Wayne Reynolds, with interior art by David Bircham, Tomm Coker, Arnold Doong, Tomás Giorello, Fred Hooper, Ron Lemen, Howard Lyon, Lucio Parrillo, Jim Pavelec, Martina Pilcerova, Franz Vohwinkel, and James Zhang. The Forge of War The Forge of War is a supplement to the 3.5 edition of the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" role-playing game. ""The Forge of War"" is an"
"of all time, after Kipling's ""Kim"". It was one of the early invasion novels, ""... a story with a purpose"" in the author's own words, written from ""a patriot's natural sense of duty"", which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The whole genre of ""invasion novels"" raised the public's awareness of the ""potential threat"" of Imperial Germany. Although the belief has grown that the book was responsible for the development of the naval base at Rosyth, the novel was published in May 1903, two months after the purchase of the land for the Rosyth naval base was"
"The Kill List The Kill List is a novel by Frederick Forsyth published in 2013 by Random House. The story concerns the response to murders by Muslim radicals. A number of random mid-level authority figures in the United States and Great Britain are brutally murdered by Muslim extremists, all of whom seem to have been radicalized by the online sermons of a mysterious veiled man known only as ""the Preacher"". Perplexed by his unknown origins and his flawless command of the English language, the U.S. government soon places him on the Kill List, a list approved by the President and"
"Wrath of the Lion Wrath of the Lion is a 1964 thriller novel by Jack Higgins. Like the more famous ""The Day of the Jackal"" by Frederick Forsyth, the background to Higgins' book is the last ditch effort by the OAS, a French dissident paramilitary organisation, to take revenge on Charles de Gaulle, the President of France, for his having granted independence to Algeria and ended French rule there. The OAS has managed to suborn the crew of a French Navy submarine, the ""L'Alouette"". From a secret hideout in the British-ruled Channel Islands, an aristocratic OAS commander, Philippe de Beumont,"
"politico–military novels ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1971) by Frederick Forsyth and ""Eye of the Needle"" (1978) by Ken Follett. With the explosion of technology, Craig Thomas, launched the techno-thriller with ""Firefox"" (1977), describing the Anglo–American theft of a superior Soviet jet aeroplane. Other important British writers who first became active in spy fiction during this period include Ian Mackintosh, ""A Slaying in September"" (1967); Kenneth Benton, ""Twenty-fourth Level"" (1969); Desmond Bagley, ""Running Blind"" (1970); Anthony Price, ""The Labyrinth Makers"" (1971); Gerald Seymour, ""Harry's Game"" (1975); Brian Freemantle, ""Charlie M"" (1977); Bryan Forbes, ""Familiar Strangers"" (1979); Reginald Hill, ""The Spy's"
"war and was unable to reconcile himself with it. Stephen J. Adams writes that, just as Eliot denied he was Prufrock, so Pound denied he was Mauberley, but the work can nevertheless be read as autobiographical. It begins with a satirical analysis of the London literary scene, before turning to social criticism, economics, and an attack on the causes of the war; here the word ""usury"" appears in his work for the first time. The critic F. R. Leavis saw the poem as Pound's major achievement. The war had shattered Pound's belief in modern western civilization. He saw the Vorticist"