Tokolosi

John Skinner

2017 ж. ақп. · Xlibris Corporation

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A compelling, entertaining novel. A compassionate account of drought-stricken suffering and privation in an imaginary, least-developed African country. The description of relief and recovery activities offers readers a vivid insight of the many and varied challenges of mitigating, preparing for, responding to, and combating such crises as severe droughta description that may also assist prospective disaster managers. Peoples pleasures and their unexpected perils during that countrys emergency further illustrate life at the sharp end and blunter end. But remain aware, readers, that the narratora university tutorleads a double life.

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While a research fellow at Oxford University, the author contributed to two nonfiction books: World Armies edited by John Keegan, then a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (ISBN 0-333-34079-5), and The Defense of Western Europe edited by Leo Gunn of Stanford University (ISBN 0-7099-1194-7). Between army retirement and working with the United Nations in Africa, the author’s coverage of organization and logistics in the West’s first International Military and Defense Encyclopedia (ISBN 0-02-881011-2) was published by Brassey’s (United States) Inc.