NEW BOOK - The Rise of UKIP (print) by Bill Etheridge

NEW BOOK - The Rise of UKIP (print) by Bill Etheridge

Written by a key insider and UKIP MEP, this book takes a look at the rise of this ground breaking political party that threatens to overthrow the conventional face of British Politics.
This book covers both the history of UKIP from its birth amid the turbulent Parliamentary debates over the Maastricht Treaty in the 1990s and an analysis of the party’s current mass appeal.
In 1997, four years after forming the United Kingdom Independence Party, Alan Sked resigned as it’s Party leader claiming that they were “doomed to remain on the political fringes.” Having been formed to focus national opposition to the Maastricht Treaty, UKIP had failed to make any real impression in it’s first standing at a General Election
Two years later, at the European Elections of 1999, UKIP produced three MEPs. One of whom, a Mr Nigel Farage, would go on to lead a Party which has risen to unanticipated heights over the course of the last 12 months.
2012 became the year when UKIP grew to become the third most supported Political Party in Britain. In 2013 UKIP came close to capturing its first parliamentary seat in a by-election and topped the opinion polls for the first time. As the European elections of 2014 loom this book seeks to answer the questions about UKIP being asked by voters, pundits and politicians alike.

Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Before the Rise
Chapter 2 - The Reasons for the Rise
Chapter 3 - The Rise Begins
Chapter 4 - 2012 – A Year of Promise
Chapter 5 - The By-Election Surge
Chapter 6 - 2013 Trouble in the Tory shires
Chapter 7 - Polling Third, Coming First?
Conclusions
Acknowledgements


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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rise-UKIP-Bill-Etheridge/dp/1909698334/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404714515&sr=1-1&keywords=rise+of+ukip

Bretwalda Author LORD TEBBIT on the Andrew Marr Show - Watch the video

Bretwalda Author LORD TEBBIT on the Andrew Marr Show

Lord Tebbit reviews the papers, talks about current affairs and discusses his new novel "Ben's Story"

Watch Lord Tebbit HERE, he is on at about 7 minutes 20 seconds into the show, then moves on to talk about his book at about 19 minutes 20 seconds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b049ds95/the-andrew-marr-show-06072014

CHAPTER NINE – BEN VISITS HIS FATHER’S FLAT – ALICE GOES TO TRING

CHAPTER NINE – BEN VISITS HIS FATHER’S FLAT – ALICE GOES TO TRING

As Ben and Sam were getting up on Monday morning to go to Sam’s father’s flat, Alice Hanson was already up drinking her first cup of tea, wondering if she should telephone Clive Baker to enquire about Ben. She tried to forget about it and get on with her breakfast, but it was no good. Eventually, she pushed aside her breakfast toast and folded shut her newspaper.  She was irritated with herself. It was less than three weeks, she told herself, since she had taken the lost Labrador dog, Ben, to the police station in Exeter. She knew that Clive Baker had collected him because the police had told her so when she enquired. But what had happened since?
It was no good – her curiosity was getting the better of her. She knew that she had not imagined it all. Well, she really couldn’t have done, could she – she thought. But every now and again she had begun to doubt herself. After all, dogs can’t talk – but then, Ben had talked to her.
She just had to know. The question was how to find out without making a fool of herself. However, she looked at it, the answer was always the same. Her only contact with Ben was through Clive Baker at Canine Partners, so somehow without looking plain silly, she would have to ‘phone him and ask after the dog.
She hesitated time and time again. She half read the morning paper – hesitated again, then pulled herself together. “Come on,” she thought. “Come on – it is going 9.30 am, so Clive Baker will be in his office. The number is still on my mobile ‘phone – I’ll give him a call.”
Moments later the ‘phone rang on Clive Baker’s desk.
“It’s the old lady,” Clive’s secretary, Jean, told him. “The one who rang about Ben. Do you remember?”
Clive groaned. “Not her – the one who said the police would ring. What does she want?”
“Just to ask if Ben is alright I think,” said Jean. “Shall I put her through?”
Clive took a deep breath. “Alright – I can’t really avoid talking to her, can I?”
In a moment Miss Hanson was through to him.
“Good morning Mr Baker. I’m sorry to trouble you, but I am the lady who took Ben into the police station at Exeter and I was just wondering how he has been getting on?”
“Yes, I remember,” replied Clive. “You told me he was a remarkable dog – and that was certainly right. I’ve never known a dog learn so much so quickly as he has. He is an absolute star, isn’t he?”
Alice realised that either Ben had not told Clive his secret – or if he had, Clive was not giving much away. Hasn’t Ben told him, she wondered, or is he fishing to find out what I know? She ignored Clive’s question and asked one of her own instead.
“Have you found him a home yet?”
“Yes, he is looking after a boy of 14. He broke his back in a car crash which killed his father, so he needed a good friend. I think they are both getting on very well.”
All Alice Hanson’s training and experience in the murky world of spies and intelligence work came to her aid. In a few minutes she had wormed out of Clive Baker, the boy’s name, where he lived, how he had been injured and his father killed, and where he went to school, before he realised she had told him absolutely nothing in return.

from "Ben's Story" by Norman Tebbit

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bens-Story-Norman-Tebbit/dp/1909698725/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404455768&sr=1-1&keywords=tebbit+ben%27s+story

NEW EBOOK - The Barney & Betty Hill UFO Abduction: And The UFO Abduction Phenomenon (Bretwalda UFO Files) [Kindle Edition]

NEW EBOOK - The Barney & Betty Hill UFO Abduction: And The UFO Abduction Phenomenon (Bretwalda UFO Files) [Kindle Edition]

On the night of 19/20 September, 1961, on their way home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire from a short break in Canada, something happened to Betty and Barney Hill that began a new controversy in UFO research that continues even today.
While modern polls show that as many as four million Americans could believe they might have been abducted by aliens, back in 1966 when the first book detailing the Hill case "The Interrupted Journey" was first published, the New England couple’s claims of alien contact were almost unheard of. There had been the famous Contactees of the 1950s, men and women who claimed they had been visited by the human looking occupants of flying saucers with warnings about nuclear war and environmental concerns. But the experiences of the Hills were completely different, reporting beings that were obviously not human, and had no such messages.


Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 - The interrupted Journey
Chapter 2 - Alien Abduction
Chapter 3 - Missing Time
Chapter 4 - The Star Map
Conclusion
About the Author


About the Author
Richard Thomas is a writer of non-fiction books, magazine articles and newspaper columns. He has written articles on a wide range of subjects for the South Wales Evening Post, Alien Worlds, UFO Matrix, Mindscape, Paranormal Magazine and many other publications. Visit his website at www.richardthomas.eu.

Get your copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Barney-Betty-Hill-UFO-Abduction-ebook/dp/B00JJ5ESPK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404546354&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+hill+ufo

Lord Tebbit's Note about Ben's Story

Lord Tebbit's Note about Ben's Story

This is a story about how a boy called Sam, his help dog Ben and their friends   avenged the death of Sam’s father. It is a work of fiction, but many of the places, not least the dog school at Canine Partners do really exist.

None of the characters are real but those who knew the late Daphne Parkes, who was a brave and distinguished MI6 secret agent in Russia and Africa,  may think that Sam’s friend Alice Bacon is just a bit like her. As for Sam, sadly there all too many boys who suffer severe spinal injuries and have to cope with life confined to a wheelchair.

Sam’s friend Ben is a yellow labrador like many of the help dogs trained at Canine Partners, and perhaps he is quite a lot like my dear old friend Ben.  My Ben was as faithful as the one in this book and although he could not communicate as Sam’s dog does in this story, he often knew what I was thinking and I often knew what he was thinking too.

The real life Canine Partners is based near Haywards Heath and the help dogs they train are truly wonderful animals who help hundreds of people live full lives despite all sorts of injuries and disabilities.

Norman Tebbit

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bens-Story-Norman-Tebbit/dp/1909698725/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404455768&sr=1-1&keywords=tebbit+ben%27s+story

REVIEW of "Patterson-Gimlin Film: Fake or Fact?" in the Cryptid Casebook series

REVIEW  of "Patterson-Gimlin Film: Fake or Fact?" in the Cryptid Casebook series

Our ebook in the Cryptid Casebooks series about the famous Patterson-Gimlin film of a Bigfoot (Sasquatch) has been reviewed on the Foreteana Blog. The review begins:

"The subject of Bigfoot – the existence or non-existence thereof – is a complex and thorny one. It’s also a highly emotive subject, as last week’s BBC documentary demonstrated. It’s an emotive subject in Bigfoot’s home territory of North America, anyhow. The strongest reason for believing in something is having seen it with your own eyes... and thousands of Americans say they’ve done just that. People who haven’t seen Bigfoot – and that includes most people on this side of the Atlantic – are more likely to be skeptical: “If you can’t produce physical evidence, then it doesn’t exist.” Personally, though, I prefer to keep an open mind."

You can read the rest of the review on THIS LINK.

http://forteana-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/patterson-gimlin-film-fake-or-fact.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/JFXzu+%28Forteana%29&utm_content=FaceBook

First Ebook Sale of July - The Battle of Mons

First Ebook Sale of July - The Battle of Mons

The first ebook sold by us this month was a copy of "The Battle of Mons 1914 (Eyewitness World War 1)"

An ebook containing contemporary accounts of the first major battle fought by British troops in the First World War at Mons in 1914. Complete with explanatory glossary and background.

Britain had not fought a major war for 99 years when its army went into action in Belgium in 1914. Nobody was certain how well the British army would fare in the face of the professional German Army that had fought recent several wars, nor how the British would compare with their French Allies. At the little town of Mons the answer would come in bloody, violent and emphatic fashion.
Here contemporary accounts of the British deployment and of the fighting is given in its full original condition, along with an introductory note and an explanatory glossary by historian Leonard James.
This ebook is a must for anyone seeking to understand more about the First World War.


Contents
Introductory note by Leonard James
Chapter 1 Moltke's Strategy
Chapter 2 The British Arrive at Mons
Chapter 3 The German Tidal Wave
Glossary


About the Author

Leonard James has written dozens of books, mostly on history or military subjects for a wide audience. He is uniquely placed to analyse and comment upon the accounts used in the “Eyewitness World War 1” series.

Get you copy HERE

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Annotated-Illustrated-Eyewitness-World-ebook/dp/B00KAJHATA/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404279227&sr=1-1&keywords=bretwalda+mons