Terence J Kelly

Hurricane in Sumatra

Long Live the Spy

The Spy Is Dead

Voyage Beyond Belief

Hurricane over the Jungle

Properjohn

The Genki Boys

The Carib Sands

And We Hope You Like Shamans, Too: The Secret Life of Mother Nature

Award-winning journalists Jeffery Pritchett and Andy Colvin recently invited a number of prominent shamans onto their wild and woolly New Orleans radio show, The Church of Mabus, in order to get a handle on the popular “occult” and “rave” scenes. "And We Hope You Like Shamans, Too: The Secret Life o...

Battle for Palembang

'A writer who ought not to be overlooked.' - THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. Sumatra was strategically vital to the Japanese for their planned advance on Java, and the town of Palembang was the key. Japanese paratroops attempted to seize the local airfield, but were opposed by a handful of pilots, ...

Hurricane and Spitfire Pilots at War

Most people asked to name one British Second World War airplane would say the Spitfire. Yet the Hawker Hurricane flew in greater numbers, in more variants and in more theaters than the redoubtable Spitfire.Adrian Stewart has researched the evolution of the Hurricane from its 1935 maiden flight throu...

By Hellship to Hiroshima

Taken prisoner in Java, Terence Kelly’s captivity was full of incident. He was witness to barbaric cruelty and suffering particularly on the journey packed into a filthy cargo ship under atrocious and inhumane conditions.Once in Japan, he was a slave in the Hitachi shipyards where he got to know ot...

Nine Lives of a Fighter Pilot

This book traces the wartime career of the author, who flew Hawker Hurricanes in several operational theatres. It covers eight major flying incidents when either good luck or quick reaction narrowly averted disaster. Situations include: emerging from cloud over the sea with instruments adrift and no...

Framing Democracy: A Behavioral Approach to Democratic Theory

The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects--the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political...

Hurricane over the Jungle: 120 Days Fighting the Japanese Onslaught in 1942

This is the author's personal account of how the 22 pilots of No 258 Squadron RAF left Scotland in late October 1941 until 120 days later when all those who had not been killed became prisoners of the Japanese. The story takes us to the final defense of Singapore and then on to Sumatra and Java wher...

Hurricanes Versus Zeros: Air Battles over Singapore, Sumatra and Java

In this book the author not only tells his story of flying against the Japanese but he succeeds in painting a much wider picture embracing the events leading up to and during the Japanese invasion of Singapore and the Dutch West Indies.