Emergency Blip

Here I am, again, with no photographs taken at 17:40  and it's pitch black outside!
I looked up and saw a small section of my bookcase and thought, "Ah, I could blip some of my more readable books". I'm not counting the plethora of 007 Bond books I have, I can read them over and over without getting fed up, even the non-Fleming ones which have been written since his death. On that note, even the 'Young Bond' books are a good read, written by Charlie Higson.
The books, in the blip, include some authors that I've met. Ranulph Fiennes was an incredibly interesting person who I spent just a few minutes with at an event in London. And again, a few minutes, with Rowland White who wrote "Vulcan 607" about the first Black Buck mission to the Falklands, an operation that was carried out 30 April/01 May, before the task force arrived.
"Soldier I" is an incredibly interesting book by Michael Paul Kennedy who was ghost writing with Pete Winner telling Pete's experiences with 22 SAS ('The Regiment'). This is quite a different story because I spent a few hours with Pete Winner when I gave him a lift from Hereford to Harrogate, and back, door to door when he was our guest speaker at the second AGM/Gala Dinner reunion of the Oman RAF Veterans Association. You can imagine it was a very interesting drive as I quizzed him about his time in the SAS, and why he volunteered for it, he was originally REME (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers). It's a fascinating book about the SAS training, his first conflict (Battle of Mirbat in Oman), undercover during the Northern Island conflict, the Iranian Embassy siege in London, parachuting into the South Atlantic to fight in the Falklands etc. It also covers his time after leaving the Army. Highly recommended, if you like that sort of thing. The title, 'Soldier I' was his pseudonym during the Iranian Embassy Siege enquiry after the event.
You can read the foreword to his book HERE - Click on 'Read Sample' under the picture of the book front.
One book is missing, '7 Pillars of Wisdom' by T.E.Lawrence. Lawrence is my number one British hero very closely followed by Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson.
I read his book some time ago but, I think, I must have got it from a library or it would most definitely be on this bookshelf. It can be hard going at times but still fascinating.