1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the \"freight dogs\" gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and Belgium who transport weapons between warring African nations, without allegiance. And tonight they have a new recruit - Manu, a nineteen-year-old cowherd fleeing Congo\"s bloody war....

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The D-Day landings - the future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions in the English Channel on a single day. Henry Meadows, a young maths prodigy from the Met Office, is charged with finding Wallace Ryman, the man who can predict turbulence, the wild card in weather forecasting....

At the start of World War One, German warships controlled Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa. The British had no naval craft at all upon \"Tanganjikasee\", as the Germans called it. This mattered: it was the longest lake in the world and of......

In den Fangen des unberechenbaren Diktators Der junge Arzt Nicholas Garrigan lauft wahrend des Militarputsches 1971 in Uganda dem neuen Machthaber Idi Amin buchstablich in die Arme und verstrickt sich als dessen Leibarzt schnell im Herrschaftssystem des selbsternannten \"Konigs von Schottland\"....