On 17 April 1986 a British television journalist was kidnapped in Beirut. His name was ... more
John McCarthy and he was to remain a hostage for the next five years. During those years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved from family ...
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On 17th April 1986 John McCarthy was kidnapped in Beirut. This book describes the five ... more
years which he spent as a hostage, and its effects on those closest to him, especially his girlfriend, Jill Morrell. It also describes her campaign to free him and all the other British hostages in Beirut.
Advantages: Details human spirit and courage against adversity Disadvantages: Eventually the couple drift apart
SomeotherRainbow is the story of the capture of JohnMcCarthy and the endeavours made by JillMorrell to ensure his release.
The book begins with John and Jill's blossoming friendship,together with some background details regarding both their careers. John and Jill work together as journalists in a television studio and the initial chapters cover a normal everyday tale of friendship turning into love, until the day that John is sent on an assignment to Beirut during the troubles there.
He is about to return home and indeed is on his way, when he is captured en route to the airport and taken hostage. The book continues with the story of his incarceration, the cruelty and torture he encountered together with one or two small acts of kindness shown to him by the occasional guard.
The following chapters give Jill's account ...
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I'm not sure why I bought this book. I'd been swept along with the country's fascination in the most strained love story to hit the headlines for many years. If it hadn't have been for JillMorrell's desperate attempts to keep people focussed on her boyfriend's situation, I doubt that his or Brian Keenan's name would be as well known as they are now, or indeed whether they would even be alive. As it was, we got to see Jill's campaigns, felt for her and in the tradition of all good romantic tales, prayed that she would marry her prince charming when he was free.
A weighty tome, the story starts with a brief introduction to their blossoming relationship, and it's established that these are two, well-suited individuals who worked hard at the profession of journalism.
JohnMcCarthy was young, good looking, charming and covering ...
Advantages: Told with a twinkle in the eye and a smile on the face Disadvantages: Why didn't I know about this sooner?
Hands up if you ever wanted to be a racing driver when you were younger? Or even if you still harbour dreams of being one? I know I certainly did. It didn't matter to me whether I was racing in rallying, Touring Cars or in Formula 1; I just wanted to be paid for driving very fast. There was a spell in my younger years where I even had a vague ambition of being a motorway policeman, for much the same reason.
Perry McCarthy had the same dream. His childhood certainly prepared him for the world of being a racing driver, as he had a daredevil streak and an eye for the ladies, even at the age of six. But this would be as close as he came to fulfilling his dream until he was 18 and had a session at Brands Hatch which proved him to be a natural driver.
From here on, Perry's life becomes a bit of a rollercoaster ride. Motor racing is ...
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ProductionYear: 1979 -Action/Adventure -Director:Stuart Rosen...
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Product details
EAN
9780552139533
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
Biography
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Title
Some Other Rainbow
Author
John McCarthy; Jill Morrell
ISBN
055213953X
Manufacturer's product description
On 17 April 1986 a British television journalist was kidnapped in Beirut. His name was John McCarthy and he was to remain a hostage for the next five years. During those years he was cut off from everything and everybody he knew and loved from family friends and perhaps above all from Jill Morrell the girl he was going to marry. For five years John McCarthy had to endure the deprivation - both physical and psychological - of captivity; the filth and the squalor of the cells in which he was kept; the agony of isolation and repeated self-examination; the pain of ignorance of not knowing if those he loved even realized he was alive. For Jill Morrell the five years of John's captivity were a different kind of hell: the initial shock and disbelief; the gradual acceptance that John had been taken and that her life was changed irrevocably that all their plans had been shattered. But even as she began to pick up the threads of her life she was refusing to give up hope.For five years she battled with the mandarins of the Foreign Office; she and a group of friends launched the Friends of John McCarthy and worked ceaselessly on the behalf of all the British hostages in the Middle East until the extraordinary day in August 1991 when John McCarthy stepped down from an aeroplane at RAF Lyneham.
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