' The West that Henry mourned belonged to the Western movie, where the land & the cattle went to their proper guardians & brought a fortune in respect & power. It was a West where the best cowboy got to shoot the meanest outlaw, woo the prettiest schoolteacher, bed her briefly to produce sons, & then ignore her for the finer company of other cowboys
- a West as sentimental & as brutal as the people who made a virtue of that curious combination of qualities & called it the American experience. ' From the Introduction Henry Blanton is the 'last cowboy' of Jane Kramer's classic portrait, the failed hero of his own mythology, the man who ends an era for himself. His story
- his flawed, funny, & in the end tragic efforts to be a proper cowboy, 'expressin' right' in a world where the range is a feed yard & college boys run ranches from air-conditioned Buicks -is the story of a country coming of age in great promise & greater disappointment. A hundred & fifty miles up the highway from agri-business Amarillo, Henry claimed the extravagant prerogatives of a free man on a horse. He rode his own frontier, decked out in his vigilance & his honour, until the shocking moment when in the person of Henry Blanton the West & the Western had a showdown.

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THE LAST ENEMY recounts Richard Hillary's experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he was shot down & spent months in hospital, undergoing operations to rebuild his face & hands. It was published in 1942, seven months before his death in a second crash. ...

THE LAST ENEMY recounts Richard Hillary's experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he was shot down & spent months in hospital, undergoing operations to rebuild his face & hands. It was published in 1942, seven months before his death in a second crash. ...