Oliver Palmer is a successful life improvement coach who uses hypnotherapy techniques with his clients to achieve their goals and provide solutions to deep rooted personal issues. His Monday morning appointment on paper appeared routine, just a client who wanted to quit smoking. Very quickly into their first session he soon realised that this was not going to be the routine appointment that he first assumed. This particular client had a dark past, which was soon to come back and haunt him, dragging Oliver Palmer along in the process. He now found himself embroiled within a situation that seemed impossible to get out of. Caught up in all the confusion he is presented with a moral dilemma, that will eventually change his life forever.

His perilous march to find Livingstone, his explorations on the Congo, his wonderful work in the Congo state, together with a concise and fascinating account of African tribes and a complete history of his latest and most interesting expedition.

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable. In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a riveting re-creation of the run-up to war, Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.

Sheds new light on Sarajevo as a cosmopolitan gem deserving of a central role in the world's cultural, social, and political history