Title: General of Fortune
Description: A well-written book.  Placing together the life of Frank Sutton, who rose and fell both financially and personally on many occasions through out his life.  His exploits in  Argentine, Siberia, China and Canada to name a few.  He lived in times that were ruthless.  His huge stature, good looks, sheer doggedness determination would have made him nothing short of a nuisance in these times.  He was named One-Arm Sutton after loosing his hand at Gallipoli.  The Turks were tossing crude bombs into the allied trenches, Frank noted the time delay, and started to pick up the bombs or, eventually, catching them and throwing them back.  The Turks shortened a fuse and threw it short of the trench, Frank leaned out, realised the threat and tried to force the bomb into the ground, it blew his hand off.  Think that was brave? Just read the book.  I do not read much, but I could not put this book down.  I am looking for more titles by the same author.
Subjects: Arms Dealer, Inventor, Miner, General to Chang Tso-lin 'The Old Marshal' war-lord of Manchuria
Places: Argentine, Siberia, China, Canada, America, Hong Kong, Korea
People: Francis Arthur Sutton (1884-1944), Two Gun Cohen, Chang Hsueh-liang, Chang Tso-lin, Cahng Tsung-chang, Chang kai-shek, Feng Yu-hsiang, Sun Chuan-fang, Sun yat-sen, Tso Kun, Wu Pei-fu, Winston Churchhill, Llyod George, Andrew-the Greek
Time periods: 1884-1944