Many Parts: The Life and Travels of a Soldier, Engineer and Arbitrator in Africa and Beyond

by Desmond FitzGerald

This full and engaging memoir covers Desmond Fitzgerald's eventful life from his birth during the First World War to shortly before his death at the beginning of the next millennium. Some of his earliest memories are of his childhood in Africa and he maintained a lifelong fascination with the continent, despite interludes in Britain. He served with the Royal Engineers in the Second World War, travelling extensively in Africa and the Middle East, and subsequently returned to Africa, first as a soldier and then as an engineer, living and working in many different countries. This entertaining autobiography of civilian life in Africa is full of vivid portraits of the author's family and friends and a world and a time which has changed forever.

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 9, 2007

About the author

Desmond John Villiers FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, was an Irish hereditary knight and president of the Irish Georgian Society.

FitzGerald was the last Black Knight; as he had no sons and the title cannot be passed to a daughter, the title was extinguished with his death.