Please God, Which Side is Up?

By William Harris

"Please God, Which Side is Up?" is the memoir of an ordinary family man, who relates here snatches of his life from his invalid childhood in Scotland to training as a commando in the Royal Marines, to working as a journalist in Africa in the unsophisticated ‘50s and '60s; and latterly as a public relations specialist in South Africa - so that his grandchildren may know something about him and the life he has lived. It has not been an ordinary life...

The author relates with sincerity - and sometimes disarming candour - his experiences and adventures as a boy dancing with the "ghosties" on Culloden Moor; serving with the elite 3 Commando Brigade in Malta; covering the chaotic, exciting and often comic events in Kenya during the Mau Mau Rebellion - or in Ian Smith's collapsing Rhodesia; and promoting the historic flight of a highly flammable hydrogen balloon over the mighty Drakensberg mountains in South Africa.

This is a warm and whimsical story that will transport you to the countries and (frequently weird) situations that he encountered in his rich and interesting life. These memoirs reflect his inquisitive, often provocative, stance on life - its beauty and its people, as well as the idiocy of some of our world leaders and governments - all of it begging the rhetorical question:

"Please God, which side is up?"

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley
• Release date: Aug 29, 2014
• ISBN: 9781849638401

William Harris

William Harris is not a writer, but individual who has observed the insanity that has been plaguing this world, our planet for millenniums. In an effort to make sense of the madness he began researching and investigating past civilizations starting with Sumer where the first words were written. Sumer used cosmology and various other sciences and they were highly technologically advance civilization. Harris wondered why such an advanced civilization would disappear from the earth and not just Sumer, but others that came afterward. Harris discovered that the patterns within the structures of the various societies were almost identical and realized that today's societies, nations, etc. too followed the same design. Harris fears that today the world is heading down that very same path as the preceding nations and he feels that with all that is currently going on the world as we know it soon will be coming to an end. So, he wrote this book to reach out to all mankind to share with them his findings many which we are already aware of, but too afraid to do anything about it, or are just not aware what to do about the situations or how to proceed. Harris is hoping that the look into his insight will help open mankind's eyes as well as their hearts to get them to take back the life that GOD gave them. What Harris's research has concluded, is that one individual cannot save us, not even a few, but with all of us together we can make this the world that GOD intended for us.