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H Jones VC: The Life & Death of an Unusual Hero - Softcover

Wilsey, John

 
9780099436690: H Jones VC: The Life & Death of an Unusual Hero
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099436698 ISBN 13: 9780099436690
Verlag: Arrow, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

'A remarkable book - a worthy tribute both to the man John Wilsey calls "an unusual hero" and to the ethos of the British Army in which he lived and died.' John Keegan in his ForewordThis is the biography of the Falklands War hero whose death in the battle for Darwin and Goose Green was one of the turning points in the whole campaign. It is written with the consent of H Jones's widow, Sara, and is published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of his death at the climax of the Falklands War. It is the story of an emblematic but complex war hero whose family history was unusual, whose army life included exposure to most of the military problems which Britain has encountered since the Second World War (including security in Northern Ireland, where H Jones was responsible for the search for Robert Nairac), and whose dramatic death and subsequent posthumous VC symbolised an extraordinary campaign which was truly the end of an era.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

General Sir John Wilsey GCB CBE DL, left the Army in 1996 as C-in-C Land Command. In this capacity he was responsible for commanding and delivering the operational capability of the British Army worldwide. He has also been Joint Commander of operations in the former republic of Yugoslavia and GOC Northern Ireland. He has taught at Sandhurst and was a close friend of H Jones. He is now Chairman of Western Provident, Vice-Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, a Commissioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea and Chairman of Salisbury Cathedral Council. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Arrow
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099436698
ISBN 13 
9780099436690
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
368
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