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Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion - Softcover

Smith, C; Bierman, J

 
9780330367554: Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia and Zion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0330367552 ISBN 13: 9780330367554
Verlag: MacMillan, 2001

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Orde Charles Wingate. Winston Churchill thought him a military genius; others considered him greatly over-rated; a few even thought him mad. His overriding passion was for Zionism, a cause which he embraced when posted to British-ruled Palestine in 1936. There he raised the Special Night Squads, an irregular force which decimated Arab rebel bands and taught a future generation of Israeli generals (including Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin) how to fight. In 1941, Wingate led another guerrilla-style force into Italian-occupied Ethiopia and was instrumental in restoring Emperor Haile Selassie to his throne. But his most famous campaign was conducted behind enemy lines in Burma, where his Chindits shattered the myth of Japanese invincibility in jungle fighting. A brilliant maverick, Wingate was a difficult if not impossible subordinate. He was also - as this riveting new study reveals - an inspiring leader.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Colin Smith is a veteran news correspondent and currently lives in Cyprus, now quiescent but one of the many late-twentieth-century trouble spots on which Colin reported as roving correspondent for The Observer. He is the author of Fire in the Night, a biography of Orde Charles Wingate which he co-wrote with John Bierman.

John Bierman was a veteran reporter and historian. He co-authored several books with fellow journalist Colin Smith, including Fire in the Night and Alamein: War Without Hate. He spent his later years based in Cyprus. John Bierman died in January 2006.

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Verlag
MacMillan
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0330367552
ISBN 13 
9780330367554
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448
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