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Mad Mitch's Tribal Law

- Aden and the End of Empire
Af: Aaron Edwards Engelsk Paperback

Mad Mitch's Tribal Law

- Aden and the End of Empire
Af: Aaron Edwards Engelsk Paperback
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Aden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the midday sun. The bodies of British soldiers litter the road. Thick black smoke bellows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are fighting the British-backed Federation government. Crater had come to symbolise Arab nationalist defiance in the face of the world’s most powerful empire.

Hovering 2,000 ft. above the smouldering destruction, a tiny Scout helicopter surveys the scene. Its passenger is the recently arrived Commanding Officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell. Soon the world’s media would christen him ‘Mad Mitch’, in recognition of his controversial reoccupation of Crater two weeks later.

Mad Mitch was truly a man out of his time. Supremely self-confident and debonair, he was an empire builder, not dismantler, and railed against the national malaise he felt had gripped Britain’s political establishment. Drawing on a wide array of never-before-seen archival sources and eyewitness testimonies, Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law tells the remarkable story of inspiring leadership, loyalty and betrayal in the final days of British Empire. It is, above all, a shocking account of Britain’s forgotten war on terror.

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Aden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the midday sun. The bodies of British soldiers litter the road. Thick black smoke bellows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are fighting the British-backed Federation government. Crater had come to symbolise Arab nationalist defiance in the face of the world’s most powerful empire.

Hovering 2,000 ft. above the smouldering destruction, a tiny Scout helicopter surveys the scene. Its passenger is the recently arrived Commanding Officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell. Soon the world’s media would christen him ‘Mad Mitch’, in recognition of his controversial reoccupation of Crater two weeks later.

Mad Mitch was truly a man out of his time. Supremely self-confident and debonair, he was an empire builder, not dismantler, and railed against the national malaise he felt had gripped Britain’s political establishment. Drawing on a wide array of never-before-seen archival sources and eyewitness testimonies, Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law tells the remarkable story of inspiring leadership, loyalty and betrayal in the final days of British Empire. It is, above all, a shocking account of Britain’s forgotten war on terror.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9781780577005
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1780577001
Kategori: 1960 til 1969
Udg. Dato: 5 nov 2015
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 197mm
Højde: 127mm
Forlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd
Oplagsdato: 5 nov 2015
Forfatter(e): Aaron Edwards
Forfatter(e) Aaron Edwards

Kategori 1960 til 1969

ISBN-13 9781780577005

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 27mm

Bredde 197mm

Højde 127mm

Udg. Dato 5 nov 2015

Oplagsdato 5 nov 2015

Forlag Transworld Publishers Ltd