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Unofficial History field-Mrshall Sir William Slim

Af: John Douglas Engelsk Paperback

Unofficial History field-Mrshall Sir William Slim

Af: John Douglas Engelsk Paperback
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Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy's unusually poor shooting. The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous fights with the British and that they had failed to sight the guns to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Now, having calculated the adjustment, they would be delighted to demonstrate their bull's-eye accuracy any time the British wanted. "One cannot help feeling," Slim says, "that the fellows who wrote that ought to be on our side." Slim genuinely enjoyed his virtually blood-free skirmishes with such foes as the Turks, the Wazirs and the Italians in 1940 Ethiopia.
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Like most members of the professional military freemasonry, Slim came to admire "all the soldiers of different races who have fought with me and most of those who have fought against me." Among the most likable of his enemies were the Wazirs of India's Northwest Frontier. In 1920, Slim took part in a retaliatory raid on an obscure village. It was an unusually easy victory over the canny Wazirs, whom the British took by surprise and escaped from with scant loss. Afterwards, in the casual frontier way, the British sent a message to the Wazirs, expressing surprise at the enemy's unusually poor shooting. The Wazirs replied in courtly fashion that their rifles were Short Magazine Lee-Enfields captured in previous fights with the British and that they had failed to sight the guns to accord with a new stock of ammunition. Now, having calculated the adjustment, they would be delighted to demonstrate their bull's-eye accuracy any time the British wanted. "One cannot help feeling," Slim says, "that the fellows who wrote that ought to be on our side." Slim genuinely enjoyed his virtually blood-free skirmishes with such foes as the Turks, the Wazirs and the Italians in 1940 Ethiopia.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 256
ISBN-13: 9781844157914
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1844157911
Kategori: Militærhistorie
Udg. Dato: 20 sep 2008
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 157mm
Højde: 234mm
Forlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 20 sep 2008
Forfatter(e): John Douglas
Forfatter(e) John Douglas

Kategori Militærhistorie

ISBN-13 9781844157914

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 256

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 157mm

Højde 234mm

Udg. Dato 20 sep 2008

Oplagsdato 20 sep 2008

Forlag Pen & Sword Books Ltd