Thursday, February 17, 2011

Orde Wingate, A Man of Genius, Trevor Royle.

Orde Wingate, A Man of Genius, Trevor Royle.

A well balanced biography of one of the most fascinating but exasperating British military leaders of the Second World War, tracing his career from his inter-war days in the Sudan, through the formation of the Special Night Squads in Palestine in 1938 to the wartime conquest of Abyssinia and the famous Chindit raids in Burma. [read full review]

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