Mad Mike
Autor David Rooneyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 apr 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399016933
ISBN-10: 1399016938
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 1399016938
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 157 x 234 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Notă biografică
David Rooney saw war service in India and West Africa as a Captain in the Queen's Royal Regiment. After the war he read history at Keble College, Oxford, and went on to a teaching career in Belfast, Germany and England, including four years as a Senior Lecturer at Sandhurst. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and continues to lecture and write.
Descriere
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the Burma campaign of 1942-45 will have heard not only of General Orde Wingate and the Chindits, but also of Mad Mike Calvert, Wingate's most intrepid column commander. His success in Burma, followed by his time with the SAS in Europe, had made Calvert one of the best known soldiers in the army. However, Calvert's life was to fall apart when he was convicted of gross indecency and dismissed the service. To the end of his days he maintained that the whole thing was a setup and it is vastly to the credit of the industrious David Rooney that he was proved, as far as it is possible after such a great passage of time, that this was indeed the case. Nothing could ever remove the suffering unjustly inflicted on this very gallant soldier, however this book goes along way to clear his name, if not officially, at least in the public mind.