Aden Insurgency: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962-67: The Savage War in South Arabia 1962-87 |
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Jonathan Walker
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Pages: 332 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1862272255
Pub: The History Press Ltd
Pub date: 2004-11-01
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 188865
Reader Reviews:
A worthwhile account of an almost forgotten conflict. (16/16 people found this helpful)
As British influence and colonial power throughout the Middle East diminished in the 1960s, the strategic military base of Aden soon became a battle ground at the centre of a bloody war that no side could possibly win outright.
Jonathan Walker is a member of the British Commission for Military History and an Honorary Research Associate at the University of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies who has a number of acclaimed works to his credit. He is, therefore, well qualified to write a book about Britain's last colonial conflict and, all things considered, appears to have produced a most thorough job of work.
Commencing with an all-important explanation of the Kingdom of Sheba, the author steers the reader quite expertly through the cause, condition and eventual outcome of the conflict in a book containing almost 300 pages of narrative plus those equally important explanations and further detail found in the appendices at the end.
Personally, I was just as pleased to find a full and frank account of that well known, though often misunderstood and misquoted, contribution made by Lt. Colonel Colin Mitchell and the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders as I was to discover some of the horrific injuries and assassinations visited upon British civilian staff and their families.
The text is supported with a carefully chosen and relevant selection of photographs found together in the middle of the book and, altogether, this product should please most readers for it's factual accuracy and clarity of delivery.
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British Army Major (Retired).
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