The true story of the men who fought Britain's most secret battle. A Sunday Times bestseller. For the very first time, The War That Never Was tells the fascinating story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s. In a covert operation organised over whisky and sodas in the clubs of Chelsea and Mayfair, a group of former SAS officers - led by the irrepressible Colonel Jim Johnson - arranged for a squadron of British mercenaries to travel to the remote mountain regions of the Yemen, to arm, train and lead Yemeni tribesmen in their fight against a 60,000-strong contingent of Egyptian soldiers. It was one of the most uneven running battles ever waged; the Egyptians fielded a huge, professionally-trained army. The British fought back at the head of a ragtag force of tribal warriors and, ultimately, won. Egypt's President Nasser described the battle in the Yemen as 'my Vietnam'. It's a fascinating, forgotten, and rip-roaringly entertaining pocket of British military history, much in the spirit of Ben MvIntyre's bestselling Agent Zigzag and Operation Mincemeat.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornerstone
ISBN-13
9780099553298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
178051753
Product Key Features
Book Title
The War That Never Was
Author
Duff Hart-Davis
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Government, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
300 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Duff Hart-Davis
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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