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For many years a succession of family members and friends, beginningmore than thirty years ago with my mother, have urged me to write anaccount of the eventful times I experienced while serving in the Army, oftenon Active Service. For a long time I resisted, partly because I was so busywith other commitments, but eventually I made a start and this book is theresult.After joining the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, or ‘Fighting Fifth’,in 1939 I soon came to accept its motto,Quo Fata Vocant – Wherever the Fates Call.In mythology The Fates were conceived as three sisters who supervised thefate of mortals and some classical poets wrote of them as more powerfuleven than the Gods. Clotho, the youngest, presided over the moment ofbirth and influenced the pattern of bright and dark strands in the thread oflife. Lachesis, the second, spun and twisted the thread and under her fingersit became now strong, now weak. Finally, Atropos, the eldest and mostinexorable, armed with a pair of shears, remorselessly severed the thread oflife at the moment of destiny

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Author

Major General Dare Wilson

Publisher

Pen and Sword Military

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781597330

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography