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Little has been written about Britain in the Horn of Africa, Malaya or West Africa. This book recounts post-war unreported military and police operations in those theatres - through the story of one man. He had left school at fourteen with no qualifications but had become a founder of the SAS. When 1st SAS disbands in October 1945, thirty-two year-old Captain 'Gentleman Jim' Almonds, MM and Bar, Croix de Guerre 'L' Detachment, 1st SAS, tries to return to an ordinary civilian job. But after helping found the SAS with David Stirling life as a bobby on the beat lacks a certain excitement. Twice a great escaper, he decides he will never settle for an ordinary job. Re-joining the army, he serves as a military advisor to Emperor Hailie Selassie in the British Military Mission to Ethiopia, before becoming Second-in-Command of the Eritrea Police Field Force – a British paramilitary organization. This unusual bandit-chasing outfit of soldiers and policeman faces a blood-stained race against time to catch terrorists (who feature in 'Wanted' posters with prices on their heads) in time for Britain to implement a UN Resolution federating Ethiopia and Eritrea under the Ethiopian Crown. The highl

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Author

Lorna Almonds-Windmill [Almonds-Windmill, Lorna]

Publisher

Troubador Publishing Limited

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781788030670

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Humanities