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The days of Richard Hannay and Sandy Arbuthnot, John Buchan’s cavalier secret agents seem to have survived until at least 1963, when a gang of British mercenaries, mostly former SAS chaps, recruited informally (and thus deniably) by distinguished old buffers were sent out covertly to train royalist tribal Yemeni to fight the Egyptian military. The guerrilla army caused Colonel Nasser some serious difficulty. Their gung-ho story is told with much buckle and swash, putting a Boy’s Own gloss on an adventure that might, in current circumstances, come back to bite us.More: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.

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Author

Duff Hart-Davis

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409049821

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, World History, Humanities

Rating

3.61 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14