Warriors
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A superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen. Describing a little known aspect of WWII, a group of British Army soldiers try to prevent bloodshed between feuding Somalian tribes.
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During the war, Gerald Hanley spent several years in the remote and scorching deserts of Somalia. The rigours of living in such heat, and the difficulties of attempting to control blood-feuding nomads, led to the suicide of seven fellow-officers. Despite these problems, Gerald Hanley writes with great affection for the local clans, an affection that is untainted by sentimentality. "Of all the races of Africa, there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest: the Somalis."
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780907871835
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 October 2004
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Eland Publishing Ltd
Edition: New edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 0g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Gerald Hanley was an Irish catholic writer and broadcaster with an incurable wanderlust. He was married twice, first to a white Kenyan, then to a Kashmiri, and had nine children, but never settled. At the end of an adventurous life he romanced an Irish girl and dreamed of solving his financial problems by writing a massively successful movie script.
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