- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd; Ill edition (22 Feb 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0283063645
- ISBN-13: 978-0283063640
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,339,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Since 1945, British and Commonwealth forces have been involved in fifteen major foreign campaigns and conflicts, and not a single year has passed in peace. Experts or first-hand witnesses have composed chapters on Java, Palestine, Malaya, Korea, Kenya, Cyprus, Canal Zone and Suez, Muscat and Oman, Brunei and Borneo, South Arabia, Aden, Northern Ireland, Dhofar, Falklands, Persian Gulf, Bosnia, and Kosovo. This is an authoritative and readable book that covers a significant and fascinating era in British military history.
About the Author
Major General Julian Thompson joined the Royal Marines at 18, serving for 34 years. He led the 3rd Commando Brigade in the Falklands, and was in the thick of the fighting. He is now a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies, King's College, London. Among his many previous books are The Royal Marines, The IWM Book of the War at Sea and The IWM Book of War Behind Enemy Lines.
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This is an excellent overview of some of the "small" wars the British army has had to fightsince the end of the Second World War.
Each chapter deals with a particular conflict, usually by an author who was involved. As with all collaborations, some chapters are brilliant dispatches, others shine less well.
In general, they are good at giving a brisk military-type overview of what happened to the chaps on the ground at the sharp end. Sadly there are some schoolboy howlers when it comes to the politics and the background as to why some of these conflicts broke out in the first place.
I will give just example. One of the most disappointing was Robin Neilland's chapeter on Cyprus 1955-59, descrbing the EOKA campaign to persuade Britain to quite the island. Neilland served there at the time, so he should know what he's talking about.
But he comes up with the extraordinary statement that Cyprus had not been Greek for that long, and that most Greeks had actually arribved on the island in the 19thc. It is certainly true there was immigration onto the island at that time, but Cyprus had been culturally Greek for most of the Mycenean, Archaic, Classical, Roman, Byzantine, Lusignan and Venetian periods of its history. So for more than 2,400 years!
Indeed most of its population REMAINED Greek after the Ottoman conquest in the 16th c.
Finally whoever proof-read the chapter should note that Turkey's invasion of the island happened in 1974, not 1976...
Not good.
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