Author: Artemis Cooper
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848548850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a stopping place in the long struggle home. The political scene was dominated by the British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson. In February 1942 he surrounded the Abdin Palace with tanks and attempted to depose King Farouk. Five months later it looked as if the British would be thrown out of Egypt for good. Rommel's forces were only sixty miles from Alexandria - but the Germans were pushed back and Cairo life went on. Meanwhile, in the Egyptian Army, a handful of young officers were thinking dangerous thoughts.
Cairo in the War
Author: Artemis Cooper
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848548850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a stopping place in the long struggle home. The political scene was dominated by the British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson. In February 1942 he surrounded the Abdin Palace with tanks and attempted to depose King Farouk. Five months later it looked as if the British would be thrown out of Egypt for good. Rommel's forces were only sixty miles from Alexandria - but the Germans were pushed back and Cairo life went on. Meanwhile, in the Egyptian Army, a handful of young officers were thinking dangerous thoughts.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848548850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a stopping place in the long struggle home. The political scene was dominated by the British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson. In February 1942 he surrounded the Abdin Palace with tanks and attempted to depose King Farouk. Five months later it looked as if the British would be thrown out of Egypt for good. Rommel's forces were only sixty miles from Alexandria - but the Germans were pushed back and Cairo life went on. Meanwhile, in the Egyptian Army, a handful of young officers were thinking dangerous thoughts.
Cairo in the War
The War Dead of the Commonwealth
Author: Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Cairo in the War
Author: Artemis Cooper
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
ISBN: 9781848548848
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
Publisher: John Murray Publishers
ISBN: 9781848548848
Category : Cairo (Egypt)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
Cairo in the War, 1937-1945
The War Dead of the Commonwealth
Author: Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded
Author: Alan Allport
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300213123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.
Postwar Foreign Policy Preparation, 1939-1945
Author: Harley A. Notter
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A World at Arms
Author: Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Provides an overview of the entire war from a global perspective, looking at diplomatic actions, military strategy, economic developments, and pressures from the home front
The Army Air Forces in World War II: Men and planes
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description