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The War That Never Was (Hardback)
Short Description for The War That Never WasTells the story of a secret war fought by British mercenaries in the Yemen in the early 1960s.
Full description- Publisher: CENTURY
- Published: 02 October 2011
- Format: Hardback 400 pages
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- Categories: True War & Combat Stories | Mercenaries | Asian History | Middle Eastern History | 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000 | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000 | Military History | Military History: Post WW2 Conflicts
- ISBN 13: 9781846058257 ISBN 10: 1846058252
- Sales rank: 46,219
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Full description for The War That Never Was
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. It was one of the most uneven running battles ever waged; the Egyptians fielded a huge, professionally-trained army. The British fought back at the head of a ragtag force of tribal warriors and, ultimately, won. Egypt's President Nasser described the battle in the Yemen as 'my Vietnam'. It's a fascinating, forgotten, and rip-roaringly entertaining pocket of British military history, much in the spirit of Ben MvIntyre's bestselling "Agent Zigzag" and "Operation Mincemeat".
