Mad Mitch's Tribal Law: Aden and the End of the Empire
by Aaron Edwards
ISBN
9781780576282
Description
"Aden, 20 June 1967 ... Thick black smoke billows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are fighting the British-backed Federation government ... Hovering 2,000 feet above the smouldering destruction ... is the recen..."Aden, 20 June 1967 ... Thick black smoke billows above Crater town, home to insurgents who are fighting the British-backed Federation government ... Hovering 2,000 feet above the smouldering destruction ... is the recently arrived Commanding Officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell. Soon the world's media would christen him 'Mad Mitch', in recognition of his controversial reoccupation of Crater two weeks later. Mad Mitch was truly a man out of his time. Supremely self-confidant and debonair, he was an empire builder, not dismantler ... Drawing on a wide array of never-before-seen archival sources and eyewitness testimonies, [this] tells the remarkable story of inspiring leadership, loyalty and betrayal in the final days of the British Empire. It is, above all, a shocking account of Britain's forgotten war on terror"--Publisher's description.
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