Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Hanley, Gerald

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0907871836 ISBN 13: 9780907871835

Casa editrice: Eland Pub Ltd, 2004

Riassunto

Somalia is one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fierce and independent-minded tribesmen. It was here that Gerald Hanley spent the Second World War, charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote out-station. Rations were scarce, pay infrequent and his detachment of native soldiers near-mutinous.
In these extreme conditions seven British officers committed suicide, but Hanley describes the period as the 'most valuable time' of his life. With intense curiosity and open-mindedness, he explores the effects of loneliness. He comes to understand the Somalis' love of fighting and to admire their contempt for death. 'Of all the races of Africa,' he says, '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.'

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Product Description:

This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a little-known aspect of WWII. Warriors describes a group of British Army soldiers charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote outstation in Somalia. Hanley turns this period of his life, difficult time that drove seven officers to suicide, into a devastating critique of imperialism.

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• Editore: Eland Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0907871836
• ISBN 13: 9780907871835
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 228