Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis
Author(s): Gerald Hanley
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.
Product Information
Gerald Hanley was an Irish catholic writer and broadcaster with an incurable wanderlust. He was married twice, first to a white Kenyan, then to a Kashmiri, and had nine children, but never settled. At the end of an adventurous life he romanced an Irish girl and dreamed of solving his financial problems by writing a massively successful movie script.
General Fields
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- : Eland Publishing Ltd
- : Eland Publishing Ltd
- : 0.295
- : 28 October 2004
- : 220mm X 175mm X 15mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gerald Hanley
- : Paperback
- : New edition
- : 967.7305
- : 200
- : Illustrations, map