000 00972cam a2200157 4500
020 _a0709196245 (hbk.)
100 1 _aDEWAR Michael
245 0 _aBrush fire wars:
_bminor campaigns of the British Army since 1945\
_cMichael Dewar
260 _aLondon:
_bRobert Hale,
_c1984
300 _a208p.
520 _aIt covers the campaigns in Palestine in 1947, and then in succession those in Malaya, Kenya, Northern Ireland. In the main it covers counter insurgency operations and therefore excludes such campaigns the Korean war which involved orther armies. The story of the British army since the end of the war Europe. It describes twelve campaigns spread accross the thirty eight years which elapsed following the end of World War II and in doing so it gives the reader a chance to get the feel of some of the events which have made the British army what it is today.
650 _aBRITISH
_x ARMY
650 _aMALAYA
650 _aWORLD WAR II
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_sY
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