Fighting Mad

Calvert, Michael

ISBN 10: 055328374X / ISBN 13: 9780553283747

Published by Bantam Books, New York, 1990

About this Item

239 pps. Gilt titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w maps & drawings. Privately rebound. Blue buckram bds. Original wrps. present. Age-toned interior leaves are clean and tight. WWII British war memoir of an officer who trained and led the British Chindit commandos who fought the Japanese in Burma during the Second World War.

Seller Inventory # 008224

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fighting Mad
• Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 055328374X
• ISBN 13: 9780553283747
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ

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Synopsis

Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits by the controversial General Orde Wingate. He became Wingate's right-hand man - both in fierce jungle fighting and in battles against stick-in-the-mud staff officers. His speciality was penetrating behind enemy lines. Mad Mike fought in the snow and ice of Norway, in the steaming jungles of Burma, and on the battlefields of Europe where in 1945 he commanded the crack Special Air Service Brigade.