Bare Feet and Bandoliers: Wingate, Sandford, the Patriots and the part they played in the liberation of Ethiopia.

David Shirreff.

ISBN 10: 1850439222 / ISBN 13: 9781850439226

Published by The Radcliffe Press, London, 1995, 1995

About this Item

First edition. Hardback. Signed presentation copy from the Author. Octavo. xxiv, 337pp. Original black cloth with gilt spine titles. Slight lean, slight foxing to prelims and fore-edge, otherwise very good in slightly shelf worn and spine faded, very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # C97846

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bare Feet and Bandoliers: Wingate, Sandford, the Patriots and the part they played in the liberation of Ethiopia.
• Publisher: The Radcliffe Press, London, 1995
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1850439222
• ISBN 13: 9781850439226
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

This is the story of two "firsts". It is the story of the first successful attempt by Allied forces during World War II, to support and sustain a local resistance movement, with regular forces in enemy-held territory. It also describes how Ethiopia became the first nation conquered by the Axis to be freed. The campaign in Ethiopia might appear small in relation to the war in the whole of East Africa, but it had great military importance. In 1941 the British Commonwealth, the Indian and the Sudanese forces, with the Patriots - local chiefs and their followers who resisted the Italian occupation - advanced into Italian East Africa and defeated the Italian armies. David Shirreff, who also served in the campaign, gives an account of how Colonel Orde Wingate, with his Gideon force, compelled the surrender of a large part of the Italian forces. Shirreff also explores the role of Brigadier Daniel Sandford, now an almost forgotten commander, in organizing his Mission 101, and the sustained rebellion of the Patriots.