'Strafer' - The Desert General - Nash, N S
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The first biography of an outstanding soldier and commander Had Gott not been killed he - and not Montgomery - would have commanded 8th Army in North Africa. Gott was the only general to be targeted for assassination by the Germans.
Selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942, in place of the sacked Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately obliterated the crash scene killing Gott in the process.As a result, Montgomery was given his chance to command and the rest is history.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The first biography of an outstanding soldier and commander Had Gott not been killed he - and not Montgomery - would have commanded 8th Army in North Africa. Gott was the only general to be targeted for assassination by the Germans.
Selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942, in place of the sacked Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately obliterated the crash scene killing Gott in the process.As a result, Montgomery was given his chance to command and the rest is history.
Autorenporträt
NA 'Tank' Nash CBE was educated at Latymer Upper School before entering the catering industry with J Lyons and Co Ltd. He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1957 and served until conscripted for National Service in 1960; he was a member of the Army Catering Corps for thirty years, rising to the rank of Brigadier. He resigned his commission in 1991. For thirty-three years, from 1973, he wrote humour under the pen name 'Sustainer' and his work was published internationally in a variety of military journals. His books for Pen and Sword include K Boat Catastrophe, 'Strafer' Gott - Desert General, Chitral Charlie - The Rise and Fall of Major General Charles Townshend and Valour in the Trenches.