Sublime

Bagnold located old companions from pre-war desert explorations, plucking Pat Clayton from Tanganyika and Bill Kennedy Shaw from Palestine, and put them in charge of young men from the backcountry of New Zealand who had lost all their guns and kit in a torpedo attack at sea. Their commander, Major General Bernard Freyberg, VC (the man who swam asho

THEO METCALFE SOON proved himself one of the most enthusiastic bounty hunters and hangmen. His desire for revenge seems to have continually grown ever since he reached the British camp at the end of his wanderings; and by October he even went so far as to erect a gallows in Metcalfe House.

Jacobus Hercules “Koos” de la Rey,

Wavell had a gift for picking good people. One was Major Ralph Bagnold, an officer in the Royal Signals, one of a select band who knew and respected the great desert that lay behind the cultivated coasts of North Africa. Bagnold had been exploring the Sahara since 1926. He had improved the sun compass for desert navigation, discovered the best way

A party of the brigade reconnaissance company, at the head of S/14 Battalion, crossed the border first, two Patton tanks driving on the right, on the left the half-tracks with the party’s commander, Lieutenant Yossi Algamis. Ehud wanted Major Ben-Zion Carmeli’s tank company to be the first to take up its positions on the heights of Beni Souhila, a