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This is the memoir of Archie McAlister (Mac), who joined the 11th Hussars in 1911 when he was seventeen and rose rapidly through the ranks. It is a life that reads almost as a military history of the first half of the Twentieth Century. A man of extraordinary courage and good fortune, Mac gained his first commission in 1914 in the trenches, when the life expectancy of a young infantry subaltern was just seven weeks. He lost two brothers in that war but survived, despite being in the thick of it and all its horrors. After 1918, he saw action or was posted to: Ireland during the Troubles of the Twenties, Khartoum, the Yemen, India, Palestine during the British Mandate, and Egypt - among other places - and he ended his military career as Lieutenant Colonel McAlister, British Administrator of the German city of Essen at the end of World War II. The pages of this unique memoir are littered with countless vivid, humorous and dangerous episodes, and with the many fascinating people he met along the way, including General French, Winston Churchill and King Farouk.

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Author(s) - A.D.C. Mc Alister | A. D. C. McAlister | A. D. C. McAlister | A. D. C. McAlister

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ISBN - 9781911175247

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm

Page Count - 228

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