Mission 101 The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia eBook Duncan McNab
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In late 1940 a group of five young Australian soldiers set out on a secret mission one of the Second World War’s most daring operations and the first for Britain’s legendry Special Operations Executive.
Leading a small force of Ethiopian freedom fighters on an epic trek across the harsh African bush from the Sudan, the small incursion force entered Italian-occupied Ethiopia and began waging a guerilla war against the 250,000-strong Italian army. One of these men, Ken Burke, was Duncan McNab's uncle.
Using a combination of original research and personal anecdotes, McNab tells the little known story of Mission 101, and how a small group of Australians under British command helped to free a nation.
Mission 101 The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia eBook Duncan McNab
At the start of the Second World War, one of the first troop ships to leave Australia bound for the Middle East housed a group of five maverick Australians who were destined to play a highly unusual role in the war, becoming part of the first mission of the Special Operations Executive. The tale of their adventures is told in this book by Duncan McNab.While the five Australians spent several months training as gunners in Palestine and then defending Palestine against Italian air raids, the group's leader struck up a friendship with an Ethiopian priest and formed a desire to help drive out the Italian occupation force from Ethiopia. After campaigning vigorously to be sent to Ethiopia, the group of five soldiers were granted their wish and sent to train and lead a band of Ethiopians in guerrilla warfare, under the command of a British officer.
The book describes the enormous difficulties faced in traversing Ethiopia's rugged mountainous terrain, and the tactics employed by small bands of men, typically only 30 or 40 at a time, in attacking Italian forts held by thousands of defenders. The use of plenty of explosives lobbed over fort walls in the dead of the night proved an effective tactic which often resulted in Italian forces firing at each other in an attempt to fend off the imagined huge attacking army. The Italians were harassed from one fort to the next and eventually driven out of the country.
The author tells a true boys' own adventure tale, in which a very small number of heroic guerrilla fighters were able to inflict heavy losses and eventually prevail against a huge army, while incurring minimal losses themselves. It is a well-written and exciting book, and it preserves for future generations an important part of Australia's war history.
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Mission 101 The Untold Story of the SOE and the Second World War in Ethiopia eBook Duncan McNab Reviews
19/5 - Interesting story of a mission that I'd never heard of, and neither it seems according to the author's research had most of the rest of Australia. Everything about the mission was kept so secret that once the participants started passing away any knowledge or memory was lost, leaving only the occasional family anecdote passed down through the generations. I liked the description of the Australian's guerilla actions harrying the Italians, never letting them rest. Keeping them constantly on the run and when they would reach one of the many forts they had built all over the Ethiopian countryside attacking them all night long, stopping them from having any peace - in the end forcing a lot of the Italian regiments to surrender despite their far superior numbers. It reminded me a lot of John Marsden's fictional Tomorrow, When the War Began series which featured a group of Australian teenagers making guerilla style attacks on an invading force in mostly outback Australia - attacking convoys, blowing up bridges, picking off soldiers one by one without alerting the majority of the force to their prescence. Recommended to readers who are interested in military battles and the history of Australia in WWII.
i gave this book as a gift and the person who received it thinks its really good read and is enjoying it
Many soldiers were unsung heros. This book should be read so people understand that all who were the unsung heros were ordinary men, thrown together and had to get on to survive.
This book shows that there are a lot true stories yet to be told about WWII and the story told in detail in this book just one of them. The author did a very job in collecting storied told by the combatants when they were alive. If they hadn't done that, their exploits could have been lost untold.
This book has the benefit of being one of the relatively scarce works on the subject of the SOE in East Africa, but takes too much page space covering events prior to the beginning of the operation, regarding both world history and the personal background of the main characters involved.
On top of this, the final chapters deal with events which happened after the operation ended, leaving roughly a third of the book devoted to the actual exploits of Mission 101.
Nevertheless, to balance the previous paragraphs a bit, and take the rating to the 4 stars I think the book deserves, it must be said that the 90-or-so pages devoted to Mission 101 in the field, DO take the reader right into well researched and described action.
At the start of the Second World War, one of the first troop ships to leave Australia bound for the Middle East housed a group of five maverick Australians who were destined to play a highly unusual role in the war, becoming part of the first mission of the Special Operations Executive. The tale of their adventures is told in this book by Duncan McNab.
While the five Australians spent several months training as gunners in Palestine and then defending Palestine against Italian air raids, the group's leader struck up a friendship with an Ethiopian priest and formed a desire to help drive out the Italian occupation force from Ethiopia. After campaigning vigorously to be sent to Ethiopia, the group of five soldiers were granted their wish and sent to train and lead a band of Ethiopians in guerrilla warfare, under the command of a British officer.
The book describes the enormous difficulties faced in traversing Ethiopia's rugged mountainous terrain, and the tactics employed by small bands of men, typically only 30 or 40 at a time, in attacking Italian forts held by thousands of defenders. The use of plenty of explosives lobbed over fort walls in the dead of the night proved an effective tactic which often resulted in Italian forces firing at each other in an attempt to fend off the imagined huge attacking army. The Italians were harassed from one fort to the next and eventually driven out of the country.
The author tells a true boys' own adventure tale, in which a very small number of heroic guerrilla fighters were able to inflict heavy losses and eventually prevail against a huge army, while incurring minimal losses themselves. It is a well-written and exciting book, and it preserves for future generations an important part of Australia's war history.
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