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Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

A Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

by David Rooney
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Publication Date: 06/06/2006
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Anyone with the slightest knowledge of the Burma campaign of 1942-45 will have heard not only of General Orde Wingate and the Chindits, but also of 'Mad Mike' Calvert, Wingate's most intrepid column commander. His success in Burma, followed by his time with the SAS in Europe, had made Calvert one of the best known soldiers in the army. However, Calverts life was to fall apart when he was convicted of gross indecency and dismissed the service. To the end of his days he maintained that the whole thing was a setup and it is vastly to the credit of the industrious David Rooney that he was proved, as far as it is possible after such a great passage of time, that this was indeed the case. Nothing could ever remove the suffering unjustly inflicted on this very gallant soldier, however this book goes along way to clear his name, if not officially, at least in the public mind.
ISBN:
9781844155071
9781844155071
Category:
Warfare & defence
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
06-06-2006
Publisher:
Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
224
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David Rooney

David Rooney, historian and former curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, is a director of the Antiquarian Horological Society and sits on the management committee of the Clockmakers' Museum, the world's oldest clock and watch museum.

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