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Long Shadows of Yesterday: India and the Middle East Seen from the Perspective of a Young British Officer from 1945-1949

Long Shadows of Yesterday: India and the Middle East Seen from the Perspective of a Young British Officer from 1945-1949

          
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Merriam Press Military Memoir Series

First Edition 2016

Late 1945, the movement for independence in India was coming to a head. In Palestine, the conflict between the majority Arab population and the ever-increasing Jewish settlements was intensifying. The political situation in Egypt was deteriorating; in Greece, the government was facing a civil war; and in Trans-Jordan, King Abdullah was trying to save his throne. British influence (the old Raj and previous political leverage) in these areas was declining fast and the vestiges of "Empire" were fading rapidly.

During the period of 1945-1949, I served as an army officer in India and a number of Middle-East countries. This provided me the opportunity to see, at first hand, some of the miseries inflicted on hundreds of thousands of people as a result of bad decisions made by politicians sitting comfortably in their offices in Westminster and Washington, D.C., whose major concerns seemed to have been guided mainly by the patronizing party politics and nationalistic arbitrary needs.

In each of the countries Branson served, the local situation varied necessitating a different set of behavioral rules. Though this caused preliminary problems, it also provided a welcome change to what would otherwise have become routine work. He felt compelled to recount his experiences that took place during a seminal period. But to write such an account posed a number of problems. In the first place, the incidents occurred almost 70 years ago and to recall one's thoughts at that time without recourse to retrospect is almost impossible. In the second place, he was very young and his views were based on first impressions (some of which were later proved false.) Given these problems, he decided to write a number of short sketches of what life was like for a young officer serving in India and the Middle East during those turbulent times. To give the picture some background, he included his earlier training period in England that led to a commission in the Indian Army.

Contents

Prologue

Chapter 1: My Early Days

Chapter 2: Basic Training, England

Chapter 3: Passage to India

Chapter 4: Kalyan Center and the Officers Training School, Bangalore, India

Chapter 5: To the Himalayas, 1946

Chapter 6: The 7th Gurkha Rifle Regiment

Chapter 7: Egypt

Chapter 8: Palestine and Trans-Jordan

Chapter 9: Greece

Chapter 10: The Royal Sussex Regiment, England

94 photos

1 map


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781576384725
  • Publisher: Merriam Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Merriam Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 346
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: India and the Middle East Seen from the Perspective of a Young British Officer from 1945-1949
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1576384721
  • Publisher Date: 13 May 2016
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 463 gr


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