Unarmed Combat
Richard Usborne, 21 April 1988
The Anglo-French Clash in Lebanon and Syria, 1940-1945
by A.B. Gaunson.
Macmillan, 233 pp., £29.50, March 1987,0 333 40221 9 Show More
by A.B. Gaunson.
Macmillan, 233 pp., £29.50, March 1987,
Personal Patchwork 1939-1945
by Bryan Guinness.
Cygnet, 260 pp., £9.50, March 1987,0 907435 06 8 Show More
by Bryan Guinness.
Cygnet, 260 pp., £9.50, March 1987,
Staff Officer: The Diaries of Lord Moyne 1914-1918
edited by Brian Bond.
Leo Cooper, 256 pp., £17.50, October 1987,0 85052 053 3 Show More
edited by Brian Bond.
Leo Cooper, 256 pp., £17.50, October 1987,
“... reserved chap, came to me and said: “I would like to serve under General de Gaulle.”’ Alex Gaunson, an Australian, reduces the now enormous paperasserie of the Levantine conflict with impartiality and a sure sense of materials-handling, and he manages also to be pithy, witty and wise. He hasn’t gone deeply into French archive sources. But Spears ... ”