Hms Fearless by Ewen Southby-Tailyour
The Seventh ship to bear the name, the Assault Ship and Commando Carrier HMS Fearless was first commissioned in 1965. Over the next 37 years she was seldom far from the actions in which British forces were engaged world-wide, be they in Aden, Malaysia and Borneo, Northern Ireland, the Cold War (Norway), South Rhodesia, Falklands, the Gulf, Afghanistan and so on. Thousands of sailors, Royal Marines and soldiers served on board over her 19 commissions. Now paid off, Fearless has a great story to tell and the Author, a former senior Royal Marine who knows her well, is superbly qualified to tell it.Ewen Southby-Tailyour, a graduate of Pangbourne Nautical College and Grenoble University, joined the Royal Marines in 1960 and served with the French Commando Hubert in the south of France and Corsica, the United States Marine Corps in the Mediterranean, the West Indies, and the Dhofar War (when he was given the Sultan of Muscat's Bravery Medal) in Niger. He retired as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1992 and joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office the following year to work as a monitor for the European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM) in the Former Yugoslav Republic. While reporting on Croatia's preparations for war against the separatist, so-called Republic of Serbian Krajina, he was instructed informally by the Secret Intelligence Agency (MI6) to keep an watch on one or two individuals. In 1994, he resigned from the ECMM in protest at being told to falsify his daily reports in order to keep the UN Weapons Embargo 713 from being made public. Death's Sting is a novel inspired by the author's experiences in Croatia and the Republic of Serbian Krajina.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844150540 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844150542 |
| Title | Hms Fearless |
| Author | Ewen Southby-Tailyour |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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