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Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 304 pages, aukštis x plotis: 228x152 mm, 16 pages of b/w photos
  • Išleidimo metai: 19-Aug-2018
  • Leidėjas: Casemate Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1612005748
  • ISBN-13: 9781612005744
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 304 pages, aukštis x plotis: 228x152 mm, 16 pages of b/w photos
  • Išleidimo metai: 19-Aug-2018
  • Leidėjas: Casemate Publishers
  • ISBN-10: 1612005748
  • ISBN-13: 9781612005744
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Second place in the Military History Monthly Book of the Year Award 2018

Striking where the enemy is weakest and melting away into the darkness before he can react. Never confronting a stronger force directly, but willing to use audacity and surprise to confound and demoralize an opponent. Operations driven by good intelligence, area knowledge, mobility, speed, firepower, and detailed planning and executed by a few specialists with indigenous warriors - this is unconventional warfare.

T. E. Lawrence was one of the earliest practitioners of modern unconventional warfare. His tactics and strategies were used by men like Mao and Giap in their wars of liberation. Both kept Lawrences Seven Pillars of Wisdom close at hand. This book looks at the creation of the HEDGEHOG force, the formation of armoured car sections and other units, and focuses the Hejaz Operations Staff, the Allied officers and men who took Lawrences idea and prosecuted it against the Ottoman Turkish army assisting Field Marshal Allenby to achieve victory in 1918.

Stejskal concludes with an examination of how HEDGEHOG has influenced special operations and unconventional warfare, including Field Marshal Wavell, the Long Range Desert Group, and David Stirling's SAS.

Recenzijos

Mr. Stejskal has done much the same by taking the story beyond Lawrence to include the men who did so much to achieve victory in 1918. Their remarkable story can be found here and you will not be disappointed with the telling. * War History Online * Here Lawrence the soldier and the actions of his military colleagues are put in valuable perspective. I would recommend this to fervent Lawrencians and his nay-sayers alike. * Stand to! 05/06/2019 * If you truly desire to look at how thinking outside the box worked in a very practical way and led to some of the tactical concepts we hold as gospel today, then reading this gripping book is a must! * PMCI Magazine 20/06/2019 * As Lawrence put it in his 27 Articles 'The Hejaz confounds ordinary tactics.' Masters of Mayhem provides an excellent basis for an understanding of why this was, and it, the case, and how the Allied forces at the time set about developing a new style of warfare to cope with it. * Military History Matters (Reviewer) * The book is a treasure trove for military history enthusiasts. * Journal of British Studies * James Stejskal provide[ s] excellent, authoritative source material that is as useful for intelligence and Special Operations practitioners as it is for historians of the Great Arab Revolt. * CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence 11/02/2019 * offer(s) plenty of quotes from Lawrence and details of his escapades. * The Armourer 21/02/2019 * this new work by James Stejskal offers an interesting and valid take on the campaign for whom Lawrence became such a talisman. * War History Online *

Author's Note viii
Introduction ix
Prologue xviii
1 Origins of a Revolt
1(10)
2 The British are Coming
11(4)
3 A Hopeful but Inauspicious Beginning
15(9)
4 Advisors, Dromedaries and Guerrilla Warfare
24(18)
5 Akaba
42(13)
6 Rearrangement
55(6)
7 Northern Operations
61(53)
8 Three Men and a Boy with Pistols
114(18)
9 Final Act and Curtain
132(6)
10 A Look Back
138(6)
Epilogue 144(7)
Appendix 1 Order of Battle (as of 30 June 1917) 151(4)
Appendix 2 Twenty-seven Articles: Memorandum by Major Lawrence, August 1917 155(6)
Appendix 3 Demolitions Under Fire 161(5)
Appendix 4 The Hejaz Armoured Cars 166(5)
Appendix 5 `Blue Mist' 171(3)
Appendix 6 The Breech-Loading 10-pounder Mountain Gun 174(2)
Bibliography and Sources 176(3)
Index 179
James Stejskal, after 35 years of service with US Army Special Forces and the Central Intelligence Agency, is a uniquely qualified historian and novelist. He is the author of Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Armys Elite, 19561990; Masters of Mayhem: Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz; No Moon as Witness; and The Snake Eater Chronicles.