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Happy Odyssey [Audiobook] download free by Adrian Carton De Sir Wiart

Happy Odyssey Audiobook download free by Adrian Carton De Sir Wiart
  • Listen audiobook: Happy Odyssey
  • Author: Adrian Carton De Sir Wiart
  • Release date: 2007/4/9
  • Publisher: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Biography
  • ISBN: 9781844155392
  • Rating: 9.66 of 10
  • Votes: 148
  • Review by: Gudrun Gaither
  • Review rating: 8.32 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/9/29
  • Duration: 3H37M30S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-02
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, ATRAC, MPEG4, WMA, MP3, WAV, AIFF (compression ZIP, CPIO, TAR.BZ2, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 288
  • Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 18M8S (5.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: Adrian Carton de Wiart's autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs. He was the son of a Belgian barrister, Leon Constant Ghislain Carton de Wiart (1854-1915). He, himself, was intended for the law, but abandoned his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1899 to serve as a trooper in the South African War. He abandoned the law for all time on 14 September 1901 when he received a direct commission in the 4th Dragoon Guards. Carton de Wiart's extraordinary military career embraced service with the Somaliland Camel Corps (1914-15), liaison officer with Polish forces (1939), membership of the British Military Mission to Yugoslavia (1941), a period as a prisoner of war (1941-43), and three years as Churchill's representative to Chiang Kai-shek (1943-46). (Churchill was a great admirer.) During the Great War, besides commanding the 8th Glosters, Carton de Wiart was GOC 12 Brigade (1917) and GOC 105 Brigade (April 1918). Both these command were terminated by wounds.He was wounded eight times during the war (including the loss of an eye and a hand), won the VC during the Batlle of the Somme, was mentioned in despatches six times, and was the model for Brigadier Ben Ritchie Hook in the Sword of Honour trilogy of Evelyn Waugh.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Nonfiction History Books for Kids, Military History, Warfare & Defence, Autobiography: Historical, Political & Military, Biography: Historical, Political & Military
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 19.97 USD
  • Dimensions: 156x234x20.83mm
  • Weight: 458.13g
  • Printed by: Pen & Sword Military
  • Published in: South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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