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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Lovely copy. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Counter-insurgency is a subject of vital interest to the free world and in particular to Britain since we have been involved in it continuously since 1945. It is at least as deserving of detailed study as nuclear or conventional warfare. There have been many personal accounts of counter-insurgency campaigns but no official histories and very few unofficial ones. This book is a detailed study of three major campaigns waged by Britain- Malaya 1948-60 Kenya 1952-6 and Cyprus 1954-8. It is written by a professional soldier who is in a position to analyse them and draw from them conclusions which provide lessons for the future. Counter- Insurgency Campaigning will be of particu- lar value to Servicemen and all those con- cerned with the conduct of the cold war but it is by no means a purely military treatise and the clear brief and readable histories of each emergency will provoke much general interest both in this country and abroad. Colonel Paget joined the Coldstream Guards at the beginning of the war and served with the Guards Armoured Division until 1945. From then until 1948 he was Adjutant of a Coldstream Guards Batta- lion during the British counter-insurgency campaign in Palestine. He is well qualified to write on this subject for since then he has spent two years in Kenya has visited Cyprus and Greece and for six months in 1965 was with the Security Secretariat in Aden. (SP)