N S Nash

Gebundenes Buch

Caribbean Crisis

The Invasion of Grenada, 1983

Beschreibung

In 1983, Grenada, a small Commonwealth Island in the Caribbean, had strong ties with Communist Cuba. Bernard Coard and a group of hard-line Marxist-Leninists overthrew the unelected Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and then executed Bishop and his entourage.

Autor

NA 'Tank' Nash CBE was educated at Latymer Upper School before entering the catering industry with J Lyons and Co Ltd. He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company in 1957 and served until conscripted for National Service in 1960; he was a member of the Army Catering Corps for thirty years, rising to the rank of Brigadier. He resigned his commission in 1991. For thirty-three years, from 1973, he wrote humour under the pen name 'Sustainer' and his work was published internationally in a variety of military journals. His books for Pen and Sword include K Boat Catastrophe, 'Strafer' Gott - Desert General, Chitral Charlie - The Rise and Fall of Major General Charles Townshend and Valour in the Trenches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 236mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781036104085
• ISBN-10: 1036104087
• Artikelnr.: 72801940