Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis

Author(s): Gerald Hanley

Travel Writing

This superb portrait of one of the world's most desolate, sun-scorched lands, inhabited by fiercely independent tribesmen, is Rageh Omer's favorite book on his native land. A grueling description of a little-known aspect of WWII. Warriors describes a group of British Army soldiers charged with preventing bloodshed between feuding tribes at a remote outstation in Somalia. Hanley turns this period of his life, difficult time that drove seven officers to suicide, into a devastating critique of imperialism.


Product Information

Gerald Hanley was an Irish catholic writer and broadcaster with an incurable wanderlust. He was married twice, first to a white Kenyan, then to a Kashmiri, and had nine children, but never settled. At the end of an adventurous life he romanced an Irish girl and dreamed of solving his financial problems by writing a massively successful movie script.

General Fields

  • : 9780907871835
  • : Eland Publishing Ltd
  • : Eland Publishing Ltd
  • : 0.295
  • : 28 October 2004
  • : 220mm X 175mm X 15mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Gerald Hanley
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : 967.7305
  • : 200
  • : Illustrations, map