Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis

By Gerald Hanley

Book Overview

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, a difficult time that drove seven officers to suicide, into a devastating critique of imperialism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907871836
• ISBN13: 9780907871835
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Eland Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the most extraordinary books I have read

this is a hasty review. If you want to know about life in very hard places and times where people live constantly on the border beetween life and death and to undersand how people survive, love, live and die in such places then read this book.

One of the best at understanding Somalia

Though describing a bygone era in Somalia, this book has few peers when it comes to giving an up-close-and-personal view of the Somalis. Anyone wishing to understand how the US and United Nations came to get so mired in this Horn of Africa country should read this book--and note the lessons that that were never learned before the 1992-1993 humanitarian and military intervention there.