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Sons of the Eagle by Julian Amery As an official liaison of the British Government, the author spent much of the war working with the Albanian Resistance to the German occupation. The book is a wonderful memoir on it's own, but it also gives us a unique insight into the blood feuds, culture, and politics of a tribally based Muslim insurgency. From the Author's Preface: "We failed; and not the least of the causes of our failure was our seeming impotence as a nation to proclaim a new faith to which the stricken peoples of Europe might have turned. In the dark days when we had stood alone, England had fired the world by her example, and men had believed that we might fashion a new order out of the furnace of war. As victory drew on, their hopes receded, and others stepped in to claim the prize for which we had toiled. Much of our work, above all in the Balkans, was swept away in “the gale of the world". "Yet I do not believe that we worked in vain. The weakness or the error of our policies will be forgotten or forgiven with the lapse of time, but the peoples will long remember the British officers and men who came to them out of the sea and down from the sky, to share their hardships in the hour of need. These only did their duty, but in doing so sowed a seed; and one day there will be a harvest." |