Author, academic, analyst, accountant. Served as a military medic, paratrooper & reconnaissance driver in Djibouti, Central Africa, and Chad. Studied Economics at LSE then worked as auditor (Deloitte, UK). Taught in Kenya and the Middle East. MSc in environmental management (Durham). Qualified as both management (ACMA) and Certified Practising Accountant. Thesis in Geographical Science (University of Queensland). Commercial analyst (Queensland Government). Lectured Business, Real Estate or Accountancy in HCT (UAE) & seven universities (KSA, Oman, Australia, China & UK). Multidisciplinary research, involving military strategy, performance management, sustainable investment, built environments and learning.
Inspired by history, the story of a German paratrooper, Ulrich, who fights in World War II, Indochina, and Algeria. The text has extensive links to detailed historical and geographical notes. In 1967, a torso washes up on banks of the Mississippi. Scene shifts to 1950, airborne operation in Indochina. As he heads into battle again, the veteran paratrooper, Ulrich, recollects. In Hannover 1940, he celebrates Christmas with his medical student girlfriend, Penelope. Clytemnestra, the disloyal wife of his mentor, Agemund, sings arias. Cassandra, the daughter of the Nazi gauleiter, Zigethius, gives Ulrich a Roman Ring. Zigethius antagonises Weis, an Algerian Jew. Fearful, Weis escapes to Indochina. There, he prospers laundering drug money through his tea and rubber estates. In 1941, Ulrich and Agemund parachute onto Crete for Operation Mercury. Ulrich then fights in Sicily, Russia, and Normandy. In 1944, Zigethius murders Agemund, involved with the Valkyrie conspiracy. That year, Ulrich is captured and imprisoned in America. Clytemnestra dies in an Allied air raid. Her lover, Zigethius, however, escapes Allied justice because of his involvement with the secret rocket program. After the War, Ulrich joins the Foreign Legion and is shipped to Indochina. He fights in many battles with the 1st Foreign Legion Parachute Battalion, including on Colonial Route 4 where the unit is annihilated. A female helicopter pilot, Ishtari, becomes Ulrich's lover but the soldier is sent to fight in Laos. Cassandra - now an anthropologist - rescues Ulrich from vengeful communists. In 1954, Ulrich himself saves Weis' daughter, Circe, but then parachutes into the entrenched jungle camp of Dien Bien Phu. He is wounded but Ishtari evacuates him. In 1955, Ulrich disembarks in Algeria but, after his Arab friend is guillotined, becomes disenchanted and leaves the Army. He becomes a journalist and covers the independence struggle in Cameroon. Meanwhile in Algeria, Circe joins the OAS but blows herself up in a bungled terrorist attack. In 1965, Ulrich is sent back to Vietnam to report on Ia Drang and Long Tan battles. For a while Ishtari ferries wounded GIs to Penelope - now a trauma surgeon - but the pilot is shot down. Cassandra works with the hilltribes. She inadvertently reveals the location of her father, Zigethius, to Ulrich who hunts down his enemy.
Title : Pia Vindex: War and Decolonisation - Crete, Indochina, Algeria, Cameroon
EAN : 9781068344701
Publisher : Pia Vindex Ltd
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