Speranza had a vested interest in the Falcon Islands War, and stories
about the Gurkhas he didn't think were at all funny -- he was an
Argentine at times.
Lawrence
On 8/12/2020 3:11 PM, david ritchie wrote:
On Aug 12, 2020, at 3:05 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:I have taken a break from Saul David, “Crucible of Hell,” because I’m preparing for a new round of online teaching and because there’s only so much misery and atrocity I can deal with. I don’t recall Esperanza hating Gurkhas. Why would that be? My last encounter with them was at the World Pipe Band championship in Glasgow. They were good.
David,
While appreciating your theater humor, I on the other hand I've been rereading the British historian, Max Hasting's /Retribution. /He writes on page 32 (and for old time's sake you may recall that Esperanza desperately hated the Gurkhas) "a British brigade commander in Burma once declined to accept a report from the 4/1st Gurkhas about the proximity of 'Nips.' Their colonel, Derek Horsford, dispatched a patrol to gather evidence. Next day, Horsford left three Japanese heads, hung for convenience on a string, beside his commander's desk. The brigadier said: 'Never do that again. Next time, I'll take your word for it.'" Might just be my Marine Corps training, but I thought that was funny. :-)
David
