{"product_id":"9781780577487","title":"Mad Mitch's Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003eAden, 20 June 1967: two army Land Rovers burn ferociously in the Midday sun. The bodies of nine British soldiers litter the road. Bright flames mixed with thick, black smoke bellows above Crater town, a tough Arab neighbourhood built on top of a dormant volcano. Surrounded by high rugged peaks and perched on the south-western edge of the Arabian peninsular, it is home to insurgents, terrorists and gangsters, who establish 'no-go areas' against the British-backed Federation government. Crater had come to symbolise Arab nationalist defiance in the face of the world's most powerful empire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hovering 2,000 ft. above the smouldering destruction, a tiny Scout helicopter surveys the scene. Its passenger is the recently arrived Commanding Officer of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Lieutenant-Colonel Colin Mitchell. Soon the world's media would christen him 'Mad Mitch', in recognition of his extremely robust and controversial reoccupation of Crater two weeks later.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mad Mitch was truly a man out of his time. Supremely self-confident and debonair, he was an empire builder, not dismantler, and railed against the national malaise he felt had gripped Britain's political establishment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wide array of never-before-seen archival sources and eyewitness testimonies, \u003ci\u003eMad Mitch's Tribal Law\u003c\/i\u003e tells the remarkable story of inspiring leadership, loyalty and betrayal in the final days of British Empire. It is, above all, a shocking account of Britain's forgotten war on terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300736975088,"sku":"9781780577487","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780577487_p0.jpg?v=1763715458","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780577487","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}