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Selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942, in place of the sacked Claude Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately obliterated the crash scene killing Gott in the process. As a result, Bernard Montgomery was given his chance to command and the rest is history.
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Strafer' - The Desert General, N. S. Nash, Tank Nash
- Language
- Released
- 2013
- Binding
- (Hardcover),
- Book condition
- Very Good
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- Title
- Strafer' - The Desert General
- Subtitle
- The Life and Killing of Lieutenant General W.E. Gott CB CBE DSO * MC
- Language
- English
- Authors
- N. S. Nash, Tank Nash
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword Military
- Released
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 250
- ISBN10
- 1781590907
- ISBN13
- 9781781590904
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- Selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942, in place of the sacked Claude Auchinleck, 'Strafer' Gott was targeted by German intelligence as he flew to Cairo to take up his new post. Six ME109s intercepted his aircraft and, after shooting it down, deliberately obliterated the crash scene killing Gott in the process. As a result, Bernard Montgomery was given his chance to command and the rest is history.