Escaping the Ordinary av Lorna Almonds-Windmill

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<div><div><i>¿Gentleman Jim is a special forces hero ¿ and he is one of mine too."</i></div><div><div><b>Sir Ranulph Fiennes, OBE</b></div><div><br></div><div>The trailblazing sequel to<i> Gentleman Jim: The Wartime Story of a Founder of the SAS</i>. Following his death-defying Second World War, Gentleman Jim Almonds would never settle to an ordinary job. The SAS was disbanded but as a thirty-year-old Captain, he still hungered for adventure. After training Emperor Hailie Selassie¿s Army in Ethiopia, he went as Second-in-Command of a bandit-chasing outfit in the new ¿Wild West¿ of Eritrea. He was on active service in so-called peacetime. Atrocities and killings were common, but British justice was swift during a race against time as Almonds brought terrorism under control before the implementation of a United Nations decision to federate Eritrea with Ethiopia. Meanwhile, he embarked on personal adventuring and exploration alone in the wilds, rivers and highlands of Ethiopia, sometim