Edgar O'Ballance

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Colonel Edgar O'Ballance born 1920 is a British military journalist, and researcher. He served in the British and Indian armies until 1948. He worked as a journalist for a US Wire Agency from 1948 to 1962, and since has been a freelance journalist. He has covered over twenty wars and insurgencies and written extensively on international relations, defence and strategic problems. A member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and is a former Chairman of the London-based Military Commentators' Circle, he has written many articles for military journals and is the author of over twenty books.

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• Malaya: The Communist insurgent war, 1948-1960
• The Arab-Israeli War
• The Sinai Campaign, 1956
• The Red Army
• The Red Army of China
• The Story of the French Foreign Legion
• The Indo-China War, 1945-54
• The Greek Civil War - 1966
• Korea: 1950-1953 - 1969
• The War In Yemen - 1971
• The Third Arab-Israeli war - 1972
• The Kurdish Revolt: 1961-1970 - 1973
• Arab guerilla power, 1967-1972 - 1974
• The Electronic War in the Middle East, 1968-70 - 1974
• The secret war in the Sudan, 1955-1972 - 1977
• Language of Violence: The blood politics of terrorism - 1979
• The Wars in Vietnam - 1981
• The US rapid deployment force - 1981
• Terror in Ireland: The Heritage of Hate - 1984
• The Gulf War - 1988
• The Palestinian Intifada 1998
• Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92 - 1998
• Afghan Wars: 1839 To the Present Day - 2002
• The cyanide war : Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka, 1973-88. London: Brassey's (UK). ISBN 9780080366951.

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Black July