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Strafer : desert general : the life and killing of Lieutenant General WHE Gott CB, CBE, DSO*, MC
Unexpectedly selected by Churchill to command 8th Army in 1942 in place of the sacked 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 machine-gunned the crash scene. Gott became the only Allied general to be successfully targeted by the Germans and, as a result, Montgomery was given command and the rest is history. But as this long overdue and well researched biography reveals, ''Strafer'' deserves to be remembered for his exceptional talents, meteoric car.
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