Tempting the Fates: a Memoir of Service in the Second World War, Palestine, Korea, Keny,Adeh by Major General Dare Wilson ISBN 9781844154357, 1844154351 instant download

Tempting the Fates: a Memoir of Service in the Second World War, Palestine, Korea, Keny,Adeh by Major General Dare Wilson ISBN 9781844154357, 1844154351 instant download

For many years a succession of family members and friends, beginning
more than thirty years ago with my mother, have urged me to write an
account of the eventful times I experienced while serving in the Army, often
on Active Service. For a long time I resisted, partly because I was so busy
with other commitments, but eventually I made a start and this book is the
result.
After joining the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers, or ‘Fighting Fifth’,
in 1939 I soon came to accept its motto,
Quo Fata Vocant – Wherever the Fates Call.
In mythology The Fates were conceived as three sisters who supervised the
fate of mortals and some classical poets wrote of them as more powerful
even than the Gods. Clotho, the youngest, presided over the moment of
birth and influenced the pattern of bright and dark strands in the thread of
life. Lachesis, the second, spun and twisted the thread and under her fingers
it became now strong, now weak. Finally, Atropos, the eldest and most
inexorable, armed with a pair of shears, remorselessly severed the thread of
life at the moment of destiny