Edgar O'Ballance (1918–2009)

Author of No Victor, No Vanquished - The Yom Kippur War 1978

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About the Author

Colonel Edgar O'Ballance served in the British and Indian armies before becoming a journalist. He has written more than twenty books, is former Chairman of the Military Commentators Circle

Includes the names: E. O'Ballance, Edgar O'Balance, Edgar O' Ballance

Works by Edgar O'Ballance

The Wars in Vietnam, 1954-1980 (1981) 13 copies

The Kurdish revolt: 1961-1970 (1973) 8 copies

Terror in Ireland: The Heritage of Hate (1981) 8 copies

Arab guerilla power, 1967-1972 (1973) 8 copies

Afghan wars : battles in hostile land : 1839 to the present (2002) 7 copies

Fälttåget i Sinai 1956 (1960) 7 copies

War in the Yemen (1971) 7 copies

The Gulf War (1988) 6 copies

The Greek Civil War 1944-1949 (1966) 6 copies

Wars in Vietnam, 1954-73 (1975) 6 copies

The electronic war in the Middle East, 1968-70 (1974) 5 copies

Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92 (1998) 5 copies

The Second Gulf War (1992) 5 copies

Korea, 1950-1953 (1969) 5 copies

Third Arab-Israeli War (1972) 5 copies

The Algerian Insurrection 1954-1962 (1967) 4 copies

Language of violence: The blood politics of terrorism (1979) 4 copies

The Secret War in the Sudan, 1955-1972 (1977) 4 copies

sudan, civil war, and terrorism: 1956-1999 (2000) 4 copies

The Arab-Israeli War, 1948 (1991) 4 copies

The Cyanide War: Tamil Insurrection in Sri Lanka, 1973-88 (1989) 3 copies

The Congo-Zaire Experience, 1960-98 (1999) 3 copies

Afghan Wars, 1839-1992: What Britain Gave Up and the Soviet Union Lost (1993) 3 copies

Malaya: The Communist Insurgent War, 1948-1960 (1966) 3 copies

The story of the French Foreign Legion 2 copies

The Red Army of China 2 copies

The Indo-China War, 1945-54: A Study in Guerilla Warfare (1964) 2 copies

Kurdish Struggle (1995) 2 copies

Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism (1996) 2 copies

The Red Army (1964) 2 copies

The US rapid deployment force 1 copy

Tracks of the bear : Soviet imprints in the seventies (1982) 1 copy

Terrorism in the 1980s (1989) 1 copy

Civil War in Bosnia, 1992-94 (1995) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1918-07-17
Date of death: 2009-07-08
Gender: male
Nationality: Ireland (birth)
Birthplace: Dalkey, County Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Ireland
Education: Nottingham Grammar School
Occupations: soldier
intelligence officer (WWII)
reporter
Organizations: British Army

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No Victor, No Vanquished: The Arab-Israeli War, 1973 by Edgar O'Balance

An excellent read, a fair and balanced opinion that shared the positives and negatives of both sides of the fighting. A great eye opener into the war.

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Luftwaffe_Flak | Feb 6, 2014 |

Wars in Vietnam, 1954-73 by Edgar O'Ballance

Dated it finishes with two Vietnams. The final sentence is "The prospect.must be the dark one of further communist pressure on small South East Asian states." Otherwise. I think it does convey the chaotic nature of th Vietnam war and how the other indo china nations got towed in.

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Davidmullen | Nov 22, 2012 |

Afghan wars : battles in hostile land : 1839 to the… by Edgar o'ballance

Apparently Afghanistan is not for conquering. The British having been driven out, other invaders being sent off, how will the coalition of the vendors of Western democracy fare? Is the petroleum pipeline from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean worth defeat?

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rajaratnam | Jun 19, 2010 |

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