Soldiers in the shadows
Subtitle: unknown warriors who changed the course of history
By: by William Weir
Publisher: Bounty Books
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780753714263
Subjects: Soldiers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Actions of 10 soldiers more or less forgotten, mostly from the United States but also including Erskine Childers and Orde Wingate.
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Filibusters shake the establishment; title: The "Gray-eyed man of destiny:" William Walker; title: The Yankee God of war: Frederick T. Ward; title: Part 2: Guerrillas in the rearguard; title: The different drummer: John Singleton Mosby; title: Treachery in the Badlands: Captain Jack; title: Part 3: The White man's burden; title: "Damn, damn, damn the Filipino": Frederick Funston; title: The African ghost: Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck; title: Part 4: Britannia's wayward sons; title: The Pen and the sword: Erskine Childers; title: Cray Orde: Orde Wingate; title: Part 5: The square and the spook; title: From the jaws of defeat (and dugout Doug): Matthew B. Ridgway; title: A visitor from the Black world: Edward Landsdale.