Word: ambushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Instead of working his property, Leo Fox-Donell spent his time tippling and wenching. More through inertia than patriotism he drifted into a secret political society and organized a raid on a police garrison. It failed when he stopped for a drink with his men before going to the ambush. He was still drinking when the police took him in. During his years in an English prison Leo lost the last of his holdings to an older brother and acquired instead a personal hatred of England. The rest of his life in a small town and in the city...
...covers of the story; it is in fact, the all pervading, the only certain, element. Yet it strikes always swiftly, always surely, always, as such things go, with an impressive lack of fuss. The troop is winding along the desert; the lieutenant in command is shot down from ambush, and with him to the grave, go the men's orders and geographical location. Under Victor McLaglen, top sergeant, the remaining eleven find their way to an oasis. Next morning, the youthful sentry is found knifed, the horses are gone. Two are sent out to bring aid; they are returned dead...
...Lost Patrol (RKO) is an account of what happens to twelve members of a British cavalry troop in Mesopotamia in 1915. Arabs, firing from ambush, kill the troop's captain. The rest reach an oasis. The first night, Arabs shoot a sentry, steal the horses. The next morning a cockney soldier climbs a palm tree to get a look at the enemy. He topples down with a bullet in his heart. The sergeant (Victor McLaglen) draws lots, sends two of his men to scout for help. They come back dead, strapped to the backs of horses. A rescue plane...
When Irishmen speak of the two years of murder, massacre, ambush and reprisal that marked Ireland's last and most successful rebellion (1919-21), they call it, with resigned racial euphemism, "the trouble." Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...
...only safety for Kerry was in the I. R. A. After being hidden in a cellar, he was spirited away to Ardfalla, a little village on the coast where the I. R. A. had a gunrunning post, an underground ammunition factory. Then Kerry began to see death. His first ambush was not so bad. The massacre of Black & Tans herded into a cell was worse. When he was a witness of the cold-blooded shooting of pretty Kitty Brady it was nearly too much. But when he was given the pleasant job of guarding beautiful Lady Moira, a hostage, Kerry...