Edgar O'Ballance

Colonel Edgar O'Ballance born 1920 is a British military journalist, and researcher. He served in the British and Indian armies until 1948. He worked as a journalist for a US Wire Agency from 1948 to 1962, and since has been a freelance journalist. He has covered over twenty wars and insurgencies and written extensively on international relations, defence and strategic problems. A member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and is a former Chairman of the London-based Military Commentators' Circle, he has written many articles for military journals and is the author of over twenty books.

Books

*Malaya: The Communist insurgent war, 1948-1960
*The Arab-Israeli War
*The Sinai Campaign, 1956
*The Red Army
*The Red Army of China
*The Story of the French Foreign Legion
*The Indo-China War, 1945-54
*The Greek Civil War - 1966
*Korea: 1950-1953 - 1969
*The War In Yemen - 1971
*The Third Arab-Israeli war - 1972
*The Kurdish Revolt: 1961-1970 - 1973
*Arab guerilla power, 1967-1972 - 1974
*The Electronic War in the Middle East, 1968-70 - 1974
*The secret war in the Sudan, 1955-1972 - 1977
*Language of Violence: The blood politics of terrorism - 1979
*The Wars in Vietnam - 1981
*The US rapid deployment force - 1981
*Terror in Ireland: The Heritage of Hate - 1984
*The Gulf War - 1988
*The Palestinian Intifada 1998
*Civil War in Lebanon, 1975-92 - 1998
*Afghan Wars: 1839 To the Present Day - 2002
*The cyanide war : Tamil insurrection in Sri Lanka, 1973-88. London: Brassey's (UK). ISBN 9780080366951.

ee also

Black July