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General Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, KT, GCB, DSO & Bar, MC (21 August 1889 – 17 June 1981) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars, and commanded the Western Desert Force in the early years of the Second World War.
Richard Nugent O'Connor ( Srinagar, 21 de agosto de 1889 — Londres, 17 de junho de 1981) foi um general do Exército Britânico durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. [ 1] Carreira. Lutou na Primeira e na Segunda Guerra Mundial e comandou a Força do Deserto Ocidental em os primeiros anos da Segunda Guerra Mundial.
8 de set. de 2016 · Richard O'Conner's Operation Compass was on the cusp of capturing the whole of North Africa, before his troops were diverted to Greece. His stunning victories in 1940/41 are now rarely...
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21 de jul. de 2015 · In Rewire, O’Connor expands those ideas, showing how we actually have two brains—a conscious deliberate self and an automatic self that makes most of our decisions—and how we can train the latter to ignore distractions, withstand temptations, and interrupt reflexive, self-sabotaging responses.
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31 de jan. de 2024 · On 7th June 1940, Henry Maitland “Jumbo” Wilson, commander of British forces in Egypt, needing an active and daring General to lead them, sent for Major General Richard Nugent O’Connor, a quiet, thoughtful man whose peaceful demeanour belied a ferocious and creative military mind.
21 de fev. de 1975 · Richard O'Connor, who wrote some 60 books, mostly biographies and popular history, died: Saturday, apparently of a heart! attack, at his home in Ellsworth, Me. He was 59 years old.
Richard O’Connor came very close to expelling the Italians out of North Africa, if things hadn’t distracted the British drawing away his troops, there very well could have been no Afrika Corps or El Alamein.
