The former head of UK armed forces tells Kate Whitehead about his rise through the ranks and why Colin Firth wanted to play him in a film about fighting rebels in Sierra Leone.
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Zvi Zamir, who has died aged 98, was a general in the Israeli Defence Forces before becoming Director of Mossad, Israel’s Intelligence Agency, in 1968; in this capacity he led Operation Wrath of God to hunt and kill those responsible for the Munich Massacre.
Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon is a retired Nigerian Army general and military leader who served as the country's president from August 1, 1966, to July 29, 1975. As the third head of state during his reign. Gowon presided over the contentious Nigerian Civil War, which lasted from July 6, 1967, to January 15, 1970, in an