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|birth_place=Hamilton, Dominion of Canada |death_place=Los Angeles, California, U.S. |nickname="Yank" |allegiance=Internationalism |battles=World War I; World War II *Mexican Revolution *Augusto César Sandino affair *Spanish Civil War *Battle of Jarama |laterwork=Guerrilla warfare instructor/advocate }} Bert "Yank" Levy (October 5, 1897September 2, 1965)〔 was a soldier, military instructor and author/pamphleteer of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare, which was widely circulated with more than a half million published. He served with irregular forces in several parts of the world in the 1920s and 1930s, most notably in the Spanish Civil War, and was a significant figure at the Osterley Park training school for the British Home Guard during World War II.〔〔 republished at The University Libraries, University of Iowa〕 Similar combat training was provided to forces in the United States and Canada, and he was an itinerant lecturer and provocateur on the subject. ==Background== Levy was born in Hamilton, Canada to a Jewish family. His family moved to Buffalo, New York when three months old, and then to Cleveland, Ohio when he was seven years old.〔 His parents were Samuel Levy, a tailor and "horse doctor", and Sarah Pollock. Bert Levy had nine siblings. To counter a frail constitution, Levy became a Boy Scout and a boxer. He grew up on the streets and claimed that his "''real education was in the school of hard knocks''".〔 At age 16, he quit school after his father was seriously injured by a trolley. He took employment with the Kaber Printing Company in Cleveland for four years to help support his younger siblings.〔 In 1916, he joined the British Merchant Navy working as a stoker.〔 In the spring of 1918, Levy enlisted in the Thirty-Ninth Royal Fusileers.〔 Levy continued boxing through World War I and was the regimental bantamweight champion. After returning to Cleveland from the war, he briefly turned professional. He fought in 23 matches before retiring "in order to maintain family harmony".〔 He married Mary Prezenter, who was a clerk. They had one daughter.〔 He was a pipe smoker, and played the mandolin. In 1927 he was arrested along with four other men and a woman for a series of robberies. During the search, police discovered a cache of guns. Levy was convicted and sentenced to 2550 years.〔 He was convicted of the January 1927 armed robbery of a Philadelphia A&P food market. Even for his only criminal conviction, Judge Harry McDevitt imposed a severe sentence in the penitentiary. After serving six years, in 1933 he was released and deported to Canada (he was presumed to be a Canadian citizen at the time).〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yank Levy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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