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The SAS in Occupied France: 1 SAS Operations, June to October 1944

Door Gavin Mortimer

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#331933-VE31
Titel
The SAS in Occupied France: 1 SAS Operations, June to October 1944
Auteur
Mortimer, Gavin
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Pen & Sword
Jaar van uitgave
2020
ISBN10
152676962X
ISBN13
9781526769626
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with photographs (mostly in colour), 8vo.
Samenvatting
Second volume of a highly illustrated history of 2 SAS's operations in 1944 in support of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. In the world of military history there is no brand as potent as that of the SAS. They burst into global prominence in 1980 with their spectacular storming of the Iranian Embassy, and there have been hundreds of books, films, documentaries and even reality TV shows about them. But what there hasn't been is a guide to the scenes of some of their most famous Second World War operations. That is why Gavin Mortimer's vivid two-volume account of their daring missions in German-occupied France in 1944 is such compelling reading. SAS actions in France delayed German reinforcements reaching the battlefront in Normandy, later sewing confusion among the Germans as t... (Lees verder)hey withdrew. The SAS trained the French Maquis and helped to turn them from an undisciplined rabble into an effective fighting force. Their exploits inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, and they left a trail of destruction and disorder in their wake. This first volume focuses on 1 SAS and describes in graphic detail operations Titanic, Houndsworth, Bulbasket, Gain, Haggard and Kipling, all of which were carried out in northern and central France. Using previously unpublished interviews with SAS veterans and members of the Maquis as well as rare photographs, Gavin Mortimer blends the past and present, so that readers can walk in the footsteps of SAS heroes and see where they lived, fought and died.
Pagina's
202
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 15,00

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