Anders Lassen Vc Mc Of The Sas

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473879515

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Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS by Mike Langley Pdf

The story of Anders Lassen is one of the most amazing and heroic of the Second World War – indeed in the history of the British armed services. He was awarded no less than three Military Crosses and the SAS regiment’s only Victoria Cross. From the day he stalked and killed a stag armed only with a knife, Lassen had been recognized as quite unique. He took part in a series of extraordinary strikes against the Axis powers in West Africa, Normandy, the Channel Islands, the Aegean and Greece, the Balkans and, finally, in Italy. This classic biography of a remarkable warrior, which was first published in 1988, is based on interviews with Lassens fellow soldiers and a wealth of original research. It covers each stage of Lassens short, brilliant career in vivid detail and offers a penetrating insight into the exceptional courage, confidence and single-minded motivation that lay behind Lassens extraordinary exploits. Mike Langley also reconstructs, using the testimony of survivors, the operation in which Lassen was killed and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0586208984

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Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS by Mike Langley Pdf

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473879539

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Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS by Mike Langley Pdf

The dramatic true story of the heroic Danish World War II soldier who received Britain’s highest military honor. The story of Anders Lassen is one of the most amazing of the Second World War—indeed in the history of the British armed services. From the day he stalked and killed a stag armed only with a knife, Lassen had been recognized as unique. He took part in a series of extraordinary strikes against the Axis powers in West Africa, Normandy, the Channel Islands, the Aegean and Greece, the Balkans, and, finally, Italy. This biography of a remarkable warrior is based on interviews with Lassen’s fellow soldiers and a wealth of original research. It covers each stage of Lassen’s short, brilliant career in vivid detail and offers a penetrating insight into the exceptional courage, confidence, and single-minded motivation that lay behind Lassen’s extraordinary exploits. Mike Langley also reconstructs, using the testimony of survivors, the operation in which Lassen was killed—and for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

Author : Thomas Harder
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526787521

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Special Forces Hero by Thomas Harder Pdf

Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross. After taking part in a mutiny on board a Danish ship, he made his way to Scotland. He first joined the Special Operations Executive before serving with the Small Scale Raiding Force, Special Air Service and Special Boat Service. He took part in the daring Operation Postmaster, off West Africa, and raided the Channel Islands and the Normandy coast. He saw most action in Eastern Mediterranean, fighting in Crete, the Dodecanese, Yugoslavia, mainland Greece and finally Italy. In April 1945, now a major aged 24, he was killed at Lake Comacchio, where his gallantry earned him his posthumous VC. This superb biography is not just a worthy tribute to an outstanding soldier, but a superb account of the numerous special force operations Anders was involved in.

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 045024492X

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Anders Lassen V.C., M.C., of the SAS by Mike Langley Pdf

Author : Thomas Harder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785905635

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Andy's War by Thomas Harder Pdf

A moonless night. Eighteen British soldiers and two Italian fishermen are crossing a huge lake. Under cover of darkness, they complete the five-mile crossing to the bank occupied by the Germans. Commanding the patrol is a 24-year-old Dane. In a few hours, it will be exactly five years since the Germans occupied his homeland. He has been at war ever since. The life of Anders Frederik Lassen, VC, MC Two Bars is one that was entirely defined by the Second World War, as much as the war was defined by his brand of patriotism, ingenuity and courage under fire. Highly decorated in his nativeDenmark and nicknamed 'The Great Dane' by his comrades in the SAS and SBS, he remains the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross in the SecondWorld War. However, his story has never been told in English until now. Thomas Harder's extraordinary book tells the story of how, at the outbreak of war, the young Lassen came to the United Kingdom and joined the British Commandos.He later signed up with the Special Forces and went onto carve out a career leading courageous raids on land and at sea in some of the most celebrated operations of theSecond World War. After five implausibly adventure-filled years he would lose his life leading a daring raid on the shore of Lake Comacchioin April 1945. Tasked to cause as much confusion as possible to give the impression of a major landing, he single-handedly eliminated three enemy positions before being mortally wounded. He refused to be evacuated as it would have endangered the life of his men.

Author : Paul Van Pul
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473814318

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In Flanders Flooded Fields by Paul Van Pul Pdf

In October 1914 four armies were converging on Dunkirk. While France was preparing to defend its main Channel port, the Germans were determined to take it while the British were busy using it. Caught in the middle was the Belgian Army. Belgium was almost totally overrun, safe for a small strip of land near the Pas-de-Calais.This is the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk that fateful month and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours.Contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.

Author : John Lewes
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526788375

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Jock Lewes: Co-founder of the SAS by John Lewes Pdf

Jock Lewes was a dashing young Welsh Guards officer who created a new approach to modern warfare in the SAS with less than two year's experience as a soldier. By the age of twenty-seven Jock co-founded the SAS with David Stirling. Jock was in reality the trainer and 'brains' behind this now legendary fighting force and this stunning biography describes the extent of his contribution. Jock was brought up in Australia during the Depression and later educated at Oxford. Life was rarely dull and he packed it with action and achievement. His Presidency of the Oxford University Boat Club saw Oxford breaking Cambridge University's succession of thirteen wins. Preparing for a job at the Foreign Office, Jock spent several seasons in Berlin. The record of his passion for two women, one a Nazi, the other a young linguist at Somerville College, Oxford, are part of a teeming richness of writing which he left in letters, journals and poems. His death was no less dramatic than his life: after successful raids on enemy aerodromes with his invention of Lewes Bombs, he was hunted down by a Messerschmitt 110 fighter. A highly important addition to ever popular SAS literature. Jock Lewes was the brain behind the formation of the Special Air Service.

Author : Brian Lett
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783030798

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Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER by Brian Lett Pdf

The true story of the force of “licensed to kill” secret agents who became the basis for the James Bond spy series. Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M. The Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service. Professor Dudley Newitt was Q. Capt. Gus March-Phillips commanded “Maid of Honor Force,” the team of “James Bonds” who, in a daring operation, sailed a ship to West Africa and stole three enemy ships from a neutral Spanish port on the volcanic island of Fernando Po. Ian Fleming worked closely with M to oil the wheels that made the operation possible, and prepared the cover story, in which the British government lied in order to conceal British responsibility for the raid. M’s agents prepared the ground on Fernando Po, even enmeshing the governor in a honey trap. March-Phillips and his team carried out the raid successfully in January 1942, despite much opposition from the local regular Army and Navy commanders, and in the face of overwhelming odds. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Fleming’s lies on the international stage, denying any British complicity in the operation. As a result, a secrecy embargo enveloped Operation POSTMASTER until recently. This gripping book proves beyond doubt that this thrilling operation, and the men who carried it out, were the inspiration for Fleming’s fictional 007.

Author : Sean Rayment
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007517596

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Fighting Rommel: Captain Mike Sadler (Tales from the Special Forces Shorts, Book 1) by Sean Rayment Pdf

This is Mike Sadler’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.

Author : Damien Lewis
Publisher : Quercus
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623659196

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Damien Lewis Pdf

From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill assigned the task of stopping the unstoppable German war machine. Criminals, rogues, and survivalists, the brutal tactics and grit of these "deniables" would define a military unit the likes of which the world had never seen. When France fell to the Nazis in spring 1940, Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to secretly develop of a very special kind of military unit that would operate on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. The units would be licensed to kill, fully deniable by the British government, and a ruthless force to meet the advancing Germans. The very first of these "butcher-and-bolt" units--the innocuously named Maid Honour Force--was led by Gus March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric of high birth, and an aristocratic, handsome, and bloodthirsty young Danish warrior, Anders Lassen. Amped up on amphetamines, these assorted renegades and sociopaths undertook the very first of Churchill's special operations--a top-secret, high-stakes mission to seize Nazi shipping in the far-distant port of Fernando Po, in West Africa. Though few of these early desperadoes survived WWII, they took part in a series of fascinating, daring missions that changed the course of the war. It was the first stirrings of the modern special-ops team, and all of the men involved would be declared war heroes when it was all over. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare focuses on a dozen of these extraordinary men, weaving their stories of brotherhood, comradely, and elite soldiering into a gripping narrative yarn, from the earliest missions to Anders Lassen's tragic death, just weeks before the end of the war.

Author : Eric Brown
Publisher : Orion
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297856900

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Wings on My Sleeve by Eric Brown Pdf

The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of Britain's few German-speaking airmen, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. WINGS ON MY SLEEVE is 'Winkle' Brown's incredible story.

Author : John L. Plaster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439142479

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Secret Commandos by John L. Plaster Pdf

Major John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a “comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an important part of the overall Vietnam tragedy” (The New York Times). Before there were Navy SEALs, there was SOG. Short for “Studies and Operations Group,” it was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the most highly decorated unit in the war. Although their chief mission was disrupting the main North Vietnamese supply route into South Vietnam, SOG commandos also rescued downed helicopter pilots and fellow soldiers, and infiltrated deep into Laos and Cambodia to identify bombing targets, conduct ambushes, mine roads, and capture North Vietnamese soldiers for intelligence purposes. Always outnumbered, they matched wits in the most dangerous environments with an unrelenting foe that hunted them with trackers and dogs. Ten entire teams disappeared and another fourteen were annihilated. This is the dramatic, page-turning true story of that team’s dedication, sacrifice, and constant fight for survival. In the “gripping” (Publishers Weekly) Secret Commandos, John Plaster vividly describes these unique warriors who gave everything fighting for their country—and for each other.

Author : Barrie Pitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1718075863

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Special Boat Squadron by Barrie Pitt Pdf

Not by strength but by guile. Only since the Falklands campaign have the initials SBS become known to the public. Yet this clandestine formation of Britain's armed forces has been in existence since the Second World War. Barrie Pitt, who himself served with the SBS, describes how the it came into being in 1941. How they fought with distinction in the Aegean, where one of their exploits inspired The Guns of Navarone. How they earned rapport in the Adriatic, in Greece and in Italy. How the SBS was reorganised in 1946 as part of the Royal Marines and has since played a role in Korea, Borneo and the Falklands. Equally interesting is the author's report of the training and specialized skills required by the boat units, and the essential tasks facing them -- infiltration from the sea, reconnaissance, sabotage, survival, resistance to interrogation, escape from captivity -- and the expertise and determination to complete them. As Barrie Pitt's superb account of the formative years of this elite force shows, these qualities have been present from the very beginning. Barrie Pitt (1918-2006) was well known as a military historian and editor of Purnell's History of the Second World War and History of the First World War. His publications include 'Coronel and Falkland', 'Churchill and the Generals' and 'The Crucible of War', a trilogy covering the North African campaign of the Second World War. He was born in Galway and later lived near Ilminster in Somerset.

Author : Martin Dillon,Roy Bradford
Publisher : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780573779

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Rogue Warrior of the SAS by Martin Dillon,Roy Bradford Pdf

More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide. Rogue Warrior of the SAS tells the remarkable life story of 'Colonel Paddy', whose exceptional physical strength and uniquely swift reflexes made him a fearsome opponent. But his unorthodox rules of war and his resentment of authority would deny him the ultimate accolade of the Victoria Cross. Drawing on personal letters and family papers, declassified SAS files and records, together with the Official SAS Diary compiled in wartime and eyewitness accounts from many who served with him, the picture emerges of a soldier who, although a flawed hero, was unquestionably one of the most distinctive combatants of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Europe.