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Author : Sean Rayment
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007517596
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 : Sean Rayment
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007517602
This is Harry Verlander’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.
Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473879515
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 : Sean Rayment
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007517626
This is Leonard Ratcliff’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.
Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : Signal
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771060311
Now a limited series on Prime Video! SAS: ROGUE HEROES, starring Connor Swindells, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Allen, and Dominic West The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue. Ben Macintyre's latest book of derring-do and wartime intrigue reveals the incredible story of the last truly unsung secret organization of World War II—Britain's Special Air Service, or the SAS. Facing long odds and a tough slog against Rommel and the German tanks in the Middle East theatre, Britain turned to the brainchild of one its most unlikely heroes—David Stirling, a young man whose aimlessness and almost practiced ennui belied a remarkable mind for strategy. With the help of his equally unusual colleague, the rough-and-tumble Jock Lewes, Stirling sought to assemble a crack team of highly trained men who would parachute in behind enemy lines to throw monkey wrenches into the German war machine. Though he faced stiff resistance from those who believed such activities violated the classic rules of war, Stirling persevered and in the process created a legacy. Staffed by brilliant, idiosyncratic men whose talents defied both tradition and expectations, the SAS would not only change the course of the war, but the very nature of combat itself. Written with complete access to the never-before-seen SAS archives (who chose Macintyre as their official historian), Rogue Heroes offers a powerfully intimate look at life on the battlefield as lived by a group of remarkable soldiers whose contributions have, until now, gone unrecognized beyond the classified world. Filled with wrenching set pieces and weaving its way through multiple theatres of our grandest and most terrible war, this book is both an excellent addition to the Macintyre library and a critical piece in our understanding of the war's unfolding.
Author : Barrie Pitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1718075863
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 : Richard Bath,Tommy Macpherson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781907195389
With three Military Crosses, three Croix de guerre, a Légion d'honneur and a papal knighthood for his heroics during the Second World War, Sir Tommy Macpherson is the most decorated living soldier of the British Army. Yet for 65 years the Highlander's story has remained untold. Few know how, aged 21, he persuaded 23,000 SS soldiers of the feared Das Reich tank column to surrender, or how Tommy almost single-handedly stopped Tito's Yugoslavia annexing the whole of north-east Italy. Twice captured, he escaped both times, marching through hundreds of miles of German-held territory to get home. Still a schoolboy when war broke out, Tommy quickly matured into a legendary commando, and his remarkable story features a dizzyingly diverse cast of characters, including Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle.
Author : Rebecca Robbins Raines
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0160872812
Getting the Message Through, the companion volume to Rebecca Robbins Raines' Signal Corps, traces the evolution of the corps from the appointment of the first signal officer on the eve of the Civil War, through its stages of growth and change, to its service in Operation DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM. Raines highlights not only the increasingly specialized nature of warfare and the rise of sophisticated communications technology, but also such diverse missions as weather reporting and military aviation. Information dominance in the form of superior communications is considered to be sine qua non to modern warfare. As Raines ably shows, the Signal Corps--once considered by some Army officers to be of little or no military value--and the communications it provides have become integral to all aspects of military operations on modern digitized battlefields. The volume is an invaluable reference source for anyone interested in the institutional history of the branch.
Author : Anthony De Jasay
Publisher : Collected Papers of Anthony de
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0865971714
The State is a brilliant analysis of some of the fundamental issues of modern political thought from the perspective, not of individuals or subjects, but of the state itself. The author poses the query, "What would you do if you were the state?" The state usually is understood as an instrument, not a personality, and it is presumed to exist so that people can achieve their common ends. However, Jasay asks, what if we suppose the state to have a will and ends of its own? To answer these questions, the author traces the logical and historical progression of the state from a modest-sized protector of life and property through its development into an "agile seducer of democratic majorities, to the welfare-dispensing drudge that it is in many countries today ... Is the rational next step a totalitarian enhancement of its power?" The State presents what has been termed "a disturbingly logical 'agenda' for the state in pursuit of its 'self-fulfillment.'"--Inside jacket flap.
Author : Sean Rayment
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007452552
Stories of real-life bravery and courage-under-fire contribute to a unique and poignant record of a club created for heroes.
Author : Damien Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1787475255
Author : John Lewes
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526788375
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 : David Mitchelhill-Green
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526744371
Adolf Hitler’s war in Africa arose from the urgent need to reinforce the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini, whose 1940 invasion of Egypt had been soundly beaten. Of secondary importance to his ideological dream of conquering the Soviet Union, Germany’s Führer rushed a small mechanised force into the unfamiliar North African theatre to stave off defeat and avert any political fallout. This fresh account begins with the arrival of the largely unprepared German formations, soon to be stricken by disease and heavily reliant upon captured materiel, as they fought a bloody series of see-sawing battles across the Western Desert. David Mitchelhill-Green has gathered a wealth of personal narratives from both sides as he follows the brash exploits of General Erwin Rommel, intent on retaking Libya; the Nile firmly in his sights. Against this backdrop is the brutal human experience of war itself.
Author : Lorna Almonds Windmill
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781848844247
"'Gentlemen Jim' Almonds ... was among the first handful of men to join David Sterling and his original 'L' Detachment, which grew into the modern SAS in the Western Desert in 1941. Then a sergeant in 8 Guards Commando, Almonds became one of the 'Tobruk Four' who developed the technique of four-man clandestine operations and carried it into the SAS"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : United States. Army. Infantry Division, 79th
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : WISC:89061982187