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The Force : the legendary special ops unit and WWII's mission impossible / Saul David.

David, Saul, 1966- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9780316414531 : HRD
  • Physical Description: vi, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimile ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York ; Hachette Books, 2019.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Forcemen -- "Where you from, soldier?" -- "Germany first" -- The plough project -- "Push ahead with all possible speed" -- "Frederick, you are now in charge" -- 1-2 company -- "Everybody fought somebody" -- Waling and glass -- "Suspend effort on present line" -- "They blew up bridges, culverts, and everything" -- "A very special force" -- "The battle of the slabs" -- "Their chance will come" -- "We had a crazy bunch of guys" -- "The objective now was perfection" -- "We want to take as many prisoners as possible" -- Kiska -- "Picked men of first-class physique" -- "We had a swell 3 decker cake" -- "This excellent and specially trained force" -- The empress of scotland -- "There was utter destruction" -- The winter line -- "Met at every turn by rifle and machine-gun fire" -- A "herculean" task -- "Difensa or bust" -- The defenders -- "A wet and forbidding mountain" -- The climb -- "All hell broke loose" -- "Medic! medic!" -- "Five yards! five yards!" -- "I don't know how we did it" -- "Kia, return to sender" -- "The best god-damned fighters in the world" -- "They were best friends for the rest of their lives".

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The Force : The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible
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The Force : The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII's Mission Impossible

Saul David is a military historian and broadcaster. He is the author of The Indian Mutiny , which was shortlisted for the Duke of Westminster's Medal for Military Literature, Military Blunders , Zulu: the Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879 (a Waterstone's Military History Book of the Year), Victoria's Wars , and Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe Airport, the Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission in History , an Amazon History Book of the Year. He lives outside of Bath, England, where he is a professor of military history at the University of Buckingham.

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