The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual, 1939–45
Secret Forces of World War II
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One of the lasting legacies of World War 2 was the proliferation of what today are known as Special Forces. At the time many soldiers, often of high rank regarded these units as nothing short of ill-disciplined cowboys or worse! However desperate times called for desperate measures and there were those in high places who were prepared to take risks. As specially recruited units such as the LRDG, SAS and SBS earned their spurs and scored significant victories, at high cost both to the enemy and themselves, so faith in the concept grew
© 2004 Pen & Sword Military (E-bog): 9781473818033
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E-bog: 20. januar 2004
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- Blitzkrieg: Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War: France 1940 Lloyd Clark
- Cherbourg Andrew Rawson
- British Aircraft of World War II John Frayn Turner
- Hawker Hurricane Survivors: A Complete Catalogue of Every Existing Hurricane Worldwide Gordon Riley
- The BEF in France, 1939–1940: Manning the Front Through to the Dunkirk Evacuation Martin Mace, John Grehan
- Disarming Hitlers V Weapons: Bomb Disposal, the V1 and V2 rockets Chris Ransted
- A Battle of Britain Spitfire Squadron: The Men and Machines of 152 Squadron in the Summer of 1940 Danny Burt
- Hitler's Pre-emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 Henrik O. Lunde
- Undercover Operator: An SOE Agent's Experiences in France and the Far East Sydney Hudson
- Hitler's Atlantic Wall: Normandy Paul Williams
- The RAF Regiment at War, 1942–1946 Kingsley M. Oliver
- Hitler's Armada: The Royal Navy & the Defence of Great Britain April–October 1940 Geoff Hewitt
- Hitler's Stormtroopers: The SA, The Nazis' Brownshirts, 1922–1945 Jean-Denis Lepage
- MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109: The Latter Years—War in the East to the Fall of Germany Chris Goss
- The Polish 'Few': Polish Airmen in the Battle of Britain Peter Sikora
- Early Jet Bombers, 1944–1954 Leo Marriott
- Arrival of Eagles: Luftwaffe Landings in Britain 1939–1945 Andy Saunders
- Airwar over the Atlantic Manfred Griehl
- The Spies Who Never Were: The True Story of the Nazi Spies Who Were Actually Allied Double Agents Hervie Haufler
- Ghosts of the ETO: American Tactical Deception Units in the European Theater, 1944–1945 Jonathan Gawne
- SAS Operation Bulbasket: Behind the Lines in Occupied France 1944 Paul McCue
- Patton's Third Army in World War II Michael Green, James D. Brown
- Panzers I & II: Germany's Light Tanks Bob Carruthers
- The Rifles Are There: 1st & 2nd Battalions The Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War David Orr, David Truesdale
- The Desert Rats: The 7th Armoured Division in World War II G. L. Verney
- The Americans on D-Day: A Photographic History of the Normandy Invasion Martin K. A. Morgan
- Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organisation Nigel West
- Hell's Highway: U.S. 101st Airborne & Guards Armoured Division Tim Saunders
- Voices from the Battle of the Bulge Michael Reynolds
- Assault Crossing: The River Seine 1944 Ken Ford
- The Normandy Invasion, June 1944 Roy M. Stanley
- The War of the Gun Boats Bryan Cooper
- Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa Oscar E. Gilbert
- Bombers Fly East: WWII RAF Operations in the Middle and Far East Martin W. Bowman
- Sierra Leone: Revolutionary United Front: Blood Diamonds, Child Soldiers and Cannibalism, 1991–2002 Al J. Venter
- Leyte, 1944: The Soldiers' Battle Nathan N. Prefer
- Air Battle for Burma: Allied Pilots' Fight for Supremacy Bryn Evans
- Secret Naval Investigator: The Battle Against Hitler's Secret Underwater Weapons F. Ashe Lincoln
- Bombing Germany: The Final Phase: The Destruction of Pforzhelm and the Closing Months of Bomber Command's War Tony Redding
- Codebreakers' Victory: How the Allied Cryptographers Won World War II Hervie Haufler
- Tank Rider: Into the Reich with the Red Army Evgeni Bessonov
- Ship Busters!: A Classic Account of RAF Torpedo-Bombers in WWII Ralph Barker
- The Conquering 9th: The Ninth U.S. Army in World War II Nathan N. Prefer
- Eisenhower's Thorn on the Rhine: The Battles for the Colmar Pocket, 1944–45 Nathan N. Prefer
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