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The Saints
Pictorial history of The Rhodesian Light
Infantry in June this year. The history has been written by Alexandre
Binda and the text compiled and edited by Chris Cocks, best selling
author of Fireforce—One
Man’s war in the Rhodesian Light Infantry
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Descending from the
Clouds: From North Africa to VE Day with 505 PIR 82nd Airborne
Spencer
Wurst,
Gayle
Wurst Click here for web site
82nd Airborne Division soldiers story
from enlistment to demob at the end of the war. Written from the
soldier on the grounds point of view. A must read for the US
Airborne Historian and enthusiasts amongst us.
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A British soldier reveals what it takes to serve in the elite
French Foreign Legion
Synopsis
Penniless, divorced and AWOL from the British forces, Bill Parris
volunteered for the French Foreign Legion in the early 1980s. Unlike
many British volunteers to the Legion, Bill did not desert. He
endured a horrendous training regime and, despite a fear of heights
(!) joined the elite Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment. This is more
than a war story - it is a personal journey too, as Bill comes to
terms with his own inner demons. His five years' service included
brutal combat in Rwanda and Chad, events that still trigger
nightmares. But he emerged as a man at peace with himself, and with
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On D-Day, three
hundred young American and Allied soldiers were dropped behind enemy
lines to launch a secret sabotage mission code-named Jedburgh.
Working with the French Resistance, the “Jeds” launched a
stunningly effective guerrilla campaign against the German war
machine. In this compelling narrative, Colin Beavan, whose
grandfather Gerry Miller helped direct the operation for the OSS,
tells the incredible story of the rowdy daredevils who carried out
America’s first special-forces mission.
Drawing on scores of
interviews with Jeds, Beavan’s history reads like a spy thriller.
Dodging Gestapo spies, the Jeds armed and trained fighters who
liberated Paris, snarled German transport throughout France, and
provided essential cover to the invading Allied forces. Beavan
focuses on key figures like William Colby, Stewart Alsop, and John
Singlaub—all of whom went on to high-profile postwar careers—and
shows how Jedburgh pioneered the special forces procedures still
used in Iraq and Afghanistan today.
This gripping
history of the original special op mission makes a major
contribution to the literature of American warfare.
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A
Detailed Survey
of the British Parachute Re-supply
Sorties
During
Operation “Market Garden” 18-25 September 1944
Author:
Arie-Jan van Hees
“Green
On!”, ISBN 90-806808-2-6, has been published in an A-4 format,
hardback., laminated.
The
book contains 386 pages and is richly illustrated with 600
photographs, diagrams, tables and Ordnance Survey maps.
A
separate index, containing 1300 names and 450 topographical
references, is supplied with the book
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The South African Bush War by the people who were there...
In 1966 - 1988 South Africa stood alone against Soviet
imperialism. In a 22 year conflict, a small African army stood its
ground against the might of the Soviet Union and its proxies, with
covert support from a number of western countries. Never amounting
to more than approximately 100 000 soldiers, consisting primarily of
citizen force conscripts, they fought in a series of campaigns
ranging from counter-insurgency operations to full blown
conventional war.
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