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

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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The Making of a Legionnaire: My Life in the French Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment
Bill Parris

Book Description
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 a story to tell.

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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.