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Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473879515
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Anders Lassen VC, MC of the SAS written by Mike Langley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Special Forces Hero

Author : Thomas Harder
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526787520
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Special Forces Hero written by Thomas Harder and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the German occupation of his native Denmark in April 1940 Anders Lassen had no interest in the War. Yet over the next five years he became a highly decorated Special Forces legend and the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross. After taking part in a mutiny on board a Danish ship, he made his way to Scotland. He first joined the Special Operations Executive before serving with the Small Scale Raiding Force, Special Air Service and Special Boat Service. He took part in the daring Operation Postmaster, off West Africa, and raided the Channel Islands and the Normandy coast. He saw most action in Eastern Mediterranean, fighting in Crete, the Dodecanese, Yugoslavia, mainland Greece and finally Italy. In April 1945, now a major aged 24, he was killed at Lake Comacchio, where his gallantry earned him his posthumous VC. This superb biography is not just a worthy tribute to an outstanding soldier, but a superb account of the numerous special force operations Anders was involved in.

Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586208984
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS written by Mike Langley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473879531
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Anders Lassen VC, MC, of the SAS written by Mike Langley and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic true story of the heroic Danish World War II soldier who received Britain’s highest military honor. The story of Anders Lassen is one of the most amazing of the Second World War—indeed in the history of the British armed services. From the day he stalked and killed a stag armed only with a knife, Lassen had been recognized as 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, Italy. This biography of a remarkable warrior is based on interviews with Lassen’s fellow soldiers and a wealth of original research. It covers each stage of Lassen’s short, brilliant career in vivid detail and offers a penetrating insight into the exceptional courage, confidence, and single-minded motivation that lay behind Lassen’s extraordinary exploits. Mike Langley also reconstructs, using the testimony of survivors, the operation in which Lassen was killed—and for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

Anders Lassen V.C., M.C., of the SAS

Author : Mike Langley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780450244926
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Anders Lassen V.C., M.C., of the SAS written by Mike Langley and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jock Lewes: Co-founder of the SAS

Author : John Lewes
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526788373
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Jock Lewes: Co-founder of the SAS written by John Lewes and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

In Flanders Flooded Fields

Author : Paul Van Pul
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473814316
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book In Flanders Flooded Fields written by Paul Van Pul and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1914 four armies were converging on Dunkirk. While France was preparing to defend its main Channel port, the Germans were determined to take it while the British were busy using it. Caught in the middle was the Belgian Army. Belgium was almost totally overrun, safe for a small strip of land near the Pas-de-Calais.This is the story of what happened between Antwerp and Dunkirk that fateful month and how the King of the Belgians safeguarded the independence of his small nation from its all-powerful neighbours.Contains 25 custom-made maps, several drawings and 138 seldom seen photographs.

Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER

Author : Brian Lett
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783030798
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER written by Brian Lett and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the force of “licensed to kill” secret agents who became the basis for the James Bond spy series. Brigadier Colin Gubbins was M. The Special Operations Executive was his Secret Service. Professor Dudley Newitt was Q. Capt. Gus March-Phillips commanded “Maid of Honor Force,” the team of “James Bonds” who, in a daring operation, sailed a ship to West Africa and stole three enemy ships from a neutral Spanish port on the volcanic island of Fernando Po. Ian Fleming worked closely with M to oil the wheels that made the operation possible, and prepared the cover story, in which the British government lied in order to conceal British responsibility for the raid. M’s agents prepared the ground on Fernando Po, even enmeshing the governor in a honey trap. March-Phillips and his team carried out the raid successfully in January 1942, despite much opposition from the local regular Army and Navy commanders, and in the face of overwhelming odds. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told Fleming’s lies on the international stage, denying any British complicity in the operation. As a result, a secrecy embargo enveloped Operation POSTMASTER until recently. This gripping book proves beyond doubt that this thrilling operation, and the men who carried it out, were the inspiration for Fleming’s fictional 007.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Author : Damien Lewis
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623659191
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare written by Damien Lewis and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning historian, war reporter, and author Damien Lewis (Zero Six Bravo, Judy) comes the incredible true story of the top-secret "butcher-and-bolt" black ops units Prime Minister Winston Churchill assigned the task of stopping the unstoppable German war machine. Criminals, rogues, and survivalists, the brutal tactics and grit of these "deniables" would define a military unit the likes of which the world had never seen. When France fell to the Nazis in spring 1940, Churchill declared that Britain would resist the advance of the German army--alone if necessary. Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive to secretly develop of a very special kind of military unit that would operate on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. The units would be licensed to kill, fully deniable by the British government, and a ruthless force to meet the advancing Germans. The very first of these "butcher-and-bolt" units--the innocuously named Maid Honour Force--was led by Gus March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric of high birth, and an aristocratic, handsome, and bloodthirsty young Danish warrior, Anders Lassen. Amped up on amphetamines, these assorted renegades and sociopaths undertook the very first of Churchill's special operations--a top-secret, high-stakes mission to seize Nazi shipping in the far-distant port of Fernando Po, in West Africa. Though few of these early desperadoes survived WWII, they took part in a series of fascinating, daring missions that changed the course of the war. It was the first stirrings of the modern special-ops team, and all of the men involved would be declared war heroes when it was all over. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare focuses on a dozen of these extraordinary men, weaving their stories of brotherhood, comradely, and elite soldiering into a gripping narrative yarn, from the earliest missions to Anders Lassen's tragic death, just weeks before the end of the war.

Andy's War

Author : Thomas Harder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781785905636
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Andy's War written by Thomas Harder and published by . This book was released on 2020-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moonless night. Eighteen British soldiers and two Italian fishermen are crossing a huge lake. Under cover of darkness, they complete the five-mile crossing to the bank occupied by the Germans. Commanding the patrol is a 24-year-old Dane. In a few hours, it will be exactly five years since the Germans occupied his homeland. He has been at war ever since. The life of Anders Frederik Lassen, VC, MC Two Bars is one that was entirely defined by the Second World War, as much as the war was defined by his brand of patriotism, ingenuity and courage under fire. Highly decorated in his nativeDenmark and nicknamed 'The Great Dane' by his comrades in the SAS and SBS, he remains the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross in the SecondWorld War. However, his story has never been told in English until now. Thomas Harder's extraordinary book tells the story of how, at the outbreak of war, the young Lassen came to the United Kingdom and joined the British Commandos.He later signed up with the Special Forces and went onto carve out a career leading courageous raids on land and at sea in some of the most celebrated operations of theSecond World War. After five implausibly adventure-filled years he would lose his life leading a daring raid on the shore of Lake Comacchioin April 1945. Tasked to cause as much confusion as possible to give the impression of a major landing, he single-handedly eliminated three enemy positions before being mortally wounded. He refused to be evacuated as it would have endangered the life of his men.

Fighting Rommel: Captain Mike Sadler (Tales from the Special Forces Shorts, Book 1)

Author : Sean Rayment
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007517599
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Rommel: Captain Mike Sadler (Tales from the Special Forces Shorts, Book 1) written by Sean Rayment and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Mike Sadler’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.

Wings on My Sleeve

Author : Eric Brown
Publisher : Orion
ISBN 13 : 0297856901
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book Wings on My Sleeve written by Eric Brown and published by Orion. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve: and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else. During his lifetime he made a record-breaking 2,407 aircraft carrier landings and survived eleven plane crashes. One of Britain's few German-speaking airmen, he went to Germany in 1945 to test the Nazi jets, interviewing (among others) Hermann Goering and Hanna Reitsch. He flew the suicidally dangerous Me 163 rocket plane, and tested the first British jets. WINGS ON MY SLEEVE is 'Winkle' Brown's incredible story.

Secret Commandos

Author : John L. Plaster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439142475
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Secret Commandos written by John L. Plaster and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a “comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an important part of the overall Vietnam tragedy” (The New York Times). Before there were Navy SEALs, there was SOG. Short for “Studies and Operations Group,” it was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the most highly decorated unit in the war. Although their chief mission was disrupting the main North Vietnamese supply route into South Vietnam, SOG commandos also rescued downed helicopter pilots and fellow soldiers, and infiltrated deep into Laos and Cambodia to identify bombing targets, conduct ambushes, mine roads, and capture North Vietnamese soldiers for intelligence purposes. Always outnumbered, they matched wits in the most dangerous environments with an unrelenting foe that hunted them with trackers and dogs. Ten entire teams disappeared and another fourteen were annihilated. This is the dramatic, page-turning true story of that team’s dedication, sacrifice, and constant fight for survival. In the “gripping” (Publishers Weekly) Secret Commandos, John Plaster vividly describes these unique warriors who gave everything fighting for their country—and for each other.

Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980

Author : Peter Baxter
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1909982377
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Bush War Rhodesia 1966-1980 written by Peter Baxter and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been over three decades since the Union Jack was lowered on the colony of Rhodesia, but the bitter and divisive civil war that preceded it has continued to endure as a textbook counterinsurgency campaign fought between a mobile, motivated and highly trained Rhodesian security establishment and two constituted liberations movements motivated, resourced and inspired by the ideals of communist revolution in the third world. A complicated historical process of occupation and colonization set the tone as early as the late 1890s for what would at some point be an inevitable struggle for domination of this small, landlocked nation set in the southern tropics of Africa. The story of the Rhodesian War, or the Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle, is not only an epic of superb military achievement, and revolutionary zeal and fervor, but is the tale of the incompatibility of the races in southern Africa, a clash of politics and ideals and, perhaps more importantly, the ongoing ramifications of the past upon the present, and the social and political scars that a war of such emotional underpinnings as the Rhodesian conflict has had on the modern psyche of Zimbabwe. The Rhodesian War was fought with finely tuned intelligence-gathering and -analysis techniques combined with a fluid and mobile armed response. The practitioners of both have justifiably been celebrated in countless histories, memoirs and campaign analyses, but what has never been attempted has been a concise, balanced and explanatory overview of the war, the military mechanisms and the social and political foundations that defined the crisis. This book does all of that. The Rhodesian War is explained in digestible detail and in a manner that will allow enthusiasts of the elements of that struggle - the iconic exploits of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, the SAS, the Selous Scouts, the Rhodesian African Rifles, the Rhodesia Regiment, among other well-known fighting units - to embrace the wider picture in order to place the various episodes in context

Behind Enemy Lines

Author : Richard Bath
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1907195386
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Behind Enemy Lines written by Richard Bath and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Rogue Warrior of the SAS

Author : Martin Dillon
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1780573774
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Rogue Warrior of the SAS written by Martin Dillon and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than half a century after his death, Lt Col. Robert Blair Mayne is still regarded as one of the greatest soldiers in the history of military special operations. He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur, and he pioneered tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide. Rogue Warrior of the SAS tells the remarkable life story of 'Colonel Paddy', whose exceptional physical strength and uniquely swift reflexes made him a fearsome opponent. But his unorthodox rules of war and his resentment of authority would deny him the ultimate accolade of the Victoria Cross. Drawing on personal letters and family papers, declassified SAS files and records, together with the Official SAS Diary compiled in wartime and eyewitness accounts from many who served with him, the picture emerges of a soldier who, although a flawed hero, was unquestionably one of the most distinctive combatants of the campaigns in the Western Desert and Europe.

Special Boat Squadron

Author : Barrie Pitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781718075863
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book Special Boat Squadron written by Barrie Pitt and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.