Raiders: Great Military Actions of the Second World War
Author:   John Laffin
Publisher:   The History Press Ltd
ISBN:  

9780750915250


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 October 2007
Format:   Hardback
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During WW2 a number of military actions were carried out by Allied and Axis land, sea and air forces against targets carefully selected for their strategic or propaganda values. Laffin relates more than twenty such operations mounted by British, German, American, Australian, Italian and Canadian forces.

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Author:   John Laffin
Publisher:   The History Press Ltd
Imprint:   Sutton Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780750915250


ISBN 10:   0750915250
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   01 October 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Raiders - really keen men ; inventing - and training - the commandos; the special air service; by their deeds shall you know them; the long range desert group; glider-borne raiders at Eben Emael, May 1940; commandos in the Arctic, 1941; buccaneers of the SBS; combined operations pilotage parties; two Tobruk raids; the Rommel raid, Cyrenaica, 17/18 November 1941; the great raid on St Nazaire, 27 March 1942; the Bruneval Caper; Pinprick Raids on the French coast, 1942; Pacific raiders; cockleshell heroes; Dieppe, 18/19 August 1942; the Singapore raids, 1943-4; Australian raiders par excellence; Italian underwater raiders, 1941-5; the Mussolini snatch, 12 September 1943; the raid on Amiens Prison, 18 February 1944.

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