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Paras: Voices of the British Airborne Forces in the Second World War

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#322768-XB10
Titel	Paras: Voices of the British Airborne Forces in the Second World War
Auteur	Payne, Roger
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Gloucestershire : Amberley Publishing
Jaar van uitgave	2014
ISBN10	144563841X
ISBN13	9781445638416
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the Second World War. Impressed by the performance of the German paratroopers in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a British Airborne force of no less than 5,000 parachutists. Their task was to land behind enemy lines and take and hold or destroy key objectives while ground troops advanced toward them. The result was the 1st and 6th Airborne divisions, and this is their story, as told by the men themselves. Covering everything from the initial training at Hardwick Hall and Ringway through their first operations in North Africa and Italy, to D-Day, Operation Market Garden and the crossing of the Rhine, th... (Lees verder)is is a compelling account of the war fought by the paratroopers and their comrades in the glider units.
Pagina's	348
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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