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SAS Operation Bulbasket

Door Paul McCue

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#322816-XB11
Titel
SAS Operation Bulbasket
Auteur
McCue, Paul
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Leo Cooper
Jaar van uitgave
1996
ISBN10
085052489X
ISBN13
9780850524895
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The story of Operation Bulbasket is one of such tension and drama that any resume which revealed its outcome would rob the reader of the vital element of suspense. Suffice it to say that on 6 June, 1944, known to history as D-Day, two members of the SAS were dropped by parachute deep behind the lines in enemy-occupied France. Shortly to be followed by others, amounting in all to fifty-five men, their task was to disrupt in every way possible the movement of German troops to the north to repel the Allied invasion of Normandy.
Only now, with the release of hitherto classified documents and thanks to a remarkable amount of painstaking research on Paul McCue's part, can the full story of Operation Bulbasket be told. The author has traced the surviving main participants and, by their various b... (Lees verder)ut often contradictory accounts and much careful detective work, has managed to piece together what really happened in those dramatic eight weeks after 6 June. Indeed, thanks to this book, those survivors have only learned the full story which was hidden from them for over fifty years. This has to be one of the most remarkable stories ever to be written about the Second World War.
Pagina's
232
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 45,00

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