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SAS: The First Secret Wars: The Unknown Years of Combat and Counter-Insurgency

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#327772-XE3
Titel	SAS: The First Secret Wars: The Unknown Years of Combat and Counter-Insurgency
Auteur	Jones, Tim
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London/New York : I.B. Tauris
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	186064676X
ISBN13	9781860646768
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue cloth, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with a few full page b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The covert, clandestine operations of the Special Air Service (SAS), from the jungles of Malaya, Borneo and Brunei to the deserts and mountains of the Middle East, have been widely documented. There has always been intense fascination in the SAS, stoked by the regiment's "closed" organization and secretive activities. But no period of activity has remained more secret than the vital years after World War II when the regiment seemingly expired, only to rise miraculously from the dead to fight Communism in the Malaya emergency. Tim Jones' history pieces together the evidence to show that while the Malaya emergency re-established the SAS as a unique source of counter-guerilla expertise, the regiment lived on and was covertly involved in the Greek Civil War of 1945-49, a war unmatche... (Lees verder)d in savagery until the Bosnian conflict in the 1990s.
Pagina's	213
Conditie	Goed — Small tear dust jacket repaired.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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