ISBN: 9780715378359 - the raiders (7 risultati)

Condizione: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with No chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped,with NO previous inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and their is NO leaning or rolling to spine.Thick 8vo and well illustrated throughout in black and white,224pp First Edition 1st Impression.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The history of the irregular and special forces that have carried out small, often violent attacks not usually suited to regular troops. Includes many b/w photographs. 224pp. Light crimp to top edge of DJ.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The history of the irregular and special forces that have carried out small, often violent attacks not usually suited to regular troops. Includes many b/w photographs. 224pp. Light crimp to top edge of DJ.

Hard Cloth Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Dust jacket complete. Black cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 224 pages clean and tight. During World War II the British Commandos and the United States Rangers brought the art of combined operations and of the sudden, lightning strike upon the enemy to a level of organisation never reached any previous war. But the Commandos and the Rangers were the inheritors of a long tradition; the history of strike forces made up of highly trained, highly professional crack troops is as old as that of war itself. In The Raiders Richard Garrett tells the stories of some of the most exciting of the raids carried out by these more-or-less irregular strike forces -- raids which have often had an effect upon the course of war out of all proportion to the numbers of men involved - and provides linking commentaries that put each raid in perspective and add up to a concise history of this little-studied branch of warfare. The stories range in time from the Peninsular War, and the remarkable exploits of a frigate's crew that held up the advance of an entire French army, to the 1970s and a special operation that used the most modern techniques and weaponry - the Israeli raid on Entebbe airport. In between we march with British troops who burned the White House in 1814, follow Canadian and British Commandos into the hell of Dieppe, take part in the D-day landings with the Rangers, and, in Vietnam, drop into a prisoner-of-war camp to rescue prisoners who were no longer there. This is a book that reveals the drama, horror and excitement of war at its moot personal as it traces the development of the military strategy that Winston Churchill memorably called `the butcher and bolt policy'. Size: 4to. Numerous Photographs (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First UK edition with dust jacket excellent condition rare and collectable will send 1st class post in the uk.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 224 pages. dj worn.