The SAS pocket manual 1941-1945
Westhorp, Christopher2019
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The Special Air Service was the brainchild of Scots Guards' officer Lieutenant David Stirling, serving with No 8 Commando. He advocated a specially organised, specially equipped and specially trained unit dedicated to the 'unrelenting pursuit of excellence' that could act covertly and operate behind enemy lines to gain intelligence, destroy enemy aircraft and attack their supply and reinforcement routes. The 1st SAS Regiment was officially designated after successful raids against enemy airfields in the Middle East in 1941-1942. This book is compiled from wartime and post-war memorandums, manuals and documents. They include unit after-action reports and lecture notes from the centres used to train special services soldiers, gathered from the Liddell Hart Military Archive, National Archives, wartime periodicals and post-war memoirs.
Main title:
The SAS pocket manual 1941-1945 / Christopher Westhorp.
Author:
Westhorp, Christopher, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
128 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 18 cm
ISBN:
9781472841421 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
940.541241940.541 WEST
Language:
English
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BRN:
2241704
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