(Subject: World War II - General) The exploits recounted here range from a British commando strike against Rommel's supposed HQ in North Africa, SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny's daring raid to snatch Mussolini from his Italian mountaintop prison to 'Operation Jericho' - the attack by RAF Mosquitos to free imprisoned French Resistance leaders from a Gestapo prison (Published: 1999) (Publisher: Sutton Publishing) (ISBN: 0750915250) (Pagination: 194pp, 100 ills) (Condition: Fine in d/w) UL-XXXXXX.

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RAIDERS: GREAT EXPLOITS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

Publisher

Sutton Publishing

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0750915250

ISBN 13

9780750915250

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Hardcover

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During the Second World War a number of daring military actions were carried out by Allied and Axis land, sea and air forces against targets carefully selected for their strategic or propaganda values. These raids were as individual in character as the men who carried them out, and equally as different in their objectives. In Raiders, John Laffin relates more than twenty such operations mounted by British, German, American, Australian, Italian and Canadian forces, including a British commando strike against Rommel's HQ in the North African desert, the raid on the German capital ship Tirpitz in Tromso fjord by Royal Navy X-craft midget submarines; the German gliderborne assault on the great Belgian fortress of Eben Emael and SS officer Otto Skorzeny's dramatic mission to snatch Mussolini from his mountaintop prison.

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John Laffin wrote over 130 books, and was himself a soldier during the Second World War. He died in Australia in September 2000.

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