THE RED DEVILS. From Bruneval to the Falklands (FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES)

Norton, G.G. and Edited by LT GEN SIR BRIAN HORROCKS

ISBN 10: 0436315254 / ISBN 13: 9780436315251

Published by LEO COOPER LTD, 1984

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A clean tightly bound revised edition taking the Regiment through the Falklands War - 1982. Light shelf and edge wear only. ; 8.58 X 5.75 X 1.10 inches.

Seller Inventory # 20361

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE RED DEVILS. From Bruneval to the Falklands (FAMOUS REGIMENTS SERIES)
• Publisher: LEO COOPER LTD
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436315254
• ISBN 13: 9780436315251
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Well-illustrated
• Edition: Revised Edition.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

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Synopsis

From Bruneval to North Africa, from Normandy to Suez, by parachute and glider the men of the Airborne Forces have gone by air to battle. But their activities have by no means been confined to purely airborne operations- the Special Air Service performed prodigies of valor behind the German Lines in the Western Desert and Italy; the Glider Pilot Regiment fought beside their infantry comrades in Normandy, at Arnhem and across the Rhine. Their post-war successors, maintaining these traditions, have stood between Jew and Arab in Palistine; fought and sweltered in the jungles of Malaya and Borneo; sweated in the Persian Gulf and the Radfan; chocked on the summer dust of Cypriot roads; tasted the grit and sand of Egypt and Jordan in their mess mess tins; spent more then a decade facing terrorist ambush, bombs and bullets in Northern Ireland; experienced subzero temperatures and biting arctic winds in the South Atlantic and 'tabbed' across the Falklands to spearhead victory in 1982. Now should the aircrews who flew them be forgotten, or the air supply dispatches who maintained them, or the units who supported them. With well over 100 photographs and illustrations this book is a comprehensive single-volume history of the Airborne Forces. Accounts are given of the airborne actions fought by the British Army, whilst the development of the parachute assault and the use of the glider-borne troops can be followed from their infancy to the massive coup de main technique employed in the Rhine crossing.