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Gavin Mortimer

Merrill's Marauders

The Untold Story of Unit Galahad and the Toughest Special Forces Mission of World War II

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In August of 1943, a call went out for American soldiers willing to embark on a hazardous and dangerous mission behind enemy lines in Burma. The war department wanted 3,000 volunteers, and it didn't care who they were; they would be expendable, with an expected casualty rate of 85 percent. The men who took up the challenge were, in the words of one, bums and cast-offs with rap sheets and reputations for trouble. One war reporter described them as Dead End Kids, but by the end of their five-month mission, those that remained had become the legendary Merrill's Marauders. From award-winning historian Gavin Mortimer, Merrill's Marauders is the st… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61058-902-4
  • EAN: 9781610589024
  • Produktnummer: 35540610
  • Verlag: Zenith Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 240 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 13'986 KB
  • Abbildungen: 25 b-w photos & 9 maps

Über den Autor


Gavin Mortimer is a best-selling author and an award-winning historian whose versatile narrative nonfiction books have been published in the United States and Great Britain.He is the author of Merrill's Marauders (Zenith Press, 2013), which profiles the American jungle fighters who fought a brutal campaign against the Japanese in Burma in 1944 and was seen on the CBS network during its coverage of Veterans Day 2013.Mortimer's other recent title is The History of the Special Boat Squadron in World War 2, an Amazon bestseller that was featured prominently in the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mirror, the latter praising it as a remarkable account of the wartime SBS.Mortimer is also the author of The First Eagles, to be released in the summer of 2014, which is a compelling account of the American pilots who flew with the Royal Air Force in World War I.www.gavinmortimer.com

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