The SBS in World War II
The Special Boat Squadron was Britain's most exclusive Special Forces unit during World War II. Highly trained, totally secretive and utterly ruthless, the SBS was established as an entity in its own right in early 1943. Unlike its sister unit, which numbered more than 1,000 men, the SBS never comprised more than 100. Led by men such as the famed Victoria Cross recipient Anders Lassen, the SBS went from island to island in the Mediterranean, landing in the dead of night in small fishing boats and launching savage hit and run raids on the Germans. Through unrivalled access to the SBS archives and interviews with the surviving members of the un…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4728-1113-4
- EAN: 9781472811134
- Produktnummer: 18842453
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Masse: H20.1 cm x B13.0 cm x D2.4 cm 306 g
- Abbildungen: 120 b/w
- Gewicht: 306
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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Gavin Mortimer
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