Britain's Band of Brothers (eBook)

Tom Keene (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
128 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-5494-5 (ISBN)

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They were Britain's Second World War 'Band of Brothers', a secret army of fifty handpicked, cross-Channel raiders who carried the fight to the enemy shore long before D-Day. Created after the fall of Dunkirk, they commandeered a Brixham fishing boat and planned clandestine attacks on German warships in the Channel. But not all their enemies wore German uniform. Thwarted by rivals working for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), the unit sailed to West Africa where, as part of Special Operations Executive (SOE), they carried out an audacious top-secret raid on neutral shipping. Returning to Britain in triumph and feted now by Churchill himself, they expanded into the Small Scale Raiding Force. In almost twenty daring missions for Combined Operations, whilst operating from a secret manor house in Dorset, they raided German outposts, kidnapped sentries, ambushed patrols and shot prisoners, all the while sowing fear and havoc along the rim of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Britain's Band of Brothers is their story of courage and comradeship, of patriotism, tragedy and dawn-cold courage, told here in full for the first time.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2014
• Vorwort: Major General Julian Thompson CB OBE
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Ambush • Brixham • clandestine attacks • combined operations • cross-channel raiders • Dorset • English Channel • fishing boat • german warships • kidnap • neutral shipping|small scale riding force • RAID • Second World War • second world war, world war two, world war 2, world war ii, wwii, ww2, cross-channel raiders, brixham, fishing boat, clandestine attacks, german warships, english channel, secret intelligence service, SIS, west africa, SOE, special operations executive, top secret, raid, neutral shipping • Secret Intelligence Service • sis • small scale riding force, combined operations, dorset, kidnap, ambush • SOE • Special Operations Executive • Top Secret • West Africa • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-5494-9 / 0750954949
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-5494-5 / 9780750954945