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With the SAS: Across the Rhine Into the Heart of Hitler's Third Reich

Name: With the SAS: Across the Rhine
Author: Ian Wellsted

Auteur: Ian Wellsted

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Ian Wellsted

Engels
Hardcover
9781526745699
21 mei 2020
248 pagina's

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With the SAS: Across the Rhine is the story of the latter part of Captain Ian Wellsted's military career with the Special Air Service, the first part of which was detailed in his well-received SAS: With the Maquis. This is a very personal account, revealing the many emotional as well as physical strains placed upon men in the fighting line. The author takes us back to his time employed with the 79th Armoured Division (the famous 'Hobart's Funnies') preparing for D-Day and his desire for more exciting action, which led first to the Parachute Regiment and then the SAS. Whilst we learn a little of his time with the maquis, the main focus of the story is his part in Operation Archway. A British special forces mission which involved the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service Regiments acting in support of the advance of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's Allied 21st Army Group in operations Varsity and Plunder, this crossing of the Rhine was one of the largest and most diverse operations ever carried out by the SAS. In this offensive, the SAS teams were thrust deep into German territory, often having to battle their way through the enemy lines to get back to safety. 'I quickly learned that there was no way to control an SAS battle,' Wellsted wrote of his first major encounter in charge of a patrol. 'The din was deafening - seventy odd Vickers and half a dozen Brownings all chattering together. The screech of ricochets and the fire of the enemy made my voice sound like the squeak of a mouse against a church organ. I was helpless.' In one of these encounters, as the war was drawing to a close, Wellsted's troop found itself surrounded. In the ensuing firefight, Wellsted was wounded, bringing his active front line career to an end.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 21 mei 2020
Aantal pagina's: 248
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Hoofdauteur: Ian Wellsted
Hoofduitgeverij: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

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Verpakking breedte: 156 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 234 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 478 g

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Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.; Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; Barnsley : Frontline Books; 2020; 155 pagina's; [322884-XB12]

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