Operation Mayhem The Target: One Village. the Defenders: 26 Elite British Soldiers, the Enemy: 2000 Drug- and Blood-crazed Rebels.

Name: Operation Mayhem
Author: Steve Heaney MC

Auteur: Steve Heaney MC

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Steve Heaney MC Damien Lewis

Co-auteur: Steve Heaney Damien Lewis Steve, Mc Heaney

Engels
Paperback
9781409148456
07 mei 2015
319 pagina's

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Sergeant Steve Heaney tells the explosive true story of the epic operation that helped to bring to an end the Sierra Leone Civil War and earned him the Military Cross.
'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES

'Captures the confusion, black humour, raw courage and sheer exhilaration of combat brilliantly' THE TIMES

'Read this account of his stint with the 26-man strong X Platoon in the sweltering jungle, living on grubs, outnumbered 80 to one, battling heavily armed rebels with bamboo sticks and home-made grenades, and you'll be asking the question... Why wasn't he given TWO MCs?' SUNDAY SPORT

2,000 blood-crazed rebels. 26 elite British soldiers. One man's explosive true story.

Airlifted into the heart of the Sierra Leone jungle in the midst of the bloody civil war in 2000, 26 elite operators from the secret British elite unit X Platoon were sent into combat against thousands of Sierra Leonean rebels.

Notorious for their brutality, the rebels were manned with captured UN armour, machine-guns and grenade-launchers, while the men of X Platoon were kitted with pitiful supplies of ammunition, malfunctioning rifles, and no body armour, grenades or heavy weapons.

Intended to last only 48 hours, the mission mutated into a 16-day siege against the rebels, as X Platoon were denied the back-up and air support they had been promised, and were forced to make their stand alone. The half-starved soldiers, surviving on bush tucker, fought with grenades made from old food-tins and defended themselves with barricades made of sharpened sticks.

Sergeant Steve Heaney won the Military Cross for his initiative in taking command after the platoon lost their commanding officer. OPERATION MAYHEM recounts his amazing untold true story, full of the rough-and-ready humour and steely fortitude with which these elite soldiers carried out operations far into hostile terrain.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 mei 2015
Aantal pagina's: 319
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Steve Heaney MC
Tweede Auteur: Damien Lewis
Co Auteur: Steve, Mc Heaney
Hoofduitgeverij: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 23 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 128 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
Verpakking lengte: 200 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 287 g

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EAN: 9781409148456

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Categorieën: Biografieën & Waargebeurd

Geschiedenis

Oorlogen

Militaire geschiedenis

Periodes

Hedendaagse geschiedenis ( v.a. 1945)

Regio's & Landen

Afrika

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