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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. No notes or highlighting. Nice older book in good condition. Year 1953. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> In the beginning there was the fascination of the unknown’ writes Brigadier Durnford-Slater the man who was chosen to be the first Commando soldier and to raise and train the first Commando unit- which he led in many of the most famous and hazardous exploits of the war. 10. After a trial raid on Guernsey came Lofoten a completely success- ful expedition and then the bloody encounter at Vaagso-the first defeat of the hitherto unbeaten German army in what The Times called ‘the perfect raid’. The skill and daring of Com- mando attack caused Hitler to give the criminal order that all captured Commandos were to be executed. But neither the odds however unfavourable. nor the penalties however severe daunted the Commandos whose tradition of always maintaining the advance lasted to the end’. As the first Commando leader who was in the Dieppe raid and subsequently led brilliant exploits in Sicily and Italy the author has a unique story to tell of danger and heroism and also of the lighter side of war. He was responsible for the D-day planning for all the Commando companies. (SP)