The Raiders. The World's Elite Strike Forces

Great Britain: David & Charles, 1980. Paperback. Slight browning to edge of inside covers. Highly professional crack troops are as old as war itself. This book tells the stories of some of the most exciting of the raids carried out by well trained surpise strike forces. These effective raids have often altered the course of war, out of all proportion to the size of the forces involved. The author provides linking commentaries with each raid and this puts them into persepctive and adds up to a concise history of this branch of warfare. A book that reveals the dframa, horror and excitement of war at its personal level, it traces the development of the military strategy that Churchill called'the butcher and the bolt policy' Illustrated with authentic photographs. Exciting real-life accounts. Strategies and military tactics analysed and explained. Illustrated. 270 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). 1st Paperback Printing. SofCover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.