Ian Hall

Churchill's Secret Armies War Without Rules: Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Was principled gentleman Winston Churchill also the master of nasty tactics? You bet he was! Before the opening days of the Second World War, Winston Churchill had done it all. In the British Army, he had fought in India and Egypt, been under fire many times, and returned it; he was well aware he'd killed members of the enemy. He'd been captured, put in a PoW camp, and escaped, surviving behind enemy lines for weeks. He'd invented tanks, floating harbors, grenade launchers; turns out that Adolf Hitler had done the worst thing possible... he'd attacked Britain, and made Churchill mad. With his back to the wall in 1940, & Nazi invasion imminent, not only did Churchill use every trick in the book... with the uncovering of new WW2 secrets, it turns out he actually wrote the book! Literally! Churchill's Secret Armies discloses the plethora of special forces, units, and departments, Churchill formed in smoky backrooms to "get the job done". This was not a gentleman's war; this was back-to-the-wall fighting dirty, and Churchill was a natural grandmaster. From the birth of the well-known British Commandoes to the obscure Cichociemni (Polish Special Forces)... from the code breakers at Bletchley Park to the men of the 712th Survey Flotilla (who surveyed the Normandy beaches), Churchill's Secret Armies is a must read for the history buff, and an absolute page-turner for anyone who 'thinks' they know 'all' about World War Two.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ian Hall
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781310046445
• Artikelnr.: 72831184

Autorenporträt

I am Scottish, born in Edinburgh, and spent the first 41 years of my life not far from my fair and bonnie "Athens of the North". I now live in Topeka, Kansas with my wife (bless her), no pets (don't like 'em), no children (all moved out), and with many gallons of home-made wine bubbling as I write.

I love to write, and enjoy literary challenges of all kinds. I'm not confined by genres, having equal success in Historical adventure, Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror and hard hitting gritty crime.

I watch far too much football (Don't even think of calling it 'soccer'.) and at times chase a dimpled ball along carefully manicured countryside, with a collection of calibrated, graphite-shafted sticks. I play guitar and sing in a folk/rock band, and would love to have enough money to tour the world's archeological sites until I'm too old to walk.