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Ballantine Books, Date: 1994-10-01. paperback. Good. 4x1x7. Paperback. Cover a bit worn and rubbed. Binding tight. Minor wear to page edges and corners. No writing, highlighting, or marks in text. Contains figures. From the estate of a smoker. 1994. Ballantine Books ISBN 0804107327 9780804107327 [US]

New York, N. Y Ivy Books 1994 First Balantine Books Edition [stated]. First printing [stated] Mass market paperback Fair [14], 287, [3] pages. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Front cover has become detached and reattached with tape. Includes Foreword; Acknowledgments Translator's Note; Introduction; Early Experiences; Strength Meets Strength; On Hill 4115; A Rookie Arrives in the Detachment; In a Double Ring of Encirclement; Black Devils; Before the Decisive Blow; Face to Face; Final Missions; and In Place of an Epilogue. From the Arctic Circle to the shores of Japan, Russia's most famous naval scout describes his deadly missions in the Soviet Navy's World War II version of the U.S. Navy's SEALs. Viktor Leonov tells how these elite recon troops acquired their special skills--initially in actual combat--to beat Hitler's formidable 20th Mountain Army, which occupied Russia's Scandinavian borders and threatened the ports receiving crucial American Convoys. Dressed in white, their weapons concealed in white sacks, these naval commandos employed methods as diverse as skiing, navigation by azimuth, parachute and submarine insertions, and climbing icy cliffs to carry out their operations in the polar nights. Whether raiding, capturing German officers, organizing partisan activities, or vectoring air strikes, the scouts exhibited the exceptional operational security, surprise, and daring that ultimately drove the Germans out of Norway and Finland and made ...

ISBN10: 0804107327, ISBN13: 9780804107327, [publisher: Ivy Books, New York, N.Y.] Softcover First Edition [14], 287, [3] pages. Illustrations. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Front cover has become detached and reattached with tape. Includes Foreword; Acknowledgments Translator's Note; Introduction; Early Experiences; Strength Meets Strength; On Hill 4115; A Rookie Arrives in the Detachment; In a Double Ring of Encirclement; Black Devils; Before the Decisive Blow; Face to Face; Final Missions; and In Place of an Epilogue. From the Arctic Circle to the shores of Japan, Russia's most famous naval scout describes his deadly missions in the Soviet Navy's World War II version of the U.S. Navy's SEALs. Viktor Leonov tells how these elite recon troops acquired their special skills--initially in actual combat--to beat Hitler's formidable 20th Mountain Army, which occupied Russia's Scandinavian borders and threatened the ports receiving crucial American Convoys. Dressed in white, their weapons concealed in white sacks, these naval commandos employed methods as diverse as skiing, navigation by azimuth, parachute and submarine insertions, and climbing icy cliffs to carry out their operations in the polar nights. Whether raiding, capturing German officers, organizing partisan activities, or vectoring air strikes, the scouts exhibited the exceptional operational security, surprise, and daring that ultimately drove the Germans out of Norway ...

New York, N.Y.: Ivy Books, Date: 1994. First Ballantine Books Edition [stated], First printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. Good. xiii, [1], 287, [3] pages. Maps. Illustrations. Includes Foreword, Acknowledgments, Translator's Note, Introduction, In Place of an Epilogue, Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes chapters on Early Experiences; Strength Meets Strength; On Hill 415; A Rookie Arrives in the Detachment; In a Double Ring of Encirclement; Black Devils; Before the Decisive Blow; Face to Face; and Final Missions. Viktor Nikolayevich Leonov (21 November [O.S. 8 November] 1916, in Zaraysk - 7 October 2003, in Moscow) was a Soviet Navy officer and twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Considered a legend in the Soviet era after the war, he frequently gave speeches to Communist organizations about the war, but he became obscure after the fall of the Soviet Union. After the war, Leonov continued his military service in the Northern Fleet and in the Central Office of the Soviet Navy. In 1950 he graduated from the Caspian Higher Naval Red Banner School named after Sergei Kirov in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, and in 1952, he was promoted to Captain 2nd Rank. At the port city of Wonsan, the naval scouts under Leonov's command were credited with capturing and disarming 200 officers and 3500 soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army in addition to capturing three artillery batteries, five aircraft and several ammunition depots. Leonov received the title Hero of ...