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ISBN10: 0385661401, ISBN13: 9780385661409, [publisher: Doubleday Canada] Hardcover First Edition Dust jacket has some shelf wear and is protected in mylar. [Burlington, ON, Canada] [Publication Year: 2005]
Toronto,: Doubleday Canada, Date: 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 402, b/w illustrations, "" John Nadler vividly captures the savagery of the Italian campaign, fought as it was at close quarters and with desperate resolve, and the deeply human experiences of the individual men called upon to fight it. Based on extensive archival research and interviews with veterans, A Perfect Hell is an important… 2005. Doubleday Canada ISBN 0385661401 9780385661409 [CA]
ISBN10: 0385661401, ISBN13: 9780385661409, [publisher: Doubleday Canada] Hardcover First Edition " Its 1942 and Hitlers armies stand astride Europe like a colossus. Germany is winning on every front. This is the story of how one of the worlds first commando units, put together for the invasion of Norway, helped turn the tide in Italy. 1942. When the British generals recommend an audacious plan to parachute a small elite commando unit into Norway in a bid to put Nazi Germany on the defensive, Winston Churchill is intrigued. But Britain, fighting for its life, cant spare the manpower to participate. So William Lyon MacKenzie King is contacted and asked to commit Canadian troops to the bold plan. King, determined to join Roosevelt and Churchill as an equal leader in the Allied war effort, agrees. One of the worlds first commando units, the First Special Service Force, or FSSF, is assembled from hand-picked soldiers from Canadian and American regiments. Any troops sent into Norway will have to be rugged, self-sufficient, brave, and weather-hardened. Canada has such men in ample supply. The all-volunteer FSSF comprises outdoorsmen trappers, rangers, prospectors, miners, loggers. Assembled at an isolated base in Helena, Montana, and given only five months to train before the invasion, they are schooled in parachuting, mountain climbing, cross-country skiing, and cold-weather survival. They are taught how to handle explosives, how to operate nearly every field weapon ...
WES DAVIS served for two years as an assistant to the director of excavations at Kavousi in Eastern Crete, not far from the plateau where Patrick Leigh Fermor parachuted onto the island during WWII. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University and is a former assistant professor of English at Yale University. Editor of the Harvard University Press Anthology of Modern Irish Poetry, he has written for publications that include the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Nation. 2005.
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Doubleday Canada ISBN 0385661401 9780385661409 [CA]
ISBN10: 0385661401, ISBN13: 9780385661409, [publisher: Doubleday Canada] Hardcover Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0385661401, ISBN13: 9780385661409, [publisher: Doubleday Canada] Hardcover New [Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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