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Product Identifiers

PublisherPen & Sword Books The Limited

ISBN-101473879515

ISBN-139781473879515

eBay Product ID (ePID)234263356

Product Key Features

Book TitleAnders Lassen Vc, Mc of the Sas

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCultural Heritage, Military / World War II, Europe / Great Britain / General, Military

Publication Year2017

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, History

AuthorEdited by Nigel Cave, Mike Langley

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal940.541241

SynopsisThe story of Anders Lassen is one of the most amazing and heroic of the Second World War - indeed in the history of the British armed services. He was awarded no less than three Military Crosses and the SAS regiment's only Victoria Cross. From the day he stalked and killed a stag armed only with a knife, Lassen had been recognized as quite unique. He took part in a series of extraordinary strikes against the Axis powers in West Africa, Normandy, the Channel Islands, the Aegean and Greece, the Balkans and, finally, in Italy. This classic biography of a remarkable warrior, which was first published in 1988, is based on interviews with Lassen's fellow soldiers and a wealth of original research. It covers each stage of Lassen's short, brilliant career in vivid detail and offers a penetrating insight into the exceptional courage, confidence and single-minded motivation that lay behind Lassen's extraordinary exploits. Mike Langley also reconstructs, using the testimony of survivors, the operation in which Lassen was killed and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross., * Graphic biography of one of the most extraordinary soldiers of the Second World War* Vivid descriptions of the special operations for which Anders Lassen was awarded three Military Crosses and the Victoria Cross* Inside view of the training, tactics and ethos of the SAS* A fascinating portrait of an apparently fearless man and his single-mi

LC Classification NumberD794.5