Description
Product ID: | 9781472805126 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | IN |
Series: | Warrior |
Title: | British Paratrooper 1940–45 |
Authors: | Author: Rebecca Skinner, Graham Turner |
Page Count: | 64 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, History, Second World War, Special and elite forces, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, Special & elite forces, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Presents the history of the British Paratrooper, from 1940 to 1945, that details the training, weapons and equipment used by these elite troops. This book brings the history of the ordinary paratrooper to life, drawing on the author's position as a former curator of the Regimental Museum. This new history of the British Paratrooper, from 1940 to 1945, details the unique training, weapons and equipment used by these elite troops. Inspired by the exploits of the German Fallschirmjäger in the blitzkrieg campaigns, Winston Churchill called for the formation of a 5,000-strong Airborne Force in June 1940. From these beginnings the Parachute Regiment became one of the foremost units of the British Army both in World War II and up to the present day. |
Imprint Name: | Osprey Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2015-01-20 |