Home : Book details

Special Operations in World War II: British and American Irregular Warfare (Volume 39) (Campaigns and Commanders Series) free ebook download

Category:
History

Views: 494
Likes: 74

Catalogue

Author(s):	Andrew L. Hargreaves

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0806143967
Pages:	432	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
Uploader:	alex21s	Upload Date:	6/5/2021 10:19:36 AM

To download click on link in the Links Table below

Description: Click to see full description

British and American commanders first used modern special forces in support of conventional military operations during World War II. Since then, although special ops have featured prominently in popular culture and media coverage of wars, the academic study of irregular warfare has remained as elusive as the practitioners of special operations themselves. This book is the first comprehensive study of the development, application, and value of Anglo-American commando and special forces units during the Second World War.

Special forces are intensively trained, specially selected military units performing unconventional and often high-risk missions. In this book, Andrew L. Hargreaves not only describes tactics and operations but also outlines the distinctions between commandos and special forces, traces their evolution during the war, explains how the Anglo-American alliance functioned in the creation and use of these units, looks at their command and control arrangements, evaluates their impact, and assesses their cost-effectiveness.

The first real impetus for the creation of British specialist formations came in the desperate summer of 1940 when, having been pushed out of Europe following defeat in France and the Low Countries, Britain began to turn to irregular forces in an effort to wrest back the strategic initiative from the enemy. The development of special forces by the United States was also a direct consequence of defeat. After Pearl Harbor, Hargreaves shows, the Americans found themselves in much the same position as Britain had been in 1940: shocked, outnumbered, and conventionally defeated, they were unable to come to grips with the enemy on a large scale. By the end of the war, a variety of these units had overcome a multitude of evolutionary hurdles and made valuable contributions to practically every theater of operation.

In describing how Britain and the United States worked independently and cooperatively to invent and put into practice a fundamentally new way of waging war, this book demonstrates the two nations flexibility, adaptability, and ability to innovate during World War II.

Links Table

	Title	Link	Password	Size (MB)	Thank to	Inform Admin
3006554	Book	https://florenfile.com/vzve9kz4wavs/0806...		0.00	alex21s

Tags: American British Campaigns Commanders Irregular Operations Special Volume Warfare World

Title	Link	Password	Size	Reason

Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books:

Comments

New comment:

Special Operations in World War II: British and American Irregular Warfare (Volume 39) (Campaigns and Commanders Series) free ebook download

Category: History

Description: Click to see full description

Category:
History