Stirling’s Desert Triumph
the sas egyptian airfield raids 1942
$51.90
- Paperback
80 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2015
Summary
Stirling’s Desert Triumph: The SAS Raid on Sidi Haneish
Specially commissioned artwork, archive photographs and expert analysis combine to tell the absorbing story of the SAS’s legendary raid on Sidi Haneish at the height of World War II.
The night of July 26, 1942 saw one of the most audacious raids of World War II, just as the outcome of that conflict hung in the balance. In North Africa, a convoy of 18 Allied jeeps carrying Special Air Service personnel a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472807632 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472807634 |
| Series: | Raid |
| Author: | Gavin Mortimer, Peter Dennis, Johnny Shumate, Alan Gilliland |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Osprey Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 180mm x 8mm |
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About The Author
Gavin Mortimer
Gavin Mortimer is the author of Stirling’s Men (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), a ground-breaking history of the early operations of Britain’s Special Air Service, The Longest Night: Voices from the London Blitz (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005) and The Blitz: An Illustrated History (Osprey, 2010). An award-winning writer whose books have been published on both sides of the Atlantic, Gavin has previously written for the Daily Telegraph, the Sunday Telegraph, the Observer and Esquire magazine. He continues to contribute to a wide range of newspapers and magazines from BBC History to the American Military History Quarterly. In addition he has lectured on the SAS in World War II at the UK’s National Army Museum.
Peter Dennis was born in 1950. Inspired by contemporary magazines such as Look and Learn, he studied illustration at Liverpool Art College. Peter has since contributed to hundreds of books, predominantly on historical subjects, including many Osprey titles.
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