Stuart Allan: Commando Country | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781905267149 | Allan, S: Commando Country | Stuart Allan | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The Scottish highlands played a pivotal role in the secret development of special service training during the Second World War. The remote and rough terrain came into its own as a training and testing ground for new types of fighting. "Commando Country" looks at the variety of special training establishments set up (mostly highland shooting lodges), and at how use was made of the landscape and coastline and of specialist civilian skills such as stalking and mountaineering. It stresses how these new methods of warfare, tested in Scotland, spread internationally into the present day elite status of 'special forces' [...] story involves many famous names from a variety of backgrounds such as actors David Niven and Alec Guinness, mountaineer John Hunt, and polar explorer Martin Lindsay, as well as famous military figures such as David Stirling, founder of the SAS and Special Operations Executive agent Violet Szabo. Conveying the atmosphere of remote highland locations, the book makes strong use of photographs and personal testimony collected from those involved, bringing a unique Scottish perspective to a popular subject.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Öffentliche Verwaltung
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781905267149
ISBN-10:	1905267142
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Allan, Stuart
Hersteller:	NMSE - Publishing Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 160 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Stuart Allan
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2007
Gewicht:	0,426 kg