Commando Extraordinary
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj; damaged fep - half of the page is missing
Commando Extraordinary is a gripping biographical account of Otto Skorzeny, the audacious SS officer whose daring wartime operations made him one of the most feared and celebrated soldiers of the Second World War — a man Hitler himself called the most dangerous man in Europe. Charles Foley chronicles Skorzeny's most spectacular missions with vivid precision, from the breathtaking glider assault on Gran Sasso that rescued Mussolini from Allied captivity, to the bold Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge, in which German soldiers disguised in American uniforms penetrated enemy lines and sowed widespread panic. Foley writes with the pace and tension of a thriller, yet grounds every episode in meticulous historical detail, presenting a portrait of unconventional warfare that is as disturbing as it is electrifying. The narrative raises profound questions about the nature of courage, loyalty, and the moral ambiguities of soldiering in a totalitarian state. With a foreword by Major-General Sir Robert Laycock — himself a distinguished commander of British Combined Operations — this volume carries the weight of authentic martial authority. Readers left turning the final page will find themselves questioning where the line between heroism and fanaticism truly lies.
Author: Charles Foley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1954, Longmans, Green and Co
Genre: WW2
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj; damaged fep - half of the page is missing
Commando Extraordinary is a gripping biographical account of Otto Skorzeny, the audacious SS officer whose daring wartime operations made him one of the most feared and celebrated soldiers of the Second World War — a man Hitler himself called the most dangerous man in Europe. Charles Foley chronicles Skorzeny's most spectacular missions with vivid precision, from the breathtaking glider assault on Gran Sasso that rescued Mussolini from Allied captivity, to the bold Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge, in which German soldiers disguised in American uniforms penetrated enemy lines and sowed widespread panic. Foley writes with the pace and tension of a thriller, yet grounds every episode in meticulous historical detail, presenting a portrait of unconventional warfare that is as disturbing as it is electrifying. The narrative raises profound questions about the nature of courage, loyalty, and the moral ambiguities of soldiering in a totalitarian state. With a foreword by Major-General Sir Robert Laycock — himself a distinguished commander of British Combined Operations — this volume carries the weight of authentic martial authority. Readers left turning the final page will find themselves questioning where the line between heroism and fanaticism truly lies.