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Ian Fleming's Commandos - The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit (Paperback)
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Ian Fleming's Commandos - The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit (Paperback)
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In 1941, the United Kingdom faced its darkest hour: it stood alone
against the Germans, who had chased British forces out of France,
Norway, and Greece. All it had left were desperate
measures--commando raids, intelligence coups, feats of derring-do.
Any such "novel enterprise," wrote Admiral John Godfrey, Director
of Naval Intelligence, required "an officer with drive and
imagination of the highest order." He found one in Commander Ian
Fleming.
In Ian Fleming's Commandos, Nicholas Rankin tells the exciting
story of a secret intelligence outfit conceived and organized by
Fleming. Named 30 Assault Unit, the group was expected to seize
enemy codebooks, cipher machines, and documents in high-stakes
operations. Assault unit commandos fought in the North African
campaign and the invasions of Sicily and Italy, poked over the
bones of bombed Pantelleria, and liberated Capri. Rebranded '30
Assault Unit', they went ashore on D-Day, heading for rocket-sites
and radar-stations. They helped liberate Paris (including the Ritz
Bar and the Rothschild mansion) and then set out to steal
scientific and industrial secrets from the heart of Germany. Their
final amazing coup was to seize the entire archives of the German
Navy's three hundred tons of documents. Ian Fleming flew out in
person to accompany the loot back to Britain, where it was combed
for evidence to use in the Nuremburg trials.
Based on incisive research and written with verve and insight, this
new paperback edition of Ian Fleming's Commandos brings to life a
long-obscured chapter of World War II and reveals the inspiration
behind Fleming's famous fiction.
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