Tag: Commando

Forged in Fire An Australian Commando’s Story of Life and Death on the Frontline [Audiobook]


Free Download Forged in Fire: An Australian Commando’s Story of Life and Death on the Frontline (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D73ZFG96 | 2024 | 12 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 342 MB
Author: Scott Ryder
Narrator: David Tredinnick

Forged in Fire takes us inside the secretive world of the Australian commandos. Garry made a report on the radio: ‘I see around 200 women and children heading north up the valley.’ Less than 400 metres below us, a steady stream of women and kids were hurrying away in single file. ‘Where are all the men?’ I asked Garry. ‘Waiting for us,’ he responded, with a look of concern I had not seen on his face before. My heart skipped a beat-we were on. From the age of 12, Scott Ryder knew he wanted to join the army, and he signed up as soon as he could. After serving as a paratrooper and in East Timor with 3 RAR, he wanted more.

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Ten Commando


Free Download Ian Dear, "Ten Commando"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 184884400X | EPUB | pages: 224 | 4.2 mb
It is indeed remarkable, since the archives of the Second World War must have been pillaged, ransacked, burrowed into, and turned over almost as thoroughly as Monte Cassino itself, that no book has been written about one of the strangest units created during that or any other conflict. The unit was called Ten Commando – and the shroud of secrecy that enveloped it at the time has scarcely been unwrapped by the passage of the years.

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Storming Hitler’s British Fortress The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II


Free Download Storming Hitler’s British Fortress: The Commando Raids on the Channel Islands in World War II by Simon Hamon, John Grehan
English | July 31, 2023 | ISBN: 1473893771 | 208 pages | MOBI | 58 Mb
In 1940 British forces were withdrawn from the Channel Islands, allowing the Germans to occupy British territory. Hitler was determined to hold onto what he saw as a valuable prize, and the islands were heavily fortified.

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