Tag: Commandos

Free Download Alexander Gogun, "Stalin’s Commandos: Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front"
English | ISBN: 1350241695 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
At the height of World War II, a large number of Soviet partisans fought on the Eastern Front against the Axis occupation. In this book, Alexander Gogun looks at the forces operating in Ukraine. The Nazi atrocities were often matched by partisan brutality. The author examines the indiscriminate use of scorched-earth tactics by the partisans, the destruction of their own villages, partisan-generated Nazi reprisals against civilians, and the daily incidents of robbery, drunkenness, rape and bloody internal conflicts that were reported to be widespread amongst the red partisans. Gogun also analyses allegations of the use of bacteriological weapons and even instances of cannibalism. He shows that all these practices were not a product of the culture of warfare nor a spontaneous ‘people’s response’ to the unremitting brutality of Nazi rule but a specific feature of Stalin’s total war strategy.

Free Download John L. Plaster, "Sog: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam"
English | ISBN: 1581606761 | 2008 | 376 pages | PDF | 22 MB
SOG was the most secret elite U.S. military unit to serve in the war in Vietnam, so secret it was "black" – meaning its very existence was carefully concealed, even denied by the government. Innocuously code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG contained only volunteers from such units as the Army Green Berets, USAF Air Commandos and Navy SEALs, and answered directly to the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs, with some missions requiring approval from the White House. Inside Vietnam, only General William Westmoreland and a few senior non-SOG officers were briefed on SOG activities. Now Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour SOG veteran, vividly recounts the never-before-revealed exploits. SOG took on the most dangerous assignments, going behind enemy lines to penetrate North Vietnamese military facilities in Laos and Cambodia and along the heavily defended Ho Chi Minh Trail, where only air support – and sometimes no support at all – was available. As colorful as they were heroic, the men of SOG were bound together by their dedication. Though few in number, they were awarded ten Medals of Honor and hundreds of Purple Hearts. Their ranks included the war’s most highly decorated unit, as well as the most highly decorated American soldier. Now their stories, among the most extraordinary to come out of the Vietnam War, can at at last be told.

Free Download John Sadler, "Operation Agreement: Jewish Commandos and the Raid on Tobruk "
English | ISBN: 1472814886 | 2016 | 340 pages | AZW3 | 9 MB
The Special Interrogation Group (SIG) was the most exceptional of Special Forces. Created to raid behind enemy lines, posing as German troops, the SIG was largely made up of German Jews who were all too aware of the dangers they faced-capture meant either death or deportation to a concentration camp.

Free Download Operation Thursday: Birth Of The Air Commandos llustrated Edition
by Herbert A. Mason Jr., SSgt. Randy G. Bergeron
English | 2015 | ASIN: B06XGBY4Q2 | 52 Pages | ePUB | 0.79 MB

Free Download Tim Moreman, "British Commandos 1940-46"
English | 2006 | pages: 97 | ISBN: 184176986X | PDF | 28,6 mb
From their establishment in June 1940, the Commando units conducted a succession of daring hit-and-run raids from the sea into North-West Europe, Scandinavia, Italy and the Middle East. Among the highly publicised Commando operations were the raids on Vaagso, Dieppe, and St Nazaire. The Commandos also spawned a range of other Special Forces, including the Special Air Service, Special Boat Service and the Parachute Regiment. This Battle Orders title provides a detailed examination of the Army (and later Royal Marine) Commandos raised in the United Kingdom, from their inception in 1940 through to 1946, when the Army Commandos were disbanded and the role was assigned exclusively to the Royal Marines.