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Fine unread condition brown cloth boards with blindstamped front cover decoration and black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket.
Includes Author Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Epilogue; Index and About the Authors.
Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates plus black-and-white maps interspersed throughout the volume.
A vintage former owner bookplate is neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper.
All pages are in very fine unmarked condition and the spine/binding is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs).
"The First Special Service Force was raised under joint United States and Canadian auspices, containing men of both nations, during the Second World War.
Its degree of training, at full brigade strength, was equalled by few and surpassed by none.
It fought continually, in the cruelest of terrain, against murderous opposition and under the eyes of highly skilled soldiers and observers, men (both Allied and Axis) trained in battle to gauge the worth of other fighting men.
Their praise of its performance is unique in the annals of modern war.
It was the direct ancestor of the Green Berets, today's front line warriors in Asia.
Any military unit is a strange thing.
Devotion to a particular leader, a special kind of training, a particular insignia, any of these will mark a body of men under discipline, setting them off from their kind and by extension, from the rest of the world.
Nevertheless, an army (navy or air corps: there have been many crack naval and air units) exists to fight.
The measure of esteem granted a unit by other professional soldiers rests on its ability to fight better, to outperform its enemies consistently, on any or all occasions.
It makes no difference how many gallant songs it has, how many "skull-and-crossbones" insignia, or how gorgeously it appears on parade.
Eventually, its real ability must be proved in battle.
This has been so since the days of Thermopylae and the Tenth Legion, and its is as true today as when the English infantry destroyed the Old Guard at Waterloo.
This book is the story of such a unit.
The Force always took its objectives, despite obstacles or losses, and the losses were appalling.
Further, and this is important, it often operated alone, without air or even artillery support.
As a unit, it had no sentiment.
There were no songs, no bravura and no flag-waving.
The men, both American and Canadian, were trained killers, marchers and climbers of fantastic skill and endurance, without reverence for anybody or anything.
In rear areas, they were apt to be a disaster and a disciplinary problem of the first magnitude.
Their officers were picked men also, who led from in front, and were trusted by their men to an extraordinary degree.
No gulf separated officers and men, from General Frederick down.
One gave orders, the other accepted them and that was the only difference.
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