Author: Roger A. Beaumont
Military Elites: Special Fighting Units in the Modern World
The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.
1974
Format: PDF
Pages: 280
Language: English
Size: 23 MB
Merrill's Marauders. Darby's Rangers. The French Foreign Legion. The Green Berets. The Commandos. Names that have come to epitomize daring, determination and expertise. Names that stir us with the promise of martial glory. Precisely as they were meant to do. For it is the opinion of the author that many elite military units were formed to serve psychological rather than tactical needs. This book tells the history of more than eighty such organizations, from the Arab Legion of Glubb Pasha to the heliborne air cavalry of Vietnam.
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