Foxall, Raymond, - AGAINST ALL ODDS (first published as The Amateur Commandos).

Sphere Books, London, 1982, 1st thus, paperback, [viii], 151pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [i] ads., pictorial upper wrapper, the strange true story of Sgt. Peter King and Pvt. Leslie Cuthbertson, both non-combatants from the Army Dental Corps, untrained in any assault methods, who carried out an unauthorised commando raid, without any military assistance, during 1942. With stolen pistols, grenades and food they sailed to France and destroyed railway lines and communications before escaping in an open boat and surviving fifteen days at sea before being rescued in a combined air/sea mission. Court-martialled both men were eventually transferred to combat units, a little rubbed at extrems., numerous light creases to wrappers, edges tanned, reading copy,

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