Author: Harclerode, Peter,
Title: PARA! - Fifty Years of The Parachute Regiment.
Description: Orion, London, 1998, reprint, trade paperback, 415pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, coloured photo pictorial upper wrapper, a history of the British Parachute Regiment, from is conception and early training in WW2, through expansion and formation of the Regiment, the establishment of a Battle School and operations in North Africa, Sicily and Italy; the forming of the 6th Airborne Division; Normandy, Arnhem and North-West Europe; the 2nd Independent Brigade in Italy, Southern France and Greece; the 5th Parachute Brigade in the Far East; 6th Airborne in Palestine; post WW2 re-organisation and operations in Cyprus, Malaya and the Middle east; British Guiana and Anguilla; Northern Ireland and the Falklands, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing lower wrapper, edges tanned, very good,

Keywords: military history army war ww2 suez malaya radfan falklands malvinas northern ireland


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