Author: Anderson, Ellery,
Title: BANNER OVER PUSAN.
Description: Evans Brothers, London, 1960, 1st edn., 206pp, [ii] blank, frontis and 12pp other half tone photo ills., maps at endpapers, dark green cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured decorative dustwrapper, in WW2 the author was commissioned into the Parachute Regiment where he remained throughout the war although for part of the time he was seconded to Special Operations and parachuted behind enemy lines. This account covers his experiences in Korea where, still with the Parachute Regiment he engages in almost a 'one man war' with Staff HQ and under an American commander trains and leads guerilla bands of British, American and Korean paratroops in sabotage operations behind enemy lines, edges tanned and a little foxed, dustwrapper: price clipped, ru=bbed with slight loss at tips, small area of surface loss at spine, light foxing to reverse, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

Keywords: war korea parachute regiments irregular clandestine sabotage


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