By Robert Graham Hann
Two Days after Christmas 1944, through the most harsh wintry weather in residing reminiscence, 33 SAS troops parachuted into the valley of Rossano, Northern Italy. performed in extensive sunlight, the parachute drop was once meant to misinform enemy forces into believing complete parachute brigade had landed at the back of them. Drawing on post-op reviews and memoirs, this e-book is a fictionalised account written from the point of view of 1 of the rank and dossier parachutists who took half within the operation, the author's father. Scrupulously researched and richly illustrated, Hann's own narrative brings to existence the co-ordinated makes an attempt of the SAS and native partisans to interact and ward off the enemy. For the 1st time, Hann offers a close account of a few of the devastating setbacks and triumphs of SAS Operation Galia. one of many toughest fought and so much winning operations of worldwide warfare .
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