With the SAS : Into the Heart of Hitler's Third Reich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellsted, Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army. Special Air Service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

With the SAS

Place of Publication:

: Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2020.

Summary:

In this WW2 memoir, the author of SAS: With the Maquis continues his thrilling account of life as a British Army commando behind enemy lines. Colonel Ian Wellsted, OBE, served with the British Army's elite Special Air Service during World War II. In this vivid personal account, he vividly recounts his involvement in Operation Archway, a mission supporting Field Marshal Montgomery's Allied 21st Army Group in operations Varsity and Plunder. In this offensive, the SAS teams were thrust deep into German territory, often having to battle their way through enemy lines to get back to safety. 'I quickly learned that there was no way to control an SAS battle, ' Wellsted wrote of his first major encounter in charge of a patrol. 'The din was deafening - seventy odd Vickers and half a dozen Brownings all chattering together.' In one of these encounters, as the war was drawing to a close, Wellsted's troop found itself surrounded. In the ensuing firefight, Wellsted was wounded, bringing his active front line career to an end.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Table of Contents

List of Maps

Preface

Introduction

Abbreviations and Glossary

Chapter 1 Three Letters

Chapter 2 Down and Up

Chapter 3 Entr'acte

Chapter 4 Ecole Haute Montagne

Chapter 5 Ski Mountaineering

Chapter 6 Ski Patrol

Chapter 7 From the High Mountains to the Low Countries

Chapter 8 Before the Rhine

Chapter 9 Snipers' Alley

Chapter 10 Ostrich

Chapter 11 Rhade

Chapter 12 Raesfeld and Sudlohn

Plate section

Chapter 13 Wullen

Chapter 14 Easter in Elte

Chapter 15 Reyes

Chapter 16 Across The Weser

Chapter 17 Schneeren

Chapter 18 At the Intersection

Chapter 19 Wounded

Chapter 20 The Road Back

Chapter 21 VE-Day

Chapter 22 Back to Britain

Chapter 23 The Liberation of Norway

Chapter 24 The Morvan Again

Epilogue

The SAS in The Second World War: A Perspective

Appendices

Appendix I: Composition and Fate of my Troop as Reserve for Frankforce

Appendix II: Schneeren, Order of March on 8 April

Appendix III: Differences Between Jeeps Issued to 1st SAS

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781526745729

1526745720

9781526745705

1526745704

OCLC:

1276861186