Commando To Colditz

Author: Peter Stanley

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Price : $34.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781741966794
Publisher : Murdoch Books
Imprint : Pier 9
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Publication date : 01 October 2009
Dimensions : 234mm X mm
Produced in : Australia
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Dewey classification : 940.54214
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Pages : 400
BIC subject : True stories: war / combat / elite forces
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In 1942, Michael 'Micky' Burn led his commando troop on the daring raid on the French port of St Nazaire. Fourteen of his men were killed; seven, including Burn, were captured. Before the raid, he had asked his parents to write to his men's families if the worst should happen. The result was the creation of a rich and moving archive of letters.

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Dr Peter Stanley is one of Australia's leading military-social historians, the author of 20 books, including Tarakan: An Australian Tragedy, White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India 1825-75, For Fear of Pain: British Surgery 1790-1850, Quinn's Post, Anzac, Gallipoli, Invading Australia: Japan and the Battle for Australia, 1942, and A Stout Pair of Boots: Exploring Australia's Battlefields.

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