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  title info:
    title: Sky warriors
    sub title: British airborne forces in the Second World War
  title info:
    title: British airborne forces in the Second World War
  name:
    name part: David, Saul
    name part: 1966-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: The legendary 'Red Devils' were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill's instigation in June 1940, they began as a single parachute battalion of 500 men and grew into three 10,000-strong airborne divisions: the 1st, 6th and 44th Indian, each composed of parachutists and glider-borne troops. Wearing their distinctive maroon berets, steel helmets and Dennison smocks, they served with distinction in every major theatre of the conflict - including North Africa, Sicily, mainland Europe and the Far East. 'Sky Warriors' is an accomplished act of storytelling; authoritative, far-reaching and deeply moving. Building the narrative from the ground-up, Saul David draws on multiple archives, published memoirs, unpublished diaries and letters, and interviews with participants.
  table of contents: Beginnings, 1940-42 -- Growing pains, 1942-44 -- Triumph, June 1944 -- Disaster, September 1944 -- Zenith, 1945.
  note: Saul David.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Aerial operations, British
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Airborne troops
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Armed Forces
    topic: Parachute troops
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
    topic: Opérations aériennes britanniques
  subject:
    topic: Warfare and Defence
  subject:
    topic: 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
  subject:
    topic: True war & combat stories
  subject:
    topic: European history
  subject:
    topic: Second World War
  subject:
    topic: Air forces & warfare
  subject:
    topic: Warfare and Defence
  classification: D759.63 .D38 2024
  classification: 940.54/4941
  identifier: 9780008522162
  identifier: 9780008522179
  identifier: 0008522170
  identifier: 0008522162
  identifier: 9780008522186
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230917
    record change date: 20250622023914.3
    record identifier: in00005648328
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng