AIRBORNE LANDING TO AIR ASSAULT : A HISTORY OF MILITARY PARACHUTING

Εκδότης: PEN & SWORD BOOKS LTD
Συγγραφέας: THEOTOKIS NIKOLAOS
Isbn: 9781526797612
Διαστάσεις: 234Χ156Χ0
Αριθμός σελίδων: 272
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης: 29/1/2022
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Περιγραφη

"Many books have been written about military parachuting, in particular about famous parachute operations like Crete and Arnhem in the Second World War and notable parachute units like the British Parachute Regiment and the US 101st Airborne Division, but no previous book has covered the entire history of the use of the parachute in warfare. That is why Nikolaos Theotokis's study is so valuable. He traces in vivid detail the development of parachuting over the last hundred years and describes how it became a standard tactic in twentieth-century conflicts. As well as depicting a series of historic parachute operations all over the world, he recognizes the role of airmen in the story, for they were the first to use the parachute in warfare when they jumped from crippled aeroplanes in combat conditions Adapting the parachute for military purposes occurred with extraordinary speed during the First World War and, by the time of the Second World War, it had become an established technique for special operations a