Z special unit : the elite allied World War II guerrilla force / Gavin Mortimer.
Publisher: Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2022Description: 240 pages, [?] pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 9781472847096 (hbk.) :
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 940.548694 MOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000436430 |
"Z Special Unit, one of the most intrepid but arguably the most unsung of Allied Special Forces of the Second World War waged a guerrilla war against Japan for two years in the south-west Pacific. On some of their 81 operations Z Special Unit slipped into enemy harbors in canoes and silently mined ships before vanishing into the night; on others they parachuted into the dense Borneo jungle to fight with headhunters against the Japanese and on one occasion they landed on an Indonesian island and smuggled out the pro-Allied sultan from under Japanese noses." - Book cover
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