Without Tradition: 2 Para - 1941-1945

by Robert Peatling

This is the inspiring story of the airborne battalion commanded by the redoubtable Lieutenant Colonel John Frost. Formed in late 1941, as part of the new First parachute Brigade, the battalion was in almost constant action until its legendary stand at the Arnhem bridge in September 1944. After that action not one single officer was evacuated; all were either killed or captured. Indeed at the end of the War no less than 38 officers and some 800 men...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844151115
• ISBN13: 9781844151110
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"