{"product_id":"9781844686360","title":"SAS in Tuscany: 1943-1945","description":"While always dangerous and daring, SAS operations are by no means invariably successful and when they go wrong, they do so very badly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first of the three operations covered in this book, SPEEDWELL 2, saw six men drop blind into Northern Tuscany on 8 September 1943, by chance the day of the Italian Armistice.  But with no radios or air\/ground support their courageous three week operation ended in disaster; four were captured and executed and only one got out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second and third operations, GALIA (winter 44\/45) and BLIMEY (April 1945), provided contrasting results.  GALIA, 34 men led by Captain Walker-brown, tied up many thousands of enemy troops for nearly two months under extreme winter conditions – an extraordinary achievement, thanks in measure to cooperation with an SOE mission led by Major Gordon Lett, the author’s father. BLIMEY sadly achieved little and the reasons for the success and failure of these two operations are carefully analyzed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book adds valuable new information on SAS operations in WWII.","brand":"Pen and Sword","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150277558512,"sku":"9781844686360","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781844686360_p0.jpg?v=1769893440","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781844686360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}