Osprey Elite 184 - Allied World War II Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps
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Название: Osprey Elite 184 - Allied World War II Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps
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Автор: Gordon L Rottman
Год выпуска: 2010
Формат: PDF
Размер: 26,5 МБ
ISBN: 640005406411
Язык: Английский
СКАЧАТЬ Osprey Elite 184 - Allied World War II Sabotage Devices and Booby Traps БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: Following Churchills directive to set occupied Europe ablaze, the SOE and later its American sister organization, the OSS, were deployed across the continent.Outnumbered, surrounded and in great peril, these brave agents were armed with a wide variety of devices to help them achieve their objectives, including numerous pieces of sabotage equipment and cunning booby traps. This book examines these different pieces of equipment and the technicalities involved in deploying them effectively, as well as discussing the specialist equipment developed by Special Forces units, including the SAS Lewes Bomb. Touching on some of the stranger developments, such as explosives disguised as lumps of coal, the author goes on to describe the German clearance techniques that were developed to avoid these dangers.