Description

Helion and Company [Published Date: 2019]. Hardcover, 136 pp. No other printings listed. Very good in very good dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges and corners of covers. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has a 3/4" tear to the top corner of the front cover and a few other small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges. light overall scuffing to jacket as well. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Black and white and color illustrations. [From front jacket flap] The world's most respected special forces unit, the Special Air Service (SAS), was inspired by another irregular unit, the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) or simply Ghost Patrol. You may now accompany the authors in Ghost Patrol vehicles far, far behind Rommel's lines. While doing so you will acquire insights into some extreme raids and reconnaissance missions. You will become familiar with tactics and inventions of the Ghost Patrol that are still relevant today. This book is also the story of an LRDG research expedition to modern Egypt undertaken in original Second World War Jeeps and described as a "2300-mile Sahara epic" by Classic e Sports Car magazine. Original LRDG training notes and other tips for extreme travellers are included.