Popski's private army
Peniakoff, Vladimir1991
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Autobiographical account of military adventures in Italy and the Middle East during World War II. The author, a Belgian-born Russian educated at Cambridge, was put in charge the smallest independent unit in the British army in 1942, whose work combined intelligence, reconaissance and sabotage.
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Popski's private army / by Vladimir Peniakoff ; with a new foreword by John Hackett.
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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[448]p. ; 20cm.
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Originally published: London : Cape, 1950.Includes index.
ISBN:
9780192852380 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.548641092940.5486
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English
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BRN:
136958
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