Boarding Party by Mountbatten Of Burma
Filmed as The Sea Wolves, this is the story of the undercover exploit of a territorial unit. The Germans had a secret transmitter on one of their ships in the neutral harbour of Goa. Its purpose was to guide the U-boats against Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean. There seemed no way for the British to infringe Goa's Portuguese neutrality by force. But the transmitter had to be silenced. SOE was tasked with dealing with the problem, but how? Then it was remembered that 1,400 miles away in Calcutta was a source of possible help. A group of civilian bankers, merchants and solicitors were the remains of an old territorial unit called The Calcutta Light Horse.
Leasor, James: - James Leasor was educated at the City of London School and at Oriel College, Oxford. In the Second World War he was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and posted to 1st Lincolns in Burma. He served for three and a half years in Burma and India. Later, on the staff of the Daily Express as feature writer and foreign correspondent, he wrote The One that Got Away in collaboration This is the story of the only German POW in the Second World War to escape from Allied hands. James Leasor then resigned from the Express and has since written many factual books and a number of novels, including the Dr Jason Love series which have been published in 19 countries. His books dealing with wartime episodes include Singapore- the Battle that Changed the World; Hess; The Uninvited Envoy, Green Beach- about a secret episode on the Dieppe raid; The Unknown Warior, dealing with anti-Nazi German nationals who served in a special unit in the British Army and Boarding Party which narrates an undercover exploit of the territorial unit, The Calcutta Light Horse. War at the Top describes the experiences of General Sir Leslie Hollis, RM, who was Senior Military Assistant Sectary to the War Office. Hollis, later Commandant General of the Royal Marines, first told James Leasor about William Doyle, The Marine From Mandalay
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781908291028 |
| ISBN 10 | 1908291028 |
| Title | Boarding Party |
| Author | Mountbatten Of Burma |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | James Leasor Limited |
| Year published | 2014-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 236 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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