X Platoon : The True Story of an Elite British Unit
by Heaney MC, Steve & Lewis Damien
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About This Item
London: Orion, 2016. 1st ed. thus. As New. small octavo. stiff wrappers xii + 356pp., colour & b/w plates, index, Officially there was no X Platoon. The forty men in its elite number were specially selected from across the Armed Forces, at which point they simply ceased to exist. X Platoon had no budget, no weaponry, no vehicles and no kit - apart from what its men could beg, borrow or steal from other military units. The first non-officer in the unit's history to be award the Military Cross, Steve Heaney reveals the extraordinary work undertaken by this secret band of brothers.
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- X Platoon : The True Story of an Elite British Unit
- Author
- Heaney MC, Steve & Lewis Damien
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Edition
- 1st ed. thus
- Publisher
- Orion
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2016
- Size
- small octavo
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