No Ordinary Life: : the true story of founding SAS member Horace Stokes - Softcover

Stokes, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784070424 ISBN 13: 9781784070427

Publisher: FeedARead.com, 2017

Synopsis

Rogue Heroes - No Ordinary Life: The true bestselling story of Horace Stokes, a founding member of the SAS, who on his death bed, handed his son a dusty journal containing details of his secret past as a Second World War hero and founding member of the SAS. No Ordinary Life by Peter Stokes, was published by FeedARead.com and became an Amazon top ten book and UK bestseller. Just weeks prior to his death Horace Stokes asked his son Peter to return home as he had 'something important' to share with him, and presented him with a battered diary.

Peter, himself a decorated military officer, said: "He wanted me to come home so that he could talk to me about his life growing up in the shadow of war and also about his part in some of the most famous raids during the Second World War; throughout his life he'd never revealed these secrets". His secret journal recalls daring missions behind enemy lines in France, the Mediterranean and parachuting to attack the Axis forces of Hitler's Nazis and Mussolini's fascists behind enemy lines.. It also documents his capture, escape and recapture in Italy and Germany. Stokey, as he was known to his war-time comrades, served with 12 Commando, the Small Scale Raiding Force and the SAS. This book is a 'must read' that tells and honours the story of a modest man who epitomised a generation now nearly all gone. A hero of the nation's greatest generation and one of the brave SAS 'Rogue Heroes' of World WWII.

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Product Description

The previously personal untold story of the making of a young Commando and SAS soldier in World War 2, from Sark to Stalag VIIA. On his death, Sergeant H Stokes of 2 SAS left a journal that revealed what his life had been like growing up in the shadow of approaching war, which described what life was like operating behind enemy lines in France, the Mediterranean and Italy. In August 1939, an 18 year old Stokey, as he was known to his war-time comrades, left his home in Birmingham to attend a two-week Territorial Army (TA) Camp in Devon, and in those two-weeks he was mobilised when Hitler invaded Poland. This young TA soldier would never put on civilian clothes for another six years. This book charts his journey through 12 Commando, his move to the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and eventually on to the 2nd Special Air Service (SAS), and his capture, escape, and recapture behind enemy lines in Italy and Germany in 1944.

Edition details

• Publisher: FeedARead.com
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784070424
• ISBN 13: 9781784070427
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242