Lt Colonel Rose (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardback; crease to endpaper, yellowing to pages (low quality paper) otherwise good in creased dustjacket.; Account of Nos. 50, 51, and 52 Middle East Commandos; from offensives on the North African coast to the Battle for Crete during the Second World War. Illustrations & maps.; 176 pages.…

1st edition dust jacket As New 8vo. 176pp., b/w plates, maps, appends., bibliog., index, Raised in the late summer of 1940 in Egypt, Nos 50, 51 and 52 Middle East commandos played an important role in the war in the Middle East. Accounts of campaigns waged in Eritrea, Abyssinia, the Dodecanese Islands and Crete have been drawn from the memoirs of surviving members of these commando units. Colonel George Young was the commander of No 50 and later No 52 commando units. Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen Rose was second in command of the No 50 Commando unit and then of the amalgamated 50/52 unit.…