Commando Country

Allan, Stuart

ISBN 10: 1905267142 ISBN 13: 9781905267149

Published by National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, 2007

Language: English

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256p.First Edition. Probably now the definitive work on Commando Training in the Scottish Highlands focusing on Lochailort and Achnacarry. Clean, and tight without marks or signatures, unread and as new. See scans.

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Title

Commando Country

Publisher

National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh

Publication Date

2007

Language

English

ISBN 10

1905267142

ISBN 13

9781905267149

Binding

Illustrated Coloured Cover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

As New

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The Scottish highlands played a pivotal role in the secret development of special service training during the Second World War. The remote and rough terrain came into its own as a training and testing ground for new types of fighting. "Commando Country" looks at the variety of special training establishments set up (mostly highland shooting lodges), and at how use was made of the landscape and coastline and of specialist civilian skills such as stalking and mountaineering. It stresses how these new methods of warfare, tested in Scotland, spread internationally into the present day elite status of 'special forces' world-wide.The story involves many famous names from a variety of backgrounds such as actors David Niven and Alec Guinness, mountaineer John Hunt, and polar explorer Martin Lindsay, as well as famous military figures such as David Stirling, founder of the SAS and Special Operations Executive agent Violet Szabo. Conveying the atmosphere of remote highland locations, the book makes strong use of photographs and personal testimony collected from those involved, bringing a unique Scottish perspective to a popular subject.

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Stuart Allan is Senior Curator of Military History with National Museums Scotland.

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