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Ask Forgiveness Not Permission: The True Story of a Discreet, Post 9/11 Operation in the 'Badlands' of Pakistan de Howard Leedham

Ask Forgiveness Not Permission: The True Story of a Discreet, Post 9/11 Operation in the 'Badlands' of Pakistan

Autor Howard Leedham
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2013
The True Story of a Discrete Military Operation in the 'Badlands' of Pakistan. By any standards Howard Leedham's military career is unusual. He started life as Royal Navy clearance diver, was commissioned, became a Commando helicopter pilot and then served in the Special Forces. Twice decorated by the Queen for gallantry, he also became the first British offiver to command a US Marine Corps squadron on active service. On returement he settled in the USA with his American wife and successfully flew executive jets until....
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ISBN-13: 9781903071670
ISBN-10: 1903071674
Pagini: 339
Ilustrații: Colour photographs in sections
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

Notă biografică

By any standards Howard Leedham's military career is unusual. He started life as Royal Navy clearance diver, was commissioned, became a Commando helicopter pilot and then served in the Special Forces. Twice decorated for gallantry, he also became the first British officer to command a US Marine Corps squadron on active service. Today Howard lives and works in London.

Recenzii

Frederick Forsyth writes in his Foreword: "The hitherto unknown story that Howard Leedham has to tell could have come from the Northwest Frontier of Rudyard Kipling's time - The year described in these pages cost him his marriage and (several times) almost his life - Somehow it happened. Somehow, on a shoestring, the helicopter-borne, night fighting intervention force began to frighten the black turbans out of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and opium barons - And his Pathans - Those fifty dark featured, tough, lean, hard warriors, as dangerous as the land that made them - for a few months led by an infidel Britisher, they terrified those whose only language was terror. Kipling would have loved them." "This one is different: a cracking read and unlike many other books currently available about the war in Afghanistan and its environs - I recommend this book heartily to all." - ARRSE (ARmy Rumour SErvice) "If you're looking for Christmas or birthday present ideas, I strongly recommend you put this book - onto your wish list. This true account reads like adventure fiction - All you have to do is manipulate someone into buying you this book. You will not regret it." - FAAOA (Fleet Air Arm Officers Association)