The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939–45

The Paratrooper Training Pocket Manual 1939–45 Author:Chris McNab Language:English Format:Hardcover Dimensions:5" x 7.8" Pages:160 Photos:40 Publisher:Casemate ISBN:9781612007915 Item No. 9781612007915 Airborne assault was one of the great innovations of the 1930s and 1940s, adding a new ‘vertical’ dimension to infantry warfare. By the onset of World War II in 1939, Germany, Italy and Russia were already advanced in their development of paratrooper units. Germany in particular demonstrated the tactical shock of paratroopers in Western Europe in 1940 and, most spectacularly, in Crete in 1941, galvanizing the UK and the United States to expand and train their own airborne forces, which they unleashed in 1943–45. The Allied paratrooper drops on D-Day (6 June 1944) and those of Operation Market Garden (17–25 September 1944) were the stuff of legend, huge in scale and ambition, but both Allied and Axis paratroopers