Globe Pequot / Lyons Press
Pages: 320
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978-1-4617-4949-3 • eBook • May 2012 • $18.99 • (£14.99)
Dr. Stephen Hart is a senior lecturer at the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He has been published widely on military history topics, particularly British and German operations during World War II.
Dr. Chris Mann is also a senior lecturer at the Department of War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He is an editor and author of more than twenty years' experience with a specialism in the history of World War II.
Selected Contents
Introduction
1. Behind Enemy Lines
Landings – by parachute; by boat; across borders. Living off the land. Finding water,
food from animals, food from plants, making shelters, making fire, tools and
weapons, hunting and fishing, survival cooking, food preservation, surviving
exposure and dehydration. Finding shelter.
2. Finding your Way
Includes advice on navigation techniques, signaling, makeshift compasses. Moving
undetected.
3. Undercover
Making contact with local Resistance. Knowing how to detect traitors. Rigging up
makeshift radios. Working with Resistance and winning over the assistance of locals.
4. Sabotage
How to blow up a railway, a road, a bridge, an arms depot. Rendering an enemy
runway inoperable.
5. Combat
Snipers at work. Raiding compounds. Multiple target assaults. Assassinations among
civilians. Silent killing skills. Unarmed combat.
6. Explosives
Laying bombs and mines. Detecting and defusing bombs and mines.
7. How to Escape Captivity
Advice and tips on how to escape from a variety of environments, including armed
guards, vehicles, military prisons and cells. Includes information on how to choose
your moment to escape, creating diversions and unarmed combat.
Bibliography
Index
Learn to escape the enemy, live off the land, and find your way home with skills from the world's elite fighting forces.