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American Guerilla Fighting Behind Enemy Lines
Author: Captain Douglas M. Smith

"Captain Douglas M. Smith, a specialist in trained guerrilla warfare, is an American enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, with which he served in the last war also. Shortly after the fall of France he was sent to Syria under the Fighting French where he set out to organize guerrilla operations with the Djebel Druse Arab tribes, much in the man... more »ner of Lawrence of Arabia. So successful was this work that Captain Smith became convinced of the importance in a modern war of organized and trained guerrillas - super-Commandos who fight the war from behind the enemy lines. He was unable to sell this idea to the British High Command, but he was invited to join an intrepid band of experienced desert fighters - a group specially trained under Colonel David Stirling to raid Rommel's lines. This they did very spectacularly. They parachuted onto airfields and destroyed grounded planes. They raced in jeeps to ambush long columns of supply trucks. They took isolated desert forts. They thought nothing of entering a German-held town disguised as Arabs, finding out what they wanted, possibly blowing up enemy headquarters, and departing. One raid in which Captain Smith took part was against Bengasi. Unfortunately the Germans knew of their plans and awaited their arrival in ambush. The Commandos were met by a withering fire, but finally silenced the German guns before they withdrew. Later his group was caught out in the desert by enemy dive bombers and Captain Smith was wounded. This book is the stirring account of his own experiences, plus other thrillingly vivid pictures of the super-Commandos in action. More than that, however, it is an exposition of the fine art of guerrilla warfare, in the efficacy of which Captain Smith so passionately believes. He shows how several thousand thoroughly trained guerrillas landed in France (this is not so hard to arrange as one might imagine) could disrupt German communications, weave a path of destruction behind the 'fortress of Europe' and aid materially in further allied invasions. Captain Smith returned to this country during the summer of 1943 on a one-man mission to obtain medical supplies and other equipment for the Fighting French guerrillas. His mission completed successfully, he has now returned to the Mediterranean area to help put in practice many of the theories expressed in this book. His is a thrilling story and a complete revelation of a new and important war technique that can do almost unlimited damage at a saving of thousands of lives. Captain Smith's is a personal account told to Cecil Carnes, co-author of Last Man Off Wake Island. It combines heroic action with an original theory of tactics that may have an important part in the military training of the immediate future." [inside dustjacket]

ISBN: 350131
Publication Date: 1943
Pages: 316
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Publisher: The Bobbs Merill Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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