Paras

This book is full of untold short stories of men who created a legend, the legend of the British airborne forces during the Second World War.Impressed by the performance of the German paratroopers in Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940, and on Crete in 1941, Winston Churchill ordered the creation of a British Airborne force of no less than 5,000 parachutists. Their task was to land behind enemy li...