Full Description
Despite the development of deadly long-range weapons during the twentieth century and a substantial increase in the killing power of all weapons, modern soldiers have continued to fight the enemy at close range. Close Quarter Combat is an anecdotal history that brings to life the fear, intensity, and raw courage of close-quarter combat in chilling detail, including first-hand accounts of waging war among the ruins of Stalingrad, fighting in tunnels during the Vietnam War, springing an ambush, and even fighting with axes on the Eastern Front during World War II. Close Quarter Combat contains accounts from U.S., British, German, and French servicemen and covers both world wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Falklands campaign.
Contents
Introduction
1. Fifty-two Months in Hell
2. A Violent Entr'acte: Rearmament and Civil War in Europe
3. Blitzkrieg!
4. Commandos and Special Forces
5. Britain's Brush-fire Wars: The End of Empire
6. America's Asian Wars
7. Through Tribal War to Techno-War
