European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972–2017

Osprey Elite #220

by Leigh Neville, Adam Hook (Illustrator)

The Munich Olympics massacre in 1972 was a shock awakening to the public. In the decades since, European countries have faced a wide range of threats from Palestinian and home-grown terrorists, to the more recent worldwide jihadists. The threats they pose are widespread from aircraft hijacking and political assassinations to urban warfare against security forces, and murderous attacks on civilian crowd targets, forcing governments have had to invest ever-greater efforts in countering these threats.

This book traces the evolution of police (and associated military) counter-terrorist forces across Europe over the past 45 years. Using specially commissioned artwork and contemporary photographs, it details their organization, missions, specialist equipment, and their growing cross-border cooperation.

64 pages, Paperback

Published October 24, 2017

Reviews

[Javier HG · Rating 1 out of 5]

Flojo. Un libro muy flojo. Salvo por las fotos y los dibujos, la información que contiene se puede encontrar (de manera más detallada), con un par de búsquedas en internet. Poco profundo, poco detalle... Entiendo que el libro está limitado por el reducido número de páginas de la serie Osprey, pero he disfrutado de otros libros de esa editorial, descubriendo cosas nuevas o detalles que desconocía. No así con este ejemplar.

Pensad en "European Counter-Terrorist Units 1972-2017" como un buen artículo de Wikipedia, pero no como un libro de referencia. Una pena.

[neil chapman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

But why no enhanced typesetting?
This lack of improvement reduces the overall readability and the illustrations are affected size wise on the fire hd8.
I do wish someone from the publishers or Amazon would take heed!