Brigadier Peter Young, DSO, MC & 2 bars was a British soldier & WWII veteran. He served with the Commandos during that war, ultimately commanding a Brigade. After the war, he commanded a regiment on secondment to the Jordanian Arab Legion. After his retirement from the army, he became a lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and eventually also a well-respected author of books on Military History, particularly with reference to the Second World War, the English Civil War & the Napoleonic Wars.
This book was actually first published in 1966 without the 2 part of the title .
It's dust cover starts with ....
It is now twenty years dice the end of the second world war .. The book was republished under new title in 1976 Author was still a brigadier when writing this novel