MERCS
Subtitle: True Stories of Mercenaries in Action
Publisher: Avon
Published: June 8, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780380798384
First sentence: WHEN ONE CONSIDERS THE MODERN HISTORY OF STRATEGIC withdrawal, that most difficult of all maneuvers, history quickly points to the famed retreat of the 10th Corps in North Korea during the bitter winter of 1950-51, the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940, or, most remarkable of all, Manstein's retreat through the Ukraine after the debacle at Stalingrad.