Private Army (1950) By Vladimir Peniakoff
The story of Popski's Private Army, officially No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA, a unit of British Special Forces set up in Cairo in October 1942 by Major Vladimir Peniakoff.
The author, born in Belgium of Russian parents and resident in Egypt, who, after joining the British Army in 1939 was persuasive enough to be allowed to form his own mobile armed force which operated in North Africa and Italy
- Hard Cover
- 512 pages
- In Good Condition