Word: commandos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kyle's antihero is 35-year-old Hauptsturmführer Franz Rasch, a much decorated Waffen SS commando. Assigned to deliver the lists in Stockholm, he is betrayed by his bosses. His trail leads to neutral Ireland and England and finally back to Germany. There the disillusioned Rasch attempts to capture vital files from Schloss Wewelsburg, the Black Camelot that Himmler assembled as a Teutonic perversion of King Arthur's court. In one of the best siege narratives since The Guns of Navarone, Rasch and other embittered SS men infiltrate the monstrous castle at the same time that...
...Only yesterday we were being hailed as the commando troops of Zionism. Now we have become the main obstacle to a peace settlement...
...they entered the three-story, salmon-colored palace, the Sandinistas started shooting. Six guards and two civilians were killed, and 15 other people, including one commando, were wounded. Within moments, the guerrilla raiders were in command of the National Palace. Inside were more than 1,500 people?probably the largest number of hostages ever held captive in a terrorist operation...
...Deputies remained on the floor for 20 minutes while the guerrillas took their names, tied them up, and began photographing them with a Polaroid camera. When the woman commando asked Martinez his name, she shouted: "Cero! Cero! Martinez is here!" Cero,* later identified by authorities as a "militant" named Eden Pastora, 42, turned to Martinez and said: "If the Somoza forces attack, you will be the first shot...
That will take some doing, as Denard has shown no signs of quitting his island stronghold. Each night, fire trucks and service vehicles are drawn up on the airstrip at Moroni airport to keep unwelcome visitors-including a commando force that Uganda's Idi Amin has threatened to launch-from dropping in. "If the people ask us to leave," says Denard, "we'll be gone the next morning. If they don't ask us to leave, it will take 100,000 Cubans to throw us out." It appears that the old mercenary has found a home-until...