The Devil's Brigade by Robert H. AdlemanMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
While just getting into this book, I set is aside to take in the Hollywood portrayal of the legendary 1st Special Service Force, an elite American-Canadian commando unit in World War II. This North American unit sprung from the mind of madcap genius Geoffrey Pyke for snow battles in a specialied vehicle, The Weasel. What actually happened was stockades were emptied to form a ruthless, highly trained, very kinetic force that went from a dry run in the Aleutians to playing a pivotal role in chasing Kesselring and his German soldiers out of Northern Italy and through Southern France. They also partied and pranked as hard as they fought. This is a fascinating look at the brief, bloody career of a unit, that like many other historical units, is claimed as a direct ancestor by two modern special operations units; the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR) of the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command and the 1st Special Forces Group (1st SFG) of the United States Army Special Forces.
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