Sting of the Scorpion

by Morgan, Mike; Owen, David Lloyd

• ISBN13: 9780750924818
• ISBN10: 0750924810
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Sutton Pub Ltd

Summary

This book is the amazing story/history of the LRDG, a WWII special forces unit that would probe the desert waste lands to conduct reconnaissance, pathfinding missions, mapping and survey ops as well as limited direct action missions, against Italian targets of opportunity. The unit also ferried the SAS into operations. This book is fabulously written and structured makes the read quite fast and easy. This story covers the LRDG birth in the desert as long-range patrol unit to the LRDG. It covers the personalities, evolution of the unit; operations, equipment and an inside look at many of the tactics and procedures employed at that time for mobility operations. Excellent book if you would like to see the roots of modern special operations.

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Major General David Lloyd Owen
Tributes
Major Roy Farran	vii
General Sir Peter de la Billiere	vii
Beware the Scorpion's Bite	ix
Maps	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Introduction: Raiders of the Desert	xiii
Piracy on the High Desert	1	(24)
The Western Wilderness	25	(47)
True Grit	72	(32)
The Cedars of Lebanon	104	(10)
The Dodecanese Disaster	114	(23)
Cloak and Dagger in the Balkans	137	(33)
Parting Shots and Lasting Fame	170	(30)
Appendices
I LRDG Commanders and Patrol Designations	186	(1)
II Honours and Awards	187	(2)
III List of all Serving LRDG Soldiers from the UK and Abroad	189	(9)
IV Patrol Commanders	198	(1)
V Roll of Honour	199	(1)
Bibliography	200	(1)
Index	201