Cassell Military Classics: Popski's Private Army

The bestselling story of an elite desert fighting force in the Second World War.

In October 1942, Vladimir Peniakoff (nicknamed Popski) formed his own elite fighting force in the North African desert. Over the next year "Popski's Private Army" carried out a series of daring raids behind the German lines that were truly spectacular - freeing prisoners, destroying installations, spreading alarm.

This book, one of the classic memoirs of World War II, is their story.