主要专家加文·莫蒂默讲述了一个不同寻常的故事，讲述了一支战时特种部队不畏艰险的起源。
Z特种部队是第二次世界大战中最勇敢但可以说是最默默无闻的盟军特种部队之一，在西南太平洋对日本发动了两年游击战。在81次行动中，Z特种部队在消失在夜幕中之前，乘坐独木舟潜入敌方港口，并在船只上默默布雷；还有一些人跳伞进入茂密的婆罗洲丛林，与猎头对抗日本人。有一次，他们降落在印度尼西亚的一个岛屿上，从日本人的眼皮底下把亲盟国的苏丹偷偷带了出去。
日本并不是Z特种部队在太平洋残酷地形中遇到的唯一对手。在婆罗洲的芒果沼泽和巴布亚新几内亚的茂密丛林中，他们面临着毒蛇、食人鳄鱼和致命疾病。但事实证明，最残酷的敌人是敌军士兵，他们斩首了落入他们手中的Z特种部队突击队员。
加文·莫蒂默通过对老兵的采访、作战报告以及最近解密的SOE文件，探索了这支非凡的特种部队和一支敢于挑战困难的突击队令人难以置信的历史。
Z Special Unit: The Elite Allied World War II Guerrilla Force
Leading expert Gavin Mortimer tells the remarkable origin story of a wartime special forces unit that defied the odds.
Z Special Unit, one of the most intrepid but arguably the most unsung of Allied Special Forces of the Second World War waged a guerrilla war against Japan for two years in the south-west Pacific. On some of their 81 operations Z Special Unit slipped into enemy harbours in canoes and silently mined ships before vanishing into the night; on others they parachuted into the dense Borneo jungle to fight with headhunters against the Japanese and on one occasion they landed on an Indonesian island and smuggled out the pro-Allied sultan from under Japanese noses.
The Japanese weren’t the only adversary that Z Special Unit encountered in the brutal terrain of the Pacific. In the mango swamps of Borneo and the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea they were faced with venomous snakes, man-eating crocodiles and deadly diseases. But it was the enemy soldiers who proved the most ruthless foe, beheading those Z Special Unit commandos who fell into their hands.
Drawing on veteran interviews as well as operational reports and recently declassified SOE files, Gavin Mortimer explores the incredible history of this remarkable special forces unit and the band of commandoes that defied the odds.
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