New Zealand's Secret Heroes - Don Stott and the `Z' Special Unit

Reed, 1991, good condition, some indentations along top of back cover and a little foxing, mainly on block edges

The story of the daring wartime exploits of Major Don Stott and the incredible tale of `Z' Special Unit - a group of mainly New Zealand and Australian commandos and saboteurs who parachuted or kayaked into enemy-occupied territory to fight the war, sometimes single-handedly. The story begins in Greece, with the extraordinary sabotage feats of Don Stott and his friend Bob Morton. Stott's success in blowing up the strategically crucial Asopos Viaduct was one of the highlights of the secret war and changed the course of the war in Greece. He then tried singlehandedly to bring peace feelers from the British to the Germans in Greece as early as 1943, and conceived a plan which, had it been implemented, would have saved thousands of Greek lives and liberated Greece by Christmas that year. Stott and Morton then became members of the highly secret `Z' Special Unit, which was to create havoc behind enemy lines in south-east Asia. The famous story of Operation Jaywick in SIngapore is recounted here, and the true facts of the ill-fated Operation Rimau are revealed for the first time in this book. There follows the amazing story of the New Zealander Frank Wigzell and the other members of the `Z' Special Unit, who parachuted into Borneo and fought in the jungles and swamps with tribal headhunters against the Japanese. The astounding story of the daring New Zealanders involved in this operation has never been told until now. They are the unsung heroes of our military history...