Commando

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Vooral het tweede deel over de guerillaoorlog die hij onder bevel van Jan Smuts voerde, op weg en in de Kaapkolonie, geeft de hopeloze zaak van de Boeren goed weer. Uitsluitend de bijna 18e eeuwse bereidheid van Reitz en zijn maten om enorme ontberingen te ondergaan van het leven in het "velt", in de openlucht, met alleen een paard, een Mausergeweer en een dunne deken om onder te slapen, maakt dat de Boerenkommando's lange tijd konden blijven opereren en de Boeren weliswaar de militaire kant van de strijd verloren, maar aan de publicitaire kant punten scoorden. De oorlog werd zo verloren, de vrede en een 'eigen' Zuid Afrika uiteindelijk gewonnen. Het is dat wij weten hoe Zuid Afrika na de Tweede Wereldoorlog de Apartheid in is gegaan om het boek niet een veel mooier einde te geven. Where else could you come across titles like ‘Desert Fox’, ‘They Flew By Night’, ‘Sea Strike’, ‘The Death Or Glory Mob’ or ‘Zero Smasher’? And where else could you go into action alongside a British army sergeant hunting down a German tank with only his Tommy gun and a couple of grenades . . . or the Lancaster pilot who knew no fear until he was put behind the controls of an aircraft that was jinxed?

Maine, David (8 May 2012). "Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone by Johnny Ramone Reads Something Like a Ramones Song". PopMatters . Retrieved 29 September 2013. In 2019 Commando began publishing stories with a supernatural or horror theme around Halloween each year. The stories maintain a war theme, but have featured zombies, vampires, werewolves and ghost stories. This is an autobiographical work of Mr. Reitz’s time in the commandoes during the last of the Boer Wars. The author limited the scope of this work to the actual war and only referenced his antebellum life in the first chapter or in passing in later chapters. This was a refreshing change from some modern autobiographies of war that spend large portions of the book discussing life before the war service is ever discussed. Containing 6 issues: Inland Navy, The Ship-Busters, March of the Monsters, Bright Blade of Courage, Mighty Midget, Another Tight Spot.

Early raiding

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Commando comic, which was first launched in 1961, this anthology features the ten greatest-ever commando raids stories. The stories featured in this collection range from daring bomber raids over Germany, through close-combat jungle fighting against hard-as-nails Japanese, and depth-charge blasted submarine warfare, to hard-hitting battles across North Africa, Italy and northern Europe. Deneys Reitz was die seun van President Reitz van die Oranje Vrystaat (pres Steyn het ná hom gekom). Kommando is sy vertellinge van die tragedie van die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog. Hy het as jong man deel gevorm van die Pretoria Kommando. Hy het die hele oorlog beleef, van die euforie van die aanvanklike oorwinning by Spioenkop, deur Kitchener se strategie van die vernietiging van die plase en die konsentrasiekampe, en laaste die wanhopige inval van die Kaapkolonie deur genl. Smuts. Die nadraai toe hy deporteer is weens sy weiering om die vredesooreenkoms te aanvaar is baie interessant. Hy beskryf dan die ongeveer 4 jaar in Madagaskar en die daaropvolgende terugkeer na Suid-Afrika.

The Daily Telegraph newspaper, "The Art of Commando Comics: National Army Museum", 9 September 2011. Handle this bumper book of the best of Commando war stories with care. Features stories such as “Desert Fox”, “They Flew by Night”, “Sea Strike”, “The Death or Glory Mob”, Zero Smasher”. Where else could you go into action alongside a British army sergeant hunting down a Jerry tank with only his Tommy gun and a couple of grenades… or the Lancaster pilot who knew no fear until he was put behind the controls of a bomber that was jinxed. You can read about all these ordinary men turned into heroes and their stories for yourself. For everyone in Britain, these were the darkest days of the Second World War. Our army, or what was left of it, had been withdrawn from France via the beaches of Dunkirk, disabling and abandoning arms and equipment during the desperate evacuation. While they reorganised and re-equipped there was no effective fighting force to stand against Hitler’s Wehrmacht should they choose to invade. Crossing the channel with an invasion fleet was, however, not an operation to be contemplated without complete control of the sky, otherwise the transports and landing craft would be blown out of the water by the RAF.

Featuring ‘Inland Navy’, ‘The Ship-Busters’, ‘March of the Monsters’, ‘Bright Blade of Courage’, ‘Mighty Midget’ and ‘Another Tight Spot’. Hair-raising tales of naval missions on the lethal wartime seas. Graham Manley, an artist who had previously worked on The Dandy and 2000AD, began providing artwork in 2022 with his first cover on issue #5585 and interior work in issue #5589. Commando, Private Apache, No. 912, P.46, Nazi says "Ja, more British to kill", fellow soldier is shown thinking "This man is truly evil, how can he think like this?" This book was written in the late 1960s and most of what is written still applies today. As the original was long out of print, the publisher approached Paul Dunstall who gave permission to reprint it and wrote a new foreword

For a great introduction to Commando comics, Commando 50 Years: A Home for Heroes , by former editor George Low, contains six of the best comic stories, 50 of the title’s most iconic covers, profiles of the best artists and writers; and the inside story of Commando HQ at the publishers DC Thomson. It includes a complete Commando comic book listing from Issue 1 to Issue 4404.Jose Maria Jorge was an Argentinian artist who had a distinctive and precise drawing style and who produced the interior art for 163 issues, mostly aviation and naval-themed stories. His work with Commando began in 1969 with issue no 384- Flying Fury and he had the honour of illustrating Commando No 4000 in 2007. His final issue was No 4329- Divided Aces printed shortly before his death at the age of 69 in 2010. [21] [22]