Sublime

Otto Skorzeny

World War II saw the development of other specialized units. Merritt Edson organized and led a marine raider battalion, one of four that the corps organized during the war. Edson won the Medal of Honor for his defense of a critical ridge overlooking the airfield at Guadalcanal, but this was an entirely conventional military operation. The army revi

And yet here he was at one of the two exceptions that Churchill would lay out—“never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense”—now,