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* Creator/{{Xenophon}}'s ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'' (on which ''The Warriors'' is loosely based), making this at least OlderThanFeudalism. The alternate English title for the book provides [[TropeNamer the trope's name]].
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* Creator/{{Xenophon}}'s ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'' (on which ''The Warriors'' is loosely based), making this at least OlderThanFeudalism. The alternate English title for the book provides [[TropeNamer the trope's name]].book, “The March Upcountry”, is another common name for this trope.
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* ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' - Based on RealLife.
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* ''Film/ABridgeTooFar'' - Based on RealLife. The Allied paratroopers who capture Arnhem are cut off, and eventually forced to surrender, when the ground advance that was supposed to meet them can't make it.
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* The WOPR mission in Hong Kong in ''VideoGame/WarGamesDefcon1'' have the player being tasked to retrieve a drone unit, trapped behind a NORAD naval base in Victoria Harbour, which players must collect with their amphibious APC and bring back to base for analyzing its memory banks.
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* The first half of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' revolves around the heroes’ CoolShip, carrying refugees and {{Super Prototype}}s alike, making landfall deep within [[TheEmpire Zeon]]-controlled territory on Earth when their re-entry from space is sabotaged, and fighting off constant attacks as they try to reach Earth Federation lines.
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* The first half of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' revolves around the heroes’ CoolShip, carrying refugees and {{Super Prototype}}s alike, making landfall deep within [[TheEmpire Zeon]]-controlled territory on Earth when their re-entry from space is sabotaged, and fighting off constant attacks as they try to reach Earth Federation lines.
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May lead to a YouAreInCommandNow situation. Usually contains at least some FieldPromotion. YouShallNotPass may be required -- or worse, a LastStand. If an escape is made, it may be by means of VehicularTurnabout.
This will sometimes to [[TheSiege a siege situation]] in case the soldier/soldiers are boxed in by the enemy during an escape.
See also FightingForAHomeland. Many stories with this will follow a basic plot of TheHomewardJourney for the soldiers trapped as they will usually be attempting to get to safety.
This will sometimes to [[TheSiege a siege situation]] in case the soldier/soldiers are boxed in by the enemy during an escape.
See also FightingForAHomeland. Many stories with this will follow a basic plot of TheHomewardJourney for the soldiers trapped as they will usually be attempting to get to safety.
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May lead to a YouAreInCommandNow situation. Usually contains at least some FieldPromotion. YouShallNotPass may be required -- or worse, a LastStand. If an escape is made, it may be by means of VehicularTurnabout.
VehicularTurnabout. This will sometimes to [[TheSiege a siege situation]] in case the soldier/soldiers are boxed in by the enemy during an escape.
See also FightingForAHomeland. Many stories with this will follow a basic plot of TheHomewardJourney for the soldiers trapped as they will usually be attempting to get to safety. When the stranded individual is a spy rather than a soldier, it's TrappedUndercover.
See also FightingForAHomeland. Many stories with this will follow a basic plot of TheHomewardJourney for the soldiers trapped as they will usually be attempting to get to safety. When the stranded individual is a spy rather than a soldier, it's TrappedUndercover.
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* ''VideoGame/RedAlert3'': The final Soviet mission against the Empire starts with a massive paradrop operation, waves after waves of bombers releasing troops at the very heart of Japan's Imperial palace on Mt. Fuji... that ends with one (1) conscript and a War Bear reaching the ground alive. The other commanders try to tell you it's not ''that'' drastic, clearly not believing a word of it, and then you need to use the conscript to kill the Emperor. Which he does, [[spoiler:shortly before it's revealed it was ActuallyADoombot.]] Then the mission begins in earnest, and you can actually rescue the conscript later, where he thanks you from saving him from the horrors of an all-fish diet.
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* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' has a few instances of this, which double as RealLife examples.
** Episode 4 focuses on Bull Randleman getting separated from his comrades in the heat of battle and trapped behind the German line after Operation Market Garden goes south for the Allies. He manages to make it back, but not after killing a German soldier before he can reveal his location.
** Episode 5 features Easy Company participating in Operation Pegasus, where they help evacuate a group of British paratroopers who had gotten stuck behind the German line during Market Garden.
** Episode 4 focuses on Bull Randleman getting separated from his comrades in the heat of battle and trapped behind the German line after Operation Market Garden goes south for the Allies. He manages to make it back, but not after killing a German soldier before he can reveal his location.
** Episode 5 features Easy Company participating in Operation Pegasus, where they help evacuate a group of British paratroopers who had gotten stuck behind the German line during Market Garden.
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* Much of the story of ''Literature/RatsBatsAndVats'' is a squad's worth of conscripts accidentally getting left behind when their section of the line collapses. Amusingly, since they are no longer being micromanaged by their incompetent officers or being forced to adhere to their army's ineffective doctrine, they are actually ''more'' effective while cut off behind the lines than they were before, and proceed to blow a gap into the enemy's defenses, allowing the first counteroffensive of the war.
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** Also Harold Coyle's novel ''Literature/TheTenThousand'' (1993)
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* Author Harold Coyle seems to enjoy this trope:
** ''Literature/TheTenThousand'', another modern day retelling of ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'',[[labelnote:*]]The title being a direct reference to Xenophon's work[[/labelnote]] involving a US armored corps that suddenly finds itself deep in enemy territory when a resurgent Germany turns hostile.
** ''Literature/TeamYankee'' at one point sees the eponymous team defending a hill behind Soviet lines when its plan of attack goes drastically awry.
** ''Literature/GodsChildren'', while not having a front line in the traditional sense, sees the infantry platoon at the center of the story cut off from other friendly units and forced to fend for itself.
** ''Literature/TheTenThousand'', another modern day retelling of ''Literature/{{Anabasis}}'',[[labelnote:*]]The title being a direct reference to Xenophon's work[[/labelnote]] involving a US armored corps that suddenly finds itself deep in enemy territory when a resurgent Germany turns hostile.
** ''Literature/TeamYankee'' at one point sees the eponymous team defending a hill behind Soviet lines when its plan of attack goes drastically awry.
** ''Literature/GodsChildren'', while not having a front line in the traditional sense, sees the infantry platoon at the center of the story cut off from other friendly units and forced to fend for itself.
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* Happens in ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' on several occasions:
** "Choice or Chance" sees the 58th escaping and evading after their TrojanHorse Chig bomber is shot down.
** "Stay with the Dead" sees all but one of the 58th given up for dead on an enemy held planet, with the "sole survivor" struggling to convince his superiors the rest of the squadron is still alive.
** "Who Monitors the Birds?" sees Hawkes alone in enemy territory when a mission to assassinate a Chig officer goes wrong.
** "Pearly" has the 58th encounter a British Major who has been hiding behind Chig lines long enough to begin to decipher their language.
** "Sugar Dirt" sees the 58th and 25,000 other Marines marooned on an enemy planet when the ''Saratoga'' and the rest of the fleet must suddenly leave orbit.
** "Choice or Chance" sees the 58th escaping and evading after their TrojanHorse Chig bomber is shot down.
** "Stay with the Dead" sees all but one of the 58th given up for dead on an enemy held planet, with the "sole survivor" struggling to convince his superiors the rest of the squadron is still alive.
** "Who Monitors the Birds?" sees Hawkes alone in enemy territory when a mission to assassinate a Chig officer goes wrong.
** "Pearly" has the 58th encounter a British Major who has been hiding behind Chig lines long enough to begin to decipher their language.
** "Sugar Dirt" sees the 58th and 25,000 other Marines marooned on an enemy planet when the ''Saratoga'' and the rest of the fleet must suddenly leave orbit.
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** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' not so much as "trapped behind", but more of "dropped behind".
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** ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'' not so much as "trapped behind", but more of "dropped behind". Travers and his fellow paratroopers are outnumbered some 5 to 1 each and every time against the Axis forces they're pitted against, and are forced to fight tooth-and-nail in order to achieve their objectives.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. There are consequences, though; if he invokes PityTheKidnapper, your forces will be forced to waste valuable resources on him, and not entirely on your terms. If he manages to clear your forces and terrain ([[BurningYourBoats which he can also force in this manner]]), he will likely not be alone again.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. There are consequences, though; if he invokes PityTheKidnapper, your forces will be forced to waste valuable resources on him, and not entirely on your terms. If he manages to clear your forces and terrain ([[BurningYourBoats which he can also force in this manner]]), he will likely not be alone again.have allies ready the next time you cross paths.
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* ''Film/DesperateJourney'' : An Allied bomber is shot down over Nazi-occupied Poland. The crew has to go on a long, well, desperate journey all the way across UsefulNotes/NaziGerman, trying to avoid capture and possible execution.
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* ''Film/{{Battleground}}'' is about American soldiers besieged in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
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* ''Film/{{Battleground}}'' ''Film/Battleground1949'' is about American soldiers besieged in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Diplomacy}}'', a pre-WWI simulator (sort of): subversion. If this happens to one of your units, it can actually '''strengthen''' your position.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Diplomacy}}'', a pre-WWI simulator (sort of): subversion. If this happens to one of your units, it can actually '''strengthen''' your position.position if you play you cards right because there can often be opportunities for the unit to make a mad dash for your adversary's likely-undefended Supply Centers which they can take for themselves. Hell of a dagger to have pointed towards your rival.
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* ''VideoGame/BrothersInArms'' is about 2 squads of paratroopers from the 101st Airborne Division who are constantly forced to operate behind German lines in order to achieve their objectives.
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* In ''Film/EasternCondors'', [[TheSquad a squad]] of {{Boxed Corrok}}s is dropped behind enemy lines in Vietnam to provide a distraction while an elite special ops team infilrates and destroys a weapons cache. However, the plane carrying the special ops team is shot down: a fact the Condors don't learn until after they jumped. Now their only hope for extraction is to complete the original mission.
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* In ''Film/EasternCondors'', [[TheSquad a squad]] of {{Boxed Corrok}}s Crook}}s is dropped behind enemy lines in Vietnam to provide a distraction while an elite special ops team infilrates and destroys a weapons cache. However, the plane carrying the special ops team is shot down: a fact the Condors don't learn until after they jumped. Now their only hope for extraction is to complete the original mission.
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* In ''Film/EasternCondors'', [[TheSquad a squad]] of {{Boxed Corrok}}s is dropped behind enemy lines in Vietnam to provide a distraction while an elite special ops team infilrates and destroys a weapons cache. However, the plane carrying the special ops team is shot down: a fact the Condors don't learn until after they jumped. Now their only hope for extraction is to complete the original mission.
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See also FightingForAHomeland. Many stories with this will follow a basic plot of TheHomewardJourney for the soldiers trapped as they will usually be attempting to get to safety.
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** Also Harold Coyle's novel ''The Ten Thousand'' (1993)
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. There are consequences, though; if he invokes PityTheKidnapper, your forces will be forced to waste valuable resources on him, and not entirely on your terms. If he manages to clear your forces (which he can also force in this manner), he will likely not be alone the next time he has to deal with them.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. There are consequences, though; if he invokes PityTheKidnapper, your forces will be forced to waste valuable resources on him, and not entirely on your terms. If he manages to clear your forces (which and terrain ([[BurningYourBoats which he can also force in this manner), manner]]), he will likely not be alone the next time he has to deal with them.again.
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* Happens in just about every Creator/SvenHassel novel, including an obligatory scene where Sven and his colleagues find themselves in the midst of enemy troops and either get mistaken for a special unit (e.g. [[GermanRussians Volga Germans]] or Foreign Legion), or saved by [[CunningLinguist Porta's quick-thinking chatter]].
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* Happens in just about every Creator/SvenHassel novel, including an obligatory scene where Sven and his colleagues find themselves in the midst of enemy troops and either get mistaken for a special unit (e.g. [[GermanRussians [[UsefulNotes/GermanRussians Volga Germans]] or Foreign Legion), or saved by [[CunningLinguist Porta's quick-thinking chatter]].
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. The consequence is that if he somehow survives your forces and makes it back home, he will not be alone the next time he has to face you.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. The consequence is that There are consequences, though; if he somehow survives invokes PityTheKidnapper, your forces will be forced to waste valuable resources on him, and makes it back home, not entirely on your terms. If he manages to clear your forces (which he can also force in this manner), he will likely not be alone the next time he has to face you.deal with them.
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** This basically takes UpToEleven a similar (but much smaller) exploit of HoratioHornblower (of whom Honor is an {{Expy}}) in ''Flying Colours''. He brought home twenty men and a tiny cutter.
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** This basically takes UpToEleven a similar (but much smaller) exploit of HoratioHornblower ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' (of whom Honor is an {{Expy}}) in ''Flying Colours''. He brought home twenty men and a tiny cutter.
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* The story of Guan Yu's journey through five passes in ''RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.
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* The story of Guan Yu's journey through five passes in ''RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms''.
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* ''OperationFlashpoint'' : ''And how !'' Nearly in ''every other'' mission of the campaign...
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* ''OperationFlashpoint'' ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' : ''And how !'' Nearly in ''every other'' mission of the campaign...
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* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' (1978) and its remake (2010). In the 1978 version a group of mercenaries is sent to Africa to free a captured rebel leader. After they succeed, their patron cuts a deal with the local government, cancels their transport home and abandons them to their fate.
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* ''Film/TheWildGeese'' (1978) and its remake (2010). In the 1978 version ''Film/TheWildGeese'': a group of mercenaries is sent to Africa to free a captured rebel leader. After they succeed, their patron cuts a deal with the local government, cancels their transport home and abandons them to their fate.
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This will sometimes to [[TheSiege a siege situation]] in case the soldier/soldiers are boxed in by the enemy during an escape.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. The consequence is that if he somehow manages to fight through your forces and clear the lines, he will not come alone on his next trip.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. The consequence is that if he somehow manages to fight through survives your forces and clear the lines, makes it back home, he will not come be alone on his the next trip.time he has to face you.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. The consequence is that if he somehow manages to fight through your forces and clear the lines, he will avoid the roof on his next trip.
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* This is the basis of the 28th Stratagem: to lure the enemy into dangerous terrain, cut off his support lines, and take away the ladder once he has ascended to the roof. The consequence is that if he somehow manages to fight through your forces and clear the lines, he will avoid the roof not come alone on his next trip.
