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Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: Northwest Europe 1944-5

Door Patrick Delaforce

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#287633
Titel	Marching to the Sound of Gunfire: Northwest Europe 1944-5
Auteur	Delaforce, Patrick
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Chancellor Press
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	0753703793
ISBN13	9780753703793
Taal	Nederlands
Samenvatting	A famous English general once wrote that '. the forward area in any theatre of war, the sharp end of battle as we used to call it, is inhabited by young men with a gleam in their eye, who actually do the fighting. They are comparatively few in number and they are nearly always the same people.' In Marching to the Sound of Gunfire, scores of British soldiers from almost every echelon of the British Army tell their amazing stories of life - and death - at the sharp end. In the eleven months of frenzied warfare that followed D-Day, these soldiers successfully drove the Nazi hordes back into their Fatherland and beat them into surrender. There are stories from the 'poor bloody infantry' with their machine-gunners, mortar men, stretcher-bearers and pioneers; the brave assault troops who stor... (Lees verder)med the Normandy beaches and forced bridgeheads over rivers and canals in four countries; the outgunned 'tankies' in their Shermans, Cromwells and Churchills, slogging it out against the mighty German Tigers and Panthers, and the fearsome dug-in 'eighty-eights'; the dashing recce types in their thin-skinned armoured cars and carriers, sending back vital radio reports; the sappers building bridges and clearing minefields under fire; the gunners with their dedicated FOOs bringing down fast, furious and accurate barrages; the signallers, patching up communication links; the non-combatant stretcher-bearers picking up the dead and dying from the battlefield, their Red Cross armbands no guarantee of immunity from fire; the RAMC doctors and orderlies tending the wounded in their RAP under the most terrible conditions; the immediate support services of the RASC, bringing up vital food and ammunition for the morrow; and the REME repairing armoured vehicles to fight another day.
Pagina's	218
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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