D DAY 1944 : VOICES FROM NORMANDY: VOICES FROM NORMANDY

D DAY 1944 : VOICES FROM NORMANDY: VOICES FROM NORMANDY

Robin Neillands

Roderick De Normann

Biographies & Memoirs

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Well-known and widely published author of military history texts. A personal slant - events described by those who took part. Foreword by Maj Gen Julian Thompson, commander of land forces in the Falklands War.

By Sea and Land : Story of the Royal Marine Commandos

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Cassell Military

Grant (great Commanders)

Weidenfeld & Nicholson military

Physical description; 336 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 20 cm. Subject; Arnhem, Battle of, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1944.

Battle for the Rhine 1944

Cassell

For a great beginner's weekend; a ton of easy to follow step-by-step illustrations. Part of the "Learn-in-a-Weekend" series.

Learn Downhill Skiing in a Weekend (Weekend Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Bartelski, Konrad

Winter Sports

Alfred.A. Knopf

D-Day, 1944: Voices from Normandy

Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd

The British entered World War I convinced of victory. Many even predicted an end to hostilities by Christmas. For the British Expeditionary Force, which was instead obliterated by 1915, this proved a costly assumption. In his robust re-examination of the onset of war, Robin Neillands reviews the exploits and character of the BEF, revealing how it came to be both the focus of hasty British hopes and, in the tragedy of its defeat, the catalyst for a policy shift without which the war would surely have been lost. Affectionately known as 'the Old Contemptibles' (a subversion of criticism from the Kaiser), the BEF was, although small, so highly trained and motivated that enemy lines mistook the unremitting accuracy of its rifles for machine gun fire. However, at Ypres, it was nonetheless conclusively defeated, proving that no amount of patriotism, skill or valour could match superior numbers and equipment. This forced the government to re-evaluate conscription and military funding.Using the testimony of both commanders and infantrymen, Robin Neillands' definitive account, published to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of war, offers new insight into still highly, and justly, emotive issues: why such appalling numbers perished and to what extent the course of events would have been altered had the initial reaction from Britain been different.

Old Contemptibles : The British Expeditionary Force, 1914

History

Military

John Murray

Robin Neillands' studies every aspect of the airborne fight against Germany in WW2. He looks at: the strengths and fundamental flaws in doctrine; the technical difficulties and developments; and the day-by-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews, flying to the limit in discomfort and danger. The book includes oral history in the shape of personal accounts not only of the British but of Americans, Australians, Canadians and other Allied fliers, and also of German aircrews and civilians.

The Bomber War : Arthur Harris and the Allied Bomber Offensive 1939-1945

John Murray Publishers, Ltd.

The Battle of the Rhine 1944: Arnhem and the Ardennes: the Campaign in Europe

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

The Battle for the Rhine: The Battle of the Bulge and the Ardennes Campaign, 1944

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