Download or read book Dunkirk to the Rhineland written by C. N. Murrell and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail and occasional humour.The second part begins on 20 June 1944 when the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards set sail for Normandy and they take part in the Battle for Caen with engagements at Cheux, Cagny and Colombelles and thence to the Bocage country with a particularly bloody fight at Montchamp.The final element covers the race for and liberation of Brussels, a fiercely fought engagement at Hechtel Operation MARKET GARDEN, Nijmegen and the Island, winter in Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland Battle.As a member of the Intelligence Section, the Author was aware of the big picture. Very observant he has a literary style or ability unusual in a ranker. He often writes in his trench whilst under mortar or shell fire and one experiences the fear that he (and millions of others) felt. He describes several near death experiences and the casualties and deaths of his comrades and other horrors of war, sometimes in graphic detail. There are descriptions of hair-raising motor-cycle rides, the fanaticism of the SS, the sadness of lettering crosses of his dead comrades, the ecstatic receptions in liberated villages and towns, culminating in the liberation of Brussels, the uneasy relationship with American troops, the importance of alcohol in his (and others) war and the joy of returning to England.The many sketches are an important accessory to the journals.
Download or read book From Dunkirk to the Rhineland written by C.N. Murrell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles (Charlie to his comrades) Murrell kept detailed diaries of his service with the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards throughout the Second World War as Guardsman (later Sergeant).This book starts on 10 May 1940 with the Blitzkrieg on Arras and the retreat to Dunkirk. The Dunkirk beaches and his own undignified evacuation are described in some detail and occasional humor.The second part begins on 20 June 1944 when the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards set sail for Normandy and they take part in the Battle for Caen with engagements at Cheux, Cagny and Colombelles and thence to the Bocage country with a particularly bloody fight at Montchamp.The final element covers the race for and liberation of Brussels, a fiercely fought engagement at Hechtel Operation MARKET GARDEN, Nijmegen and the Island, winter in Belgium and Holland and the Rhineland Battle.As a member of the Intelligence Section, the Author was aware of the big picture. Very observant, he has a literary style and ability unusual in a ranker. He often writes in his trench whilst under mortar or shell fire and one experiences the fear that he (and millions of others) felt. He describes several near death experiences and the casualties and deaths of his comrades and other horrors of war, sometimes in graphic detail. There are descriptions of hair-raising motorcycle rides, the fanaticism of the SS, the sadness of lettering crosses of his dead comrades, the ecstatic receptions in liberated villages and towns, culminating in the liberation of Brussels, the uneasy relationship with American troops, the importance of alcohol in his (and others) war and the joy of returning to England.The many sketches are an important accessory to the journals.
Download or read book Notes of an Agricultural Tour in Belgium Holland the Rhine etc written by Robert Scott Burn and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutionary France s War of Conquest in the Rhineland written by Jordan R. Hayworth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how revolutionary France's war for liberty in the Rhineland was transformed into a war for conquest.
Download or read book Murray s handbook for Belgium and the Rhine by J Murray written by John Murray and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book After Dunkirk written by Lee Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beaches of Dunkirk to the codebreakers of Bletchley Park, from reistance bombings in the south of France to the machinations in the basements of MI-6. Winston Churchill called it Britain's finest hour. The Royal Navy evacuated 330,000 soldiers from Dunkirk. But more than 200,000 were left behind. On the beaches, Jeremy Littlefield hides for his life. His path home will draw him through the iron will and the unbreakable heart of the French Resistance. Only a few miles away, his brother, Lance, rallies fellow soldiers to start a trek that will take them across Europe, sabotaging the Germans in a mission tantamount to suicide. Back in England, their sister Clair works at Bletchley Park, cracking codes that could save the lives of her brothers, and thousands of their comrades. Finally, there is Paul, the cerebral eldest son, working for MI-6, who always knows more than he is able to tell his beloved siblings.
Download or read book The War for the Rhine Frontier 1870 written by W. Rustow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.
Download or read book The War for the Rhine Frontier 1870 written by Wilhelm Rüstow and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Rhine written by Lloyd Clark and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The fighting spirit of Allied paratroopers comes through with exciting clarity” in this account of two separate invasions of Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews). A main selection of the Military Book Club In September 1944, as the Allies drove across Europe after Normandy, British field marshal Bernard Montgomery launched Operation Market Garden to secure the lower Rhine—Germany’s last great natural barrier in the west—and passage to Berlin. Though Allied soldiers outnumbered Germans two to one, they suffered devastating casualties and were forced to retreat. Then, in March 1945, Montgomery orchestrated another airborne attack on the Rhine, called Operation Plunder. This time the Allies overwhelmed the German defenses, secured the eastern bank, and began their final march into the heart of the Third Reich. Including detailed maps and personal accounts from those on both sides of the battle, this “vivid war story” examines Allied attempts to breach Germany’s borders, and illustrates how lessons learned from failure helped form the second plan of attack—and seal Germany’s defeat (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book The Rhine Crossings 1945 written by Ken Ford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The last great heave of war,' according to Churchill, took place with the crossing of the Rhine in 1945. No invading army had crossed this great river since Napoleon's in 1805 and the task fell to Field Marshal Montgomery's 21st Army Group. Opposing them were the forces of a failing fascist regime, including battalions of old men and boys, strengthened by several formations of crack troops including paratroopers and Panzer Grenadiers. With an elaborate description of the combined Allied attack, second in magnitude only to the Normandy invasion, this book charts the history of the last great set-piece battle of the war that ultimately brought the defeat of Hitler's Nazi regime one step closer.
Download or read book From the Rideau to the Rhine and Back written by K. Weatherbe and published by Hunter-Rose. This book was released on 1928 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cook s Tourist s Handbook for Holland Belgium and the Rhine written by Thomas Cook (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bradshaw s Illustrated Hand Book for Belgium and the Rhine written by George Bradshaw and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book With the SAS Across the Rhine written by Ian Wellsted and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the SAS: Across the Rhine is the story of the latter part of Captain Ian Wellsted’s military career with the Special Air Service, the first part of which was detailed in his well-received SAS: With the Maquis. This is a very personal account, revealing the many emotional as well as physical strains placed upon men in the fighting line. The author takes us back to his time employed with the 79th armored Division (the famous ‘Hobart’s Funnies’) preparing for D-Day and his desire for more exciting action, which led first to the Parachute Regiment and then the SAS. Whilst we learn a little of his time with the maquis, the main focus of the story is his part in Operation Archway. A British special forces mission which involved the 1st and 2nd Special Air Service Regiments acting in support of the advance of Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery's Allied 21st Army Group in operations Varsity and Plunder, this crossing of the Rhine was one of the largest and most diverse operations ever carried out by the SAS. In this offensive, the SAS teams were thrust deep into German territory, often having to battle their way through the enemy lines to get back to safety. ‘I quickly learned that there was no way to control an SAS battle,’ Wellsted wrote of his first major encounter in charge of a patrol. ‘The din was deafening – seventy odd Vickers and half a dozen Brownings all chattering together. The screech of ricochets and the fire of the enemy made my voice sound like the squeak of a mouse against a church organ. I was helpless.’ In one of these encounters, as the war was drawing to a close, Wellsted’s troop found itself surrounded. In the ensuing firefight, Wellsted was wounded, bringing his active front line career to an end.
Download or read book Bradshaw s illustrated hand book for travellers in Belgium on the Rhine and through portions of Rhenish Prussia written by George Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bradshaw s Illustrated Hand book for Belgium and the Rhine and Portions of Rhenish Germany Including Elsass and Lothringen with a Ten Days Tour in Holland With Maps and Illustrations written by George Bradshaw and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holland Belgium Rhenish Prussia and the Rhine from Holland to Mayence written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
