Monty's Iron Sides: From the Normandy Beaches to Bremen with the 3rd Division - Couverture rigide

Delaforce, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0753702630 ISBN 13 : 9780753702635

Editeur : Bounty Books, 1999

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

On 6 June 1944, Major-General Bernard Montgomery chose his 'Iron Sides', the famous British 3rd Division, to spearhead the Allied attack on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. As the only division in the British Liberation Army to participate in the savage fghting from D-Day all the way through to VE-Day, the Iron Sides' contribution to victory in Europe was immense. Their courageous efforts won them two Victoria Crosses, but the price in lives was high; the division suffered 15,000 casualties including 2,586 killed in action. The 3rd was probably the most 'British' of all the divisions fighting in North- West Europe. It included the King's Own Scottish Borderers, a Highland gunner regiment, the Royal Ulster Rifles, the two roses of East Yorkshire and South Lancashire, the East Anglians (Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolns) and the Midlands (Warwick and Shropshire), besides cockneys from the Middlesex Regiment and the Recce Regiment from Northumberland. Following the successful formula adopted in his other divisional histories, Patrick Delaforce draws on the personal experiences of privates, NCOs and young officers from the dozen fighting regiments of the 3rd Division - the words of the soldiers who fought at the sharp end of war.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, aka ‘Monty’, was Britain's most celebrated general during World War Two, leading the British Army to famous victories from Africa to NW Europe.

The 3rd British Infantry Division was commanded by `Monty’ in the 1940 campaign leading up to Dunkirk.

The title Iron Sides derived from its brilliance in adversity in the Great War. Predictably – a dangerous honour – Monty chose the division to spearhead the Normandy invasion by landing on Sword Beach on D-Day.

Attrition battles followed, from Operations Epsom and Goodwood to Market Garden, Veritable and finally the capture of Bremen. Monty designed their distinctive insignia of red and black triangles.

The men came from all over Britain: Norfolk, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Shropshire, Lincolnshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Middlesex, the Scottish Borders and Ulster – it was the most British of all the Army divisions.

The price of victory was appalling: 15,000 casualties including 2,588 killed in action, but two Victoria Crosses were won. It was a magnificent fighting record, led by the famous ex-Desert Rat, Major-General `Bolo’ Whistler.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Bounty Books
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0753702630
• ISBN 13: 9780753702635
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 214