Major Frank Baldwin, Lieutenant Colonel Will Townend

Gunners in Normandy (eBook, ePUB)

The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The official account of the Royal Artillery's activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and equipment in the offensive. Essential for currently serving members of the Royal Artillery, Gunners in Normandy includes mention of every regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, and a list of the dead by unit. This book presents the definitive record of events, assembled from interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents. Serious students of the battle for Normandy should find this essential reading, with comprehensive coverage of the role of the Royal Artillery, and much material not published anywhere else, including orders of battle, the details of targets engaged by the guns and their effectiveness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 702
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750991797
• Artikelnr.: 55261544

Autorenporträt

Major FRANK BALDWIN is a retired artillery officer and a member of the British Commission for Military History. He has worked as a battlefield guide for the last 20 years, actively involved in writing historic material to support tours and pilgrimages undertaken by the Royal British Legion. He is the author of numerous published works and has a regular column in the Battlefields Trust Magazine. He is also responsible for the blog the www.theobservationpost.com.