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  Richard Lamb Montgomery in Europe 1943-45   London 1983, first edition, hard cover, illustrations, 472 pages, original dust jacket in excellent antiquarian condition,   Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht Afrikakorps Nazi Germany World War II Hitler Stalin Churchill Roosevelt Ostfront Dresden genocide Fallschirmjäger Paratroopers U-Boot U-Boat atrocities expulsion Luftwaffe Waffen-SS Rommel Afrikakorps

  HarperCollins Publishers. Hardback. Book Condition: Very good, 2009, 1st edition. 388 pp. Alamein, Iain Gale, The superb novelist of men at war moves into the twentieth century and World War Two, telling the story of the eleven days in the sands of North Africa that would change history forever. There are some battles that change the course of history: Alamein is one of those. In October 1942, Britain and its allies were in real difficulties: Germany and its Axis partners seemed to be triumphant everywhere - in Europe, in Russia, in the Atlantic and were now poised to take the Suez Canal. It was in North Africa that the stand was made, that the tide of World War Two began to turn. It was a battle of strong characters: the famous battle commander Rommel and the relatively untested new British commander, Montgomery, leading men who fought through an extraordinary eleven day battle, in an unforgiving terrain, amid the swirling sandstorms and the desert winds. Iain Gale, author of the outstanding historical novel Four Days in June on the battle of Waterloo, tells the dramatic story through seven characters, almost all based on real people. Drawn from both sides of the conflict, they include a major from a Scottish brigade, the young lieutenant in the thick of the tank battle, the Australian sergeant with the infantry, the tank commander of the Panzer Division and the charismatic Italian commander of a parachute battalion. Through them and others we see the flow of battle, the strategies, the individual actions and skirmishes, the fear, the determination, the extraordinary courage on both sides.

1967 large hardcover with dust jacket in splendid condition. 432 pages. R50 postage in SA. Author Hans Dollinger. A fascinating, objective and comprehensive account of the deciding final days of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The text includes first hand accounts, messages,diary entries, letters and other personal papers, from amongst others Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin,Patton, Montgomery, De Gaulle and Truman.

The Magic Army -Lesley Thomas. In the spring and early summer of 1944 a huge force, a million and a half strong, spread across Southern England, awaiting the greatest adventure in military history. The invasion of Occupied Europe. This army, mainly Americans, British and Canadians, most of whom had no experience of battle, was to be transported across the English Channel. No one knew how. This is the story of the American "occupation" of a wide district of South Devon to permit realistic war games. Its characters range from the Generals Eisenhower and Montgomery to the village simpleton. The Magic Army is an impressively moving, often very funny novel, which recreates the astonishing operation which preceded the Allied landing in France.   Publisher: 1982 Binding: Hardcover / Dust cover, Number of pages: 445 Condition: Good,AS NEW                                                             I have more books in This Category   I have many books on sale, please check my listings. I am happy to combine and save postage for you.  

On June 6, 2004, people the world over - especially Americans - will pause to remember the 60th anniversary of the Normandy invasion that forever changed history. D-Day: 24 Hours that Saved the World honors the 130,000 heroic American and Allied troops who risked their lives to liberate Europe and end the Nazi occupation. Here are fascinating portraits of the men who designed the invasion - and the men who fought it: Eisenhower and Churchill, Montgomery and Rommel. Here are the landing crafts, the medics, the radio operators, the nurses. Here are the memorable photographs, historic reunions, majestic cemeteries, the unforgettable memories of June 6, 1944. Here is D-Day: 24 Hours that Saved the World.

1967 large hardcover with dust jacket in splendid condition. 432 pages. R55 postage in SA. Author Hans Dollinger. A fascinating, objective and comprehensive account of the deciding final days of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The text includes first hand accounts, messages,diary entries, letters and other personal papers, from amongst others Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin,Patton, Montgomery, De Gaulle and Truman.

1967 large hardcover with dust jacket in splendid condition. 432 pages. R60 postage in SA. Author Hans Dollinger. A fascinating, objective and comprehensive account of the deciding final days of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The text includes first hand accounts, messages,diary entries, letters and other personal papers, from amongst others Eisenhower, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin,Patton, Montgomery, De Gaulle and Truman.