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  • Rifleman

    A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. He ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Rifleman - New edition

    A Frontline Life from the Battles of Alamein and Arnhem to the Bombing of Dresden

    de Victor Gregg ...
    **'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow'A classic' Mail on Sunday**'Astonishing' James HollandBorn in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure. A soldier throughout the Second World War, he saw action across North Africa, was a driver for the Long Range Desert group and fought at the battle of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Dresden

    A Survivor's Story, February 1945

    de Victor Gregg ...
    'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan SnowIn Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. Victor Gregg remained above ground throughout the firebombing. This is his true eyewitness ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Soldier, Spy

    A Survivor's Tale

    Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington, Soldier, Spy is the story of a soldier returning to civilian life and all the challenges it entails.Facing a new and ever-changing London, a shifting political landscape and plenty of opportunities to make a few bob, repairing the bomb damage and doing construction work on ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Battle of Arnhem

    Snapshots of War

    de Victor Gregg ...
    Series series Snapshots of War
    After sweeping through France and Belgium in the summer of 1944, the Allies were poised to enter the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the Allied axis of advance.Victor Gregg and his fellow riflemen are asked to volunteer for the Parachute Regiment in an operation called Market Garden. The staunchly held maxim, 'once a rifleman always a rifleman', was overruled by a promise of ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Second Battle of El Alamein

    Snapshots of War

    de Victor Gregg ...
    Series series Snapshots of War
    An eye witness account of the second battle of El Alamein by World War II veteran rifleman Victor Gregg.The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October–11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in the Second World War. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign, prompting Winston Churchill to proclaim 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Operation Compass

    Snapshots of War

    de Victor Gregg ...
    Series series Snapshots of War
    Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940–1943) during the Second World War.The Western Desert Force, composed of around 30,000 men from British and other Commonwealth forces, advanced from Mersa Matruh on a five-day raid against the Italian positions of the 10th Army. Operation Compass continued long beyond its original limitations in ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • King's Cross Kid

    A London Childhood between the Wars

    Victor Gregg, born in 1919, has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Dresden

    A Survivor's Story, February 1945

    de Victor Gregg ...
    Narrado por Victor Gregg, David John ...

    Completo

    1 horas 9 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents Dresden by Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud, read by David John and Victor Gregg.'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan SnowIn Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was imprisoned in a cellar while the firestorm raged through the city, wiping out generations of innocent lives. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Rifleman

    A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Narrado por Victor Gregg, David John ...

    Completo

    9 hora 58 minutos

    Bloomsbury presents Rifleman by Victor Gregg, read by David John and Victor Gregg.Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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    Sergeant Harry Verlander

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    This is Harry Verlander’s story, one of five true-life recollections from the Second World War in Tales From The Special Forces Club.The Special Forces Club is a fabled gentlemen’s club, based in the heart of London. It has a closely guarded secret: you have to be a genuine hero to be a member.Harry had volunteered aged 16 in 1942. By 1944, he was parachuting into France on D-Day as part of the ... Leer más

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  • The Long Way Home

    The Other Great Escape

    de John McCallum ...
    The first-hand account of three Scotsmen and their dramatic escape from Nazi Germany's Stalag VIIIB prison camp during World War II.At the age of nineteen, Glasgow-born John McCallum signed up as a Supplementary Reservist in the Signal Corps. A little over a year later, he was in France, working frantically to set up communication lines as Europe once more hurtled towards war. Wounded and captured ... Leer más

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