Full Product Details
Author: John Russell
Publisher: Helion & Company
Imprint: Helion & Company
ISBN: 9781914059391
ISBN 10: 1914059395
Pages: 502
Publication Date: 28 April 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Reviews
This well-written narrative is an excellent insight to the life of the late war soldier and touches all aspects, including noting the numbers of German troops buried in each town and village. [...] Thoroughly recommended for armchair historians, Model-makers and wargamers. * Scale Military Modelling International Magazine 16/08/2021 * It is a great blend of in-depth research, lavish map coverage, and excellent photographs. Certainly a must have if you are considering walking the battlefields, or if you are looking for a somewhere to stage an interesting battlefield study. * Royal Anglian News 14/06/2021 *
It is a great blend of in-depth research, lavish map coverage, and excellent photographs. Certainly a must have if you are considering walking the battlefields, or if you are looking for a somewhere to stage an interesting battlefield study. * Royal Anglian News 14/06/2021 * This well-written narrative is an excellent insight to the life of the late war soldier and touches all aspects, including noting the numbers of German troops buried in each town and village. […] Thoroughly recommended for armchair historians, Model-makers and wargamers. * Scale Military Modelling International Magazine 16/08/2021 *
It is a great blend of in-depth research, lavish map coverage, and excellent photographs. Certainly a must have if you are considering walking the battlefields, or if you are looking for a somewhere to stage an interesting battlefield study. * Royal Anglian News 14/06/2021 *
Author Information
John Russell was educated at Sherborne School and has a degree (BA – Geography, Archaeology, Modern History) from Durham University. He was commissioned into The Queen's Regiment in 1974 having attended RMA Sandhurst. His operational service career included Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Afghanistan. Postings included Belize, Germany, Australia and The Netherlands. He attended the Army Staff College, was awarded the MBE in 1992 and commanded an infantry battalion from 1993-96. He retired in 2015. He has intensively researched the fighting of April 1945 and has run numerous battlefield tours for the British Army on the events described in the book. He belongs to a family with strong connections to the British armed forces: his grandfather was in the Royal Navy, his father in the Parachute Regiment and Royal Sussex Regiment, his older son served in The Queen's Dragoon Guards, while his younger son is a doctor in the Reserve Army.
