Matthew Hall brings to life the fascinating story of Colonel Martin Herford, the most decorated doctor of World War II, covering his service in the Spanish Civil War until the end of World War II.
At a crucial moment, Ed Whitcomb, a B-17 navigator, made a split-second decision and thereby set off a hair-raising, spine-tingling sequence of narrow escapes, captures, unexpected breaks and bitter betrayals that culminated in his final extrication from enemy territory.
"Aunque parecía que los nazis estaban dispuestos a erradicar las prácticas astrológicas del suelo alemán, su actitud revelaría una desconcertante paradoja.
After the Allies broke out from Normandy in July 1944, they drove quickly through the rest of France and were threatening the German border by the autumn.
This portrait of early-WWII British life "e;nicely weaves together anecdotes and stories of actual individuals that help illustrate the overall experience"e; (The NYMAS Review).
This is the story of an ordinary young man, unworldly, untried and patriotic, who enlisted at 18 in 1942 and became an infantryman specialising as a machine gunner with the Middlesex Regiment and later with the Cheshire Regiment.
Apart from the quiet chatter of a few mechanics, who were checking that one aircraft was too badly damaged ever to fly again, there was a shocked silence over the aerodrome as everyone there tried to understand the impossible.
Eighth Army, Britain's most famous field army of the twentieth century, landed in Italy in September 1943 and fought continously until the defeat of the Germans in early-May 1945.
