Men at Arnhem - Hardcover

Powell, Geoffrey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0850526264 ISBN 13: 9780850526264

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

This book is one of the finest personal and graphic accounts of the Battle ever to have been published. The author actually served in the battle and was one of the few survivors to come out on the famous escape route over th e river. '

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Review:

Major Geoffrey Powell led "C" Company of the 156th Parachute Battalion at Arnhem, later commanding the remnants of that Battalion in the fighting around Oosterbeek before bringing them across the Rhine in grand style when the 1st Airborne Division was ordered to withdraw. Originally written under the pseudonym of Tom Angus, Men at Arnhem is a semi-fictional account of the role that Powell played; the names used are an invention and a little of the chronology has been altered in the interests of a smoother narrative, but all of the events portrayed are quite real and give a most vivid account of Powell's experiences. Yet this book is much more than one man's story, as it brilliantly describes life in a typical parachute rifle company during this most difficult and bloody of battles, and it is for these insights into the lot of the ordinary infantryman that it has rightly been acclaimed a classic. Mark Hickman - Pegasus Archive

About the Author:

Colonel Geoffrey Powell is a respected military historian, whose many published work includes, 'The Devil's Birthday'. He fought at Arnhem with the Green Howards and was awarded the Military Cross.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0850526264
• ISBN 13: 9780850526264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 205