MEN OF VALOUR: Part Two: Airey Neave - Softcover

POWELL, JAMES

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798873520947

Publisher: Independently published, 2024

Synopsis

In 1939, war breaks out again between Britain, France, and Germany. A British Expeditionary Force is shipped across the Channel, and settles down to await the onslaught. The inevitable.

The spring of 1940 sees the British Army driven back into the sea. A scratch force of gunners, Territorials and infantry stand with their French allies in the historic town of Calais. They are outnumbered and outgunned, desperately trying to defend a town being blasted into rubble around them. There can be no further retreat, and only one outcome to their battle. Rifleman Fred Jackley - barely out of his teens and recently married - knows this. Lieutenant Airey Neave - anxious to prove himself a leader of men in combat - knows this. Major John Heywood - a veteran of "the war to end all wars" - knows this.

Drawing on the author's own family history, this novel weaves together the stories of three amateur soldiers who were pitted against the Panzers. They fought on so that others might live.

They were men of valour.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798873520947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 372