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Hubert's War
The war diaries and letters home of Major John Hubert Penrose during the 1940 BEF campaign that ended at Dunkirk and the 1944 campaign in NW Europe from Normandy to Geilenkirchen.
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The Modest Samaritan
Ronald Mustard, a ship's chandler, creates, in partnership with Dominic Dark, a rich property developer and brothel owner, a huge supplies business to meet the growing need for factories and houses in the wake of the industrial revolution. A mysterious young woman and her child on the edge of starvation enters his life and, through tenacity, courage, and Ronald's help, the woman overcomes her hardships causing repercussions. This book describes a fascinating insight into early Victorian society and working conditions
Hill 112: The Key to defeating Hitler in Normandy
A history of the relentless fighting between British and German forces in the French villages of Eterville and Maltot during World War II. ‘He who holds Hill 112 holds Normandy’ seemed an unlikely maxim when the hill is viewed from a distance, but on reaching its plateau, the vistas unfold in every direction across a huge swath of Normandy. For the Germans it was their vital defensive ground, but for the British it was an essential steppingstone en route to the River Orne and access to the open country south to Falaise. The Hitlerjugend SS Panzer Division lost Hill 112 to 4th Armoured Brigade when the Scots captured the Tourmauville Bridge intact, but the essence of Hill 112’s tactical...
The Island
Having fought their way up fifty miles of Hell's Highway and through Nijmegen, XXX Corps was just ten miles from Arnhem and the 1st British Airborne Division. Here it found itself on an island of flat land between the Waal at Nijmegen and the Rhine at Arnhem. The situation was increasingly bad with the remainder of II SS Panzer Corps in the area and German counter attacks on Hell's Highway preventing the Allies applying their material superiority. The Guards Armoured and then 43rd Wessex Infantry Division took turns to lead before reaching the Rhine opposite the paratroopers in the Oosterbeek Perimeter. Attempts to cross the Rhine by the Polish Paras and the Dorset Regiment had little success, but meanwhile, the guns of XXX Corps ensured the survival of the Perimeter. After some desperate fighting on the island, 43rd Wessex Division evacuated just two thousand members of the elite Airborne Division who had landed eight days earlier.
