Rifleman: A Front-Line Life from Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
(Sprache: Englisch)
The astonishing life-story of a young working-class man who fought throughout WWII, from Alamein to the invasion of Sicily, who was captured at Arnhem and as a POW survived the Allied bombing of Dresden. His exploits and adventures continued after the war,...
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The astonishing life-story of a young working-class man who fought throughout WWII, from Alamein to the invasion of Sicily, who was captured at Arnhem and as a POW survived the Allied bombing of Dresden. His exploits and adventures continued after the war, and he cut the wire which separated East from West, a few weeks before the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Radio 2 have commissioned a documentary about the life of Victor Gregg which will run directly after the station's live coverage of the Festival of Remembrance.
Autoren-Porträt von Victor Gregg
Victor Gregg was born in London in 1919 and joined the army in 1937, serving first in the Rifle Brigade in Palestine and the Battle of Alamein, and then in the Parachute Regiment at the Battle of Arnhem. He was repatriated in 1946 and now lives in Winchester. Rick Stroud is a film, television director and author. He lives on a houseboat in London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Victor Gregg
- 2012, 273 Seiten, Maße: 12,7 x 19,3 cm, Taschenbuch, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury
- ISBN-10: 1408822083
- ISBN-13: 9781408822081
Sprache:
Englisch
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'Completely fascinating. This feels like one of the last voices of a vital generation. For the first-hand account of the Dresden fire-bombing alone, this is gripping reading. It has an immediate power throughout that makes war fiction a pale shadow of the real thing' Conn Iggulden 'Second World War memoirs are commonplace, but very few soldiers had Victor Gregg's breadth and depth of experience. Rifleman is a thrilling story of a young man in extraordinary circumstances. Yet what makes Gregg's story so enthralling is how he was shaped by his wartime experiences and primed an eventful - and dangerous - life behind the Iron Curtain. Rifleman is an outstanding book that deserves to become a classic' Lloyd Clark, author of Arnhem 'Many people performed extraordinary feats of bravery and lived through an astonishing array of campaigns during the long years of the Second World War, yet few can have seen more action than Rifleman Victor Gregg. His hugely entertaining and often moving memoir is as action-packed as any fiction, and yet this is no novel - Gregg's adventures were real. His is truly an astonishing story' James Holland, author of The Battle of Britain and Fortress Malta 'Gregg's description of the bombing of Dresden is possibly one of the most shocking accounts of warfare you will ever read ...his memoir is a gripping life-story: an incident-packed account of heartache, violence and cunning by a man whose will to survive and unbreakable optimism are a true inspiration' Independent
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