Second Battle of El Alamein (ePub)
Snapshots of War
(Sprache: Englisch)
An eye witness account of the second battle of El Alamein by World War II veteran rifleman Victor Gregg.
The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October-11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in the Second World War. With the Allies...
The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October-11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in the Second World War. With the Allies...
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An eye witness account of the second battle of El Alamein by World War II veteran rifleman Victor Gregg.
The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October-11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in the Second World War. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign, prompting Winston Churchill to proclaim 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.'
The British victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign and ended the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields via North Africa. Victor Gregg, after an absence of eight months of service, is offered a promotion which he promptly turns down, saying, 'I just wish to fight out this war in the company of the lads who I call my mates, and they are all in the carriers.'
In this first-hand account, Gregg bravely unpicks not only the action of war, but the reaction of the normal men in extraordinary circumstances, trying to cling to sanity amongst the debris of corpses - many of which were friends and comrades.
The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October-11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in the Second World War. With the Allies victorious, it marked the watershed of the Western Desert Campaign, prompting Winston Churchill to proclaim 'Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.'
The British victory turned the tide in the North African Campaign and ended the Axis threat to Egypt, the Suez Canal and the Middle Eastern and Persian oil fields via North Africa. Victor Gregg, after an absence of eight months of service, is offered a promotion which he promptly turns down, saying, 'I just wish to fight out this war in the company of the lads who I call my mates, and they are all in the carriers.'
In this first-hand account, Gregg bravely unpicks not only the action of war, but the reaction of the normal men in extraordinary circumstances, trying to cling to sanity amongst the debris of corpses - many of which were friends and comrades.
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 North Africa, notably at the Battle of Alamein, and then with the Parachute Regiment, at the Battle of Arnhem. As a prisoner of war he survived the bombing of Dresden to be repatriated in 1946. The story of his adult years, Rifleman, was published by Bloomsbury in 2011, the prequel, King's Cross Kid, in 2013 and the final part of his trilogy, Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale, in 2016; all were co-written with Rick Stroud. Victor Gregg died in 2021, aged 102.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Victor Gregg
- 2017, 1. Auflage, 30 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- ISBN-10: 144821680X
- ISBN-13: 9781448216802
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.01.2017
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