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D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine: A Glider Pilot’s Memoir - Hardcover

Ashby, Robert F.

 
9781399088183: D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine: A Glider Pilot’s Memoir
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1399088181 ISBN 13: 9781399088183
Verlag: Pen & Sword Aviation, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Foot soldiers, commandos, parachutists, naval seamen, bomber and fighter pilots – their varied personal experiences of the Second World War have been widely recounted, and the parts they played in the conflict are well known. But there are specialized wartime roles that have received very little attention, notably the gallant actions of the men of the Glider Pilot Regiment. That is why Robert Ashby’s rare and vivid pilot’s memoir is so valuable. In it he offers a fascinating insight not only into the major operations he took part in – including D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing – but into the exacting flying skills required to carry out perilous glider landings on enemy territory while under fire.His account of his hair-raising training, together with his pen-portraits of his comrades and officers, takes the reader inside the world of a ‘citizen soldier’. The glider landings at Arnhem and the intense fighting that followed are the climax of his narrative, offering us a remarkable insight into one of the most controversial Allied disasters of the entire war.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Before the Second World War Robert Ashby was the Librarian and Museum Curator at Hitchin in Hertfordshire. He was a fluent German speaker and, on a library exchange to Leipzig in 1936, saw Hitler at close quarters. During the war he served first in the Royal Army Service Corps but volunteered for flying duties, training as a pilot with the Glider Pilot Regiment. Flying military gliders, he landed howitzers, jeeps and other vital equipment for the D-Day, Arnhem, and Rhine Crossing operations. After the war he returned to Hitchin and went on to a distinguished career in the library service, end-ing as County Librarian of Surrey. He wrote this memoir for his family.

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Verlag
Pen & Sword Aviation
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1399088181
ISBN 13 
9781399088183
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
177
Herausgeber
Walker Jonathan
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