Men at Arnhem (Echoes of War) - Softcover

Powell, Geoffrey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907675719 ISBN 13: 9780907675716

Publisher: Ashford Pr Pub, 1990

Synopsis

In the fall of 1944, Allied commanders planned to land airborne divisions in an attempt to capture a series of bridges behind German lines, including the "bridge too far" at Arnhem. Geoffrey Powell, himself a veteran of the Arnhem operation, drew on conversations with many other survivors of the battle to write one of the most dramatic of all accounts of the battleWhen the book was first published in 1976 under a pseudonym, it was at once recognised as one of the finest evocations of an infantryman's war ever written.

About this title

About the Author:

Colonel Geoffrey Powell is a respected military historian, whose many published work includes, 'The Devil's Birthday'. He fought at Arnhem with the Green Howards and was awarded the Military Cross.

Review:

Major Geoffrey Powell led "C" Company of the 156th Parachute Battalion at Arnhem, later commanding the remnants of that Battalion in the fighting around Oosterbeek before bringing them across the Rhine in grand style when the 1st Airborne Division was ordered to withdraw. Originally written under the pseudonym of Tom Angus, Men at Arnhem is a semi-fictional account of the role that Powell played; the names used are an invention and a little of the chronology has been altered in the interests of a smoother narrative, but all of the events portrayed are quite real and give a most vivid account of Powell's experiences. Yet this book is much more than one man's story, as it brilliantly describes life in a typical parachute rifle company during this most difficult and bloody of battles, and it is for these insights into the lot of the ordinary infantryman that it has rightly been acclaimed a classic. Mark Hickman - Pegasus Archive

About this edition

• Publisher: Ashford Pr Pub
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0907675719
• ISBN 13: 9780907675716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205