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D-Day's only Victoria Cross winner, Company Sergeant Major Stanley Hollis was, uniquely, twice recommended for this coveted award on 6 June 1944. A tough Teesside, working-class rebel, Hollis was no model soldier. Earlier in the war he was forever being 'busted' to corporal for various misdemeanours, only to win his sergeant's stripes back again.
Few soldiers saw more close-quarter action than Hollis, who killed more than 100 enemy soldiers in combat during the Second World War. He served with the Green Howards at Dunkirk, in the Western Desert and in Sicily, as well as on D-Day, and led by example throughout the critical Normandy campaign. In North Africa, he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Afrika Korps and was personally congratulated by Rommel for his valour, then made a daring escape. In Sicily, he was recommended for the Distinguished Conduct Medal and Mentioned in Despatches for superlative acts of bravery.
D-Day saw Hollis create history with his inimitable brand of raw courage, being involved in two blistering VC actions. During the vanguard of the primary assault on Gold Beach, he single-handedly stormed a hidden German pillbox, saving his company from certain death and enabling them to open up the main beach exit. Later that day, he saved the lives of two more comrades trapped by heavy enemy gunfire.
Fully illustrated with rare archive photographs, this biography of a great British Second World War soldier shows the real man behind the heroic image. Mike Morgan has received the Hollis family's and The Green Howards' full cooperation and draws exclusively on personal papers, records, interviews and other memorabilia.
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Mike organ is a senior journalist with the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette and author of Daggers Drawn and Sting of the Scorpion. He is a winner of the government's national Race in the Media Award for Campaigning Journalism and a former Yorkshire Press Awards News Reporter and News Feature Writer of theYear. He lives in Whitby.
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Hardback. Condition: Mint. Dust Jacket Condition: Mint. First Edition. D-DAY HERO CSM Stanley Hollis VC Mike Morgan. Sutton Publications, Stroud. 2004 First edition ISBN 0750936940 174pp Illustrated Hardback. D-Day's only Victoria Cross winner, Stanley Hollis was uniquely recommended for this coveted award twice on 6 June. A tough, working-class rebel, Hollis was no model soldier: he was forever being 'busted' to corporal for various misdemeanours, only to win his stripes back again. Few soldiers can have seen as much close combat action as Stanley Hollis. He fought with the Green Howards at Dunkirk, in the Western Desert, in Italy, on D-Day and through France and Germany to the end of the war. Seriously wounded and taken prisoner by the Afrika Korps, Hollis was personally congratulated by Rommel, then made a daring escape. In Italy, he was recommended for the Distinguished Conduct Medal and was later mentioned in despatches, going on to undertake a dangerous undercover reconnaissance of the Normandy invasion beaches. On 6 June 1944 Stanley Hollis was involved in two actions that led to his award. During the primary assault, Hollis single-handedly stormed a German pillbox, saving his company from certain injury and death and enabling them to open the main beach exit. Later that day he saved the lives of two comrades trapped by heavy gunfire in a collapsing house. Fully illustrated with archive photographs and ephemera, this unique biography of a little-known British Second World War hero shows the real man behind the heroic image. Mike Morgan has received the Hollis family's full co-operation and draws exclusively on personal diaries, letters and other memorabilia. This copy is in MINT condition in a MINT unclipped dustwrapper. Ref FF 3. Seller Inventory # 003124
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