Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

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when winter ended the Sherwood Rangers easily pushed into Germany albeit still at the expense of many lives. As the losses mount through the war and continue to the very end you feel the losses and the terrible strain on the men that remain.

At one point in the last weeks of the war, a German soldier destroys a British tank, killing people whose names you know, and then immediately surrenders. With his remarkable keen insights that provide riveting descriptions, the author transports the reader, day by day, hour by hour, to Victory in Europe (V-E Day). Vivid eyewitness accounts, colorful character sketches, and lucid tactical discussions make this a must-read for military history buffs. Fighting was still furious and mortar shells crashed around them as Bethell-Fox was told that his friend Keith Douglas had died from a shell burst.James Holland is a well-known WW II historian and has written many books (and I've read most of them). The text is best suited for military buffs, as Holland delivers an intense, 400-page description of the regiment’s nearly yearlong battle across France, Belgium, and Germany. I hope to be laughing at life with you again before so many months,” English lieutenant Bill Wharton wrote to his pregnant wife Marion, “[and I’m] looking forward with so much anticipation to seeing that smile of yours when we next meet.

The letter he wrote to Elmore's mother is devastating and raw, and his reaction to VE day sums up the bittersweet relief shared by many in the regiment: "Stuart Hills had been out with his troop that afternoon and it was getting dark as he headed back to RHQ in his Dingo. The author of a number of best-selling histories he has presented - and written - a large number of television programmes and series.Through compelling eye-witness testimony and James Holland's expert analysis, Brothers In Arms brings to vivid life the final bloody scramble across Europe and gives the most powerful account to date of what it was really like to fight in the dying days of World War Two. I found this to be an interesting book and full of exciting stories as well as some really heartfelt and tragic ones as well. Lancaster bombers could drop immense amounts of ordnance with increasing accuracy as the war progressed, yet the men flying in these tin cans were no better protected by the end of the war than they were when the Lancaster was first delivered to front-line squadrons in early 1942.