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Cover: 9781399088183 | D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine | A Glider Pilot s Memoir | Robert F Ashby
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D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine
A Glider Pilot s Memoir
Buch von Robert F Ashby
Sprache: Englisch

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Ashby's 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'.
Ashby's 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'.
Über 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781399088183
ISBN-10: 1399088181
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Ashby, Robert F
Hersteller: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Maße: 241 x 164 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Robert F Ashby
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,5 kg
preigu-id: 121314783
Über 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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Biographien
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 256
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781399088183
ISBN-10: 1399088181
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Ashby, Robert F
Hersteller: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Maße: 241 x 164 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Robert F Ashby
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,5 kg
preigu-id: 121314783
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