Has anyone already read this: http://www.helion.co.uk/product.asp?...D=&P_ID=118092
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I've got it but haven't started reading it yet. From the browsing through it I have done it looks to be on a par with the authors Bloody Streets. The narrative uses the communiques between the various HQ's to help 'tell the story' day by day as well as sketch maps drawn by Heinrici and colour images of H.Gr. Weichsel maps used at the time. It appears also to have an extensive Order Of Battle in the Appendices going down to the Btl/Abt level. -
Bloody Streets was was a very good one with only 2-3 faults: poor single column layout, typos and Hamilton's tendency to use modern terminology to describe events when those terms were not even invented.Comment
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Appears to be only half the story: clickyAt Rathau on the Aller, the CO of 5th Royal Tanks advanced on foot to take a cautious look into the town before his tanks moved in. He encountered one of his own officers, a huge Welshman named John Gwilliam who later captained his country's rugby team, 'carrying a small German soldier by the scruff of his neck, not unlike a cat with a mouse.' The Colonel said: 'Why not shoot him?' Gwilliam replied in his mighty Welsh voice: 'Oh no, sir. Much too small.'Comment
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