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Rifleman: A Front-Line Life From Alamein and Dresden to the Fall of the Berlin Wall

By Gregg , Rick , Victor; Stroud

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year
2011
ISBN
978-1-4088-1757-5, 1408817578
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1980809 bytes)
Pages
273\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
-- 1919-;Great Britain. -- Army. -- Rifle Brigade1939-1945 -- Personal narrativesBritish.;Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- BiogGreggVictorVictor.

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Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western desert and at the battle of Alamein, he joined the Parachute Regiment and in September 1944 found himself at the battle of Arnhem. When the paratroopers were forced to withdraw, Gregg was captured. Abstract: The astonishing life of a young working-class man who fought throughout the Second World War from Alamein to the invasion of Sicily, was captured at Arnhem and as a POW survived the Allied bombing raid on Dresden Read more...

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