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A Bridge Too Far, released in 1977, was the last epic WWII movie made in the Hollywood studio system. Its ambitious goal: to recreate the Allied plan Operation Market-Garden in September Lees meer

We are delighted to announce the publication of Grahame Warner’s History of The 10th Battalion. An A4 sized hardback, bound in black ‘Wibalin© Buckram’ cloth with silver blocked titles and featuring the ww2 Parachute Regiment cap badge. Four hundred full colour pages, including 300 illustrations, plus over 50 maps and graphics, printed on 130gsm silk paper. Dust jacket designed by and based on an original oil painting on board, specially commissioned from Derek Chambers FRSA. Lees meer

Hou de website van het 10e bataljon in de gaten : https://friendsofthetenth.co.uk/

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Wim Velders

From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War.

The legendary ‘Red Devils’ were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill’s instigation in June 1940, they began as a single parachute battalion of 500 men and grew into three 10,000-strong airborne divisions: the 1st, 6th and 44th Indian, each composed of parachutists and glider-borne troops.

Wearing their distinctive maroon berets, steel helmets and Dennison smocks, they served with distinction in every major theatre of the conflict – including North Africa, Sicily, mainland Europe and the Far East. They played a starring role in some most iconic airborne operations in history: the Bruneval Raid of February 1942; the capture of the Primasole, Pegasus and Arnhem Bridges in July 1943, June 1944 and September 1944 respectively; and Operation Varsity, the biggest parachute drop in history, near Wesel in Germany in March 1945.

Sky Warriors is an accomplished act of storytelling; authoritative, far-reaching and deeply moving. Building the narrative from the ground-up, Saul David draws on multiple archives, published memoirs, unpublished diaries and letters, and interviews with participants. The end result is a dramatic narrative of the airborne forces’ recruitment, training and wartime exploits.

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Wim Velders