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

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You get to know them through stories and actions and more personally through quotations from letters to home. The book is replete with tables of organization, specifications of the tanks used, M4 Sherman V and the Sherman VC (Firefly). Through compelling eye-witness testimony and renowned historian James Holland's expert analysis Brothers In Arms brings to vivid life the final bloody scramble across Europe from the powerful perspective of one of the greatest tank regiments- the Sherwood Rangers. There was nothing glorious about the slow-moving targets in which his heroes were making their way to the Rhineland. There’s the first, your conscience, that you actually killed some young chap who was probably not very different from you.

The winter of '44-'45 saw the NW European theater experience some of the worst, wettest and coldest weather in years. The Sherwood Ranger Yeomanry was a Territorial Army unit, a reserve formation of "weekend warriors" somewhat comparable to the American National Guard.

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He has a weekly Second World War podcast, We Have of Making You Talk, with Al Murray, and is Chair of the Chalke Valley History Festival.A resolve to be a giant among men, to conquer, plunder and seize the greatness that he thinks is his right. The regiment’s Shermans destroyed many Tigers and Panthers, and shells that bounced off distracted their operators. Drawing on a wide range of sources, he paints a remarkably vivid picture of what his subjects endured and achieved in the closing stages of the conflict. He has written and presented the BAFTA-shortlisted documentaries Battle of Britain and Dam Busters for the BBC, and his WWII podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, now has millions of listeners. the struggles of life in a tank are divulged in detail, like how they stop themselves suffering fatigue while spending hours on end in what amounted from their point of view to a metal tin waiting to be hit.

Michael Pollan, known for his best-selling nonfiction audio, including The Omnivores Dilemma and How to Change Your Mind, conceived and wrote Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World as an Audible Original. Join James Holland for a virtual tour of the Brothers in Arms exhibition, which explored the service of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry in North-West Europe during the Second World War. Holland is quick to point out the logistical reasons for this halt them primarily being the unfavourable weather and stretched supply lines from their lightning advance over the last few months. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. The author does a great job by taking the reader along, inside and outside of the tanks, to show what it was all about.Withdrawn to Britain, they trained throughout early 1944 and then came ashore on Gold Beach on D-Day. You get to know many of the characters of the regiment, the commander many of the senior and junior officers and some of the ncos. From D-Day to VE-Day, the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, a British armored regiment, fought their way across western Europe. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates.

Yet Shermans remained underarmoured – and were deeply uncomfortable places to be, the hatches barely big enough to offer an escape route, and the concoction of fumes, dust and grit as noxious as when they first appeared on the battlefield in North Africa. From the bestselling author of Normandy '44 and Sicily '43, a brilliant new history of the last days of the war 'Seldom is war so vividly described. There's a reason We Are Legion was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Focusing particularly on the Rangers during the dramatic 11 months between D-Day and V-E Day, Holland presents a vivid and original perspective on the endgame of WWII in Europe. TS Tours Ltd is the UK's leading specialist in creating bespoke tours, cruises and rail journeys in the company of experts.Travelling the unit's route through Northern Europe with David Christopherson, son of their last wartime CO, James Holland comments that: "As we travelled their old routes and delved deeper into the battles they had fought, both of us were struck by the relentlessness of their experiences - the grinding, debilitating violence, the endless casualties and deaths. When several members of the ring soon turn up dead, Billy abruptly pulls Kate out, blowing her cover. 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. This book is a testimony to Hollands handwork over the years of speaking to the veterans, their families and doing what he does best walking the ground.