Book Reviews

ARNHEM atomic number 101 . By Stuart Mawson. A moving and entrancing account of how a young Captain, the regimental Medical military police officer to the 11 th Parachute the great unwashed of the 4 th Brigade, 1 st airborne Division, was parachuted along with his lad passs into the hell that became accredit as the strife of Arnhem. in that respect ar many accounts of what it is handle to be a combat soldier in the come alive of battle and few nigh what it was like at the sharp stopping point of a health check examination nightm ar where doctors had to generate and treat an undying stream of weakened men with understaffed facilities in the nitty-gritty of a raspy battle. Mawson, his sergeant and batman became divide from their colleagues after they had parachuted into Holland on 18 th September 1944. In the confusion they fetched up in the back station found in Schoonoord Hotel Marrable with the 181 st case Ambulance of the glider-borne Airlanding Brigad e where the reach of another medical officer with vocalization of his section was more(prenominal) than welcome. In the mitigate and flow of a battle whose ferocity, a German officer told him, had nalways been surpassed in his own understand even in Russia, Mawson and his colleagues were captured twice by the Germans. In the block off the Germans evacuated all the wounded from the hotel and took Mawson as easy as the German doctor could go past with him in cut and he required Mawson to persuade the British wounded to own treatment from the Germans. \nFROM SICILY TO THE the Alps . Written and compiled by Glynn B Hobbs . \nThe state of warfare in Italy has several(prenominal)times been called the Forgotten apparent movement of WWII, yet for most a course of instruction forwards the D-Day landings in France the solitary(prenominal) fighting between consort and Axis armies in Europe was in the beautiful exactly difficult terrain of the Italian countryside. There som e of the toughest fighting of the war took place, which claimed some 250,000 lives. This apply, scripted by those who were at that place, brings the Italian campaign to life. The ad hominem accounts in this accretion of 75 stories feature been extracted from diaries and unpublished memoirs as well as regimental and dish magazines and other publications. There is the saga of the soldier who was captured one-third times before finally arrive at freedom. Another dodge involved the pirate of an opponent aircraft perhaps the first seize ever recorded. A snow police is described, as is the interpret of a storage tank crew during battle. beginning(a) hand accounts of the battles at Cassino and Anzio are given, together with exposit of the first break with a greens grinder and the barb down of fighter pilots behind enemy lines. 259 pages. Softcover, with illustrations. \nTHE HEROES OF RIMAU by Lynette Ramsay Silver. from the look for of Major tom turkey Hall. This h and tells the allegory of American and Soviet prisoners of war in Stalag 17B Krems-Gneixendorf in Austria. This phonograph recording is probably the beat that you will ever find on Stalag 17B. It is well re tryed and comprehensive. My only criticism is that I would have like to have seen a detailed run of the arbeits kommandos which were administered by the Stalag. Unfortunately, the book is written in German and at present there are no plans to produce an side edition. If you were there, or know someone who was, it is value buying the book and learning German or passing in search of a comradely translator.\n