Monty's Iron Sides: From the Normandy Beaches to Bremen with the 3rd Division

by PatrickDelaforce (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $21.71

  On 6 June 1944, Major-General Bernard Montgomery chose his 'Iron Sides', the famous British 3rd Division, to spearhead the Allied attack on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. As the only division in the British Liberation Army to participate in the savage fighting from D-Day all the way through to VE-Day, the Iron Sides' contribution to victory in Europe was immense. Their courageous efforts won them two Victoria Crosses, but the price in lives was high; the division suffered 15,000 casualties including 2,586 killed in action. The 3rd was probably the most 'British' of all the divisions fighting in North-West Europe. It included the King's Own Scottish Borderers, a Highland gunner regiment, the Royal Ulster Rifles, the two roses of East Yorkshire and South Lancashire, the East Anglians (Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolns) and the Midlands (Warwick and Shropshire), besides cockneys from the Middlesex Regiment and the Recce Regiment from Northumberland. Following the successful formula adopted in his other divisional histories, Patrick Delaforce draws on the personal experiences of privates, NCOs and young officers from the dozen fighting regiments of the 3rd Division - the words of the soldiers who fought at the sharp end of war.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $4.01

  Britain's most legendary general of the 20th century, Major General Bernard Montgomery, commanded the British 3rd Division in the Low Countries with great skill and determination during the opening stages of World War II. The 3rd Division, which subsequently became known throughout the British Army as Monty's Iron Sides , was chosen by Monty in 1944 to spearhead the Allied attack on the Normandy beaches on D-Day. As the only division in the British Liberation Army to participate in the savage fighting from D-Day all the way through to VE-Day, the indomitable Iron Sides were frequently in the thick of the action, led by the popular ex-Desert Rat GOC Bolo Whistler. Monty's Iron Sides' contribution to victory in Europe was immense and won for them two Victoria Crosses, but the price in lives was high. The division suffered 15,000 casualties including 2586 killed in action. Here, privates, NCOs and young officers alike relate the stories of their battles, in their own words - the words of the soldiers who fought at the sharp end of the war.

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  Hardcover
  1999

  $3.28