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Commando Despatch Rider : From D-Day to Deutschland 1944-45
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Raymond.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mitchell, Raymond, 1920-.
- Mitchell, Raymond.
- Great Britain. Royal Marines. Commando, 41--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain. Royal Marines--Biography.
- Marines--Great Britain--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Great Britain--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Great Britain.
- Marines.
- Local Subjects:
- Great Britain. Royal Marines--Biography.
- Great Britain. Royal Marines. Commando, 41--History--World War, 1939-1945.
- Marines--Great Britain--Biography.
- Mitchell, Raymond, 1920-.
- World War, 1939-1945--Commando operations--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Commando Despatch Rider
- Place of Publication:
- : Pen and Sword, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After 41 Royal Marine Commando had cleared the Normandy beaches they faced a long overland campaign to reach the German border. The commandos developed an elite force of motorcycle dispatch riders as part of this effort. Raymond Mitchell's vivid memoirs of life and war on the road will be of interest to both military and motorcycling enthusiasts.
- Contents:
- ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Glossary""; ""Author�s Preface""; ""1 From Rifleman to Despatch Rider""; ""2 UK Trips and Concentration Camps""; ""3 D-Day, Sixth of June 1944""; ""4 In the Normandy Beachhead""; ""5 First weeks east of the Orne""; ""6 Life in the Orne Bridgehead""; ""7 Forward from Troarn""; ""8 Across the Rivers Tougues and Seine""; ""9 Cany-Barville, Le Havre and Dunkirk""; ""10 Into Belgium, Training for Walcheren""; ""11 The Walcheren Landing""; ""12 Return to Holland, and V-weapons""
- ""13 The Maas River Front""""14 The End of the War and Occupation Duties in Germany""; ""15 From Serviceman to Civilian""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783379293
- 1783379294
- OCLC:
- 854974575
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