Pen and Sword Books: The Glider Pilot Regiment DVD by Major Tim Saunders, Major Mike Peters, Battlefield History TV

The Glider Pilot Regiment DVD (2 reviews)
by Major Mike Peters, Major Tim Saunders, Battlefield History TV
Imprint: Pen & Sword Digital
Found in: Military DVDs
World War Two DVDs
Series: Battlefield History TV
DVD
ISBN: 5060247620015
Published: 24 January 2011

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Selection and training for the Army’s Glider Pilot Regiment was both rigorous and thoroughly demanding. GPR veterans recall their experience of training to be members one of the British Army’s new elite regiments. Once they had survived the initial toughening up, it was onto elementary fixed wing flying with the RAF and then on to gliding in a variety of aircraft including the Horsa Glider.

Using a exact full scale replica of the Horsa glider built at RAF Shawbury, the team gain an insight into the construction, size and flying characteristics of this iconic airplane. Veterans explain how the aircraft handled and the controls they used in their five mile glide from six thousand feet.
The operations of the Glider Pilot Regiment are covered from the first small scale attempt to destroy the German Heavy Water plant in Norway through to the near disastrous first major commitment at night to the invasion of Sicily in July 1943.

After the war the GPR fought as infantry alongside 6th Airborne Division in Palestine but the helicopter was now on the scene and with gliding into battle a thing of the past the Regiment was disbanded after a short but illustrious history. But their spirit and the achievements live on in today’s Army Air Corps.

Product Reviews

All are interspersed with interviews with veteran glider crews who offer very real insight into the skills and terrors of using these flimsy craft. Two ‘extra’s’ and films explaining in detail two of the most... [read full review]

SOFNAM Newsletter

A quite magnificent account of the history of the Glider Pilot Regiment, beginning with its conception and the training of its personnel, then operations in Sicily, Normandy, Arnhem, the Rhine Crossing, the Far East, and... [read full review]

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About Major Tim Saunders

Tim Saunders is a former Army officer and author of thirteen Battleground titles on a wide range of Second World War battles. Tim is now also a script writer, programme maker and presenter for Battleground History TV.

In addition he regularly leads battlefield tours, including to the scene of Glider Pilot actions in Sicily, Normandy. Arnhem and the Rhine.

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About Major Mike Peters

Mike Peters - a serving officer in the Army Air Corps - is also a member of the Guild of Battlefield Guides.

Throughout his over twenty years of service, the importance of the history of the forebears of his Corps, the Glider Pilot Regiment, has grown on Mike.

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About Battlefield History TV

Pen and Sword Digital and Battlefield History TV formed their partnership in 2008 to provide customers with a wide variety of specialist programmes presented by well-known battlefield historians and qualified guides. The subjects they cover in detail are the First and Second World Wars, The Waterloo Campaign and Peninsular War and they even go back as far as the Dark Ages. Each DVD will be of interest to military enthusiasts, wargamers, battlefield tourists, re-enactment groups, students of particular battles or campaigns and military modellers.

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