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Monty's Highlanders (ePub)

51st Highland Division in the Second World War

Military P&S History > British History WWII > Battles & Campaigns > El Alamein

By Patrick Delaforce
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
File Size: 6.9 MB (.epub)
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9781783460731
Published: 18th January 2006

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The 51st Highland Division was the most famous infantry division that fought with the British Army in WW2. It was the only infantry division in the armies of the British Empire that accompanied Monty from during Alamein to Berlin.

After the 1940 disaster at St Valry when many were killed or captured, the re-formed 51st were a superlative division, brilliantly inspired and led. The Highway Decorators (after their famous HD cypher) fought with consummate success through North Africa and Tunisia and from Normandy into the heart of Germany. Blooded at Alamein where they suffered over 2000 casualties they pursued the Afrika Korps via Tripoli and Tunis fighting fierce battles along the way. They lost 1,500 men helping to liberate Sicily. Back to the UK for the second front, the Highlanders battled their way through Normandy bocage, the break-out to the Seine, triumphal re-occupation of St Valry, and were the first troops to cross the Rhine, fighting on to Bremen and Bremerhaven. In the eleven months fighting in NW Europe in 1944 and 1945 the Highlanders suffered more than 9000 casualties.

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Chiznoids

This in a nutshell is a very affordable, first rate history of first rate division written by a first rate author with actual wartime battlefield experience and therefore I am sure it will appeal to a wide range of readers, especially those with an interest in this particular division and the men who served in it.

Roll of Honour, Michael D. Booker
 Patrick Delaforce

About Patrick Delaforce

A former soldier and wine merchant, Patrick Delaforce has written over 20 military history books including Wellington Le Beau, Smashing the Atlantic Wall, Montys Highlanders and Montys Marauders (all published by Pen and Sword Books Ltd.
He lives in Brighton, Sussex.

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