Rifleman
Gregg, Victor, 1919-2019
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Born in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade aged just eighteen and began a life of adventure. A soldier throughout the Second World War, he saw action across North Africa, was a driver for the Long Range Desert group and fought at the battle of Alamein. Taken into captivity at the Battle of Arnhem in 1944, he was sentenced to death for sabotaging a Dresden factory; he escaped only when the Allies' infamous air raid blew apart his prison and very soon encountered the advancing Red Army. Revised and expanded with exclusive new material in time for Gregg's 100th birthday, 'Rifleman' is the extraordinary story of an independent-minded and quick-witted survivor.
Main title:
Rifleman / Victor Gregg with Rick Stroud.
Author:
Gregg, Victor, 1919-, authorStroud, Rick, author
Edition:
New extended edition.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.
Collation:
xix, 385 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781526618580 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.5'48141940.5481940.548141
Language:
English
Subject:
Gregg, Victor, 1919-Great Britain. Army. Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)Great Britain. Army. Parachute RegimentSoldiers -- Great Briatin -- BiographyWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, BritishPrisoners of war -- Great Britain -- BiographyPrisoners of war -- Germany -- BiographyBiographyBiography
BRN:
2588066
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