New Book for Christmas

[Gibbs505]

"It Never Snows in September"
By Robert J. Kershaw.

ISBN: 0 7110 3062 6 or 978 0 7110 3062 6



This book arrived for me a couple of weeks ago but I was not allowed to open the parcel until this morning! Gosh darnit!

The book is the german view of the operation "Market-Garden" and the Battle of Arnhem. It has copious photo's and, very interesting, eight colour plates of maps! The appendices inculde copies of the orders to thje IISS Pz Corps detailed German Order of Battle, inculding temperory units, for the period of the battle.

No, I have not been able to read the book from cover to cover, yet! But I am looking forward to it.

Of interest, the title comes from a german officer, Lt Joseph Enthammer, who was a Wehrmacht artillery officer based in Arnhem. He looked up to the clear skies, looking at white 'snowflakes' that appeared to be hanging in the sky; thinking "That cannot be' it never snows in September! They must be parachutists!"

A full review will follow but I have to read it first! I promise!

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