
Format: Hardback
Pages: 368
ISBN: 9780891417842
Pub Date: April 2003
Imprint: Presidio Press
Price:
£17.99
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Description:
All the Way to Berlin traces the dramatic wartime experiences of one of the most highly decorated soldiers in the 504th Parachute Regiment of the 82d Airborne Division. Covering all the major European campaign theatres, Magellas takes us from the tragic 'Operation Shingle' landings at Anzio to the parachute drop into Holland as part of 'Operation Market Garden' that led him the bloody Battle of the Bulge and eventually the race for Berlin.• Memoir of distinguished WWII paratrooper • Insight into up front combat leadership• Includes an indepth account of the disastrous Anzio operation that decimated the 504th regiment and the famous “bridge too far” campaign of September 1944.