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Flames of Calais: A Soldier's Battle 1940

Posted By: roxul
Date: 6 May 2022 15:20:07
Flames of Calais: A Soldier's Battle 1940

Airey Neave DSO OBE MC, "Flames of Calais: A Soldier's Battle 1940"
English | ISBN: 1526748517 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 14 MB

The defense of Calais in May/June 1940 was a superb example of selfless courage and sacrifice. Sent by Churchill to divert the Germans from Dunkirk and so save the British Army from total annihilation and capture, 29 Brigade had orders not to evacuate or surrender.

Airey Neave, later to be Margaret Thatcher's right hand man until his assassination in 1979, was one of those who fought, and was wounded and captured there
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