The 51st Highland Division at War
Author : Roderick Grant
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1977
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780711007352
Author : Roderick Grant
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1977
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780711007352
Author : Richard Doherty
Publisher : Spellmount, Limited Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,13 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
"One of the most famous infantry divisions of the Second World War was the 51st (Highland) Division, a Scottish Territorial Army formation that first saw service in the Great War. Composed of battalions of Highland infantry regiments - Black Watch, Seaforth Highlanders, Gordon Highlanders, Cameron Highlanders and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders - the Division deployed to France with the British Expeditionary Force in 1939, later serving in Egypt, North Africa, France and on the Rhine." "At all times the Division was known for its esprit de corps which touched not only its Highland soldiers but the many non-Scots who serviced in its ranks; its machine-gun battalion was from The Middlesex Regiment while its reconnaissance regiment, after 1942, was 2nd Derby Yeomanry. All who served in its ranks wore the HD flash with pride, a pride that was justified by the Division's outstanding record during the war. This book will tell the story of the Division through official records, personal accounts and memories and previously published material."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Colin Campbell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,36 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781526747068
Author : Fred A. Farrell
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Fred A. Farrell
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 21,55 MB
Release : 1920
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Delaforce
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2007-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1783460733
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 BerlinAfter 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.
Author : F. W. Bewsher
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918" by F. W. Bewsher. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : James Bell Salmond
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1994
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN :
Author : D. Sutherland
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,62 MB
Release : 1920
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN :
Author : Colin Campbell
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,58 MB
Release : 2014-08-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781908931719