What are you reading at the moment?

Yes, that's who I was referring to. Thanks for the article link, canuck, I'll take a look.

 

I got this book to read from my local library based solely on your recommendation. It's a hard copy first edition from 2003. If you're still interested in that quote from Lt. Col Karl Heinz Holst of the 6th Paratroop Regiment:

We found out that, except for the 101. Airborn Div. and other paras the U.S. havent been very hard fighters. If they wouldnt have had the endless lot of material and we had a few more tanks together with hundred ME 109, the Utah-beach would have been a fiasko. The British have been hard fighters. For my opinion harder as the U.S. And the Canadians didnt care at all. They have been the most rude fighters I saw. That's not you are such a man out of that army. It's stated in a lot of books.​

Hope that's you were looking for.

Cheers,
Dan.

 

Many thanks Dan.
I'd only seen a portion of that quote from Holst.
Enjoying the book?

 

Just got it today, so will start it tonight. Looking forward to it.

 

In my endeavour to increase my verbosity on my forthcoming (sometime in the, what seems to be far distant, future) website I am reading up on the BEF in Northern France, my book for the day is an introduction, Patrick Wilson's Dunkirk: From Disaster to Deliverance (ISBN: 9780850527018)

 

Reading these two right now:

Wave an Arm is short so Operation Canloan will flesh it out.

 

I wasn't aware of those titles. Please let us know if they are worthwhile reads.

 

I read Codeword Canloan when I was writing my own book and found it very useful. The CANLOANs were an outstanding group.

 

I'm new here so... what book was that?

 

Churchill's Armies at War, a study I did of the British 50th and Australian 9th Divisions. It sold about four copies.

 

One to me !

 

I have a copy also!

 

Get an academic publisher, RRP £70, and more than four university libraries will stock it!

 

Orwell,

Can you provide the publishing details for "Wave an Arm?"

Thanks,
Dan.,

 

Another from my Dad's collection. If the book is anywhere near as good as his TV programmes were, then I'm in for a great read:

 

I have this one on my bookshelf but haven't gotten around to reading it yet. Let me know what you think of it.

Thanks Steve

 

Up to the "tank restoration" part of this nice little book. On any one particular subject it might not be much more detailed than an Osprey book but it is much more comprehensive. 10-12 pages on the Churchill in battle, loads of photos, etc.

I already had Mr Churchill's Tank but this does talk about things that Fletcher doesn't.




The small format is mostly fine. It would be nice to have the full sized manual to look at the pictures. (As this is the small version of the Haynes Manual that would have the diagrammatic cover.) In one caption there was a reference to a name of a tank and it wasn't possible to distinguish that name in the photo. But for what I paid, it's very good.

 

Sure Dan.
Author C. Roger MacLellan
Published in 1993 by Lancelot Press, Hantsport, Nova Scotia
isbn 0-88999-533-8 181 pp

Abebooks has a reissued copy with different binding here:
Wave an Arm, Follow Me! : The Wartime Experiences of a Canloan Platoon Commander by MacLellan, C. Roger: G Soft Cover (2002) Reprint., Signed by Author | Alex Simpson

 

Will do.

 

Also have a copy on the shelf, unread.
Inherited from my grandfather.

Remember Whicker's World as being family viewing during my childhood.