Patrick Delaforce: 14 books
Onslaught on Hitler's Rhine
Operations Plunder and Varsity, March 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Operation Plunder was Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery’s swan song. It is rarely mentioned in the Second World War history books, and when it is, both American and British military historians dismiss it as being ultra-cautious.
Monty was by nature a cautious commander with dwindling manpower...
Winston Churchill
The Great Man's Life in Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
In the welter of popular and well-known stories and reminiscences about Churchill (many of them more legend than fact), it can be easy to forget that he was more than an inspirational leader and figurehead to a nation and its allies. For in spite of his many and varied successes, Britain's last great...
Adolf Hitler
The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria in April 1889, and shot himself in a bunker in Berlin in April 1945 with Russian soldiers beating at the door, surrounded by the ruins of the country he had vowed to restore to greatness. Adolf Hitler: The Curious and Macabre Anecdotes - part biography, part miscellany,...
The Polar Bears
Monty's Left Flank: from Normandy to the Relief of Holland with the 49th Division
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Originally a Territorial unit with its roots in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the 49th Infantry Division saw action in the ill-fated Norwegian campaign in 1940, before it was appointed to garrison Iceland where it stayed for two years. In August 1944, under the command of the Canadian Army, the Polar...
Monty's Northern Legions
50th Northumbrian and 15th Scottish Divisions at War 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
This is the story of two British Army infantry divisions that were very highly regarded by Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, and whose gallant roles in the Second World War deserve to be much better known.
50th Northumbrian or Tyne-Tees Division was recruited from Durham, north and east...
Monty’s Highlanders
51st Highland Division in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2007
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 Berlin
After the 1940 disaster at St Valéry when many were killed or...
by Patrick Delaforce
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The 11th Armoured Division, famous for its Black Bull insignia, was widely recognized as being among the best armoured divisions in north-west Europe during the Second World War. This book tells the story of the Division in the words of the soldiers who fought with it: of its part in the three ferocious...
by Patrick Delaforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2017
Early in 1945 the British Liberation Army (BLA), who had battled their way from the Normandy beaches to the borders of Germany, embarked on Operation Eclipse. This was the end-game of the Second World War, the unique military campaign to invade and conquer Hitler s Third Reich and liberate 20 million...
The Fighting Wessex Wyverns
From Normandy to Bremerhaven with the 43rd Wessex Division
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Commanded by the controversial Major-General Ivo Thomas, the 43rd (Wessex) Division was branded the Fighting Yellow Devils’ out of respect by its Wehrmacht and Waffen SS opponents. The 43rd’s distinctive divisional badge of a golden Wyvern — half-serpent half-dragon — was to be seen in all...
by Patrick Delaforce
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2017
This is the second volume, but the last to be published of a trilogy - the other volumes being Smashing the Atlantic Wall and The Battle of the Bulge. Monty's Rhine Adventure begins immediately after the Normandy invasion with the euphoria surrounding the belief that the war would soon be won. However,...
Monty’s Marauders
The 4th and 8th Armoured Brigades in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
When Monty was given Allied command of the D Day landings he wasted no time gathering around him individuals and formations he could trust. Foremost among the latter were two armoured brigades: 4th (Black Desert Rats) and 8th (Red Fox's Mask). Both these brigades had unrivalled fighting records whether...
The Battle of the Bulge
Hitler's Final Gamble
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
By late 1944 the Allies were poised to smash the Siegfried Line and break into Germany. Supply lines were shorter thanks to the port of Antwerp. Arnhem aside, there had been a long run of victories and there was no intelligence even from ULTRA to suggest a German counter-offensive.
So the major...
Churchill's Desert Rats in North-West Europe
The Final Push
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
When Montgomery took command prior to D-Day he gathered around him commanders and formations he knew and trusted. Not surprisingly 7th Armoured Division was one of these and they were deployed from Italy to England. In this fine account the author who fought alongside the Desert Rats describes the...
Marching to the Sound of Gunfire
North-West Europe 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
In this exciting and revealing book, scores of British soldiers tell their amazing stories of life – and death – in the front line of the Allies' advance from Normandy to Hitler's Germany. In eleven months of bitter fighting between D-Day and VE Day the combined efforts of the British and their...