'Gripping and authoritative' Andy McNab
'Superb accounts of the battles and a deep understanding of
personalities' Patrick Bishop, The Telegraph
A GRIPPING, AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE DARING 'RED DEVILS' TOLD THROUGH
THE FATES OF SIX HEROES . . .
In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German
enemies christened them The Red Devils. Circus performers, solicitors,
gravediggers, family men. . . they were ordinary people who became
wartime heroes.
Showing what it took to succeed in this new regiment, Urban vividly
brings to life six men and their experiences across D-Day, Arnhem and
WW2 - from the recently-widowed Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, who had to leave
his young son to head to the front, to Mike Lewis, whose photographs
became iconic images of war.
Using deep archival research, British and German sources, and new
material from the men's families, Red Devils paints a true and moving
picture of the heart of war.
PUBLISHED ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR FIRST CAMPAIGN: OPERATION
TORCH IN NORTH AFRICA