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With the fine disregard for orders from the highest level that soldiers were strictly forbidden to keep diaries, Denis Edwards managed to record his experiences throughout nearly all his time in Europe in 1944-45. Since he was one of the first both to land on D-day and was among the first to join up with the Russians bear the Baltic in the Spring of 1945, his record covers the entire period of the fighting after the landings in Normandy. And a very remarkable record it is too. After a brief account of his upbringing and early training under the command of the indomitable Major John Howard, he goes on to describe the airborne landings at Pegasus Bridge and the events of each day thereafter. His account of the nearly disastrous Rhine Crossing is particularly important. The Devil's Own Luck brilliantly conveys what it was like to be facing death day after day, night after night, month after month, with never a bed to sleep in nor a hot meal to go home to. This is warfare in the raw - brutal yet humorous, immensely tragic but, sadly, all true. Denis Edwards' diary was brought to a wider audience when the hardback was published in 1999. Having sold out in a few months it is now being printed in paperback for the first time.
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Denis Edwards joined the 10th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Young Soldiers battalion. He was transferred to the gliderborne 2nd Battalion, part of the 6th Airborne Division. After service in Normandy, the Ardennes and Germany he was sent to India ahead of the Division, which never arrived being diverted to Palestine. He rejoined the Division after hitch-hiking back to the Parachute Regiment.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Based on his diaries the author was finally able to publish his wartime memories towards the end of his life. The raw honesty and factual recounting of his experiences make compelling reading, adding a first hand account of the war as seen by a soldier on the ground. The sheer acceptance of the continual shelling and loss of life of his fellow soldiers leaves one with a sense of realisation of what these brave men went through. An excellent personal account.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Outstanding account of the fight from the early hours of D-Day to Germany from an on-the-ground perspective.
An insight into what such close quarters fighting must have been like and a hint of the real heroism that existed.
A must-read if you are going to visit the Normandy battlefields.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I felt i was the lucky one finding this book and reading it
excellent paced book informative and a real personal account of this soldiers war.
highly recommended
excellent paced book informative and a real personal account of this soldiers war.
highly recommended
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Fascinating account
The author of this book documents extremely well the famous episode of D Day and the taking of Pegasus bridge. Read more
Published 22 months ago by A. R. Krantz
The Devils Own Luck. Denis Edwards
An absolutly briliant account of what happend, with no holds bared.
Well written in every way. I would recomend that anyone who has any kind of interest in what went on during... Read more
Well written in every way. I would recomend that anyone who has any kind of interest in what went on during... Read more
Published on 23 April 2010 by A. F. Berridge
HEROIC TIMES
ANOTHER BOOK OF THESE TIMES WELL WORTH READING.... HELLS HIGHWAY GEORGE E . KOSKIMAKI THE BRAVERY OF BRITISH SOLDIERS AND AMERICAN
Published on 26 Jun 2008 by George Knight
Devils own luck
An excellent account and continuation of what happened to the men that captured Pegasus Bridge, also refreshing to read something from a British soldier about the front line... Read more
Published on 3 July 2003 by Mr. P. Bunyan
From Pegasus Bridge to the Baltic coast 1944/45
Authors account of his three months in Normandy, two months in the Ardennes and six weeks in Germany as an Airborne Sniper commencing with the dramatic capture of Pegasus Bridge by... Read more
Published on 13 Dec 1999
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