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Gunners in Normandy: The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944 by [Frank Baldwin, Will Townend]

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The official account of the Royal Artillery’s activities in the Normandy campaign, this volume breaks down the historic achievements of the Regiment, integrating newly published research with a detailed account of their activities, logistics and equipment in the offensive.
Essential for currently serving members of the Royal Artillery, Gunners in Normandy includes mention of every regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, and a list of the dead by unit.
This book presents the definitive record of events, assembled from interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents. Serious students of the battle for Normandy should find this essential reading, with comprehensive coverage of the role of the Royal Artillery, and much material not published anywhere else, including orders of battle, the details of targets engaged by the guns and their effectiveness.

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The History Press
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31 Mar. 2020
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Major FRANK BALDWIN is a retired artillery officer and a member of the British Commission for Military History. He has worked as a battlefield guide for the last 20 years, actively involved in writing historic material to support tours and pilgrimages undertaken by the Royal British Legion. He is the author of numerous published works and has a regular column in the Battlefields Trust Magazine. He is also responsible for the blog the www.theobservationpost.com.

Lieutenant Colonel WILL TOWNEND was project officer for Firepower and secretary of the RA Historical Society. His passion, enthusiasm and meticulous research made this book possible. Sadly, Will died in 2010. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NRF556W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The History Press (31 Mar. 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 33609 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 976 pages

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Vimto man

Royal artillery story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2020

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With more than a passing interesting in a Royal Artillery regiment and their WW2 service I was very much looking forward to this book. Does it deliver, well mostly yes. A huge subject to cover and in most cases well researched and very informative. It does have a few errors, that is for the 73rd Anti-Tank regiment, that I know are errors, Are they typing mistakes or genuine errors? I am not sure. There is a lot they could have put in, but I imagine they had to edit like crazy. The book is still 688 pages. Surprised they didn't interview a few veterans for first-hand accounts, but again you have to stop somewhere. Worth buying for anyone with an interest in D-Day and Normandy.

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LisR

Don't be afraid to buy it (much more cheaply) on Kindle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 February 2021

I was a bit sceptical about buying the kindle version, but am pleased that I did. I read the book through once, and then when I wanted to find certain parts again it was so much easier being able to just search for keywords than it would have been flicking through a "real" book trying to find the relevant sections.

The level of detail in the book is great. I did spot a couple of minor errors (comparing the book to what the War Diary records for a specific unit) but overall it was a very helpful book in trying to understand the role of the gunners in the battle for Normandy. I learned a lot through reading the book.

It took a couple of read-throughs to get my head around the structure of the chapters. Rather than cover one Operation at a time from start to finish (eg Operation Goodwood), each chapter takes a chunk of time and covers the actions of the different Divisions for the same time period - although they were in different areas of Normandy, fighting in different Operations. It's not always easy to follow the jump from one operation to another within the chapters, but my only real criticism is the lack of maps to help visualise where these different places are in relation to one another.

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A book that shows the complexity of Artillery planning for D-Day.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 October 2020

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This book is one that explains the intricate calculations of arranging y Artillery Fire Plans for not only the various types of weapon, ranging from the 20mm Anti-Aircraft Cannons, upto the largest Naval Guns that helped in the initial landings on D-Day, through the Landing Craft mounting guns and Rockets that would hopefully clear not only some of the beach obstacles, but demoralise at least some of the German troops manning the Atlantic Walls many Pill Boxes and Defence Bunkers housing heavy weapons that could cover the beaches where it was thought that any invasion might try to land. All these plans had to be agreed by all the, main planners from the Allied Forces involved, and this was done in the days before modern computers came on the scene. To read this fantastic attempt to explain the complexity involved, and for the German's to not know where, when, and how the invasion would take place, although Rommel did suspect as to the part of the coast it might come, he wasn't allowed the freedom to have reserve forces placed closer to the beaches he suspected might be used. It is not a book for someone who isn't into finding out the finer details of what was the largest ever invasion in history, but for those who do research on military matters, and wants to see how thousands of Fire Plans and the training of the different Artillery was coordinated, without the Germans finding out such things as the invasion forces were bring a harbour to be used to unload the masses of equipment, instead of trying to take over a large harbour, makes this book one that helps to explain how the German's started to lose the war that destroyed Hitler's dreams of ruling the world.

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W G Smith

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 February 2021

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satisfied with service and book, except I wish it went to 1946

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