Gunners in Normandy: The History of the Royal Artillery in North-west Europe, January 1942 to August 1944

The official account of the Royal Artillery’s activities in the Normandy campaign, this is a key book for any serving members of the Regiment: the book will include mention of every Regiment that served, a Roll of Honour, a list of the dead by unit showing where their relatives are buried along with details of how to visit the gunners graves and memorials. Interviews with veterans, papers and documents from the Firepower Archives, terrain studies, personal memoirs, war diaries and other official documents, make this a definitive account. Serious students of the battle 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. It also includes a new interpretation of the battle. AUTHOR: 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.
35 colour and 69 b/w illustrations