NEW REVISED 2nd EDITION
It is back! The book that influenced and inspired a whole series of other works on the units of the 1st Airborne Division and the Battle of Arnhem is now republished in a new enlarged and updated second edition. The book chronicles the history of the 1st Battalion The Border Regiment from the outbreak of War in September 1939, through service with the BEF in France
, to its training in an independent role, then as part of the 1st Air Landing Brigade of the 1st Airborne Division from October 1941 to October 1945. The Battalion moved to
The Battalion went on to serve in Italy, then played a significant and distinguished role defending the western side of the Division’s perimeter at Oosterbeek near Arnhem in the famous Operation Market Garden of September 1944, and it is this action that receives closest attention in the book. In May 1945 the Battalion was sent to
This new edition is comprehensively illustrated with 388 b/w photographs, illustrations & maps, and 8 colour plates of photographs & maps; A4 hardback, 272 pages. £25.00 UKand BFPO’s; overseas - £30 Surface; £35 Airmail.
A Fragment of a Life. By Peter Green
A biography of a member of 1st Airborne Division, based on the papers and writing of the Reverend Canon Alan Green, 1 Border 1942– 1946. The writing, mementos and photographs from papers of the Reverend Canon Alan Green, illustrate fragments of a short, intense period in the life of a young man in the 1940s that was to influence the rest of his life Alan Green was a teacher and then a parson in Leicestershire for 60 years, but the few years he spent with the Border Regiment and, particularly the nine days of Operation Market Garden and the seven months of captivity that followed, constituted one of the most significant influences on his life. Edited by Peter Green. 60 pages, coloured cover 210 mm x 210 mm Price £9.49 inc Postage & Packaging