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This is the inspiring story of the airborne battalion commanded by the redoubtable Lieutenant Colonel John Frost. Formed in late 1941, as part of the new First parachute Brigade, the battalion was in almost constant action until its legendary stand at the Arnhem bridge in September 1944. After that action not one single officer was evacuated; all were either killed or captured. Indeed at the end of the War no less than 38 officers and some 800 men were held in POW camps.
This is testimony to the dedication and fighting spirit that the Battalion possessed and demonstrated so vividly during its five airborne operations. 2 PARA won the first two battle honours (Bruneval and Oudna) on the Parachute Regiment's Standard and no less than five out of the eleven that there are today.
This book describes the actions in Tunisia, Sicily and Italy before the scene shifts to the heroic and dramatic climax at Arnhem
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Jule Rodrigo
reviewed Without Tradition: 2 Para - 1941-1945 on June 18, 2018
Without Tradition: 2 Para - 1941-1945
My interest in World War II has been largely confined to the victims rather than the perpetrators. Nonetheless, when I heard about this book I knew I had to read it. The German soldiers who penned these letters fell somewhere between victim and victimizer -- ordinary men who fought for their country, right or wrong, and then were basically betrayed and left in the lurch hundreds of miles from home.
A wide range of people were depicted in this slim book. I was fascinated to learn of their pre-war occupations. There was one university professor, a gardener who remarked favorably on the quality of the soil at Stalingrad, and a pianist who warned his wife that he would probably never play again, since several of his fingers had been amputated due to frostbite.
There was also a range of attitudes and concerns in this collection. One of the poignant letters, imho, was one where this guy had apparently had a long-standing extramarital affair which his wife was aware of. He wrote that he loved his wife and his mistress both, but he wanted his wife to know he loved her more, and offered as proof the fact that, for what he knew would be his final letter home, he had written only to HER. Nevertheless, he asked his wife to pass on a message of love and farewell to his mistress. I wonder if she did.
I'd love to own a copy of this book. Once the Amazon.com price drops below $90 perhaps I'll buy one.
You might try reading this alongside Last Letters from the Shoah .
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