Featured battle : Rumani

Part of First World War

Date : 03 August 1916 - 05 August 1916

The Turkish under German Gen. Von Kressenstein made a surprise attack on the British-held Sinai railhead but were thrown back with loss. In their second attempt to seize the Suez Canal the Turkish forces advancing from El Arish in July 1916 took the oasis of Oghratina and prepared an assault on the British and ANZAC forces around the railhead at Rumani. The attack mounted on 3rd August led on 4th August to the Turks collapsing and the following day withdrawing with a number of their troops surrendering

D-Day, Arnhem and The Rhine.

Robert F. Ashby Ed. Jonathan Walker
A superb memoir of one man’s war. Robert Ashby was a glider pilot who survived landings at D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing. Jonathan Walker has done the job of editing so that he does not interfere with the original memoirs but adds sufficient notes, in italics, to provide both context and a little additional information. To highlight any part of the book would be to do a disservice to the whole. The text is supported by a set of very special, many personal, photographs.
For anyone with even a passing interest in the Second World war this is a must read. We cannot recommend it too highly.

Pen & Sword Military, 2022