Buy this book on-line DOHERTY, RICHARD: : A NOBLE CRUSADE: The History of Eighth Army 1941-45UK.STAPLEHURST,KENT.SPELLMOUNT LIMITED,1999. ISBN 1862270457.
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'A Noble Crusade' is the first comprehensive history of the Eighth Army, the best-known British field army of the Second World War and probably the most famous of all time.
Formed in September 1941 in Egypt,Eighth Army took its Crusader's Cross badge from the Operation CRUSADER battles in which it had its baptism of fire.In 1942 at El Alamein,Eighth Army defeated the Axis army which led to the end of the north African campaign in May 1943.Churchill said that Eighth Army's soldiers had caught the glint of the sun of victory on their helmets.
The short Sicilian campaign followed before the invasion of Italy in September. The Cassino battles in 1944 encapsulated the rigours of the Italian campaign in which the defenders were able to use the country's topography to advantage.
In April 1945,Eighth Army carried out one of its finest operations,attacking into the plain of Lombardy and destroying the German army that held the last defensive lines in Italy.
The Army's soldiers came from every Empire and Commonwealth country,including neutral Ireland,as well as from nations occupied by the Germans; its thirty-four Victoria Crosses show clearly the many lands which provided its manpower.
Official records,personal accounts, published material and the VC winners' stories have been used in this account of Eighth Army's Noble Crusade from late 1941 through the victory of El Alamein to the suffering of the Italian campaign until.in April 1945,the Army swept onto the plain of Lombardy and victory.
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