'From D-Day to VE day, historian Sean Longden reveals 'The sex 'n'
drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll of soldiering" - "The Times". From the D-Day landings in
June 1944 to the final declaration of peace the following year the Allied forces
fought a bitter battle to the end against Hitler's Nazi Germany. Sean Longden
re-tells the unexpected true story of life among the ranks of Field Marshall
Montgomery's 21st Army group and reveals a tale of sex, burglary, rape, pillage
and alcohol.
Uncovering new material from interviews, documents and personal
accounts, Sean Longden recounts what really happened on the road to
Berlin. 'A
meticulously-researched, utterly absorbing account of the human story behind the
battle to crush Hitler's forces' - "Yorkshire Post"