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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Harry dropped his man almost immediately and mine came down the bank on his hands and knees screaming out with pain and fear. I gave him another short burst and he stopped screaming and rolled down the bank to lie perfectly still at the foot of it’ wrote Private EV B Mordecai RAOC of the 1st Airborne Division Ordnance Field Park of his part in the desperate fighting of September 1944. On the ground the airborne logisticians at the battle of Arnhem fought to the bitter end indistinguishable from their paratroop comrades. In the air their suffering and sacrifice continues to this day as a shining example of duty done under the most desperate circumstances. Witness the account of Flight Lieutenant HJ King navigator of KG274 a Dakota of 271 Squadron RAF “The men were not volunteers like aircrew. They received no flying pay yet were without doubt superb in their fulfilment of duty even though our aircraft was burning for the whole period over the dropping zone. Arnhem-The Fight To Sustain is the first work of military history focusing on the logistic support aspects of a major battle. It tells the stirring story of the men and the methods employed to support 1st Airborne Division in one of the great battles of the Second World War. It is also the first history of the forming corps of the today’s Royal Logistic Corps in action Following extensive research by the author the story draws heavily on contemporary documents and eye-witness accounts. After all who better san tell this inspiring story than those the were there in the thick of the action? (LL)