SORRY - SOLD OUT
In this volume the reduction of the german garrison at St. Malo, on the coast of Brittany, in August 1944 is covered in its various phases. Much of the old walled town lay ruined before the Citadel surrendered, but a superb feat of reconstruction can be seen to have been achieved. Just offshore though, is the tiny island of Cezembre, which continued to hold out; its twisted and shattered guns still in situ on what amounts to an uncleared battlefield. Except for mines, the German-held island of Walcheren, at the mouth of the Scheldt in Holland, became the final obstacle denying the use of the port of Antwerp to the Allies. An account of the major amphibious operation to wrest control of the island is set against a 'waterscape' produced by the preparatory bombing which breached the outer dykes and let the sea in. An 'invasion' of an entirely different kind concerns the GIs in Northern Ireland. Other articles include the story of a car that is shown to have belonged to Hitler, items on the discovery and preservation of wartime relics, and making of the film Reach for the Sky.
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