Red Devils

<p><b>'Gripping and authoritative'</b> Andy McNab<br><br><b>'Superb accounts of the battles and a deep understanding of personalities'</b> Patrick Bishop, <i>The Telegraph</i><br><br><b>A GRIPPING, AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE DARING 'RED DEVILS' TOLD THROUGH THE FATES OF SIX HEROES . . . </b><br><br>In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German enemies christened them The Red Devils. Circus performers, solicitors, gravediggers, family men. . . they were ordinary people who became wartime heroes.<br><br>Showing what it took to succeed in this new regiment, Urban vividly brings to life six men and their experiences across D-Day, Arnhem and WW2 - from the recently-widowed Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, who had to leave his young son to head to the front, to Mike Lewis, whose photographs became iconic images of war.<br><br>Using deep archival research, British and German sources, and new material from the men's families, <i>Red Devils</i> paints a true and moving picture of the heart of war.<br><br><b>PUBLISHED ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR FIRST CAMPAIGN: OPERATION TORCH IN NORTH AFRICA</b></p> <p><b>'Gripping and authoritative'</b> Andy McNab<br><br><b>'Superb accounts of the battles and a deep understanding of personalities'</b> Patrick Bishop, <i>The Telegraph</i><br><br><b>A GRIPPING, AUTHORISED HISTORY OF THE DARING 'RED DEVILS' TOLD THROUGH THE FATES OF SIX HEROES . . . </b><br><br>In Britain they were known as The Parachute Regiment, but their German enemies christened them The Red Devils. Circus performers, solicitors, gravediggers, family men. . . they were ordinary people who became wartime heroes.<br><br>Showing what it took to succeed in this new regiment, Urban vividly brings to life six men and their experiences across D-Day, Arnhem and WW2 - from the recently-widowed Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, who had to leave his young son to head to the front, to Mike Lewis, whose photographs became iconic images of war.<br><br>Using deep archival research, British and German sources, and new material from the men's families, <i>Red Devils</i> paints a true and moving picture of the heart of war.<br><br><b>PUBLISHED ON THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THEIR FIRST CAMPAIGN: OPERATION TORCH IN NORTH AFRICA</b></p>