Featured battle : Elchingen

Part of French War of the Third Coalition

Date : 14 October 1805

Napoleon needed to secure the north bank of the river Donau and ordered Ney [VI Corps] to do the job. Had the initial attack across the stringers of the partially demolished bridge been faced by a determined Austrian force it would probably have been replused. Once again Austrian poor command and control played into the French hands and Ney was able to get his whole corps across.

D-Day, Arnhem and The Rhine.

Robert F. Ashby Ed. Jonathan Walker
A superb memoir of one man’s war. Robert Ashby was a glider pilot who survived landings at D-Day, Arnhem and the Rhine crossing. Jonathan Walker has done the job of editing so that he does not interfere with the original memoirs but adds sufficient notes, in italics, to provide both context and a little additional information. To highlight any part of the book would be to do a disservice to the whole. The text is supported by a set of very special, many personal, photographs.
For anyone with even a passing interest in the Second World war this is a must read. We cannot recommend it too highly.

Pen & Sword Military, 2022