The final slog
February 1945. For many, the war in Europe is pretty well over. But Major Bill Deedes of the 12th King’s Royal Rifle Corps (later Telegraph editor) saw it differently. Writing home, he railed against “the damned papers, which are full of propaganda and pretend the war is as good as won. By golly it’s not. Lots of 16-year-olds are keen to die for Hitler.”
This comment sets up military historian Dr Peter Caddick-Adams’s excellent latest book. Many accounts of the war concentrate on the great set-piece actions such as D-Day or the battle of the Bulge and gloss over the final stages of combat. focuses on the last 100
