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With Recce at Arnhem: The Recollections of Trooper Des Evans, a 1st Airborne Division Veteran
With Recce at Arnhem: The Recollections of Trooper Des Evans, a 1st Airborne Division Veteran
With Recce at Arnhem: The Recollections of Trooper Des Evans, a 1st Airborne Division Veteran
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Determined to 'do his bit' Des Evans absconded from a reserved occupation and joined the newly formed Reconnaissance Corps. He saw action in North Africa and Italy before being evacuated back to England with pneumonia in early 1944. Fully recovered he volunteered as a wireless operator with 1st Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron and after parachute training joined C Troop before the ill-fated but glorious attempt to seize the Rhine Bridge at Arnhem.Des vividly describes the intense action that followed the drop. Ambushed twice and badly wounded he was made a POW and eventually succeeded in escaping.Fresh first-hand accounts of the bitter fighting at Arnhem are rare indeed and this one is brutally honest, at times shockingly so. Des Evans was born in Liverpool in 1923. Despite being in a Reserve Occupation he finally succeeded in joining the Army. This book covers his wartime service in North Africa, Italy and at Arnhem. Post war he served in Italy, Palestine, Germany and the Suez Canal Zone. Cuckolded by his first wife he was convicted of the manslaughter of her lover. On release from prison he met Betty and they enjoyed nearly 40 years together until dementia necessitated residential care. Betty died in March 2010 and Des followed her three months later.
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Release dateSep 30, 2015
ISBN9781473869165
With Recce at Arnhem: The Recollections of Trooper Des Evans, a 1st Airborne Division Veteran
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Mike Gallagher

Mike Gallagher began his career in talk radio at the age of seventeen in Dayton, Ohio, and has been in front of a microphone ever since. In 1998, after stints as a local host in regional markets like Albany and on America’s biggest station, New York City’s WABC, Gallagher launched his nationally syndicated show with twelve markets. Today, Gallagher’s show is ranked #6 in America by Talker’s Magazine. Gallagher is also a Fox News Contributor, appearing regularly on all of the popular Fox shows, and has guest hosted Sean Hannity’s show. Gallagher is also a Town Hall columnist, and in 2005 he wrote his New York Times bestseller Surrounded by Idiots: Fighting Liberal Lunacy in America.

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