Blood Beach (Assault Troop Series) - Softcover

Assault Troop Series This is the first in a series of 4 books about Assault Troop, the specially armoured infantry who precede the main advance to 'soften up' the opposition. Led by the rebellious Captain Corrigan, this particular troop form part of the 'Iron Division' during the 1944/45 European campaign. The Mission Sent over to France before the main invasion force on D- Day, they have the task of breaking through the German beach defences, linking up with the paratroops and then carrying out a recce into Caen, Monty's primary D-1 objective. Corrigan's force are almost all inexperienced in battle but he is determined to instil in them a fierce fighting· spirit to match his own. The landing goes disastrously wrong and when the beach rapidly turns into a slaughter house, Corrigan sets out without permission to join the hard-pressed Red Devils and to proceed to Caen. The Author Born in 1926, Charles Whiting became a volunteer in the 52nd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment in 1943, aged 17. After the war he studied both in England and in Germany and subsequently became a university teacher in England, the USA and in Germany where he was also German correspondent for The Times Educational Supplement. He gave up teaching in 1973 to write full-time and has written a number of thrillers under several different pseudonyms, including Ian Harding. Other fiction works by Charles Whiting include: As Ian Harding: Assault Troop Series Blood Beach Assault Troop Death In The Forest End Run As Duncan Harding: Flotilla attack Hell on the Rhine Ramps down, troops away! : a novel of D-day Sink HMS Cossack Sink HMS Kelly Sink the Graf Spee Sink the Prince of Wales Sink the Scharnhorst Sink the Warspite Slaughter in Singapore Tug of war As Leo Kessler: Otto Stahl Series Stuka Squadron Series S.S. Wotan Series The Dogs of War Series Rommel's Last Battle# The Hitler Werewolf Murders The Great Escape Operation Glenn Miller Murder at Colditz Kill Patton! Kill Rommel Flight from Berlin As John Kerrigan Fireball Bluebeard Vermin Watchdog Non-fiction works by Charles Whiting include: 48 hours to Hammelburg Ardennes: The Secret War Highway Through Hell In Turkish Waters Operation Fox Hunt Operation Il Duce Operation Kill Ike Operation Stalag Operation Werewolf The Baltic Run West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line ‘44: In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes '45: Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic The Battle of Hurtgen Forest Ardennes: The Secret War Decision at St Vith The Other Battle of the Bulge: OperationNorthwind Patton's Last Battle Paths of Death & Glory: The Last Days of the Reich America's Forgotten Army: The Story of the U.S. Seventh American Eagles: The 101st Airborne's Assault on Fortress Europe 1944/45 Balkan Chase: A Story of the S.A.S. Battle of the Bulge: Britain's Untold Story Battle of the Ruhr Pocket Battleground Korea: The British in the Korean War, 1950-51 Bloody Aachen Bloody Bremen: Ike's Last Stand Bounce the Rhine: The Battle for the Heart of germany Britain Under Fire: The Bombing of Britain's Cities, 1940-1945 Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944 Disaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1st Us Army in North Africa 1943 End of the War; Europe: April 15-May 23, 1945