Arnhem's last para / John Humphreys with Stuart Tootal.

Humphreys, John, author
Tootal, Stuart, author

London : Penguin Books, 2025.

xvi, 412 pages, 8 unnumbered paages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm

Originally published: London: Michael Joseph, 2024.
Includes index.
Originally published: as The last para. UK: Michael Joseph, 2024.

John Humphreys was just a boy soldier in the Royal Engineers when war was declared in 1939. By the war's end he had jumped into Arnhem with the Parachute Regiment to spearhead the attack on the bridge. For days Humphreys and the rest of his squad held on, outnumbered and outgunned by the German army fighting to the last bullet and refusing to surrender. But the Bridge Too Far is only the climax of Humphreys' remarkable war. Twice captured as a prisoner of war, he twice escaped from the enemy to make his way back to Allied lines in order to rejoin the fight. Aged 101, Humphreys began to pen his extraordinary story, with the help of bestselling author and former paratrooper Stuart Tootal.

9781405964258 (pbk)

940.548141
940.548141 HUM

English

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