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Dunkirk, D-Day, Kohima and the Death Railway: The Royal Norfolk Regiment in the Second World War

by Neil R. Storey
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781036149918
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pen and Sword History
  • Publisher Imprint: Pen and Sword History
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  • Pages: 240
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 486 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater

The Royal Norfolk Regiment had a fighting record second to none. Five members of the Regiment were awarded the Victoria Cross, the greatest number to any Line Infantry Regiment during the Second World War.

1st Battalion landed on Sword Beach on D-Day and fought with distinction through France, Holland and Germany

2nd Battalion was the first complete infantry battalion of the British Expeditionary Force to land in France in 1939. Members of this battalion earned the first gallantry decorations of the war. Tragically, 97 men of this battalion were massacred at Le Paradis during the retreat to Dunkirk in 1940. The battalion was rebuilt and fought in Burma and the hellish Battle of Kohima.

4th, 5th and 6th Battalions fought doggedly at Singapore but after the surrender of the island in 1942, spent the rest of the war as Japanese Prisoners of War on the infamous 'Death Railway' and forced labour camps.

7th Battalion fought in France in 1940. Only fifty men made it back, but the battalion was rebuilt and returned again to fight in Normandy in 1944.

Drawing on the diaries, memoirs and memories of those who were there, this book is a fitting tribute to the brave men of The Royal Norfolk Regiment.

Storey, Neil R.: - Neil R. Storey is an award-winning historian and author of over fifty books. He is one of the leading historians of The Royal Norfolk Regiment. Members of his family served in regular and territorial battalions of the Regiment in peacetime and through two World Wars. Neil lectures for academic and social audiences all over the UK. He regularly appears on television and radio factual programmes as a guest expert.

His previous books published by Pen & Sword include The King's Men: The Sandringham Company & Norfolk Regiment Territorial Battalions 1914-1918, Britain's Coast at War, and The British Army: Training for War 1939-1945.

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