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Sherwood Boys: Biography of a Battalion Volume 2: September 1943-March 1946 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781036156541)
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Michael Somerville
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xA vivid account of a British Territorial battalion's transformation from untrained youths into seasoned veterans through Dunkirk to Salerno, highlighting frontline endurance and wartime camaraderie.
This is the story of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion that during the full span of the Second World War developed from a group of untrained young men from Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht. It provides a unique view on the British army through the lens of a single battalion, drawing on over 150 personal accounts, both oral and written, as well as official documents.
The first volume followed the battalion from its formation in 1939, through its baptism of fire at Dunkirk and reconstruction in the UK, to victory in North Africa. This second volume picks up the story with the landings at Salerno and subsequent battles in Italy. It ends with a post-war Europe edging towards the Cold War as veterans of fighting the Nazis found themselves confronting communist forces in eastern Europe. Together these two volumes describe the exertions of training, the terrors of battle, the hardships of captivity, and the challenges brought by peace.
Sherwood Boys is a battalion epic, researched, assembled and written for readers wanting to comprehend the Second World War from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier. It is written as a tribute to those men who were called upon to do the extraordinary--and did so.
Author: Michael Somerville
ISBN-10: 1036156540
ISBN-13: 9781036156541
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
This is the story of the 2/5th Sherwood Foresters, a Territorial battalion that during the full span of the Second World War developed from a group of untrained young men from Derbyshire into a hardened unit of veterans from every corner of Britain, capable of facing, and beating, the might of the Wehrmacht. It provides a unique view on the British army through the lens of a single battalion, drawing on over 150 personal accounts, both oral and written, as well as official documents.
The first volume followed the battalion from its formation in 1939, through its baptism of fire at Dunkirk and reconstruction in the UK, to victory in North Africa. This second volume picks up the story with the landings at Salerno and subsequent battles in Italy. It ends with a post-war Europe edging towards the Cold War as veterans of fighting the Nazis found themselves confronting communist forces in eastern Europe. Together these two volumes describe the exertions of training, the terrors of battle, the hardships of captivity, and the challenges brought by peace.
Sherwood Boys is a battalion epic, researched, assembled and written for readers wanting to comprehend the Second World War from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier. It is written as a tribute to those men who were called upon to do the extraordinary--and did so.
Author: Michael Somerville
ISBN-10: 1036156540
ISBN-13: 9781036156541
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Language: English
Published: 09/17/2026
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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