Sheldrake: Memories of a World War II Gunner

by Richard Hughes

Richard Hughes was an artillery officer with the British Army in World War II. He was sent to Europe twice. The first assignment in 1940 was short lived, as he joined the hopelessly ill equipped and overwhelmed Allied forces in France. The superior German army pushed them back to the English Channel at Dunkirk, and Hughes was one of some 300,000 troops miraculously rescued from the beach by a flotilla of small boats.

In 1944 he returned to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473868602
• ISBN13: 9781473868601
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"