The Impossible Victory: Personal Account of the Battle for the River Po

 

The battle for the River Po in April 1945 by units of the 15th Army Group in Italy. It brought about the first major surrender of German forces to the Western Allies. Includes chapters on Mark Clark, Richard McCreery and Wladyslaw Anders. Also an account of the author's revealing post-war interview with General Clark. The battle for the River Po in April, 1945, was not just the climactic battle of the Italian campaign. It brought about the first major surrender of German forces to the Western Allies during the Second World War: nearly a million enemy troops laid down their arms. The author was a junior officer in the battle, and he describes it from the viewpoint of the British troops he commanded and whose life he shared in the long campaign that led up to it.

 

Brian Harpur

Hardcover with d/w 202pp William Kimber 1980 1st Ed

 

Vg/Vg

Book Code:  SH1533