Rick Stroud is a writer and television director who has directed such actors as Pierce Brosnan, John Hurt, Ian Holme, David Suchet, Celia Imrie and Joanna Lumley. Earlier in his career he was the associate producer of Brideshead Revisited. He has won an Emmy and been nominated for a BAFTA. He is the author of The Book of the Moon and The Phantom Army of Alamein: How the Camouflage Unit and Operation Bertram Hoodwinked Rommel, and with Victor Gregg has written Rifleman and King”s Cross Kid. He is currently working on a book about the kidnapping by the SOE of General Kreipe from his headquarters on Nazi occupied Crete. He lives in London.
10 كتب إلكترونية بواسطة Stroud Rick Stroud
Rick Stroud: Phantom Army of Alamein
In 1940 a group of artists, sculptors, film makers, theatre designers and set painters came together to form the Camouflage Unit. Led by Major Geoffrey Barkas and including among their number the int …
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Victor Gregg: King”s Cross Kid
Victor Gregg, born in 1919, has had a rich and fascinating life. King”s Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young …
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Rick Stroud: Kidnap in Crete
This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountai …
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Stroud Rick Stroud: Kidnap in Crete
This is the story of how a small SOE unit led by Patrick Leigh Fermor kidnapped a German general on the Nazi-occupied island of Crete in 1944. For thirty-two days, they were chased across the mountai …
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Victor Gregg: Rifleman
Born into a working-class family in London in 1919, Victor Gregg enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at nineteen, was sent to the Middle East and saw action in Palestine. Following service in the western d …
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Victor Gregg: Soldier, Spy
Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington, Soldier, Spy is the story of a soldier returning to civilian life and all t …
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Gregg Victor Gregg: Dresden
‘Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation’ Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut fictionalised his time as a prisoner of war in Dresden in 1945. Vonnegut was impr …
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Gregg Victor Gregg: Operation Compass
Operation Compass was the first large Allied military operation of the Western Desert Campaign (1940 1943) during the Second World War. The Western Desert Force, composed of around 30, 000 men from B …
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Gregg Victor Gregg: Second Battle of El Alamein
An eye witness account of the second battle of El Alamein by World War II veteran rifleman Victor Gregg.The Second Battle of El Alamein, Egypt (23 October 11 November 1942) was a decisive battle in t …
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Gregg Victor Gregg: Battle of Arnhem
After sweeping through France and Belgium in the summer of 1944, the Allies were poised to enter the Netherlands to secure key bridges and towns along the Allied axis of advance. Victor Gregg and his …
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