Autor: Truesdale David Truesdale

David Truesdale opted for early retirement in 1998 and since then has written for films and television and produced two battlefield guides on behalf of the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum – „The First Eagle: the 87th Foot at the Battle of Barrosa” and „Regulars by God! The 89th Foot at the Battle of Lundy”s Lane”. He is the author of „Brotherhood of the Cauldron: Irishmen in the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem”, „Angels and Heroes, the story of a machine gunner with the Royal Irish Fusiliers August 1914 to April 1915” (with Amanda Moreno), „Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross” (with Richard Doherty), „Leading The Way To Arnhem, a history of the 21st Independent Parachute Company” (with Peter Gijbels), „Arnhem Their Final Battle, the 11th Parachute Battalion 1943-44” (with Gerrit Pijpers). With David Orr he has written „The Rifles are There: 1st & 2nd Battalions The Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War” and „A New Battlefield; The Royal Ulster Rifles in Korea”. They are currently in collaboration on a history of the Ulster Volunteer Force and 36th Ulster Division, 1913-1919. For relaxation he paints in watercolours following the Kelly school of innovation, photographs wildlife, listens to good music, drinks red wine and finds that Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) and his Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Op.9, No2, has been an inspiration during difficult times in any manuscript.