NO.120
interest to Wykehamists. Helion and
Company Limited; ISBN: 9781910294574.
It may be of amusement to some OWs
that A J Beevor (K, 60-64), who failed his
History and English A Levels, has just
been declared by The
Bookseller to be the
‘bestselling British
historian of the
Bookscan era’ and has
produced Ardennes
1944: Hitler’s Last
Gamble. On 16th
December, 1944,
Hitler launched his
‘last gamble’ in the snow-covered forests
and gorges of the Ardennes on the
Belgian/German border. Although his
generals were doubtful of success, younger
officers and NCOs were desperate to
believe that their homes and families
could be saved from the vengeful Red
Army approaching from the east. The
Ardennes offensive, with more than a
million men involved, became the
greatest battle of the war in Western
Europe. Viking; ISBN: 978-0670918645.
Dr FJA Bettley (E, 71-75) has just
published his two volume Suffolk East
(Yale University Press; 800 pages; ISBN:
978-0300196559) and
Suffolk West (Yale
University Press; 680
pages; ISBN: 9780300196542) in the
re-edited Pevsner
Architectural Guide to
the Buildings of
England series. This is
a magisterial
achievement and has
taken seven years work (he has already rewritten Essex and is now embarking on
T H E T R U S T Y S E RVA N T
Hertfordshire). A special discount is
available to readers of The Trusty Servant:
£54 when ordering both copies online at
www.yalebooks.co.uk, using the promo
code Y1504. Single copies may be ordered
for £28 using the code Y1503.
PdeF Delaforce (B, 37-42) has produced
what he asserts will be his last book, The
Fourth Reich and Operation Eclipse, which
examines the final weeks of the Second
World War, after the Yalta Conference,
when the question to be asked was not
who would win, but
how to prevent the war
dragging on and also
how to stop Hitler from
implementing a
scorched-earth policy
across the Reichland.
Fonthill; ISBN: 9781781554005.
Dr EJ Feuchtwanger (A, 39-43) has
written an important first-hand account
of the early days of the Third Reich, I Was
Hitler’s Neighbour: the author grew up
living in a flat opposite Hitler’s private
home in Munich. In this book eminent
historian Edgar
Feuchtwanger recounts
his Jewish boyhood, his
narrow escape on
Kristallnacht and how
his family fled to Britain
in 1939 just weeks
before the outbreak of
war. In the later stages
of the book the author
recalls his frequent visits to post-war
Germany and the changes he
encountered between Germany now and
in Nazi times. Bretwalda Books; ISBN:
978-1910440001.
The latest novel of PEHS Gale (A, 75-79),
A Place Called Winter, tells how Harry
Cane, a privileged elder son, yet
stammeringly shy, has followed
convention at every step. Even the
beginnings of an illicit, dangerous affair
do little to shake the foundations of his
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