The text is best suited for military buffs, as Holland delivers an intense, 400-page description of the regiment’s nearly yearlong battle across France, Belgium, and Germany.
This book is the result of massive research in British and American archives, plus a few interviews with survivors, and the author includes a generous selection of maps and photos. Withdrawn to Britain, they trained throughout early 1944 and then came ashore on Gold Beach on D-Day. A British cavalry regiment throughout World War I, in 1942, the Rangers converted to armor in time to fight at El Alamein and then across North Africa. In his latest, veteran military historian Holland, author of more than 10 books about WWII, tries his hand successfully with the Sherwood Rangers. World War II historiography received a shot in the arm with Stephen Ambrose’s 1992 book, Band of Brothers, which eschewed the traditional campaigns-and-commanders format to describe a single unit’s experience. A fine account of the brutal daily experiences of a celebrated British tank regiment.
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