Blood Beach

Assault Troop SeriesThis is the first in a series of 4 books about Assault Troop, the specially armoured infantry who precede the main advance to 'soften up' the opposition. Led by the rebellious Captain Corrigan, this particular troop form part of the 'Iron Division' during the 1944/45 European campaign. The MissionSent over to France before the main invasion force on D- Day, they have the task of breaking through the German beach defences, linking up with the paratroops and then carrying out a recce into Caen, Monty's primary D-1 objective. Corrigan's force are almost all inexperienced in battle but he is determined to instil in them a fierce fighting· spirit to match his own. The landing goes disastrously wrong and when the beach rapidly turns into a slaughter house, Corrigan sets out without permission to join the hard-pressed Red Devils and to proceed to Caen. The AuthorBorn in 1926, Charles Whiting became a volunteer in the 52nd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment in 1943, aged 17. After the war he studied both in England and in Germany and subsequently became a university teacher in England, the USA and in Germany where he was also German correspondent for The Times Educational Supplement. He gave up teaching in 1973 to write full-time and has written a number of thrillers under several different pseudonyms, including Ian Harding.Other fiction works by Charles Whiting include:As Ian Harding: Assault Troop SeriesBlood BeachAssault TroopDeath In The ForestEnd RunAs Duncan Harding: Flotilla attackHell on the RhineRamps down, troops away! : a novel of D-daySink HMS CossackSink HMS KellySink the Graf SpeeSink the Prince of WalesSink the ScharnhorstSink the WarspiteSlaughter in SingaporeTug of warAs Leo Kessler: Otto Stahl SeriesStuka Squadron SeriesS.S. Wotan SeriesThe Dogs of War SeriesRommel's Last Battle#The Hitler Werewolf MurdersThe Great EscapeOperation Glenn MillerMurder at ColditzKill Patton!Kill RommelFlight from BerlinAs John KerriganFireball BluebeardVerminWatchdogNon-fiction works by Charles Whiting include:48 hours to HammelburgArdennes: The Secret WarHighway Through HellIn Turkish WatersOperation Fox HuntOperation Il DuceOperation Kill IkeOperation StalagOperation WerewolfThe Baltic RunWest Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line'44: In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes'45: Final Drive from the Rhine to the BalticThe Battle of Hurtgen ForestArdennes: The Secret WarDecision at St VithThe Other Battle of the Bulge: OperationNorthwindPatton's Last BattlePaths of Death & Glory: The Last Days of the ReichAmerica's Forgotten Army: The Story of the U.S. SeventhAmerican Eagles: The 101st Airborne's Assault on Fortress Europe 1944/45Balkan Chase: A Story of the S.A.S.Battle of the Bulge: Britain's Untold StoryBattle of the Ruhr PocketBattleground Korea: The British in the Korean War, 1950-51Bloody AachenBloody Bremen: Ike's Last StandBounce the Rhine: The Battle for the Heart of germanyBritain Under Fire: The Bombing of Britain's Cities, 1940-1945Death on a Distant Frontier: A Lost Victory, 1944Disaster at Kasserine: Ike and the 1st Us Army in North Africa 1943End of the War; Europe: April 15-May 23, 1945