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Volume 8 - No. 195 - December 8, 1944

I Was There! - General Slept While We Took 2,000 of His Men

Dec1944

I Was There! - General Slept While We Took 2,000 of His Men

The last act of the long-drawn out battle for Antwerp ended in farce. The background of it was the canals, the narrow cobbled streets and prim houses of Middelburg in Walcheren Island. This dispatch b

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • The War at Sea
  • With a Red Coastal Battery in the Far North
  • The Story Behind a Polish Armoured Brigade
  • Catafighters of the Atlantic Suicide Squad
  • Views & Reviews
  • British Women's Services are Busy Overseas
  • I Was There! - Between Battles in the Land of Awful Silence
  • I Was There! - General Slept While We Took 2,000 of His Men
  • I Was There! - The Havoc and Destruction I Saw in Italy
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The War in the Air
  • Editor's Postscript