The history of the Glider Pilot Regiment
By: by Claude Smith ; with a foreword by Sir John Hackett ; with illustrations by Alan Richards.
Publisher: Leo Cooper
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Great Britain. Army. Glider Pilot Regiment -- History.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain.
Description: "The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless, in those few years the regiment gained as much distinction as it has taken other units hundreds of years to achieve. Yet, strangely enough, the story of these heroic men who piloted their flimsy gliders to most of the important battlefields of the Second World War has never before been told. It is indeed a remarkable story and no one is better qualified to tell it than Claude Smith, who himself served with the regiment and took part in the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, and later in the ill-fated landing at Arnhem, where he was taken prisoner"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177) and index.