Cet auteur a exploré les dynamiques de la guerre et de l'aventure, s'appuyant sur sa vaste expérience militaire et sa vie non conventionnelle. Son écriture se caractérise par une passion pour le voyage et une volonté de prendre des risques, offrant aux lecteurs une perspective unique sur l'histoire et la nature humaine. Il était connu pour sa capacité à transporter les lecteurs au cœur des événements avec un style captivant. Sa vie a été remplie d'entreprises qui semblaient plus adaptées à un autre siècle, un esprit qui se reflète dans son héritage littéraire.
Based on Peter Elstob's own wartime experiences, Warriors for the Working Day follows one tank crew as they proceed from the beaches of Normandy into newly liberated Western Europe, brilliantly evoking the claustrophobia, heat and intensity of tank warfare.
This is the full story of the Battle of the Ardennes. in the last weeks of 1944 the German armies in the west, after a continuous retreat since the battle of Normandy five months earlier were regrouping in what they thought was to be the last battle in defense of the Fatherland. But Hitler had other plans - to mount an offensive through the Ardennes that would deal such a blow to the Western Allies that they would be willing to negotiate a separate peace. This is the offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge.Could Hitler's gamble have succeeded? Could he have reached his objective, the port of Antwerp? Peter Elstob unfolds the whole panorama of the "last offensive" which was one of the bloodiest battles of the Second World war, punctuated with many acts of individual acts of heroism and many errors of judgment by the firebrand General George Patton, the superb German generals and others. Paradoxically, all it ensured was that the Russians would reach Berlin first.