Buy this book on-line RENOUF,TOM: : BLACK WATCH: Liberating Europe and Catching Himmler - My Extraordinary WW2 with the Highland DivisionLONDON.LITTLE,BROWN,2011. ISBN 781408702710.
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stamped gilt letters to spine/
backstrip and immaculate plain dark brown eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-312pp [paginated],includes an introduction,9 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp88/9 and pp216/7 respectively,b/w maps interspersed throughout the text,an about the author,acknowledgements,a select biblio and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,contents list/
table with a maps list to it's recto.
Tom Renouf was still a schoolboy in
Scotland when the Second World War began.He ended the war as a young soldier,when his division captured the world's most wanted man,SS chief
and Hitler's vicious right hand,
Heinrich Himmler.
Bright and determined,Renouf joined
the legendary Black Watch.As raw recruits he and his teenage comrades were pitched into the bloody Battle of Normandy against fanatical resistance from one of Himmler's personal creations,the 12th Hitler Youth SS Division.The Black Watch went on to liberate Holland and fight in the Battle of the Bulge,to invade Germany and struggle through the dense Reichswald Forest in the last great battle of the Western Front; 33,000 allied soldiers died there.Then,
among the first to cross the Rhine,
Renouf and his friends were apalled to discover Himmler's most shocking creation - the concentration camps.
During fierce fighting,Renouf was wounded,promoted and decorated in the field,surviving hardship and terror.But the sweetest moment for his unit came just day's sfter Hitler's suicide,when they caught a heavily disguised Himmler to bring him to justice.'Black Watch' is both
the epic story of the 51st Highland Division and a searing personal account of one man's courage in war.
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As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical "Hitler Youth" SS Division.It ended with the capture of Himmler himself and Tom taking a trophy he still treasures,the Gestapo commander's watch.Seriously wounded and later decorated with a Military Medal for gallantry, Tom Renouf witnessed the death and maiming of countless of his teenage comrades and saw the survivors transformed into grizzled veterans.
Tom Renouf draws on his own personal experiences,as well as his unique archive of interviews with veterans amassed over 20 years as secretary of the 51st Highland Division Veterans' Association,to paint a vivid picture of the Battle of Normandy,the liberation of Holland,the Battle of the Bulge,and many more memorable WW2 events.
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