Books are available on additional battles - Letters - Letter to the Editor

Dear Sir:

I wish to make a correction to the book review in the September-October 2002 issue of ARMOR on Battleground Europe: Cambrai--The Right Hook by Major Joseph McLamb. I heartily agree with Major McLamb that these superb, compact books are a "staff ride in a can;" the books, however are not limited to World War I. The Pen and Sword Books of the Leo Cooper Publishing house are available for the Utah Beach and the Airborne Landings, Omaha Beach, the British and Canadian Landings at Gold, Sword, and Juno, Pegasus Bridge/Merville Battery, Nijmegan, Hell's Highway (the Advance of British XXX Corps in Operation Market-Garden), The Island (the fighting in the Betuwe area between the Rhine and Maas rivers south of Arnhem in October-November '44), and Arnhem. I can personally recommend them as I used all of the aforementioned titles in a staff ride that I conducted with friends in September 2002. The time and money spent purchasing and reading these books was well-spent and invaluable preparation for my comrades and 1. I would like to add to Major McLamb's endorsement that the books greatly aid in navigating in European traffic and contain tips about insurance and local laws and customs. The books are also extremely useful as a reference guide to other books as they are well illustrated and contain precise, pertinent maps that so many other histories lack. Another is also available on the destruction of the U.S. 106th Infantry Division in St. Lethal I found useful.

SCOTT C. FARQUHAR

LTC, Infantry

Hohenfels, Germany

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