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Authors: Colin Gee
The third book in the ‘Red Gambit’ series.
7TH SEPTEMBER
TO 27TH OCTOBER
1945
This book is not dedicated to a specific person by name, but to a national icon, a figure that represents something different, and very personal, to each of us.
He or she is
an institution, and an object of great affection for the British nation.
He stood behind the wooden
stakes at Agincourt, and knelt in an infantry square at Waterloo. He rode a charger into the Valley of Death at Balaclava, and suffered in the heat at Spion Kop.
A whole generation went to war and
walked into a hail of bullets on the Somme, manned a battlecruiser at Jutland, or drove a tank at Cambrai.
The
next generation took their own mounts into the skies over Britain in 1940, or stood on the Imjin River in Korea.
Their issue went forth into the South Atlantic
, and found immortality on, and around, a barren windswept island.
T
heir sons and daughters now give their all in the combat zones of the world; in Afghanistan, Iraq, and everywhere that the flag is raised, and people need protecting.
* * * * *
This book is
humbly dedicated to the ordinary British soldier.
God bless ‘em.
Although I never served in the Armed forces, I wore a uniform with pride, and carry my own long-term injuries from my service. My admiration for our young servicemen and women serving in all our names in dangerous areas throughout the world is limitless. As a result,
‘Blesma’
is a charity that is extremely close to my heart. My fictitious characters carry no real-life heartache with them, whereas every news bulletin from the military stations abroad brings a terrible reality with its own impact, angst, and personal challenges for those who wear our country’s uniform. Therefore, I make regular donations to
‘Blesma’
and would encourage you to do so too.
Contents
Dedication for the Red Gambit Series
1957hrs, Friday 7th September 1945, Allied defensive line, east of Unterankenreute, Germany.
2052hrs, Friday 7th September 1945, Airborne, east of Wolfegg, Germany.
1135hrs, Tuesday 11th September 1945, Skies over Hesse, Germany.
2307hrs, Saturday, 8th September 1945, One kilometre south-west of Pörnbach, Germany.
1247hrs, Sunday, 9th September 1945, one kilometre south-west of Pörnbach, Germany.
1328hrs Monday, 10th September 1945, Two miles south-west of Mother Owen’s Rocks, Gulf of Maine.
1337hrs, Monday, 10th September 1945, airborne over the Gulf of Maine.
1645hrs, Wednesday, 12th September 1945, Mälsåker Castle, Strängnäs, Sweden.
0957hrs, Friday, 14th September 1945, Langwedel Area, Germany.
1014hrs, Friday, 14th September
1945, MuhlStraβe, the Brahmsee Gap, Germany.
1335hrs, Saturday, 15th September 1945, Basement of Dybäck Castle, Sweden.
0911hrs, Tuesday, 18th September 1945, Les Hauts Bois, the Vosges, Alsace.
2351hrs, Tuesday, 18th September 1945, Les Hauts Bois, the Vosges, Alsace.
0917hrs, Tuesday, 18th September 1945, Tiste Bauernmoor, Germany.
1103hrs, Tuesday, 18th September 1945, Ekelmoor, Germany.
1312hrs, Friday, 21st September 1945, nine miles due west of Fair Isle, North Sea.
2058hrs, Sunday, 23rd September 1945, Scientist’s Residential Block, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
1349hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, Route 7776 Bridge over the River Argen, Germany.
1420hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, Soviet mobile command point, Unterwolfertsweiler, Germany.
1430hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, Soviet assault force, Unterwolfertsweiler, Germany.
1435hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, Soviet assault force, west of Wolfertsweiler, Germany.
1439hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, US defensive position at Point ‘Sreda’, Argen River, Germany.
1447hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, in and around Position ‘Sreda’, Argen River, Germany.
1453hrs, Tuesday, 25th September 1945, US defensive position at Point ‘Sreda’, Argen River, Germany.
1023hrs, Wednesday, 26th September 1945, The Kremlin, Moscow, USSR.
1219hrs, Sunday, 30th September 1945, Weiβenburg in Bayern, Germany.
2132hrs, Sunday, 30th September 1945, the Kremlin, Moscow.
1732hrs, Thursday, 4th October 1945, with 616 Squadron RAF, Airborne over Bremen, Northern Germany.
0030hrs, Friday, 5th October 1945, Swedish covert military installation, Gotland.
0158hrs, Friday, 5th October 1945, Fischausen, Soviet Occupied Prussia.
0208hrs, Friday, 5th October 1945, Fischausen, Soviet Occupied Prussia.
0210hrs, Friday, 5th October 1945, adjacent to Route 192, Fischausen, Soviet occupied Prussia.
0437hrs, Friday, 5th October 1945, Swedish covert military installation, Gotland.
0903hrs, Friday, 5th October 1945, Fischausen, Soviet occupied Prussia.
0953hrs, Tuesday, 9th October 1945, 20th US Field Hospital, Soissons, France.
1207hrs, Friday, 12th October 1945, Headquarters of SHAEF, Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France.
2302hrs, Friday, 12th October 1945, Headquarters of SHAEF, Trianon Palace Hotel, Versailles, France.
