Anzio - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

The explosive story of World War II's bloodiest beachhead￢ﾀﾔwhere everything failed but courage.'THIS IS A BASTARD OF A PLACE...'said a soldier on the Anzio beachhead. This was the bitter truth. What started as an easy victory turned abruptly into a massacre. Over 18,000 Allied soldiers were wounded and 4,400 killed in the early months of 1944First published in 1961, this book, by a man who was there to the very end, tells the whole, shocking story.'Explains in vivid detail...what the soldiers...and one general can be proud of and what other generals need to explain.'￢ﾀﾔLIFE'Must reading'￢ﾀﾔNew York Times. WYNFORD VAUGHAN-THOMAS (born Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE (15 August 1908 - 4 February 1987) was a Welsh newspaper journalist, radio and television broadcaster, and one of the BBC's most distinguished war correspondents of the Second World War.Born in Swansea, in South Wales, the second son of Dr. David Vaughan Thomas, a Professor of Music, and Morfydd Lewis, the daughter of Daniel Lewis who was one of the leaders of the Rebecca riots in Pontardulais, he attended the Bishop Gore School, Swansea, where the English master was the father of Dylan Thomas, who was just entering the school at the time that Vaughan-Thomas was leaving for Exeter College, Oxford. At Oxford he read Modern History and gained a second class Academic degree.In the mid-1930s he joined the BBC and in 1937 gave the Welsh language commentary on the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. This was the precursor to several English language commentaries on state occasions he was to give after WWII. His most memorable report was from an RAF Lancaster bomber during a real bombing raid over Nazi Berlin. Other notable reports were from Anzio, the Burgundy vineyards, Lord Haw Haw's broadcasting studio and the Belsen concentration camp.In 1967, after leaving the BBC, he was one of the founders of Harlech TV (HTV), now ITV Wales. He was appointed Director of Programmes and employed his more natural native Welsh accent to even better effect in his later career. He wrote numerous books, many on Wales and a favourite subject of his, the Welsh countryside. In May 1970, when President of the Council for the Protection of Rural Wales, he officially opened the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park at its southern end, at Amroth, Pembrokeshire.He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1974, and raised to Commander (CBE) in 1986.He died in Fishguard, Pembrokeshire in 1987 aged 78.

Title: Anzio

Author: Wynford Vaughan-Thomas

ISBN: 9781787205895

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