8th Rifle Brigade - Normandy to the Baltic - June 1944 - May 1945

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An overview of books and other printed matter related to the 8th Rifle Brigade, the 11th Armoured Division and its units, its operations and some links to related museums or other interesting websites.

Books and other printed matter on the 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade:

  1.   Bell, Noel, From the Beaches to the Baltic, G company 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade,  Gale & Polden Ltd., 1947
  2.   Durand, A.T.M. and Hastings, R.H.W.S., The London Rifle Brigade 1919-1950, Gale & Polden Ltd., 1952
  3.   Gillate, D.R., With the 8th Rifle Brigade from Normandy to the Baltic, Tredition, 2019
  4.   Hastings, R.H.W.S., The Rifle Brigade 1939 – 1945, Gale & Polden Ltd., 1950
  5.   Hicks, M., Difficult Days, A Rifleman’s Wartime Memoir, 1939-1946, Pen Press, 2014
  6.  Jefferson, R.W., Soldiering at the Sharp End, published privately, 1985
  7.   Parkyn OBE, Major H.G., Rifle Brigade chronicle for 1944, 1945
  8.   Parkyn OBE, Major H.G., Rifle Brigade chronicle for 1945, 1946
  9.   Talbot, A., Beach to the Baltic, Normandy to Schleswig, Amazon, 2017
  10.   Anon., E Company 8th Batt. The Rifle Brigade, Through the France and Germany campaign, 1944-1945, 1945
  11.   Anon., F company 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, 1945
  12.   Anon., The War Diary of H Company 8th Battalion The Rifle Brigade, 1945
  13.   Anon., War Diaries 8th Rifle Brigade (WO 171/1359), Jan. – Dec. 1944
  14.   Anon., War Diaries 8th Rifle Brigade (WO 171/5257), Jan. – Dec. 1945

Links to websites of some museums and organisations with links to 8th Rifle Brigade and to the 11th Armoured Division:

The Royal Green Jackets (Rifles) Museum, Winchester, England
Musée 44 La Percée du Bocage, Saint Martin des Besaces, France
Overloon War Museum, Overloon, Holland
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