City Boys at War - Peter Ledger

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Résumé :
In 1938, Alfred Ledger joined the Lloyd's Battery of the 53rd (City of London) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, a division of the Territorial Army that was based at White City. Called up to serve in August 1939, he found himself involved in one of the most dramatic operations of the whole war: Operation Ariel, the organized rescue of allied troops and civilians from ports in Brittany and western France as the German army closed in. Nearly as extensive an operation as the more famous evacuation from Dunkirk, Ariel was remarkably successful, saving lives and British military capacity for the rest of the fight.
City Boys at War draws on letters between Alfred and his wife, as well as the details found in regimental histories, to tell the story of one man's experience amid some of the most exciting action of the war. From the earliest days, as war loomed, through the danger and drama of the events of Ariel, Peter Ledger brings a forgotten story of valor and sacrifice to life.
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Biographie:
Peter Ledger has an ongoing interest in history and regularly travels to the sites of military engagements to enhance his knowledge and understanding of what it must have been like for the soldiers involved. City Boys at War stems from a cache of letters exchanged between his uncle and aunt from the war.
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