Recommended Reading: Biographies & Personal Memoirs
ArnhemBy Major General R E Urquhart CB DSO
Publisher: Pen & Sword (Reprint)
ISBN: 1844155374
The 1st British Airborne Division Commander's account of the 9 day battle.
Urquhart of Arnhem
By John Baynes
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080413188
Published: 1999
The biography of Major General Urquhart including his time at Arnhem.
No Surrender at Arnhem
By Robert Peatling
Self Published
ISBN: 0952299216
Published: 2004
Bob Peatling's experiences with 2 Para at Arnhem and his 7 months behind enemy lines based on his personal diary.
The Silken Canopy
By Major Victor Dover MC
Publisher: Cassell
ISBN: 0304302384
Published: 1979
A personal account of the author's time with the 2 Parachute Battalion, including as Officer Commanding C Company at Arnhem.
Echoes From ArnhemBy Lewis Golden OBE
Publisher: William Kimber
ISBN: 0718305213
Published: 1984
A personal account of the 1st Airborne Divisional Signals in World War Two by Adjutant.
A Sapper at Arnhem
By Harry Faulkner-Brown OBE MC
Publisher: Robert Sigmond
ISBN: 9080471895
Published: 2006
The memoirs of Captain Harry Faulkner-Brown and the account of 3 Troop, 4 Parachute Squadron, Royal Engineers.
Arnhem Doctor
Stuart Mawson
Publisher: Spellmount
ISBN: 1862270880
Published:1999
A personal account of the Battle of Arnhem by the 11 Parachute Battalion’s Regimental Medical Officer.
Arnhem Lift
By Louis Hagen
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
ISBN: 0850523753
Published: 1993
Republished with seven additional chapters this is
a personal account of the battle by a glider pilot, who was a Jewish refugee.
I Was A Stranger
By General Sir John Hackett
Publisher: Pimlico
ISBN: 0712665625 (Paperback)
Republished: 1999
A moving account of Brigadier Hackett's part in the battle, his shelter with a Dutch family and his subsequent escape. For more information on Shan Hackett see the veterans' stories section.
Arnhem Spearhead
By James Sims
Publisher: Imperial War Museum
ISBN: 0901627100 (Hardback)
Published: 1978
A private soldier’s account, from the Mortar Platoon, 2 Parachute Battalion, of the Battle of Arnhem.
Surgeon at ArmsBy Lipmann Kessel with John St John
Publisher: Leo Cooper
ISBN: 0850522196
Published: 1976
A personal account of a surgeon’s part in the battle at St Elizabeth’s Hospital. Lipmann Kessel performed several life saving operations including Brigadier Hackett. For more information on Lipmann Kessel see the veterans' stories section.
Nothing is Impossible
By Victor Miller
Publisher: Spellmount
ISBN: 1873376308
Published: 1994
A glider pilot’s story of Sicily, Arnhem & the Rhine Crossing.
