"It's for specialists only, being based on contemporary war diaries, but of it's kind it is very good and can be recommended."

-  Trevor Royle

(Author of "Flowers of the Forest", "Crimea", "The Civil War - the War of the Three Kingdoms 1638 - 1660")

An original and compelling analysis of one of the key forgotten battles in Northwest Europe.The outstanding maps help to clarify the actions. Strongly recommended!

- Terry Copp

(Author of "Fields of Fire" and "Cinderella Army")

"A model of what a good war history should be."

- The Tank Museum, Bovington

Comments by readers of the book and visitors of this site

"I am very impressed by the book. Especially how the personal accounts have been interwoven with the battle accounts. This makes the book very readable."

"Congratulations on your book: an excellent clear text, with very useful maps and appendix. The photographs and drawings provide evidence of the appalling weather conditions."

 "A beautiful site and a great book!"

"I have just viewed your web site covering Operation Blackcock and wanted to congratulate you on a first class piece of work.  It's clear that you put a lot of time, effort and hard work into researching the history of the operation and the content of the site is excellent."

"I have been researching the history of Operation Blackcock regarding Cpl. Thomas Bradford who was the person in the flail tank at the crossing of the Vloedbeek and discovered your excellent web site and story about it".

Just a quick note to say how miuch I'm enjoying reading through your website about Operation "Blackcock". Well Done.

Har G.P. Gootzen, 2011©

Flowers of the Forest (Sept. 2006) by Trevor Royle is about the Scottish involvement in WWI.

Fields of Fire (2003) by Terry Copp on the Canadian contribution in the invasion in Normandy.

Cinderella Army (2006) by Terry Copp describes the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of World War II.

In "The Civil War" (March 2004) Trevor Royle pulls together the various campaigns of the Civil War into a coherent whole without losing the detail of character and incident.