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Caroline Essame
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Brigadier Twinkletoes - the Storyteller General at the Normandy frontline in 1944
Military historian and award-winning TV scriptwriter Major General Hubert Essame DSO MC CBE led the Wessex Brigade in the capture of Mont Pincon, the key to Normandy, as well as Hill 112, the fiercest and most costly single battalion action of the campaign.
To mark the e-launch by Sapere Books of Essame’s five military histories - The Battle for Normandy, Normandy Bridgehead, The 43rd Wessex Division at War 1944-1945, The Battle for Germany, and Patton the Commander - his granddaughter Caroline Essame will introduce the vivid stories behind the man.
Essame describes crawling forward in the August heat to assess Mont Pincon’s southern slopes before its final capture by the Division and 8th Armoured Brigade. This is a writer whose extraordinarily immediate and detailed account includes, for example, the information he gained from German prisoners, as well as his own perspective at the head of 214 Brigade, to explain the challenges of establishing the key bridgehead over the Seine at Vernon on 28th August.
From Essame’s early decision at the Battle of the Somme to continue in the Army, to the rigours of training under Montgomery, this illustrated chat will bring to life the personal stories of a leading officer whose brigade fought from the start of Overlord through northern France, at Arnhem and at the turning of the tide in the Reichswald until the end of the war.
This talk will be introduced by
General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith KCB,CBE former Chief of The General Staff
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at 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM
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