Assault Troop Books

Assault Troop Series This is the fourth in a series of 4 books about Assault Troop, the specially armoured infantry who precede the main advance to 'soften up' the opposition. Led by the rebellious Captain Corrigan, this particular troop form part of the 'Iron Division' during the 1944/45 European campaign.... “Cross the Elbe!” Corrigan exploded, sitting suddenly upright “By ourselves? Just the Assault Troop?” “That’s right,” Montgomery beamed, as if it were the most enjoyable treat in the world for a handful of men to tackle Germany’s last surviving natural barrier.’ The Third Reich has finally crumbled, but Captain Corrigan and his men have been assigned another mission, and this time it’s an unorthodox one, of Monty’s own devising. The price at stake is the future of western Europe: to protect it not only do they have to halt the might of the victorious Red Army which is rampaging across Germany, but they also have to face opposition from the German regular soldiers and — worst of all — the ‘werewolves’. Corrigan’s usual brief to his men of “Hit ’em fast and hit ’em hard — and no stopping for casualties” is all very well in cases of direct enemy contact, but the werewolves work by the still of night and are trained masters of ambush. Led by ‘the Fat One’ they are fanatical teenagers recruited from the Hitler Youth and ready to die for their Fuhrer. The members of the Assault Troop are experienced fighters to a man, but what they need now is nerves of steel. Born in 1926, Ian Harding (Charles Whiting) became a volunteer in the 52nd Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment in 1943. After the war he studied both in England and in Germany and subsequently became a university teacher in England, the USA and in Germany where he was also German correspondent for The Times Educational Supplement. He gave up full time teaching in 1973 to write full-time and has written a number of thrillers under several different pseudonyms. Other fiction works by Charles Whiting include: As Ian Harding: Assault Troop Series Blood Beach Assault Troop Death In The Forest End Run As Duncan Harding: Flotilla attack Hell on the Rhine Ramps down, troops away! : a novel of D-day Sink HMS Cossack Sink HMS Kelly Sink the Graf Spee Sink the Prince of Wales Sink the Scharnhorst Sink the Warspite Slaughter in Singapore Tug of war As Leo Kessler: Otto Stahl Series Stuka Squadron Series S.S. Wotan Series The Dogs of War Series Rommel's Last Battle# The Hitler Werewolf Murders The Great Escape Operation Glenn Miller Murder at Colditz Kill Patton! Kill Rommel Flight from Berlin As John Kerrigan Fireball Bluebeard Vermin Watchdog Non-fiction works by Charles Whiting include: 48 hours to Hammelburg Ardennes: The Secret War Highway Through Hell In Turkish Waters Operation Fox Hunt Operation Il Duce Operation Kill Ike Operation Stalag Operation Werewolf The Baltic Run West Wall: The Battle for Hitler's Siegfried Line ‘44: In Combat from Normandy to the Ardennes '45: Final Drive from the Rhine to the Baltic The Battle of Hurtgen Forest Ardennes: The Secret War Decision at St Vith The Other Battle of the Bulge: Operation Northwind Patton's Last Battle