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Trouble at Zero Hour: Complete Zero Hour Trilogy
Written by a retired British soldier, Trouble at Zero Hour is a breathless and vivid story, dramatizing three of the key Allied operations that turned the tide of the Second World War.6 June, 1944, somewhere over the Normandy Robbie Stokes sits in a glider, his Bren resting on the floor between his outstretched legs. The nose lowers and the glider descends ten minutes of stomach-churning twists and turns until suddenly the call goes up to 'BRACE'. The belly makes contact with the ground and the first Allied troops tumble out into occupied Europe.For new recruit Robbie Stokes it is the beginning of ten months of brutal and relentless conflict that take him from D-Day, via Operation Market Garden and the battle for Arnhem Bridge, to the Rhine Crossing and the final push for victory. Three operations that change the course of the war and test Robbie Stokes and his band of brothers to their limits. If they fail, then the Allied invasion fails. They must succeed through their longest days.
400 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 11, 2016
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June 2, 2018
This is definitely not a book for everyone, on account of the fact that it’s heavily, nay, extremely heavily action focused (you shouldn’t be surprised). In some ways it’s a lot of this exploded and then these bullets happened and then the tank did the thing and then “ahhhhhhh yelling”
But on occasion the book goes, “have you ever really thought about the effects of war? Have you? Have you really? Have you ever thought about how crazy it is to send a society’s best, brightest, most courageous young stars into a churning, uncharitable, complete coin toss of a mortality machine was call battlefields?”
Those moments are really powerful not in spite of the rough and tumble action, but directly because the last 30 pages have been a breathless description of freaking WAR.
The book ends by describing something surprising, although to more I think about it, you should be able to guess where the book ends. That was incredibly powerful.
Sometimes detailed description really does it for you.
But on occasion the book goes, “have you ever really thought about the effects of war? Have you? Have you really? Have you ever thought about how crazy it is to send a society’s best, brightest, most courageous young stars into a churning, uncharitable, complete coin toss of a mortality machine was call battlefields?”
Those moments are really powerful not in spite of the rough and tumble action, but directly because the last 30 pages have been a breathless description of freaking WAR.
The book ends by describing something surprising, although to more I think about it, you should be able to guess where the book ends. That was incredibly powerful.
Sometimes detailed description really does it for you.
June 11, 2018
I don't read many fiction books but was lent this one, it is a well researched fictional account of three of the airborne operations during WWII. This is in fact a combined trilogy of titles the first being Deep Trouble which covers Operation Tonga the airborne operation undertaken by the British 6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the Normandy Landings during World War II.
The second is Double Trouble which covers Operation Market Garden the airborne operation meant to capture key bridges in September 1944.
The last title is Well Past Trouble which covers Operation Varsity the Allied airborne assault over the Rhine River at Wesel, Germany, on March 24, 1945.
The author has done his research well and gives a good impression of what the fighting may have been like
The second is Double Trouble which covers Operation Market Garden the airborne operation meant to capture key bridges in September 1944.
The last title is Well Past Trouble which covers Operation Varsity the Allied airborne assault over the Rhine River at Wesel, Germany, on March 24, 1945.
The author has done his research well and gives a good impression of what the fighting may have been like
May 3, 2018
Excellent
I've been reading a lot of British WWII fiction recently and the novel s by Mr. Lighthouse have become my favorites. Great realistic action, characters you care about (sometimes though it's difficult to keep them all straight), not so well known ( to me) battles. Highly recommended author and novels.
I've been reading a lot of British WWII fiction recently and the novel s by Mr. Lighthouse have become my favorites. Great realistic action, characters you care about (sometimes though it's difficult to keep them all straight), not so well known ( to me) battles. Highly recommended author and novels.
June 4, 2020
Brilliant book full pelt from start to finish definitely must read for anyone into ww2
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