Voices of Victory

'Enthralling and enlightening . . . A wonderful look into the personal experiences, that heart and soul of the fighting soldier, towards the end of the Second World War' John Nichol, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Unknown Warrior Discover the forgotten story of Britain's final bloody battles against Nazi Germany in this Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Published for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day and based on audio interviews with those who fought their way to victory, Voices of Victory is a compelling and immersive account of a crucial period in the Second World War by the author of D-Day: The Unheard Tapes. February 1945: eight months have passed since the D-Day landings, when the Allies gained their foothold in north-west Europe. Since then, the British Army have fought near continuously against the German military. Now they stand ready for their final test: the battle for the German homeland. Drawing on the sound archive of the Imperial War Museums and other personal accounts, military historian Geraint Jones brings this often-overlooked period of the war vividly to life in the words of British soldiers who were there, from war-weary men who have survived many months of combat to new recruits facing Hitler's fanatics for the first time. In Voices of Victory, we join the soldiers battling to break through the Siegfried Line and clear the Reichswald forest, fighting from one tree to the next. At the crossing of the Rhine, we go into action with the commandos, then jump behind enemy lines with the Paras. We also enter the horror of Belsen as the concentration camp is liberated, hear from the witnesses of the forgotten battles of April, and are taken to end the war deep in Germany - victory in Europe.