Voices of Victory: Powerful eye-witness accounts of the battle to take Germany, Feb 1945 to VE Day

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Geraint Jones

Voices of Victory

Powerful eye-witness accounts of the battle to take Germany, Feb 1945 to VE Day

Geraint Jones

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English

Macmillan
29 July 2025

History; History: theory & methods; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Second World War

From the bestselling author of D-Day: The Unheard Tapes comes a revealing new history of the final bloody battles against Nazi Germany. Published for the 80th anniversary of VE Day and based on over 150 audio interviews with those who fought their way to victory, this is a compelling and immersive account of a crucial period in the Second World War.

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 has fought near continuously against the German military. Now, they stand ready for their greatest test: the battle for the German homeland.

Drawing on the sound archive of the Imperial War Museums, this often-overlooked period of the war is brought 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 fanatic Panzer divisions for the first time. German soldiers and civilians add their own perspective on events.

In Voices of Victory we experience the fierce fighting in the forests of the Reichswald and through the streets of the industrial Ruhr Valley. The book describes the amphibious crossing of the Rhine (the most successful Allied airborne operation of the war), the liberation of prisoners from the concentration camps and the final surrender of Germany, whose war has cost half a million British lives.

By: Geraint Jones
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 37mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9781035070060
ISBN 10: 1035070065
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 29 July 2025
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Geraint Jones is an author and military historian, who served as an infantry soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan. His first book on the Second World War, D-Day: The Unheard Tapes, was a Sunday Times number one bestseller in 2024, and was a tie-in to the acclaimed BBC2 series of the same name. His war memoir, Brothers in Arms, was published in 2019, and his work with Major Adam Jowett, No Way Out, was a Sunday Times bestseller. He also co-authored Escape from Kabul with Levison Wood, which was published in 2023. He has published several novels, including titles with James Patterson.