Description: The Glider Pilot Regiment, having been raised as the first element of the new Army Air Corps in 1942 and disbanded in 1957, can probably claim the dubious distinction of having been the smallest and shortest-lived Regiment ever to form part of the British Army. Nevertheless in those few years the Regiment gained as much distinction as it has taken other units hundreds of years to achieve. Yet, strangely enough, the story of these heroic men who piloted their flimsy gliders to most of the important battlefields of WWII has never before been told. It is indeed a remarkable story and no one is better qualified to tell it than the author who himself took part in the invasion of Normandy and the ill-fated landing at Arnhem. He tells the story of these supremely brave men factually and unemotionally, but it is impossible to read this book without being moved by their heroism. As General Sir John Hackett says in his forward: “Those who went to battle in gliders and above all those who got them there, the Glider Pilots, deserve our enduring esteem”.