![]() ![]() A number of them again deal with a single day of action ( The Nuremberg Raid, The Schweinfurt–Regensburg Mission and The Peenemünde Raid) while others cover longer air battles ( The Battle of Hamburg and The Berlin Raids). Middlebrook's Second World War books concentrate on the air war. Middlebrook gave the same single-day treatment to 21 March 1918, the opening of the German spring offensive, in The Kaiser's Battle. The book is a detailed study of the single worst day for the British Army. Middlebrook wrote his first book The First Day on the Somme (1971) following a visit to the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium in 1967. Middlebrook subsequently spent three years in Territorial Army service. He entered National Service in 1950, was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC), and served as a Motor Transport Officer in the Suez Canal Zone and Aqaba, Jordan. Middlebrook was educated at various schools, including Ratcliffe College, Leicester. Martin Middlebrook FRHistS (born 1932) is an English military historian and author. Martin Middlebrook speaking on a tour of a cemetery where war dead from the Battle of the Somme are buried, 2014. ![]()
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